Linkfest

For those of you that are new to the blog, Welcome and for the returners and long time readers, as always, great to see you. From time to time, I like to let you know what I've seen on the internet. It's important because some of it probably reminds me of you.

• Hulu is one of my favorite websites right now. I have very few cable channels and hardly ever watch live TV anyway. I go to this site to catch up on my favorite shows, especially the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Well, Hulu has been in the news recently. First, the CEO Answered Freakonomics reader questions but deftly avoided telling me if they're going to release an application for the iPhone. And the follow up, Hulu bows to the whims of cable. If you've never been to Hulu the articles won't be as interesting but it's a site you should check out as soon as you're done reading my post. If you know Hulu, read the articles.


• I was checking the local news and saw this story about rescuing wild animals which reminded me of Beth. She accidentally told her kids that they could keep a wild bunny as a pet if they caught one. I never heard how that turned out.


• Almost all of use know someone who had high cholesterol and went on the Cheerio diet to lower it. Turns out the FDA wants Cheerios to be an over the county med. And the follow up, leave Cheerios alone and focus on all those other stupid supplements that don't actually work.


• For those of you who are runners or exercise like crazy, turns out if you exercise regularly, you don't need to take vitamins, or you should pick your evil. Diabetes or cancer?


• This comic was made for me.


• This map was made for Sarah. Aren't your potholes filled by now? The swerving can be really exciting. It becomes like muscle memory at some point. And then I get thrown off when the holes are filled in.


• And in closing, Don't robo-call a senator. I too have gotten a few (billion) phone calls from this service. It's such a funky number that I always know to ignore it. I'm ready for someone to get them to stop calling me. If you watch the news, every few days you'll see they called someone else they shouldn't have. I think there was a governor who was called too. Oops.