History of Vaccine Panic

This is an interesting article from wired magazine on the modern day history of Vaccine Panic.

Wired Article

Laundry of Love

My friend Jeff participates in a ministry called "Laundry Love" which goes into a low-income communities and pays everyone's laundry at a local laundrymat once a month.

The local newspaper wrote a story about them. Check it out.

Be sure to read the comments too. It's shocking how a lot of people feel about helping the needy.

The geography of jobs

Unbelievably cool graphic showing the net job gain/losses from 2004 - 2009

http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/

Annoy me

Top 5 things that annoy me in NYC
(In no particular order)

1. The guy who listens to every ringtone on his phone in public. Also - The guy who plays video games at full volume on the subway.

2. The guy who rides his bike on the sidewalk instead of in the bike lane.

3. Drunk people on the street who wake me up at 4:30 in the morning yelling/laughing/singing/crying/etc.

4. cars

5. litterers

Great Quote

"When too much is too much or too bad is too bad, we laugh as if if it was too good"

-"Strength in What Remains", Tracy Kidder

The best site on the Internetssss

Finally, a way to calculate how much money to put on your Metrocard...

http://www.metrocardbonuscalculator.com/

Now THIS is scary...

Seen in SOHO, NYC

Distraction

Tonight at the laundromat "The Bachlorette" was on TV.

I chose to stare at the swirling washing machine instead of the TV.

And I'm smarter for it.