Random links
- THE MINIMALIST; Frosty the Vegetable
- Per Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking: "The quality of vegetables is more or less preserved at the stage they're frozen. If frozen vegetables are handled expeditiously, they are often better than buying 'fresh' at the store."
- Let's wipe out toilet paper
- "Using tissue after you've been to the loo is bad for the planet. Washing is the greener option – and it's more hygienic too." - I can't say that I buy the argument that it's greener (takes energy to process, transport, and heat water for cleaning) but I do buy the more hygenic argument.
- Gun Control Wouldn't Have Stopped Loughner: And Loughner shouldn't start a new push for gun control
- Hmn... "Despite constantly expanding gun ownership—the number of new firearms entering American possession averages around 4 million a year—and expanded rights to legally carry weapons, the last two decades have seen a 41 percent decline in violent crime rates. Since the 2004 expiration of the 'assault weapon' ban, murder rates are down 15 percent."
- Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan...
- Afghanistan before the Taliban in photo-essay form: "Record stores, Mad Men furniture, and pencil skirts -- when Kabul had rock 'n' roll, not rockets." Seems that Afghanistan isn't necessarily where empires go to die, as some have been claimed.