DEBRIS.COMgood for a laugh, or possibly an aneurysm

The Environmental Working Group’s FoodNews site published a report card on Pesticides in Produce. The dozen most-contaminated and least-contaminated fruits and vegetables are listed. They’ve produced a convenient downloadable wallet guide too.

What about washing?… Washing fresh produce may help reduce pesticide residues, it clearly does not eliminate them. Nonetheless, produce should be washed before it is eaten because washing does reduce levels of some pesticides. However, other pesticides are taken up internally into the plant, are in the fruit, and cannot be washed off.

I just had my hair cut. My head looks like a Greek statue. I shouldn’t be surprised; the guy with the scissors was Greek, working part-time in a salon until he gets his sculpture business off the ground. Apparently there’s not a lot of call around here for temple architects.

In a heavy accent he quoted the rules of Greek design as he pointed at my hair, as if my head was a column in the Parthenon. “Twelve degrees rise here, you see? Classic. Thirty-five degrees in front, you see? Forty-five degrees in back. Classic! I’m a professional, thirty years experience!”

Thirty years experience doing what? I was afraid to ask. I believe it involves hammers and chisels.

“Shake your head. No, shake hard. You see? Now you look Italian!”

Tuesday morning, our house smelled like it was burning. Every flat surface was covered with ash dust. Like the rest of Sonoma county, we’re downwind of the Rumsey fire.

The solar panels were a mess too.

CherryOS is a G4 emulator. It claims to allow Windows users to run MacOS X Panther in a virtual machine.

Is this thing real?

Curiously, the screenshots link from the site’s homepage results in a .NET error, indicating that maybe the CherryOS people should have hosted their website on Apache, e.g. running in emulation in a G4 VM on that Windows box.

[news seen at Macintouch, from where it will spread rapidly, if it’s true]

Update: turns out there’s already an open-source solution for running OS X under both Linux and Windows: PearPC. This tends to indicate that the CherryOS is real, at least in the sense that it is possible to emulate PowerPC hardware well enough on an x86 to fool OS X. [Thanks to Sam B. for the tip!]

Update: looks like CherryOS is a scam after all. Macintouch and Slashdot readers cut through the hype. As of this writing, the entire CherryOS site is reporting errors.

I just sold my motorcycle, disproving the adage “There are only two kinds of riders: those who have fallen, and those who will fall.” I rode for 10 years without falling.

No, that time I forgot to put the side stand down doesn’t count; I caught the bike with my ankle just before it hit the sidewalk.