OMG I HURT.

[conuly]

It *must* be my period. I am SO wiped out today - spent all night feeling like I'd just had a tetanus shot all over, today I'm barely keeping conscious and my back hurts (well, that's normal, anyway). OMG. I just feel so out of it.

Anyway, though, I'm awake enough to get these articles onto the journal and close up these tabs, so let's do that!

The corn lobby wants HFCS to be relabeled "corn sugar". I want corn to be less heavily subsidized - and I want a greater variety of foods to have those subsidies instead. The problem really isn't the HFCS (although whether or not "my body can tell", I can tell, corn syrup tastes nasty), it's the fact that, since corn is subsidized up the wazoo, HFCS is used as a cheap filler in everything. In jelly. In applesauce. In "juice" drinks. In pasta sauce. In hot dogs. In crackers. In bread. Most of this stuff doesn't need any sugar whatsoever (and certainly not in the proportion that HFCS has been added!), but it's in there. Why? Because it's cheaper than making real food. And very few people are really willing to commit to making EVERYthing from scratch.

Another article on the difference between static and dynamic stretching.

On the World Memory Championships.

On miniature nuclear reactors. I didn't read this, I'm getting fuzzy.

On 3D illusions in the street to get drivers' attention. I can think of better (safer) things to paint on the street than the image of a kid with a ball. If they're going to do this, it should be in very FEW spots and they should remove it after a short time, possibly putting the image somewhere else.

Gay couples seek immigration rights

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[frith]

HFCS may also stimulate appetite by causing a rapid rise then fall of blood sugar levels as it is rapidly processed in the liver and causes a poor insulin response. It is also more readily converted to lipids and adipose than glucose. Since making you want to eat more than you need is one way for food processing companies to increase consumption of their product, an appetite stimulant factor in their food is to their advantage.

Re: kid with ball illusion -- Often times I think that a deer-in-the-headlights illusion would be a nice way to slow down traffic here. But I'm not the government so I wouldn't be allowed to get away with such tom foolery.

By the way, your frequent offers of DW codes on news is kind, but I figure by now that just about anyone there who wants a code will either ask for one or knows where to find one. Those who are left seem to be getting rubbed the wrong way, as if we were selling Avon products at each and every coffee break. 8^D

[conuly]

Which is why I've stopped offering them :) My last post was a day and a half ago or so. (It actually has nothing to do with them, and everything to do with the codes, which I've personified in my mind. Poor, sad, lonely things!)

The comments have slowed down a lot anyway, so I'm not too concerned about it. I mean, it's been two weeks!

Often times I think that a deer-in-the-headlights illusion would be a nice way to slow down traffic here.

Sure, the first couple of times. But you don't want to risk desensitizing people to actual children actually darting out in front of them.

Since making you want to eat more than you need is one way for food processing companies to increase consumption of their product, an appetite stimulant factor in their food is to their advantage.

That's also why everything has so much salt in it. It's cheap, and combining salt and sugar makes food irresistible. (I know - it's how I make my blondies, by doubling the salt in the recipe.)

[frith]

Two weeks of migration to DW -- lots of new blood!

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Another Washington gay couple, who requested that their names not be published because the foreign partner is a Latino man currently living in the country under false pretenses and the American partner is a prominent Republican whose identity could easily lead authorities to the other man,

At work if we consider that "anonymising a source" I would hope we would get a very heavy slap on the wrist.

[conuly]

Meh, they probably figure that prominent Republicans with secret gay illegal immigrant partners are a dime a dozen. (Though not if his partner is actually honest about himself instead of hiding behind the flimsy pretext of "family values", whatever THAT means.)