Survey results seem to indicate that about 80 percent of poultry growers don’t ever sanitize their crates, according to an Auburn University survey of 10,317 farms. What’s more, just 18.3 percent sanitize their trucks and trailers—two areas that contribute to the spread of Salmonella and Campylobacter.
Seriously, the title isn’t a joke. Prepare to be grossed out by your food again.
OK, so this is part of the reason why I am vegetarian for the most part (hint, sadly, for some people: Vegetarians don’t eat chicken).
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I came across a couple of rants (ironically online) about the pointless noise of social media and when I saw this analysis of Kodak and Fuji, I realized that Kodak fell into the same trap people fall into when they complain about how the internet has increased the proliferation of absolutely useless crap and mindless exhibitionism.
What these people don’t realize is that a tweet about the morning coffee is not really significant for its content. It’s the act that is the key – people are reaching out for a social connection, and as long as humans have this urge, social media will thrive. And it will thrive in shortform. Shorter attention spans may have something tangential to do with the rise of Twitter, but I suspect the real reason is that most people want short bursts of interaction that mimic conversation, not primarily one-sided broadcasts.
Costa Concordia. via Sunday Reading, by @zunguzungu
It’s interesting to watch this: The ship remains in the news, and photographers have to try to take different pictures every day, because, you know, that’s how this works: People want different pictures all the time. This one’s very inventive. We’ll see what else people will come up with.
Behold! What the Stop SOPA blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours.
See our story behind the SOPA blackout.
This is one of the draft blackout screens for Wikipedia’s planned outage tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate twin, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). But the biggest fights of the SOPA/PIPA war are already over, and the entertainment industry seems to have lost. Siddhartha Mahanta and Nick Baumann explain how Reddit, Wikipedia, and BoingBoing took on one of Washington’s most powerful lobbies—and won.
You’re Jon Huntsman. You like to play the keyboard and talk about young people things, like rock music. You once called called Mitt Romney a “perfectly lubricated weather vane”—a pretty good line—and said he was running for “the Waffle House” instead of the White House. You cut an advertisement juxtaposing your toughest rival with a flip-flopping monkey. You said he represented everything that’s wrong with America.
So naturally…you’re dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Mitt Romney on Monday.
I suppose the good thing about those “smartphone” photo apps is that you get to take “toy camera” style photos without the actual toy-camera hassle.
Cass Bird has a book due to launch in February for a project called “Rewilding”.“Over the past ten years, Cass Bird (born 1974) has established herself as one of the foremost portraitists of contemporary America. Her photographs of young women and men casually…
As much as I like these photographs/bodies of work, those press statements are really borderline absurd. For example “the fluid expression of gender roles and androgyny in today’s youth culture”: this fluid expression of baloney in today’s art-photography culture. It’s almost as if those press statements are written for museum curators only.
Why didn’t we think of this? WHY?
“At 4 a.m. on an Upper East Side subway platform, a stare-down between two men was being held. One blinked, and Joseph Owens, 32, attacked.”Félix Fenéon, meet
@neofeneon: Three line poems from the NYPD police blotter.
