Wednesday, October 03, 2007

BMI = BS

The government tells us we have an obesity epidemic. Yet everywhere you look, people are not that fat. At least in my experience. Sure, you’ll see someone here and there. But in Vegas, where you’d expect it, and here in Washington and Oregon, people seem pretty fit to me. (Actually, people up here seem to be in really good shape. A lot of people bike).

This flickr series shows people classified as obese, just to show how absurd the BMI is. Like a lot of crisis the government clamors for new laws to solve, it’s a fabrication. 

Sorry About the Down time

I spent a couple hours today trying to straighten out the blog. It seems there was a problem adapting it to the new look. It took me awhile to figure out the problem. But hopefully I won’t have these CPU quota exceeded messages anymore. I needed to optimize the blog software and a bunch of other things.

Anyway, it’s good to have a consistent look throughout the site. I’ll be tweaking things some more, but all the major work is finished. Whew!

Super Real Sculptures

This guys work is amazing.

And don’t miss this shadow art made with trash.

Good News DuJour

It’s nice to see some common sense show up in England from time to time.

Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore’s controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.

The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of ‘brainwashing’ children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.

Stewart Dimmock said the former U.S. Vice-President’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is unfit for schools because it is politically biased and contains serious scientific inaccuracies and ‘sentimental mush’.

He wants the video banned after it was distributed with four other short films to 3,500 schools in February.

Mr Justice Burton is due to deliver a ruling on the case next week, but yesterday he said he would be saying that Gore’s Oscar-winning film does promote ‘partisan political views’.

Even if you agree that Man Made Climate Change is happening, Gore’s predictions are laughable. No scientists backs them. Many have spoken out against the film’s hysteria. Add to that the fact the film is largely a piece of self promotion and you have to wonder why its even being shown in schools.

The film is propaganda. At least one court has the good sense to call it what it is.

UPDATE: CNN’s Meteorologist agrees.