Rants and Ramblings: random commentary about culture, media, politics, technology and whatnot.

links for 2006-10-20

• Healthy Fast-Food and Takeout | RealSimple.com
  Yes, you do want fries with that. Here, how to enjoy takeout without going overboard
  (tags: dining restaurant diet)
• Minestrone Recipe | RealSimple.com
  (tags: food recipe soup)
• How to watch Web video. | Slate Magazine
  TV and film translate best to Web video in self-contained blips of primal feeling, and the material most emblematic of the form is smash-and-grab stuff that doesn’t ask you to do interpretive work.
  (tags: web video television movies youtube)
• Who Votes, Who Doesn’t, and Why | The Pew Research Center for People and the Press
  The two groups at the bottom of the voting participation scale are much less likely than regular or intermittent voters to believe that voting will make much of a difference.
  (tags: pew politics research voting)
• Back to the Drawing Board | Time Waster | WSJ.com
  Retrievr sifts through photographs stored in Yahoo’s Flickr database by using mouse-powered doodles as its search criteria. Visitors use a basic sketchpad and color palette to craft a tree, a shoe, a house — and Retrievr returns photos that match.
  (tags: flickr search illustration photography tools via:slashdot)
• Why South Africa looks like Northern Virginia. | Slate Magazine
  (tags: culture business globalization southafrica via:rob)
• Real-Life Salaries of Popular TV Characters | Salary Center | AOL
  (tags: television jobs)