Octopodial Chrome

Lifehacker presents ten Google search tricks. Pretty good stuff to know.

Apparently environmentally sound burial is having a resurgence. Everything old is new again, I guess.

I think the lengths we go to in order to pretend that the dead aren’t dead are pretty absurd: we pump them full with embalming chemicals; we paint them with makeup; we put them in airtight coffins in concrete vaults; many funeral services don’t even have an open casket!

When I die, I want to be buried in a wooden casket (pine if I die poor, maybe oak or mahogany if I’m rich) and buried in the actual ground. No embalming, no hyper-expensive air-tight casket, no absurd vault: just me returning to the dust from whence I came, awaiting my resurrection. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.

From CNN comes this list if bad foods which are actually good: red meat; ice cream; eggs; pizza and Canadian bacon. Taken in moderation, all actually help one lose weight.

Alexander Wolfe has an interesting response to the RIAA’s most recent egregious behaviour: cut copyright terms to five years. Most money is probably made in the first five years anyway, and it would certainly hit the RIAA where it hurts.