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POPSNew Rule for the Internets (Six-Figure Income Division) More: 6. If you do any of the above, individually or severally, when the Internets call you out for being clueless, entitled, ignorant and an embarrassment as a human being — and they will — you will not then complain how your words were misunderstood and/or taken out of context and/or that people missed the real point of your argument. 7. This rule applies equally to any defending the right of those with six-figure incomes to mewl about their awful lot in life. Note to the Internets: This new rule is effective immediately. Please feel free to enforce it. Direct all complaints here. They will be dealt with appropriately.
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POPSI am not moving to Bolivia Click through for the full allegorical piece. Well worth reading. I thought I would move to Boliva. I mean, my parents moved to Bolivia, and their parents did, and theirs... it's kind of a family tradition, you know? Only when it got to the point that my husband and I would have needed to start looking into passports and visas, we realized... no. No, in fact, neither one of us wants to move to Bolivia. Visit, sure, if friends who live there need someone to look after things while they're on vacation. But move there? No.
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POPSWireless capsule endoscopy - "the camera in a pill" More: Patients report that the video capsule is easier to swallow than an aspirin… After the Given M2A capsule is swallowed, it moves through the digestive track naturally with the aid of the peristaltic activity of the intestinal muscles… During the 8 hour exam, the images are continuously transmitted to special antenna pads placed on the body and captured on a recording device about the size of a portable Walkman which is worn about the patient's waist. After the exam, the patient returns to the doctor's office and the recording device is removed. The stored images are transferred to a computer PC workstation where they are transformed into a digital movie which the doctor can later examine on the computer monitor. Patients are not required to retrieve and return the video capsule to the physician. It is disposable and expelled normally and effortlessly with the next bowel movement.
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POPSThe SF-NY food feud continues More: As for the restaurants where he lives: “Say what you will about creativity,” Mr. Patterson writes, “but our food tastes really, really good.” Largely because immigrant farmers from around the world settled in the Bay Area, he continues, “at farmers’ markets today I can find 8 kinds of cucumbers and 10 varieties of potatoes.” Even after visiting Italy, he found that “with few exceptions, the products were better, the cooking more careful in my hometown.” This is SO true. Living here in the SF Bay Area, I am sooo spoiled by having such amazingly good-quality produce so conveniently available.
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POPSSan Francisco finally gets some summer weather More: Mike Pechner, who runs Golden West Meteorology and has forecast the weather for more than 40 years, said temperatures will dip again starting Tuesday. Rain is even possible, he said, during the first days of October. "This is like a small bump in the road of an unseasonably cold summer," Pechner said. "Enjoy it because it is something we have seen only a few times this summer. It could be the last hurrah."
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POPSWhooping cough - has your vaccine immunity worn off? More: That means that the “herd immunity,” which public health officials rely on to protect infants who have not yet been immunized as well as vulnerable people with weak immune systems, isn’t effective. Fortunately, there is now a vaccine that can be used with older children, teens and adults. The California Department of Health recommendation, which Trochet endorses, is to vaccinate anyone ages 7 or older who is not fully immunized (especially adults over 64); women of child-bearing age who plan on becoming pregnant, are pregnant or who have just delivered a child; and anyone who has contact with pregnant women or infants. “All of the children who have died have been infants under 6 months of age,” said Trochet. “Most babies aren’t fully protected until the third vaccination in the series. That means that babies under 6 months are at the greatest risk for infection.”
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POPSThe Power of Intent – It's Magic! More: So say, if you make a bunch of racist jokes, instead of contributing to the systemic oppression of POC, the bewitching might of Intent…spreads out, blocking every single person from fully hearing the awful racist shit you just said, further preventing them from internalizing it and using it to justify actions. It also prevents it from creating an environment where racist behavior is seen as more acceptable, by twisting the very threads of fate there as well! And, the best part? If you say it in earshot of someone who’s offended or hurt by it, the occult powers of Intent change everything! Now, instead of hearing a hurtful slur or sentiment that reminds of past abuses at the hands of privileged fuckjobs, the marginalized person in question only hears the beautiful natural sound of birds chirping. Or whale noises! Because you see, Intent is just that powerful. It literally keeps anyone from getting hurt by your fuckery!
