Luxury Pie: NYC Restaurant Offers $1,000 Pizza
Money to burn.
Cats Invade Neb. House, 3 Injured
Cats, RUN!
Zuned! Austin P.D. Hauls Off Microsoft Street Spammers at SXSW
Ha. Ha.
SendStation - Products - PocketDock AV
Needs more connections.
Girl finds missing dog’s head in box on doorstep
Unbelievable that somebody could be so sick & cruel.
TreeHugger-Style Roller Coaster in Japan: It’s Pedal Powered (TreeHugger)
?!
How to Be Green in the Afterlife
Lets face it, our entire existence is “environmentally harmful”!
Apple’s multi-touch technology seen spawning “mega-platform”
Oooooooh, Aaaaaahhhh, Ohhhhhhh.
Well we will see.
One example of Women’s lib gone mad!
Top 5 Things That Should Be Taught In Every School
Though I don’t completely agree these are all the schools responsibility, I do think the point of re-evaluating education (at home & at school) is good. B’sides I’m a sucker for top lists, aren’t you?
I’m not a gamer, but man oh man I can’t wait till Spore comes out. JOY!
SQUIRREL!
Kingmax unveils “world’s smallest” USB flash drive
Sweat.
AUDIO: Bob Garfield vs. Bill Gates
Oh my. Gates gets irritated about his thoughts on the “Mac Ads”
Back in November I wrote a blog about Mr. Tennie Pierce (Practical Jokes, Racism and Taxes). There are some that believed this would blow over and show heftily in Pierce’s favor. That does not appear to be the case yet (What Really Happened at Fire Station 5?). So again why were elected officials so willing to hand over a near 3 million dollars? Is the system flawed? Or has racism become such a charged issue, that in certain circumstances it cannot be fought? It looks like a bit of everything to me.
The video at the end of the What Really Happend at Fire Station 5? article seemed interesting to me. What I saw was a man (color irrelavant) pleading for money he deserved for being a victim, instead of a man seeking justice for being wronged. Was that worth almost 3 million dollars of taxpayer money? Even if it is such a hopeless case for the fire department, isn’t it better for the system to be played out? Let everything be exposed for the better of the many and make change. Why plead if the case is so sure cut?
Peirce and American’s have given up far more than will ever be gained with this suit.
Teen Charged With Over 100 Felonies
Maybe, just maybe the parents should have noticed some signs and did something about it.
Calderon condemns border fence
Pfa! Maybe because Mexico’s political system is so corrupt that they get all/most of their money from America?
I’ve been struck recently by the realization that, in fact, there is nothing new under the sun. Even thinking such a thought is unoriginal.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV) What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun
This latest round of retrospection/nostalgia was brought on after I read this article in the NY Times about nutrition and watched the following video on YouTube about the fitness routine undertaken by the actors in the movie 300
The common theme that I drew from both of these things is that the old ways still have value, more so in fact than many of our new ways. Compressing the NY Times article to its essence, the point there is to say that moderate amounts of whole, unprocessed foods of great diversity and high quality are the most compatible with human health. That’s old school, as people had to change their diet seasonally, ate foods that were nearer their original form, ate smaller quantities of those foods and so forth. Our new school has reduced the diversity of our intake (80% of our calories come from the products of 4 grains), reduced quality through selective breeding and the denuding of soils, increased portion sizes, and processed many foods beyond recognition.
Similarly, the video shows that physical training emphasizing real activity scenarios results in a body that is highly functional while simultaneously resulting in a sculpted physique. Interestingly, the exercises being done by the actors in the video are exercises that have been traditionally performed from antiquity to recent history.
Only in the last 30 or 40 years have we thought that we could eat better by eating processed foods or become more fit by using machines to isolate and enhance individual muscles. Incidentally, the last 30 years have seen a radical alteration of our American physiques and lifestyles to the point where more than 65% of our population is overweight. That number is expected to exceed 70% by 2008.
I won’t assert that we need to regress our society wholesale – there are lots of things that we have moved beyond that deserve to stay in the past. But I say let us be humble enough to recognize when our solutions aren’t really solving their problems. The need of corporations to push new products isn’t greater than our need to be healthy.