Today’s interesting links, via Reddit:

About the guy who makes “2 buck chuck” a cheap wine sold by Trader Joe’s:

http://money.cnn.com

Franzia, who rose to fame several years ago when he started selling a $2 bottle called Charles Shaw, calls winemakers “bozos in a glass.” He really goes off on wine critic Robert Parker, who, he says, likes tannic wines that make people gag. He mocks my college (“We buy wineries from guys from Stanford who go bankrupt. Some real dumb-asses from there”) …

Riding shotgun on a Apache attack helicoper:

http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/20079811857.aspx

RFID implants cause cancer in rodents, good overview from Arstechnica about possible conflict of interests in approving these for use in humans:

http://arstechnica.com

Is the problem from the radio waves or from the material that the implants are made from?

The Guardian talks about should the Greens be talking (or pushing) for population control:

http://www.guardian.co.uk

They do have a point, afterall there are 6 Billion+ and growing and England is growing:

But England is now the second most densely populated country in Europe, after Belgium, and at current rates of increase it could be second only to Bangladesh in the world by 2074. There are those who argue that there’s no need for alarm, and that we can concentrate development in brownfield sites to accommodate all the millions of extra homes needed. But how many more people can you squeeze into cities that already seem to be choking under the weight of their population density – the buses and trains packed, the streets clogged and the parks on a Sunday afternoon teeming with people.

And, Urban blight in England:

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,2166176,00.html

“Do They Have Homeless People Where You Come From?”
http://urbanparamedic.blogspot.com