January 2010
120 posts
“Salt is a flavor-enhancer, so adding a lot of it is the perfect way to spruce up...”
– I think it’s great that New York is looking to limit the salt content of processed foods…and I’m looking forward to seeing just how they go about it.
Full article here
“For a moment, set aside new research that suggests that Monsanto’s GMO...”
– This is super scary stuff. Read the full article here.
I guess I'm just cheap. →
hellamike:
I don’t think the price is high for a book, but I do think it’s high for an electronic version of a book.
To me, if I am going to spend $14 on a book, I want to be able to hold it in my hands and use it to kill spiders if need be.
I’m the same way with movies. I’m not going to pay $14 on a movie on iTunes if I can get it for just a little bit more at the store and have the physical...
Kindle, iPad and Choose Your Own Adventure
samhey:
After I learned to read as a kid, I loved those ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books. Make a choice, turn to a new page, the main character gets sucked into a black hole and dies, and then you’d flip back to start over and not make that choice again.
As the Apple-Tablet-as-Kindle-killer hype built up over the past month, I thought about something Jeff Bezos has often said in interviews...
Experts answer credit questions from average... →
A few years ago, I paid off the last scraps of debt that I had accumulated during my college years. Yes, I was one of those people who not only got a bunch of student loans but used credit, well, let’s just say ‘unwisely’ is putting it mildly. Anyway, I learned my lesson (the hard way) and I hope to never repeat the mistakes of my youth. Anyway, I thought this article was...
If we just let cows eat grass would would wipe out... →
“Eating corn makes cows sick, requiring them them to, err, “emit” more methane and to be fed a steady diet of antibiotics. Grain-fed cattle are also more prone to E. Coli. And, if cows never get out to pasture, their poop becomes a polluting problem instead of the fertilizing solution it would otherwise be.”
Seriously. This stuff is so ridiculous! It makes me ANGRY!
ruthakers:
a list of products I would like to see Apple and Steve Jobs create:
The iBra- (not to be confused with the iBrah, a frat brother who reeks of miller high life and relies on his fellow frat buddies to boost his ego with fist bumps and the occasional assistance with a keg stand when not just anyone with gigantic pecks and an over inflated ego will do)
No. The iBra would allow the...
So much for plausible deniability when it comes to... →
(via toldorknown)
This is one of my favorite photos that the boyfriend (aka Polythink) took. I was going to email it to you, so I’m glad you found it!
Do Phthalates Cause Obesity? →
“Americans may just be desperate to find a solution to obesity that doesn’t involve eating less and exercising more. But phthalates are known to be endocrine — or horomone — disrupters. And we get pretty close contact with them, because they’re in personal care products as well as plastics.”
“Turns out that a district court found that the USDA — under Bush, who else? —...”
– This is so upsetting. Read the whole article here.
NY TIMES: Democrats throw their hands up in the... →
inothernews:
With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democratic leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on President Obama’s top domestic priority on Tuesday, saying that they no longer felt pressure to move quickly on a health bill after eight months of setting deadlines and missing them.
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, deflected...
So, I want one of those iPad things. Now, please.
WatchI just love this!
Watching Heat.
Your Tuesday night plans are invalid.
“District officials said on Friday that they are forming a committee to consider...”
– No Sex Please! We’re Just Kids!
Kids look up ‘oral sex’ in dictionary. Mother asks that the dictionary be banned from the district. District complies. My head explodes.
HT: @crystallyn (via thememegeneration) This is insane.
It's been so grey outside
inothernews:
fishy:
There was just a break in the clouds and I literally went, “Ooh!” and rushed to the window to see the sunshine. It’s gone now. I should probably rethink moving to places like Seattle.
I went to Seattle once. Stayed there for five days straight. Sun was out the whole time, and at one point I walked up to (what I think was) Puget Sound and I could see clear down to the...
Ostriches gave up flying when dinosaurs died out
lickystickypickyme:
Emus and ostriches became fat, flightless birds after dinosaurs died out and were no longer around to chase them, scientists believe.
An abundance of food and lack of predators following the mass extinction 65 million years saw previously flighted birds put on so much weight that they had to walk instead, according to research by Australian National University.
A...
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Discovery
I went to my very first tweet up ever last night (although it was more of a Tumblr-up in my mind). I admit, I didn’t have great expectations. The great thing about the Internet is that people can portray themselves however they want. As someone who has rescued customers from many a bad Internet first date (a service I offer to any bar customer smart enough to ask - so remember this the next...
On alcoholic barflies and drunk drivers...
insooutso:
The best thing about bartending is you get to see the best people at their worst and the worst people at their best. Sometimes your are surprised for the better, most of the time you are filled with the worst kind of rage known to man. 1) Act like an adult. Learn to operate 12 ounces before you operate 2000 lbs. 2) Whiskey doesn’t make you angry. Neither does tequila. You are...
Oh wow! Tonight was amazing! I’m so excited that I got to meet all of you crazy people - I hope I hugged everyone and gushed appropriately!
And for those of you who couldn’t make it to San Francisco, you were missed! Maybe next time!
The boyfriend took tons of pictures, so I’ll post the good ones soon.
Okay people. I am going to bed at 8 o’clock on a Friday night. And I’m doing it ALL FOR YOU!
I’m getting up way before the butt crack of dawn to drive to San Francisco to meet all of you awesome people tomorrow night. (And I’m turning around and driving back home Sunday afternoon because I am lame and have to work on Monday morning.)
So you had better be...
lickystickypickyme:
There is a highly disturbing tendency in some commercials in the US. Where moms try to disguise that in certain foods there are vegetables. I just saw the Chef Boyardee one where a girl spells V-E-G-E-T-A-B-L-E-S on a can of that crap and asks her mom what it means.
That idiot of a mom doesn’t dare to tell her it spells vegetables. Like it is something evil that will scare...
memymarie:
I’m moving on Friday. Friday. Only two more full days at home after today. My tummy hurts and my things are strewn about the house. I’m really, really nervous about starting school and moving away.
I hope I don’t fuck this up.
You’re going to be awesome. I’m sure of it.
I just realized...
That in a few days I’ll be in San Francisco hanging with some cool imaginary people!
I’m so excited!!!