Month: May 2010

Typedia has a nice reference on all of the typographic terms used for fonts.

According to World of Mysteries, the “Worst Beverage in America” is Cold Stone PB&C (Gotta Have It size, 24 fl oz).  Check out these statistics:

2,010 calories
131 g fat (68 g saturated)
153 g sugars

Sugar Equivalent: 30 Chewy Chips Ahoy Cookies

In terms of saturated fat, drinking this Cold Stone catastrophe is like slurping up 68 strips of bacon. Health experts recommend capping your saturated fat intake at about 20 grams per day, yet this beverage packs more than three times that into a cup the size of a Chipotle burrito. But here’s what’s worse: No regular shake at Cold Stone, no matter what the size, has fewer than 1,000 calories. If you must drink your ice cream, make it one of the creamery’s “Sinless” options. Otherwise you’d better plan on buying some bigger pants on the way home.

Holy crap!  Thankfully out of all of those, the only one I’ve ever had is a Sunkist orange soda.  I actually like the proposed alternative, Izze Sparkling Clementine soda, so I guess if I have to have an orange soda I should keep some of those on hand…

I’ve always wondered about this:

The concept of peak oil, where the inaccessibility of remaining deposits ensures that extraction rates start an irreversible decline, has been the subject of regular debate for decades. Although that argument still hasn’t been settled—estimates range from the peak already having passed us to its arrival being 30 years in the future—having a better sense of when we’re likely to hit it could prove invaluable when it comes to planning our energy economy. The general concept of peaking has also been valuable, as it applies to just about any finite resource. A new analysis suggests that it may be valuable to consider applying it to a renewable resource as well: the planet’s water supply.