Things we love today:
Eat like it’s 1925. When journalist Mark Adams discovered a copy of the 1920s magazine Physical Culture, a publication that set the tone for modern diet and fitness for years to come, he became fascinated by its editor Bernarr Macfadden, a health guru well ahead of his time, advocating a diet of raw food, strength training for women and rehabilitating heart-attack victims with aerobic exercise. Adams tried Macfadden’s diet for two weeks — eating only organic fruits and vegetables, raw nuts, unpasteurised honey, green tea, and sprouted grains and legumes — in what he (or possibly the sub-editor) calls “the craziest diet ever” [maybe I know too many health and fitness freaks and hippies, but I actually know plenty of people who already eat like this].
Anyway, not to give away the ending or anything, but: he gets healthier.
The economic Wiz. So, apparently The Wizard of Oz is one giant metaphor for the economic depression of the late 19th Century. Huh. Dororthy is the proletariat, the Emerald City is money and the winged monkeys are exploited Chinese labourers. I thought it was all an opium thing?
Low-tech cyborg. Programmer loses finger. Replaces it with a USB stick. But only 2gig?
More Clooney. When George Clooney isn’t being tofu, he’s drunkenly ranting to camera:
We love you, George.
Scanwiches. This site scans sandwiches — they cut it in half and stick it in a scanner — and it’s more interesting than it should be.
