NYTimes.com: Health Care’s Biggest Hypocrite — Or Hero
The sad thing about the broken state of our politics is that good solutions, once they get branded by one party or the other, are quickly dismissed by the rabid partisans who drive early election cycles and dominate the airwaves.
I’m in the process of upgrading the site’s blog software to Movable Type 5.01 so some things might be broken while other things might seem strange (like the rooster picture at the top of the page).
UPDATE: It turns out that you can just ignore the website part and just publish your blog to the root. I had some template issues because I had published the blog AND the website to the root and it was causing problems, but I’m now starting to get things under control.
UPDATE: The forums are still pretty empty. Not a lot of buzz on this, but so far it seems to be working OK.
The view from the top of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
Watched one of my favorite shows, Good Eats on the Food Network last night and the newly svelte host, Alton Brown described how he lost 45 pounds by eating certain foods and cutting out others.
Daily
– Fruits
– Whole Grains
– Leafy Greens
– Nuts
– Carrots
– Green Tea
3X Weekly
– Oily Fish
– Yogurt
– Broccoli
– Sweet Potato
– Avocado
1X Weekly
– Red meat
– Pasta
– Dessert
– Alcohol
0X Weekly
– Fast Food
– Soda
– Processed meals
– Canned soup
– “Diet” anything
NYTimes.com: Giant Tuna Fetches $177,000 at Japanese Auction
A giant bluefin tuna fetched 16.3 million yen ($177,000) in an auction Tuesday at the world’s largest wholesale fish market in Japan.
The 513-pound (233-kilogram) fish was the priciest since 2001 when a 440-pound (200 kilogram) tuna sold for a record 20.2 million yen ($220,000) at Tokyo’s Tsukiji market.
You kind of get the idea why Bluefin Tuna are being fished to the point of extinction.
From CNN.com: Debt-hit Dubai opens world’s tallest tower
The telescopic shape is also presents problems of a more practical nature Krane says.
“The upper 30 or 40 floors are so tiny that they’re useless, so they can’t use them for anything else apart from storage. They’ve built a small, not so useful storage warehouse half a mile in the sky,” he said.
From NYTimes.com: Company’s Record on Beef Treatment Questioned
The company, Beef Products Inc., had been looking to expand into the hamburger business with a product made from beef that included fatty trimmings the industry once relegated to pet food and cooking oil. The trimmings were particularly susceptible to contamination, but a study commissioned by the company showed that the ammonia process would kill E. coli as well as salmonella.
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With the U.S.D.A.’s stamp of approval, the company’s processed beef has become a mainstay in America’s hamburgers. McDonald’s, Burger King and other fast-food giants use it as a component in ground beef, as do grocery chains. The federal school lunch program used an estimated 5.5 million pounds of the processed beef last year alone.
Using ammonia in beef sounds bad enough, but the article goes on to say that it might not be as effective as the FDA thought it might be. I’m beginning to wonder if you can ever trust what is in ground beef.
CNN.com: Knighthood for Patrick Stewart? Queen says make it so
Sir Patrick Stewart.
Gizmodo: Hyperspace Dreams
