What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?

New York Times piece from 2002 questioning the received "fat is bad, mkay?" wisdom.  The first 8 pages are good, then it starts promoting the Atkins diet a little too specifically, which given that the main message I take out of the whole article is "there's no silver bullet" seems a little short sighted...

You Are What You Grow

Michael Pollan in the New York Times with a glimmer of hope that the US farm bill could get a run for it's money this time around...

Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners

Interesting article on the evolution of long distance running as a hunting strategy for early hominids.

Recovering Accidentally Deleted Files with Undelete Plus

After accidentally deleting about 100gb of recorded TV programs, 
I spent a bit of time looking around for a utility that would 
let me recover them easily (God knows why this isn't built into Windows...)

After trying a lot of utilities, I eventually found Undelete PLUS. This scanned and found all the deleted files very quickly and I was able to copy them to another drive.

The program's UI is not particularly intuitive, and a general flaw with all these programs is that you must copy the recovered files to a separate disk to avoid destroying other yet-to-be recovered files (which is a pain with 100gb of files...)

However, it's free, and it works! Download or bookmark it in case you need it one day.

(I'm using Windows XP SP2 with NTFS formatted drives.)

Restaurant reviewer with an ethical stance

From now on, if a restaurant does not offer me tap water, politely, unsarcastically, and before they offer mineral water, then they will be penalised.

Scaring children to death

Robyn Williams, In Conversation with Bill Durodie, 28th September:

"Going back to what you're saying about risk, I was fascinated the other day to hear something on the BBC concerning the fear of paedophiles; occasionally of course, it's a real, real thing that there is a nasty man in a coat and there is a poor vulnerable child. However for every one of those – apparently now that everyone drives their kids to school, there are 300 fatal accidents – so for each one child that you're saving from the paedophile, 300 are dying in car crashes."

I'd love to find a reference for that...

Related: Fear of paedophiles makes children fat and Fear of paedophiles 'a tragedy'.

Things will get better!

Well, maybe that's not all that positive... treehugger post.

Update: on World Changing.

The Onion: Retired S1Ws Recalled To Active Duty

Too good.

Well put...

An article by Emma Tom on the inconsistent imposition of "Australian values" on different religions.

Nice quote from a post 9-11 article in The Onion:

"Look, I don't know, maybe I haven't made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again," God was quoted as saying. "Somehow, people keep coming up with the idea that I want them to kill their neighbour. Well, I don't. And to be honest, I'm really getting sick and tired of it. Get it straight. Not only do I not want anybody to kill anyone, but I specifically commanded you not to, in really simple terms that anybody ought to be able to understand."

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