Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Foodsel

This new site has a very interesting way to show you what you are eating. By doing it visually with graphs and example icons, you can see what the ratio of sugar, fat and energy a food provides. Then it shows you what exercises would be needed to burn it off.

For example, this is how much sugar, energy and fat found in a strawberry pop tart (unfrosted):

A serving of 100g contains 394kcal, representing ± 15.7 batteries*.

A serving of 100g contains 33.00g sugars, which is comparable to ± 7.4 sugar cubes.

A serving of 100g contains 10.50g fat, which is comparable to ± 0.1 butter sticks.

Then it tells you how much energy you need for gender and age per day.

Very handy for a dieter. 

Sounds Like Murder to Me

If you want to kill someone and make it look like a suicide, this is the way to do it.

Shawn Lonsdale, whose one-man crusade against Scientology made him a public enemy of the church, was found dead at his home over the weekend in an apparent suicide. He was 39.

Police discovered Lonsdale’s body at 12:20 p.m. Saturday after neighbors reported a foul odor. They found a garden hose stretched from the exhaust pipe of Lonsdale’s car into a window of his home at 510 N Lincoln Ave., according to Clearwater police spokeswoman Elizabeth Daly-Watts.

Since Scientology has a history of going after its enemies, it can’t be ruled out.

UPDATE: L Ron Hubbard’s gay son was also a critic of the church and died in a similar fashion. Hmmm.

One of Shawn’s last films.

Monday, February 18, 2008

Quote DuJour

I love Whole Foods talking about lobster and clam cruelty, when people are being fucked to death, kidnapped, starved, bombed. [The grocery chain recently stopped selling some live shellfish on the grounds that the practice is inhumane.] There is so much cruelty to humans—so much cruelty to animals—in this world. And people are worried about a fucking mollusk. Unbelievable.

Chef Anthony Bourdain

Chef Impossible

I like watching the Food Network on occasion and I enjoy the show Dinner Impossible with Chef Robert Irvine. It seems, however, that Irvine’s claims of having cooked for the Royal Family and a bunch of other things (like being a knight) aren’t true. Too bad, because I like his show. But after reading this article he sounds like the Vanilla Ice of chefs.  Vanilla Ice claimed to be a professional race car driver and a host of other things when he started out. This was pre-internet, but the media investigated his claims and found them wanting. These days it’s crazy to make claims you can’t prove. Anyone with an internet connection can research you from where they’re sitting.

Irvine seems to be a great cook on his show, but I doubt the Food Network will let him get away with this. 

TV Links is Back

It was a great site where you could see lots of documentaries and TV shows for free (I was able to catch up on some shows and see some Brit documentaries that hadn’t made it over here). But the authorities in the UK took it down because they linked tyo a lot of bootleg films as well.

Now they’re back. This time from a CC domain.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

More Awful Eats

These foods will kill you, but people around the world line up to eat them.

Better to eat one of these sandwiches. The only thing you have to worry about is the calories or cholesterol. I intend to check out the Cuban place in Seattle the next time I am up there. 

The History of Political Correctness

As you may know, I hate PC. It’s censorship, plain and simple. It’s also segregation of the mind, classifying people into inane categories. It seeks to separate us into classes. And I don’t mean the school kind.

The origins and ultimate goal of political correctness are blatantly Marxist. It was created to box in and neutralize dissent. This documentary talks about its long history and origins. It’s worth watching. 

Obama’s Limo Driver in 1999 (NSFW)

So they’re TWO gay people running on the Democrat side. How inclusive!

Global Incident Map

Showing terrorist and other suspicious incidents around the world. 

The New Hysteria

People here and in the UK want to ban bottled water, not so much because of the plastic bottles but because of...global warming.

Drinking bottled water should be made as unfashionable as smoking, according to a government adviser.

“We have to make people think that it’s unfashionable just as we have with smoking. We need a similar campaign to convince people that this is wrong,” said Tim Lang, the Government’s natural resources commissioner.

Bottled water generates up to 600 times more C02 than tap water

Phil Woolas, the environment minister, added that the amount of money spent on mineral water “borders on being morally unacceptable”.

What’s morally unacceptable are people lying to us about climate change. And ramming their stupid laws down our throats.

Like I’ve said before, this latest example of stupidity is only the tip of the iceberg. They will find an excuse to ban a lot of things people like for their bogus crisis. Are you really going to put up with it, when they haven’t proved anything?