One typical half-pound bowel movement contains 300 kilocalories of energy when incinerated in a bomb calorimeter. Extrapolating to New York’s eight million people, it is theoretically possible to derive as much as 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year from bodily wastes alone, enough to run four, 30-story farms.
Growing Skyscrapers: The Rise of Vertical Farms: [...]

YouTube – Buzz opens the bedroom door.

Local News | Maurice Clemmons, man wanted for questioning, has troubling criminal history | Seattle Times Newspaper.
Thanks for the clemency, Gov. Huckabee.

By January, he will have accomplished more than any first-year president since Franklin Roosevelt.
via Obama is having the best first year of any president since Franklin Roosevelt. – By Jacob Weisberg – Slate Magazine.

Go ahead: Laugh if you want (though you’ll benefit your brain more if you smile), but in my professional opinion, yawning is one of the best-kept secrets in neuroscience.
via Penn Gazette | Essays | Notes from the Undergrad.

T.O. Humane Society staff arrested – Canada – Canoe.ca.

Thanksgiving special: more evidence of failure of trip to Asia! – James Fallows.

Big Fat Whale by Brian McFadden.

YouTube – tennessee trash.

I remember this one well from my childhood.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Keyboard shortcuts.
A complete list of all Lightroom 2 keyboard shortcuts.

Gap’s Christmas cheer makes a boycott backfire — latimes.com.

Bellevue City Council echoes residents’ hostility toward bikini espresso stand – Bellevue Reporter.

How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world | Mail Online.

How much actual cooking goes on in a corporate chain restaurant, like Chili’s or Cracker Barrel anyway? : AskReddit.
Interesting discussion about how much (or little) is cooked at Chili’s. It was good to see how much Outback Steakhouse does at the restaurant–makes it seem like a reasonable choice when confronted by chains.

Humphrey Family Cinema: Austin’s First Birthday on Vimeo on Vimeo
via Humphrey Family Cinema: Austin’s First Birthday on Vimeo.
Pretty good example of using a DSLR with video (a 5D MkII, I believe) and cinematic music to make a family movie that’s more entertaining than most.

One side is for patients with insurance, the other for those who pay up front
via Clinic with two doors, a symbol of two-tier care – Health care- msnbc.com.

YouTube – Pixel by Pixel by Outbreak & Darklite.
Interesting tile work.

YouTube – Amazing! Bird sounds from the lyre bird – David Attenborough – BBC wildlife.
Wow. Be sure to listen all the way through.

Barnes & Noble Says New Nook Order Shipping Delayed (Update3) – Bloomberg.com.
I hope Dawn wasn’t expecting to get a Nook for Christmas.

YouTube – Shiny Suds.

It certainly delivers what its intended audience wants. Readers who already like Palin will love it, much as America’s pedophiles will find the latest Jonas Brothers DVD to their liking.
via ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » GOING ROGUE.

Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives – NYTimes.com.

Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps.

iFollo.
Looks like some potential entertainment for Dawn.

YouTube – 10-Minute Cooking School: Puerco Pibil.

YouTube – 10-Minute Cooking School: Sin City Breakfast Tacos GOOD COPY.

Bobby Flay is arrogant and unpleasant, cocky and dismissive. He isn’t just the biggest dick on the Food Network, he is the only dick on the Food Network, and the absence of others makes his offenses seem all the more egregious.
via Flak Magazine: The Staggering Dicketry of Bobby Flay, 06.17.03.

Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies.
via In House, Many Spoke With One Voice – Lobbyists’ – NYTimes.com.

Kraft Dinner’s Horrific New Flavours — The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

Review: Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5M-B eSATA Storage Enclosure.
Turns out that the EX495 MediaSmart server supports port multiplication over the eSATA port and can see up to 5 drives. With this storage enclosure, I could add 10TB (using 2TB drives) to the new WHS over a fast eSATA connection. That should be enough to get me [...]