March 2011
Supreme Court rejects damages for innocent man who... →
All your FB friends hate you →
especially me.
Op-Ed: The soda tax fallacy →
latimes:
reblogged via neontummy:
As long as a food is habit-forming (or simply familiar enough to be comforting), customers don’t react to marginal price increases:
From David Gratzer at the LA Times:
Once you’re in the habit of eating from a frozen tray, a pizza box or a fast-food carton, how high a price hike is needed…
The C word (oatmeal) →
Chris Farley: The Original Shrek?
mentalflossr:
Chris Farley was the original voice of Shrek. Almost a year after Farley died, Mike Myers took on the role. Locked away in some Hollywood vault are the audio recordings of Farley as the giant green ogre.
[by Colin Perkins]
CRAZY.
The Atlantic: Schwarzenegger on desert solar farms →
latimes:
reblogged via neighborhoodr-losangeles:
“Asking whether large solar power plants are appropriate in the Mojave desert is like wondering whether subways makes sense in New York City.”
— Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lays out a case for putting solar farms in the Mojave as part of a policy based on improving public health, boosting the economy, and avoiding the risks of the...
Now That's a Book Title
mentalflossr:
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
BOBCATS (oatmeal) →
