Published on August 14, 2008
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I read The China Study a while ago and it really changed the way I look at food. The short and dirty explanation of The China Study is that the ‘western’ diet of lots of meat, dairy and eggs is very unhealthy and is the major contributor to the health crisis we’re facing in the US right now. I didn’t really know what to think of this conclusion since it was completely against many of the ideas of what it means to eat healthy. I changed my eating habits dramatically after reading the book but still wasn’t completely convinced since my training as a engineer makes me constantly seek out the second opinion and I hadn’t found a convincing one yet.
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Much of the conversation and updates in the Ultimate Frisbee community happens through the antiquated and aging technology of Usenet and NNTP on a newsgroup named rec.sport.disc. The most popular way to access newsgroups these days is through their syndication on Google Groups. Unfortunately as of February Google’s captcha has been cracked which means that spammers can now post whatever they want onto Google Groups. I took way too much time to make a couple graphs visualizing the spam problem and thought I would share them with everyone below.
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I love how many errands I can get done on my bike in my neighborhood. Just got home from a nice ride. Stopped at Intelligentsia for coffee (cold brewed iced coffee, yum), then to CVS for some drug store stuff and finally to Tomato Pie and Video Journeys for dinner/entertainment for the night.
I love biking around the neighborhood, just wish I could bike all the way to work, maybe someday.
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