Monthly Archives: March 2007

Watch who you call fat

File this under cautionary tale: I was doing my morning blog crawl and read a piece over at diet-blog entitled The Top 10 Sources of Stigma. In it they list the top 10 sources of negative reaction to overweight people. They also included the title of the research paper that list was [...]

Rules of engagement

I love writing. Fiction writing in particular, but all forms in general. I love reading. I love reading about writing. My shelf at home is FULL of books about writing. Thus, and entry on my Google homepage LifeHack.org add in brought a smile to my face this morning when I [...]

My morning cereal is funding terrorists

Well, not really. I haven’t put banana on my cereal for quite sometime, and when I did it was not Chiquita, but… check this out – Chiquita banana company admits paying terrorists to protect operations
Indeed, the world is an odd place.

To be filed under DUH!

Breaking news today – Treatment To Prevent Migraines Boosts Work Productivity
The title alone gets a big – Well, yeah.
But the leading paragraph is pure “Ya think!” gold:
For workers with migraines, taking a daily medication to prevent headache attacks can reduce lost productive time on the job, reports a study in the March Journal of Occupational [...]

An alternative to the gym

I just came across a post by Jamie, over at the Really Useful Fitness Blog, about an article by Mike Geary from his TruthAboutAbs.com website – Unique Lean-Body Workouts for the Time-Crunched Individual
Read it, love it.
A few years back I became a half-fan of Matt Furey, and specifically his championing of the traditional Indian wrestling [...]