admin | January 27, 2009
A swig of soda or bite of a candy bar might be sweet, but a new study suggests that food made with corn syrup also could be delivering tiny doses of toxic mercury.
For the first time, researchers say they have detected traces of the silvery metal in samples of high-fructose corn syrup, a widely used [...]
admin | January 20, 2009
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My day started out with Pink Floyd’s “Learning To Fly” on the radio on my drive to the restaurant where I’d spend the better part of my day. Among many favourite Pink Floyd songs, that one’s certainly near [...]
admin | January 18, 2009
InformationWeek.com ran a piece by Eric Zeman on Twitter and Flight 1549 back on Saturday. Basically, it notes that Twitter had “covered” the “events” of the day before any of the “conventional media” were able to get rolling.
Two of Zeman’s comments got me thinking.
That’s amazing power, all thanks to the mobile phone and a social [...]
admin | January 15, 2009
I still wear a campaign button on my leather jacket.
It replaces a red,white, and blue metal ribbon that’s been in place on that jacket since September 11, 2001 — in honor of six people I knew who’d been killed in the WTC incident.
I leave the button in place because I live in the reddest county [...]
admin | January 13, 2009
The author tries to prevent his autism (and the sense it gives him that nothing he has to say is really worth saying) ruining his blog.
admin | January 6, 2009
In a brave act of civil disobedience, Tim DeChristopher disrupted the auctioning off of public land with just a “paddle” and some serious chutzpah, effectively giving it away for a fraction of its true cost to taxpayers and its true value as a natural resource. Now he heeds our help. Fast. See why and how [...]
