Random links
- Poll Shows Budget-Cuts Dilemma
- "Less than a quarter of Americans support making significant cuts to Social Security or Medicare to tackle the country's mounting deficit ... Even tea party supporters, by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, declared significant cuts to Social Security 'unacceptable.'" Raising the retirement age is something that attracted a fair bit of support, but are they raising it high enough? (The original German example set it to the age at which 95% of the population had died.
- Wall Street Bets on Debt That Doesn't Exist
- "Fresh from Wall Street's alchemy labs: Credit derivatives tied to General Motors Co. debt. The rub is, no such debt exists." - perhaps this is related to the $4.6 billion they're planning to pay off this year? Otherwise a "promising" sign for a return by bankers to a sane state.
- Debunking the myth of specialized running shoes
- "For Dr. Nigg, the realization came gradually. While study after study showed that shoes could manipulate impact forces, no one could produce any evidence linking these forces to injury rates." Seems there's a lot of options left to sell shoes, but they may be on the basis of looks or degree of comfort rather than safety. (Or you could opt for uncomfortable, unsafe shoes... like high-heels. I've never quite figured out how men are supposed to be attracted to women wearing such footwear - it seems to me to be the equivalent of foot binding).
- Google cooks up recipe search feature
- I don't see this in my Google search results at the moment, even if I try searching for a recipe. Perhaps the rollout is currently US-only. Sounds like it might be useful, although even without such a thing Google still is a decent place to find recipes.