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POPSCyclists: Instead of riding illegally, GET STRONGER Hah! Glad to come across this piece, which echoes something I find myself muttering regularly while riding: If we're playing leapfrog because I'm passing you at green lights and on the straightaways but you're getting ahead by running red lights, riding on the sidewalk, or riding the wrong way down the street, you're not really faster than I am . So sorry.
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POPSHow to build a meal-sized salad Click through for more ideas. More: But if you’re finding that salad after salad leaves you ravenous, I think it’s time for you to face the obvious: your salads are probably too light to keep you full. And it’s time for you to rethink your salad formula. What’s my salad formula? Simple! I like to add at least two or three sources of density to my salads if they’re going to serve as meals. What’s density? Well, I do mean a source of caloric density, but what I really mean is a source of nutritional heft and satiety. This might be a starch, like sweet potatoes or grains; it might be a fat source, like a tahini dressing or avocado; it might be nuts or dried fruit; it might be a bit of tempeh; it might be as simple as a healthy flax oil. The idea is that I like for at least two of these things to join forces, affording me a filling and nutritionally rich meal.
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POPSBremner Farms Organic Walnuts and Raw Unpasteurized Almonds All California almonds, even the ones that may be labeled "raw", are actually pasteurized by either treatment with propylene oxide gas, at which point they're no longer organic, or by steam treatment. UNLESS, that is, you order directly from the farmer. That's the only way to get truly raw organic almonds from California. This may be changing , but for now it's still the law.
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POPSHow to make PDFs searchable in Windows 7 Windows 7 out of the box won't search inside PDFs , which is really inconvenient. Here's how to fix it. More: You should see a message prompt near the top of the screen telling you that indexing is turned off, then asks you if you want to turn it on. Click the message and click to enable indexing. 9. Go back to Indexing, and click Rebuild (The rebuilding will take hours and will not work untill it is done!) If you did as I said above, you will be able to click on a start button and search for PDF files, and the contents inside them, including ones that you may have used OCR.
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POPSChia seeds: not just a novelty plant, they're a tasty nutritional powerhouse More: Chia seeds demonstrate strong anti-oxidant activity. • Chia seeds are high in dietary fiber. They are made up of 5% soluble fiber, which appears as clear mucilage when placed in water. Clear mucilage = pudding like oats & extra thick smoothies. 1 TBSP of chia seeds contains 5 grams of fiber. • Unlike flax seed, you do not have to grind chia seeds to reap the benefits. If that isn’t motivation enough to try chia seeds, they also make for really, really fun puddings. Click through for a tasty-sounding recipe for holiday chia pudding. I first tried chia as chia fresca after reading Christopher McDougall's book Born to Run and really liked it. Pudding was the obvious next step - tasty! Chocolate chia pudding is quicker than Jell-o instant, but tastier and way healthier. Whiz it in the blender if you want a creamer texture.
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POPSRoger Ebert: Ten things I know about the mosque More: What might have been more appropriate? On September 12, 2001, I wrote a little op-ed column: A Green Field If there is to be a memorial, let it not be of stone and steel. Fly no flag above it, for it is not the possession of a nation but a sorrow shared with the world. Let it be a green field, with trees and flowers. Let there be paths that wind through the shade. Put out park benches where old people can sun in the springtime, and a pond where children can skate in the winter… Let this open space among the towers mark the emptiness in our hearts. But do not make it a sad place. Give it no name. Let people think of it as the green field. Every living thing that is planted here will show faith in the future… Do not build again on this place. No building can stand here. No building, no statue, no column, no arch, no symbol, no name, no date, no statement. Just the comfort of the earth, to remind us that we share it.
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