top 10 strangest deaths

me and the links. this one is especially creepy to me for some reason. though i suppose there is something to getting a famous death. i mean, you only get one go at it, right?

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the booze belt

[via gizmodo]

also, the shotcha bandolier

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i put too much pressure on myself to write the right thing.  i need to learn to just get over it (myself?) and write.

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215 wu-tang mp3s for you

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the nyt on why junk food dominates healthy food.

Compared with a bunch of carrots, a package of Twinkies, to take one iconic processed foodlike substance as an example, is a highly complicated, high-tech piece of manufacture, involving no fewer than 39 ingredients, many themselves elaborately manufactured, as well as the packaging and a hefty marketing budget. So how can the supermarket possibly sell a pair of these synthetic cream-filled pseudocakes for less than a bunch of roots?

For the answer, you need look no farther than the farm bill. This resolutely unglamorous and head-hurtingly complicated piece of legislation, which comes around roughly every five years and is about to do so again, sets the rules for the American food system — indeed, to a considerable extent, for the world’s food system. Among other things, it determines which crops will be subsidized and which will not, and in the case of the carrot and the Twinkie, the farm bill as currently written offers a lot more support to the cake than to the root.

the article is pretty insane — opening with the simple fact that 1 dollar will buy you far more ‘junk’ calories than healthy ones, helping to explain how it is that lower income people are more likely to be obese. it goes on from there.

depressing.

this is the kind of thing, in general, that i find a lot of brain power spent on these days. in my head. i am in the process of carving out a comfortable existence for myself. but i am spending more and more time thinking about how fundamentally skewed (and screwed) our entire system has become.

i try not to spend the thinking power about the ‘how’ and more about trying to figure out what i can do to change it. there are so many issues and so many of them are so large, it becomes quite overwhelming. i’m not ready to give up on my thoughts about co-ops, communes, communities and other weird, hippie food choices.

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the lights just went out in the conference room where i am sitting right now.

i am too still.

now i wonder how long i can hold this position…

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Gen Y’s Top 15 Most Trusted Brands

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