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Tuesday, May 20 2003

McDonald's pays $10 million to vegetarians, religious groups

McDonald's has settled a suit brought against it for cooking its french fries in beef-flavored oil in the 1990s, when it claimed it was only using vegetable oil:

"Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald's offered 60 percent of the settlement to vegetarian groups, 20 percent to Hindu and Sikh groups, 10 percent to children's nutrition and hunger-relief efforts and 10 percent to promoting understanding of Kosher practices."

Monday, May 19 2003

Overheard...

...from two Gen-Yers (maybe X-ers) at Frida's Pizza on Friday night:

"When I was a younger, it seemed like friends were a dime a dozen and girls were hard to get. Now it's the other way around."

Saturday, May 17 2003

Die like a comedian

Account of a San Francisco comedian's funny funeral. Eulogizers for John Cantu had two and a half minutes to talk before a guy in the back of the columbarium would shine a flashlight in their eyes, signalling to get off.

"Comedian Tony DePaul, seeking to stay one joke ahead of the flashlight, announced that he still owed Cantu a debt of $12.

'And you ain't getting it now!' he said, placing a hand on Cantu's casket."

Dave Winer: newspaper archives vs. blogs

Unintentionally funny quote from Dave Winer: "If you want to be in Google, you gotta be on the Web."

It used to be that people were more concerned about being on the Web than on Google.

Wednesday, May 14 2003

Jayson Blair

Terry Neal decries pundits' focus on the race of Jayson Blair, the story-fabricating NYT reporter:

"Here’s my theory: Freed from the normal constraints of truth and veracity, “journalists” such as Blair, Shalit, Barnicle, Smith and Glass shine above their counterparts. They’re promoted ahead of the pack because their stories, sneakily cloaked as journalism, read better than everyone else’s stories...

"To suggest somehow that Blair is unique in being coddled by upper management is pure buffoonery. What about all of the young, aggressive white reporters who are pushed along by overeager white mentors and are clearly not ready for prime time?"

Tuesday, May 13 2003

Arts & Letters Daily

The Chronicle of Higher Education has launched a service referring to what they consider the best articles, book reviews, and essays online: at Arts & Letters Daily. Checkitout.

Saturday, May 10 2003

Greenpeace's Nuclear "Most Wanted" Deck

Following in the footsteps of the U.S. military's deck of cards listing Iraqi bad guys, Greenpeace has come out with a deck of cards featuring world leaders who have promised to reduce nuclear arsenals, then failed to do so.

Friday, May 9 2003

Electronic Voting Machines: ES&S Makes One With a Paper Trail

From Wired News: "In particular, computing experts worry that hundreds of thousands of direct-recording electronic, or DRE, voting machines used in elections nationwide do not provide an auditable paper trail that records individual votes. In order to ensure that votes are not lost because of a computer malfunction or tampering, critics say DRE machines should be able to print and store individual ballots immediately after a vote is cast."

The Real Meaning of Mother's Day: Julia Ward Howe

TomPaine.com has a piece on the non-commercial, pro-peace beginnings of Mother's Day:

"We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs." (Julia Ward Howe, 1870)

The Lemon: Internet Timeline

2001: "Blogging invented. Promises to change the way people bore strangers with banal anecdotes about their pets."

The Internet Timeline from the folks at The Lemon - apparently an Onion-esque humor magazine.

Friday, May 2 2003

The Oracle of Omaha

The yearly pilgrimage to hear Warren Buffett speak: "Although their aggregate wealth probably far exceeds that of the crowd at the average Hollywood premiere -- Berkshire class A shares sell for $69,800 each -- there is no glitz. Dressed as they might be for church, they come to listen to Buffett's mixture of straightforward advice and sophisticated analysis of stocks, the economy, ethics and whatever else the shareholders ask him."

Fasting Improves Health... in Mice

In experiments, mice which ate only every other day (then ate twice as much as a normal mouse on their eating days) gained a number of health benefits - similar benefits to those of mice which ate 40% less than normal on a regular schedule.

More on Mark Mattson, the guy behind the study, at National Geographic. "It's unclear whether humans can benefit from an ultra-low-cal diet... In the meantime, Mattson has been using himself as a test subject. He's been eating a third fewer calories than the average person for more than a decade. At five feet nine inches tall (175 centimeters), he weighs a scant 120 pounds (50 kilograms)."

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This is the personal web site for Edward (Ed) Piou. Consisting mainly of a blog (operational since 1999) and various photos.

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