July 03, 2008
Don't Eat Farmed Salmon!
Canada's 80 farms produce a raw sewage equivalent to a city of 500,000 people......for every pound of farmed salmon, four pounds of wild fish are need for food pellets....sea lice, algae blooms and other parasites threaten all kinds of wildlife.....compared to wild fish, there are far more toxins, antibiotics and chemicals in farmed fish. PBDE's (flame retardants) were found in quantities 10 to 65 as much as wild fish.
Plus, for some moronic reason, Canada is raising atlantic salmon on the west coast and 30,000 of them just escaped. WTF?!
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July 02, 2008
Guantánamo Bay torture techniques inspired by China
...copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.
I wish I could say I was still capable of being shocked by this kind of thing...
(via digg)
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Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge
Voyager 2's journey toward interstellar space has revealed surprising insights into the energy and magnetic forces at the solar system's outer edge, and confirmed the solar system's squashed shape.
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July 01, 2008
U.S. leads world in substance abuse
Countries with looser drug laws have lower rates of abuse, the researchers report in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine.
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June 27, 2008
A Few Bill Gates Links
Apropos his partial retirement from Microsoft.
The Many (Geeky) Faces of Bill Gates - Wired
Bill Gates Timeline - Gizmodo
Virtual tour of Bill Gates' house - YouTube
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Graphic of the world's undersea cable networks
(via Digg)
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June 23, 2008
The Wedding Test
A joke.
(via FF)
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Buckminster Fuller in the New Yorker
He concluded that the Cartesian coordinate system had got things all wrong and invented his own system, which he called Synergetic Geometry. Synergetic Geometry was based on sixty-degree (rather than ninety-degree) angles, took the tetrahedron to be the basic building block of the universe, and avoided the use of pi, a number that Fuller found deeply distasteful.
(via FF)
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Ode to my Toothbrush
oh, gentle nylon bristles
massaging my gums
scouring my pearlys
these masticating champions
of my vital mouth
oh brush! oh tool!
in the daily dental process
of which you are a necessity
I bow to your brushy goodness,
your plaque denuding capacity
yet,
you are naught, but for toothpaste...
(original, by yours truly ;-)
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June 22, 2008
Travelers Shift to Rail as Cost of Fuel Rises
Interesting run down on the rail situation in America. This surprised me:
The railroad is not radically more energy-efficient than other means of travel. Amtrak can move a passenger a mile with 17.4 percent less fuel than a passenger car can, and about 32.9 percent less than an airline can.
I assume that means with only one person in the car. Making it not particularly efficient at all.
(via FF)
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June 21, 2008
FriendFeed Link Round-Up!
Yeee-ha, pard'ner!
Here's some of the better stuff I've run across or posted on FF in the last few weeks:
Jacob's Ladder: 500kVolt Switch Opening - YouTube
Beautiful Black and White Photography - Smashing Magazine
Compilation of Mars photos - Boston.com
Sorry I Missed Your Party - a blog of random party photos from flickr
Thinking Ahead - xkcd webcomic
Jesus Probably rode Dinosaurs [pic]
Nano solar film printing - Engadget (with video)
Iowa flood pictures - Boston.com
Buckminster Fuller Challenge movie - Buckminster Fuller Institute
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Trailer - David Fincher's upcoming movie
Vincent - Tim Burton's first short film - YouTube
What I Learned about My Dad and Heroism While Choking at Arby’s
3 Graphs showing the varying impact of gas prices - NYT
7 Upcoming Wonders of Green Technology - WebUrbanst
Saturn pictures from Cassini - Boston.com
(I didn't attribute them all, simply because I'm lazy, but you can find all the original sources somewhere in here)
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Army needs 3-4 years to recover from war
"Right now, the Army is out of balance. We're stretched and stretched by the fact that we didn't have a big enough Army to do the things the nation is asking us to do since Sept. 11," said Gen. George Casey, the Army's chief of staff.
Well, with a never ending war, that's not really good now is it?
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June 19, 2008
Inspiring documentary on the Cradle to Cradle design concept
Some revolutionary green thinking. Required, if we're going to survive this century.
(via FF, Matrix333)
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June 17, 2008
Peep Show Season 4
This is the funniest show I've seen in a long time and season 4 is simply superior! (I'd say on par with Seinfeld, no shit!)
Here it all is on YouTube:
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June 16, 2008
You're Doing it Wrong
Hilarious.
(via FF)
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June 09, 2008
Gone for a Week (btw, FriendFeed)
Limited internet this week, so not many posts (as if a week gap is unusual ;-), but it's about time I linked to my FriendFeed page anyway, which has basically become a suppliment to blogging. It's a feed aggregator and a form of link-blogging, which is essentially what I do here. So check out my friendfeed stream and my "likes and comments" if you are bored, and you can see all the stuff that doesn't quite make the threshold for a blog post.
Or, if you aren't interested in that, how about just an ostrich skiing video?
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June 06, 2008
Iconic Photos Recreated in Lego
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Best Photos from Reuters
(via FF)
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June 04, 2008
Burger King Eat Like Snake Commercial
So twisted, so odd, so funny.
(via FF)
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A Little Rundown on the U.S. Farm Bill
The Kitchn | The New Farm Bill: What's In It?
(I posted an NYT article about this a while back, which is also a very good read.)
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Alice in Wonderland Remix
Wonderful stuff. YouTube
(via FF)
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Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black and Ben Stiller make a viral video
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