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http://www.getafirstlife.com/ “Get a First Life.” 08:02

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5067912.stm Terrific picture: small ginger cat looks up at a black bear perched high in a tree after scaring it there. (Although … Google is suspiciously ignorant of stories of Donna DIckey and her pet cat.) 21:56

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html Sort of meadering piece on nutrition, the food we eat, and the food we should eat. (Long; though there’s nine point-form tips at the end.) “Avoid even those food products that come bearing health claims. They’re apt to be heavily processed, and the claims are often dubious at best. … Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.” 20:59

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/14279641/#encourage Amazon on why they encourage the use of real names: “In general, we believe that a community in which people use their Real Name™ attributions will ultimately have higher quality content, since an author willing to sign his or her real-world name on a piece of content is essentially saying "With my real-world identity, I stand by what I have written here."” Makes sense, but why does the same not apply to eBay? eBay would seem to have a similar requirements, but pretty much no-one uses their real name on eBay. 22:48

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/3044.html Profile of Malcolm Gladwell. Whilst working at the Washington Post, he won a competition with a fellow reporter over who would be first to get the phrase “perverse and often baffling” into the paper. 14:10

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21Sanders.t.html Profile of Bernie Sanders, the only socialist in the Senate. (Another nice, feel-good story in the Times: a piece about a soccer team of refugee kids and their volunteer coach.) 20:06

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/070122ta_
talk_collins What Japanese tourists to NYC want. (“Masafumi Tomoshige, from Saga, was disappointed that he hadn’t seen a car chase.”) Eccentricities aside, travelling anywhere outside Japan must be a very disheartening experience for Japanese tourists: everywhere else is (much) dirtier, there’s few (or no) public toilets, you’re treated like a thief (security tags in stores), trains don’t run on time, you aren’t given a wet paper towel to wipe your hands before meals… 10:50

http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/atm/ The ATM (cash machine) at the DNA Lounge gives out receipts which are headed “SHOPPING IS NOT CREATING / YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN”. 14:18

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/01/the_science_chancellor.php Decent short profile of Angela Merkel. (Like Thatcher, she was once a chemist.) 20:36

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/07/
LVG18NBRG41.DTL On the increasing popularity of Japanese-style “raw” jeans. Buying (and using) “selvedge” jeans is not straightforward!: I bought a pair at A.P.C. in New York last month and they’ve worked out fine, but at point of purchase you’re buying something which: (1) doesn’t fit right (you’re supposed to buy a size or two too small); (2) doesn’t feel right (the fabric is still very stiff); and (3) doesn’t look right (the denim will fade over time). This all adds up to an unsettling retail experience! 19:25

http://www.e-cr.co.uk/crblog/?p=444 The aesthetic qualities of image spam. 19:02

http://banksy.co.uk/shop/index.html Banky”s on-line shop: “Everything in the shop is free. All the images can be downloaded to print or use as a desktop.” (decent anti-Banksy rant) 18:48

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6248975.stm A BBC TV show locks nine volunteers into a zoo and feeds them the sort of food our ape-like ancestors once ate, to healthy results. I wonder if a caveman diet (meat okay, but no processed foods such as bread) would give similar results. 08:22

http://www.dnalounge.com/gallery/2007/01-06/ Is there anywhere in London that hosts the sort of random burlesque acts that the DNA Lounge regularly gets? 03:54

http://30gms.com/permalink/designer_christmas_card/ Designer Thomas Heatherwick’s Christmas Card. 22:21

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/apple-
holiday-catalog-1983-225237.php Apple’s 1983 gift catalog. 13:16