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Archive for June, 2008
June 30, 2008 at 1:28 pm · Filed under Food
The 11 Best Foods You Arent Eating – Well – Tara Parker-Pope – Health – New York Times Blog
Sardines: Dr. Bowden calls them “health food in a can.’’ They are high in omega-3’s, contain virtually no mercury and are loaded with calcium. They also contain iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper and manganese as well as a full complement of B vitamins.
How to eat: Choose sardines packed in olive or sardine oil. Eat plain, mixed with salad, on toast, or mashed with dijon mustard and onions as a spread.
There’s gotta be a way to ease into sardine eating. They’re so hard to stomach. Anything complement them well enough to counteract the weird flavor?
June 30, 2008 at 10:25 am · Filed under Humor
This is cracking me up:
Lore Sjoberg is the dude in the video, and he’s also behind other pieces of internet comedy gold: Slumbering Lungfish, Brunching Shuttlecocks, Alt Text, and Bad Gods.
June 30, 2008 at 10:15 am · Filed under Photography
OK, so as it was pointed out this weekend, I’m a total photo nerd. And even though my beloved old Nikon F chewed up and spat out a roll of exposed film Saturday night, I still firmly believe in the power of film over digital. Not that I’m anti-digital, but given the choice, I’d usually shoot with an old film camera. I’m tempted to turn this into a more general argument for analog over digital, but I’ll hold back. So speaking of old cameras and film, here’s a really awesome page that lists cameras by type and shows example images from each.
(Taken with my Lubitel lomo.)
June 25, 2008 at 1:43 pm · Filed under Film, People, TV
Bateman: “It’s in the works; the grownups are trying to work out the numbers. David’s very expensive now, but we’re trying to work some sort of a back-end position that he’s comfortable with.” It’s mostly Hancock talk until about halfway, and then David Cross shows up.
June 25, 2008 at 12:26 pm · Filed under Humor
Best of the web right here:
Don’t miss the middle of that video with the puppet. Seriously. And the other videos are pretty awesome, too.
For those of you who didn’t have the good (bad?) fortune to witness the animatronic band at Showbiz Pizza, find more info here.
June 24, 2008 at 10:50 am · Filed under News, Photography
Holy crap. Best new blog in a while. From the Boston Globe, The Big Picture is a relatively simple idea, executed gorgeously: few words, big, pretty pictures, tells a story. It just started this month, and already there are some really great stories and even better photos:
Daily Life in Sadr City, Iraq
The Sky, From Above
Mississippi Floodwaters in Iowa
Ethiopia in Food Crisis Once More
You really have to see these full-sized. Stunning work.
June 24, 2008 at 10:06 am · Filed under Politics, energy
Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol – NYTimes.com
Not long after arriving in the Senate, Mr. Obama himself briefly provoked a controversy by flying at subsidized rates on corporate airplanes, including twice on jets owned by Archer Daniels Midland, which is the nation’s largest ethanol producer and is based in his home state.
No big surprise he won Iowa. E85 as a solution to our fuel crisis is a red herring. If Obama hasn’t heard this yet, it’s because he has corn-money stuffed in his hears. If he’s elected, keep an eye on his energy policy to see if he’s making good decisions free from political influence. Our food prices and environment depend on E85 getting shot down, as it should.
June 23, 2008 at 2:14 pm · Filed under Health, Politics
In the UK, Prime Minister Brown has pledged £200 grants in exchange for participating in health and social programs:
Ten pilot projects in low-income neighbourhoods will trial the one-off grants as part of a £125 million three-year drive announced in the Budget to find innovative solutions to child poverty.
Based on schemes in the US, where parents are rewarded for things like making sure their children attend health check-ups and receive immunisation jabs, the grants are targeted at the most hard-to-reach parents who currently do not take up services offered by children’s centres.
The pilots will test whether offering cash incentives can encourage socially-excluded parents to participate in agreed programmes of action to improve their children’s well-being.
I’m actually not aware of programs like that here in the US, but I think they’re a great idea. It’s a small price to pay for healthy kids and a little boost to social mobility.
June 19, 2008 at 2:41 pm · Filed under Politics, law
Slashdot | New FISA Bill Would Grant Telcoms Immunity; Vote Is Tomorrow
“This just in: a new ‘compromise’ FISA Bill PDF was just made public, which, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reports, ‘contains blanket immunity for telecoms that helped the NSA break the law and spy on millions of ordinary Americans.’ The House vote is tomorrow, June 20. After all the secret rooms and everything … if they get immunity and the public never finds out what happened, the only other logical next step is to convince everyone I know not to get an iPhone.”
It’ll be interesting to see how McCain and Obama vote. Oh, and if you believe in justice and/or freedom, it might be a good idea to pester your congressman.
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