Batman

Pretty cool article on the possibility of training to be as awesome as the Batman.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=dark-knight-shift-why-bat&print=true

The End of Food

This is an incredibly interesting analysis of the global food production and distribution system. This is from NPR's Word For Word program:

Bestselling author Paul Roberts argues in his new book "The End of Food," that our global food economy is careening toward disaster. In a June 18th speech at the Commonwealth Club of California, Roberts discussed his book and how problems like food scarcity, food borne illness, obesity and malnutrition are all rooted in the industrial mass-production of food.

Hm...looks like the embedding broke. Try this: http://wordforword.publicradio.org/programs/2008/06/27/

Al Letson

Another talent from Jacksonville

Shaun Thurston

I was just hanging with a great friend of mine, and wanted to put a link to some of his artwork.


http://shaunthurston.deviantart.com/store/


Enjoy...

MacGyver

This just recently came to my attention. A list of the problems solved by MacGyver. And they say Wikipedia isn't a valid authority. That's awesome.

Also, I thought this was just fascinating.

A Swiss Army knife is commonly called Macgybar Chakku in Bangladesh, Maekgaibeo Kal in South Korea, and Pisau MacGyver/Pisau Lipat MacGyver' in Indonesia and Malaysia. (Chakku, Kal and Pisau mean knife in Bengali, Korean and Malay, respectively.) In Malaysia, the term "MacGyver knife" (English) is also commonly used. In Poland it's known as the "Scyzoryk MacGyver'a", which means just "Macgyver's knife". In Norway and in certain areas of Finland, duct tape is commonly known, to some degree, as "MacGyver-tape", though it is more used in a joking manner. In Mozambique, fixing something by adapting locally-available parts is sometimes referred to as doing a "Macgyver". In Taiwan, a person who is knowledgable or skilled at a technical subject X is termed an "X magaixian" ("X MacGyver").