Writ of Mainprize

With the multitude of health supplements out there, it’s difficult to figure out which ones work and which ones do not. Ideally, we’d follow the results of good scientific studies that have been corroborated by other studies. Unfortunately, wading through the results is extremely difficult. There is a good attempt and collating some of the results and categorizing the benefits by the reliability of the evidence. The people at Information is Beautiful have made a very nice bubble visualization of a whole host of supplements …

Finally! I don’t understand why it was such a problem to get this bill passed. Actually, I do understand. A lot of idiots went ballistic stating that this was gonna bankrupt America and lead to government control of the quality of healthcare. And this somehow was against the very nature of the American dream.
Anyways, it clearly fixes a lot of problems with the current system and introduces a slew of regulations that control the behavior of intransigent insurance companies to provide coverage for low-income and for those …

A full-cut wool kilt is a tricky thing to maintain. It’s wool so it’ll shrink like crazy if you toss it in a washer and dry cleaning ages the wool until it’s a dry brittle shell. Apparently the best thing to do is to carefully wash it in cold water with a mild soap like Woolite. I’ve found a few tid bits about
washing and then pressing your kilt. Sounds like a lot of work, but it might be worth it.

View the vancouver2010.com medals’ table

We finally got a gold on Canadian soil! Yay!