Darren

Caught the last 90 minutes or so. Inspiring. - Darren from Bookmarklet

Infrastructure, woohoo. America, F*&K yeah! part two - Darren from Bookmarklet

didn't even last 2 months - Yanting

I love our Governor. - Darren from Bookmarklet

Woohoo, infrastructure! America, F*&K YEAH! - Darren from Bookmarklet

It's so painful watching Richard Dawkins trying to explain Bill O'Reilly's idiocy and illogic. Painful because O'Reilly is a blithering idiot, and a lot of people actually listen to the drivel that comes out of his mouth. - Darren from Bookmarklet

Why was this op-ed reported as abusive by Facebook users? - Darren from Bookmarklet

"Most excitement centred on the newest model nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, with a range that puts Washington within their sights." Great. - Darren from Bookmarklet

"Beer bottles are often used in physical disputes. If the bottles break, they may give rise to sharp trauma. However, if the bottles remain intact, they may cause blunt injuries. In order to investigate whether full or empty standard half-litre beer bottles are sturdier and if the necessary breaking energy surpasses the minimum fracture-threshold of the human skull, we tested the fracture properties of such beer bottles in a drop-tower. Full bottles broke at 30 J impact energy, empty bottles at 40 J. These breaking energies surpass the minimum fracture-threshold of the human neurocranium. Beer bottles may therefore fracture the human skull and therefore serve as dangerous instruments in a physical dispute." - Darren from Bookmarklet

"In reality, the biggest source of abnormal cholesterol is not fat at all -- it's sugar. The sugar you consume converts to fat in your body. And the worst culprit of all is high fructose corn syrup. Consumption of high fructose corn syrup, which is present in sodas, many juices, and most processed foods, is the primary nutritional cause of most of the cholesterol issues we doctors see in our patients." - Darren from Bookmarklet

Hmm... not sure if I trust the HuffPo on science issues, but looks like an interesting premise. - Jim Norris

Interesting article nonetheless. - Darren

"Kent told the Rotary Club of Atlanta that proposals to tax sugary drinks and trash food were “outrageous’’ because “I’ve never seen it work where a government tells people what to eat and what to drink.’’ Kent added, “If it worked, the Soviet Union would still be around.’’" - Darren from Bookmarklet

I love logical fallacies such as this. I believe what he's trying to imply is that the Soviet Union controlled what people ate (e..g, breadlines), and it failed. Therefore, anything that regulates what people eat is bound to fail. The fallacy comes from trying to imply a causative effect: if food is regulated, then the country involved will fail. There are additional logical problems here, too. - Darren

"''We're curious as to what she's willing to say in private but not in public,'' Sevugan said. ''Are there other countries that she can see from her window that she doesn't want us to know about?''" - Darren from Bookmarklet

"But with tuna now in danger of perhaps disappearing, the mayor said the town was struggling to find another local product to keep the tourists coming. “We tried kelp and abalone,” Mr. Kanazawa said, “but nothing has the appeal of tuna.”" - Darren from Bookmarklet

Ah yes, kelp. Never woulda guessed that people would prefer blue fin tuna over seaweed.... - Darren