Oikos Ain't

Gullibility + Laziness = Ignorance

Ignorance pisses me off.

So does the fact that so much of our choice in food is not just unhealthy, but by ratio of ingredients barely constitutes food at all. (Take a look at nutritional label of popular foods; many of the ingredients aren't just difficult to pronounce, they're damn near impossible to digest.) But, what really concerns me (and pisses me off) is everyone knows this, though few seem to mind. How many of you jump on a food-craze wagon because you saw an advertisement market it as healthy? Be honest. Have a cup of Greek yogurt in the fridge? Well, maybe you do, but maybe you don't, despite what the label says. 

Indeed, Greek yogurt is the vogue health food right now. What's not in vogue is learning why it's healthy. And dare not ask if it's actually healthier than regular yogurt. 

http://twentytweets.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/greek-yogurt-yay-or-nay/

The good news: by and large, Greek Yogurt is healthier (Phew!). 

The bad news: you're not sure why (Hmmm, he's right...). 

Many of those four-ounce tubs of what you're told is Greek yogurt (Oooh, it's so exotic! I think I'll pay way too much for it...) are really just standard yogurt, with a little sumtin'-sumtin' thrown in. I say sumtin'-sumptin' because I'm not exactly sure what it is. And, chances are, neither do you.

Let's go over what Greek yogurt is:

Around the World in 8.0 Mbps

Petra, Jordan

It used to be a rare, cool thing to find a great website on the Internet. Now, however, anybody with a connection can create a website; with so many persons creating websites, more and more great websites have surfaced. Like this one, for example.

But there are some that beg to be exploited.

One of my favourite is www.earthcam.com, a website that brings you views of public areas from all over the world. Today, I checked the surf in South Florida (it's flat), peeked through the columns of the city of Petra, Jordan (literally, a city in stone), stoked my romantic side (don't take that the wrong way) with a view of Paris blanketed beneath a thin sheet of snow, and virtually patronised one of the most famous pubs in Dublin (The Temple Bar).

The site allows you to access live camera views as well as archives; so you can see how good the waves were while you were visiting relatives in Boringtown, Nowhere; or watch a pedestrian (in)discretely pick his nose in Time Square. Additionally, EarthCam allows you control over some of the cameras, with zoom, volume and cam manoeuvrability functions.


The only real downside to EarthCam? Well, while you get a picture of all these exotic and enticing places around the world, you don't actually get the real picture: you're not there to see it yourself. So, if you're actually paying for your Internet connection, I advise you learn to hack the local Starbucks' feed and stash that money in a savings account. Let those dollars roll up, and get yourself a plane ticket, dude. Budhapest is so much cooler than it looks.