You would never guess what Chunk looks like these days: LINK Update: This is more like what I’d expected: LINK

Anthony Bourdain: My war on fast food An edited extract from his new book; the gist is that he hates fast food almost as much as he once loved cocaine, but his writing is entertaining as always. You can probably guess in which country the shortest guardrail in the world is located. Sadkeanu.com was served a DMCA cease and desist order and doesn’t have the resources to fight back against a heavy-handed government or wanker Hollywood stars who can’t comprehend fair use. The Olympic Ruins of Modern Greece There is a simple solution to this problem: Create a mobile Olympic venue and move it around to each city via zeppelin…

Max stared at this almost as long as I did.

Check it out here and here. This, of course, is the Wilhelm Scream:

This should make the builders in our area very happy: How ancient China was built on sticky rice, literally

I haven’t written about Facebook’s privacy policy for a long time, mainly because everybody who cares about it is already in the know, but the EFF’s timeline for Facebook’s eroding privacy policy is worth reading. “Facebook originally earned its core base of users by offering them simple and powerful controls over their personal information. As Facebook grew larger and became more important, it could have chosen to maintain or improve those controls. Instead, it’s slowly but surely helped itself — and its advertising and business partners — to more and more of its users’ information, while limiting the users’ options to control their own information.” You are worth money to…