The paragraphs under the links are from Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Kendra Degen Pearsall’s 2006 book, “Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, Nutrasweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health”, page 170.
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Chemicals that should never be consumed
Saturday, October 6th, 2007“Trust Us, We’re Experts!” by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
Saturday, July 14th, 2007I finished this book several days ago and we are leaving town today so I will write a quick review now and pack my laptop. It was copyrighted in 2001 and published by Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. in New York. The full title is “Trust Us, We’re Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with your Future”. I enjoyed reading it for all of the details about companies, events, schemes, and toxins like:
the third-party PR technique
the precautionary principle
industry-funded science and its skewed findings
Edward Bernays, a nephew of Freud
companies that poison and kill people and get away with it
the military and science in the US, and other funding
genetically modified foods from Monsanto
When I wrote the authors about something I thought they left out (the breast cancer and abortion link), one of them wrote me back! It is a good book for detail if you have plenty of time and patience, and I recommend it for its history at least.
Advice for Adjusting to a microwave-free Kitchen
Thursday, May 24th, 2007I sent this to a friend yesterday after she told me that she donated her microwave, and added a few things to it. I hope you will find it useful. Please feel free to add your suggestions. I have wanted to talk about this for a while and I apologize for waiting. I will post research about health concerns related to microwave oven usage when I have more solid evidence besides what is on Dr. Mercola’s website.
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Pedantic Mail Servers
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Some mail servers these days are getting ridiculously aggressive about trying to block spam. A perfect example of this is (surprise surprise… not!) Microsoft’s mail hosting services such as Hotmail. If we try to email anyone at a Hotmail address, our mail server immediately gets a rejection before it even sends the content of the message, just based on the IP addresses on our mail server! This is a server that has never sent any sort of unsolicited email, including spam and viruses.
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Starting a Company
Friday, July 21st, 2006For a number of months, I’ve been a developer for the Armagetron Advanced computer game. As the game is a gratis download, we of course do not get paid. Obviously, this time could only be considered as “hobby”
Well, I hope to have solved that “problem”. A few days ago, I started in business as the first server specializing in hosting internet Armagetron games. Hopefully it will turn out to be profitable so I can justify spending time doing more development on the game.
~Luke-Jr
P.S. Thanks for the prayers; we recovered a day or so after the post of our illness.