Here’s something random: a person who categorized everything he ate by calorie content, then compiled a sorted list with pictures. It’s worth reading for the bizarre meal choices (like hot dog water) and humorous notes on each meal, like:
Coke (without ice) contains 1,493 kilocalories per gallon, Gasoline (without ice) contains 31,000 kilocalories per gallon, so the energy density of gasoline is 20 times greater than Coca-cola.
Um, yeah. Just like that.
I usually don’t ask you to do much. This site is more of an ongoing rant than an attempt at persuasion. However, if you’re concerned about the intelligence that was presented in support of going to war with Iraq, please consider signing MoveOn’s petitiion to support an independent investigation into WMD evidence.
Online petitions usually aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, but MoveOn has the right idea. They get real volunteers to print out names and addresses and physically deliver petitions to your local Congressperson. This kind of personal interaction has already been shown to work, and MoveOn has the numbers to make representatives sit up and take notice.
OK, end of plea. Do what you can.
Yeah, I know, you don’t want to hear it. I’ll keep it short. There are lots of good editorial pieces about the Bush administration and Iraq, but here’s a particularly good one from Newsweek.
The Morning News has a great editorial piece on copyright. It should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in why Mickey Mouse is protected from copying while Sherlock Holmes is not. (Hint: Holmes isn’t owned by a multinational corporation.)
NASA reported Thursday that they’ve found a really old planet, three times older than Earth and only a bit younger than the universe.