Americans Eating Fewer Vegetables

March 21st, 2007 at 1:45 pm (digg)

I’ve been trying to eat more vege’s. I used to not eat them at all, so in many ways I’ve vastly improved. My hope of all hopes is that my daughter will have a taste for them. I wish the food producers of the world would find better ways of getting vegetables into the snacks we eat.

In a form that is actually healthy, please.

From digg:
5 a Day for Fruits and Vegetables? No Way, Surveys Show

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NPR fights back, seeks rehearing on Internet radio royalty increases

March 21st, 2007 at 12:29 pm (digg)

Copyright issues irk me. So do Patent issues. Only a few other issues get my blood boling hotter. It is stupid that internet radio has to play royalties when normal radio does not. None of those royalties will ever make it to the original performers, so why in the world should those taxes-to-a-corporate-not-government-entitiy be mandated anyway.

If the US Congress wants to do something good for the people, they’ll rewrite the patent and copyright laws. Let us share to our hearts content and let the business world work out how it is going to make money. They’re good at it, so don’t worry about them. Bands will be fine, they can do concerts and actually work for a living. The music itself shouldn’t be a product, but an experience to be shared.

From digg:
National Public Radio has filed a motion for rehearing over the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision to drastically increase royalty rates paid out by nonprofit and Internet radio stations. NPR’s not happy, and the organization is kicking butts and taking names.

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