good stuff

This may be the inflammatory headline of the year: Fatties cause global warming. I can’t wait to see that on an eco-freako t-shirt.  Do read the article at the link; it’s got all the obligatory Eco-clutter:  the World Health Organization, Oxfam, several doctors and Learned Journals, and the usual bull$hit polar-bear-on-an-ice-floe picture. Update (22 April). … Read more

Michelle Obama has decided the White House needs a kitchen garden, a "Victory" Garden.  It’s LOCAL, it’s NATURAL ORGANIC, it’s FOR THE CHILDREN. Sure it is.  I’m getting my garden in this weekend, and I’m stockpiling all the canned and dried foods that will fit in the pantry.  When the First Family feels the need… Read more

Turns out the folks in the hospital wash their hands, but not their cellphones.  Farookin’ lovely. Update (16 March).  The fix is easy: periodically clean that rascal (and your TV remote) with a Clorox wipe. Read more

Five rocket scientists in the Oregon state legislature want to increase the tax on beer to fund rehab for dipsos and junkies.  (Their names are at the end of the article, go pee a pint on their lawns.)  Sounds like it’s time to take up home brewing, Oregonians. Read more

Nevada authorities have gotten wise to a new iPhone application for counting cards in blackjack.  Too bad that "it is considered a felony to use devices to help count cards" in Nevada casinos. Read more

Although it seems intuitively obvious that the dieter should not keep bonbons in every room of the house, psychological theory argues the opposite. Read more

Stuff White People Like has nailed it again:  all the Kool Kidz like hummus.  In the uncomfortable event your guest list includes some of the Wrong Kind Of White People, remember "hummus = fancy bean dip". Read more

First it was poisoned pet food, and then bad milk.  Now it’s instant coffee, candy, and pastry.  Shortsighted, greedy American businessmen can’t hold a candle to the Chinese, who seem bound and determined to run "brand China" into the ground. I now interpret their label this way:  MADE IN CHINA = TOXIC.Update (28 Sep).  It’s… Read more

UK’s Times Online shows the world how it’s done with 100 Years of Ian Fleming and James Bond. Read more

Here’s the niftiest graphical user interface I’ve seen in some time, the Epicourious Seasonal Ingredient Map, and it’s really, truly useful.Tip from the Knowledge Problem. Read more