An app for the grocery store

With it, my iPhone can scan the UPS of a packaged food, and give me advice about its nutritional qualities.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fooducate/id398436747?mt=8

Fooducate

I want: Sticky Note calendar

http://poketo.com/shop/stationery?product_id=1140

Link to homemade salad dressing

five elements to homemade salad dressing/

I'm trying to remember a great homemade dressing that came on the back of a bag of spinach--to my recollection it was just olive oil, juice an orange, and add garlic salt.

Looking at these five elements, oil, acid, sweet, salt, and aromatic, this recollection might be right.  The fresh orange juice is acidic and sweet, the garlic salt is salt and aromatic.

Shut Up.

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is. 

Cooling off the Three Cups of Tea outrage

Amira on the Greg Mortensen scandal:

http://amiralace.blogspot.com/2011/04/keeping-things-in-perspective-in.html

in which she points to this news piece, as evidence how difficult it is for anyone to do development/aid work in Central Asia
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/63328

And, even Krakauer points out Mortensen has done a lot of good, has built schools.  Just  not as many has he's said, and the money's not being handled the way you've been led to believe.

I can't bring myself to regret the money I've donated to Mortensen's Central Asian Institute.  I do, however, expect they'll now bring their financial practices into line, and I do hope they'll be able to continue good work.

The Guardian complains that the US uses Mortensen because he provides a feminist pretext for interfering in foreign countries.  I'm laughing because of all the Soviet materials I read in college in Uzbek.  The Soviets needed an underclass to justify the revolution, and chose women as their substitute proletariat.  I'm not on board that furthering women's education is really the same thing.  

Most enlightening review of the Book of Mormon Musical

Most enlightening review of the Book of Mormon Musical

Which I badly sum up in my own words here:

Thinks religion is ridiculous, but Mormon people are nice.  They got the doctrinal details correct.  It's crude, the language goes beyond a few f-words.  There are on-stage sex acts, mimed I presume.  Very, very funny if you like South Park humor, but music isn't that great (road show?) and performers aren't A-list quality.  Evident racism in the way the Ugandan characters are presented.  Big reliance on shock value.

I haven't seen the show, unlike the reviewer I link to above.

My husband saw the show and liked it, but I don't think I would.

Daybook