“The central message here is that simply closing the kitchen door to take a smoke is not protecting the kids from the effects of that smoke,” he said. “There are carcinogens in this third-hand smoke, and they are a cancer risk for anybody of any age who comes into contact with them.”
Among the substances in third-hand smoke are hydrogen cyanide, used in chemical weapons; butane, which is used in lighter fluid; toluene, found in paint thinners; arsenic; lead; carbon monoxide; and even polonium-210, the highly radioactive carcinogen that was used to murder former Russian spy Alexander V. Litvinenko in 2006. Eleven of the compounds are highly carcinogenic.
This isn’t coming from one of the many propaganda/disinformation organizations out there. This is from the New York Times. Yet another example of pure Bullshit from the anti-smoking activists that seek to remove personal freedoms by using misleading language and poorly researched/documented scientific hypotheses. They use scare tactics to influence governmental authorities to take away the rights of free people.
Will garbage like this save the NYT from an inevitable fate? Depends on how ignorant their readers are I guess…
[ New York Times ]
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I’ve been hearing so much buzz about the revolutionary browser known as Flock. I finally checked it out today as a possible alternative to the not-so-freshly-maintained Portable Firefox for my iMac at work. I learned previously a little trick to create symlinks to my iPod (when mounted) so that I could run just about any browser from my iPod without leaving any pesky personal data on my work computer. The conundrum I am in is that I need Firefox to use a proprietary database application that our company relies upon. So far I haven’t been able to find a solution to switch on the fly between profiles on Firefox.
Flock seemed like a good solution because it promised the following:
- Management of multiple web-based email accounts (I have two gmail accounts, plus one Google apps for your domain account)
- Twitter integration
- Wordpress blog management
- And finally, “Flock delivers the latest webmail, photos, videos and updates from your favorites sites, so you can stop running around.” (So I should be able to add FriendFeed, right?)
So while doing some other things at the office today, I downloaded the app and began configuring it. Here is what I learned:
- Flock only handles gmail accounts and does not handle GAYFD accounts.
- The Twitter integration sucks ass.
- Wordpress blog management is OK, but not as nice as MarsEdit.
- Flock not only does not integrate with FriendFeed, doesn’t even see the need for integrating FriendFeed into their services.
So? I uninstalled the fucking thing.
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