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Good lord. The internet really is a phenomenal waste of time.

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

-Michael Pollan

This guy is a fantastic journalist. He has a remarkable ability to take ridiculous technical information and boil it down to basic advice. I think the advice to shop around the outside of the grocery store (because all of the more processed and less nutritional foods are in the aisles, while the fresh produce and meats tend to be at the perimeter) can be sourced to him. If you haven’t read The Omnivore’s Dilemma, you should.

The down arrow on my keyboard stopped working in google reader. Anyone else having this problem?

There is big money for a company that can come up with a good solution for this. As we are increasingly syncing more data in more places on the web, we are going to have an increasing need for synchronicity. And not just in calendar items and todo’s. Twitter, myspace, facebook, orkut, rss feeds, etc, etc, etc. How does one tie it all together into some sort of application that can filter the noise (for example by learning that I never read rss feeds about Wilt Chamberlain, but always read ones about Paris Hilton, so don’t bother showing me the ones about Wilt), and offer different noise levels based on the context (when at work, I don’t need to see my social items or rss feeds on international relations)

Wow. Land Rover and Jaguar are now owned by an Indian company.

I think this really speaks to how far India has come as an industrial/business center.

Maybe next, China will buy Microsoft.

Link via ogged.

nothing yet…

I’m guessing the original pitch was something like “Think Braveheart, but with Wooly Mammoths!”

I’ll save you the trouble. Here’s the best parts:

Because I have nothing original to say, but I am compelled to start writing here at least semi-regularly…

this sounds like great fun.

My favorite paragraph:

“We’ve had a few mutinies in the past,” Victor Navasky, the former publisher of The Nation, who has been on all 10 Nation cruises, told me. “Like the year Christopher Hitchens, at a morning panel, plunked a bottle of whiskey down on the table and made a joke about Princess Di that some passengers thought was sexist. So the passengers organized a women’s caucus to redress the gender imbalance on the panels.”

Only liberals mutiny by organizing a caucus…

Thanks J.