Friday, June 09, 2006

Cool Tool: Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce

Cool Tool: Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce

Kevin Kelly at Cool Tools provides the links to this wallet-size guide and a similar one, "Seafood Watch" from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

I can never remember what I should and shouldn't eat from the good-for-you food list. These guides are small and useful.

Seth Godin's e-book- Who's There?

Have you read Seth Godin's latest? As usual, it's thought provoking. He's so good at articulating the changes that the web makes in our lives.

And in the best web tradition, his ebooks are short, sweet, and free. (Isn't he the one who started that tradition?)

This one focuses on blogging. It's must reading if you have a blog. Think about having a blog. Think you ought to have a blog. Or can't figure out what it's all about.

Saturday, June 03, 2006

What Effect Reading Has on Our Minds - MSN Encarta

Well, this tidbit made me feel a bit better about having a birthday yesterday.

What Effect Reading Has on Our Minds - MSN Encarta: "How reading protects your mind
When you pit senior citizens against college students in general knowledge and vocabulary, the oldsters win out.
But college students beat their elders when it comes to memory and tasks that involve logic and deductive reasoning*. Except, that is, when controlled for the amount of reading those people do. There, the results pointed toward the notion that reading a lot can compensate for the wear and tear time can put on a mind. "