MissM’s Blog

• Video: The History Of Maxwell House Shrinkage
  Documentation of what I've noticed more and more companies doing it. PopTarts have shrunk over the years, Coke has gone from 20oz. bottles to 16.9oz for the same price, cereal, etc. The list is endless… for more check out this link http://consumerist.com/search/shrinkage/
  (tags: consumer price increase shrinkage)

• Brian Cox on CERN's supercollider | Video on TED.com
  In honor of the LHC warming up, here's a video of one of the physicists involved at TED
  (tags: lhc cern ted science technology)

• Something Fishy: High School Students Bust Restaurants And Grocery Stores For Selling Mislabeled Fish
  They hit 4 restaurants and 10 grocery stores in Manhattan. Once the samples were home, whether in doggie bags or shopping bags, they cut away a small piece and preserved it in alcohol. They sent those off to the University of Guelph in Ontario, where the Barcode of Life Database project began. A graduate student there, Eugene Wong, works on the Fish Barcode of Life (dubbed, inevitably, Fish-BOL) and agreed to do the genetic analysis. <clip> 2 of the 4 restaurants and 6 of the 10 grocery stores had sold mislabeled fish.
  (tags: fish truth food)

• FasTrak toll system exposed, could use a serious dose of security - Engadget
  toll transponders that are purchased and slapped onto vehicles offer up exactly no authentication, meaning that anyone with an ill will and an RFID reader could wander through a parking lot and lift all sorts of useful information. Think it can't get worse? The transponders reportedly support "unauthenticated over the air upgrading," which means that each tag could be forced to take on a new ID if the right equipment was present. We don't have to spell out "potential disaster" for you, now do we?
  (tags: security rfid fastrak)

Two guys boat from Minneapolis to New Orleans in 80 days. Bill and Max are very funny and enjoyable to watch. I haven’t caught all the episodes, but the ones I have watched are incredibly funny, moving, hot and stormy I recommend this for any geek chicks on digg

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• It was always all about the judges. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
  "Judge John D. Bates, who categorically refused yesterday to accept the Bush administration's limitless characterization of executive privilege,[snip] Ultimately, Bates did nothing more than reaffirm the role of the courts in adjudicating matters of privilege. He found that "it is the judiciary (and not the executive branch itself) that is the ultimate arbiter of executive privilege." This opinion is certainly dramatic, but the underlying legal principle is hardly shocking. The Bush administration, in attempting to insulate itself from judicial scrutiny over the last seven years, made one critical miscalculation: It has consistently attempted to assert legal privileges ranging from the "state secrets" doctrine to an unbounded executive privilege, the contours of which would ultimately be determined by the judicial branch."
  (tags: criminal current_administration executive judicial)

• Giz Explains: An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need
  Every cable known to man with big pictures of the ends of the cables
  (tags: geek computer reference technology hardware photos cables electronics tips wiring)
• wcco.com - Experts Recommend Gluten-, Dairy-Free Autism Diet
  This is a test of the delicious blog posting