Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com

• The Economist: America’s food-waste problem is getting worse – A study found that the average American wastes 1,400 kilocalories a day. That amounts to 150 trillion kilocalories a year for the country as a whole—about 40% of its food supply, up from 28% in 1974.
• The Economist: Media: A world of hits – In “The Long Tail”, Chris Anderson argued that demand for media was moving inexorably from the head of the distribution curve to the tail. Instead, both the head and the long tail are growing, at the expense of the middle.
• One Million Years of Isolation – Interview about the technical nature of nuclear waste storage and what it means, on the level of geological engineering, to quarantine a hazardous material for more than one million years.
• The Daily WTF: Special Delivery – Try to imagine for a moment how you would unload a mountain of coal worth million-and-a-half dollars. Craigslist does have its limits, after all.
• How Our Addiction to Corporations Killed Our Communities – When we represent corporations and institutions, people respond to us differently. We become much more powerful than we would be without the associations. Most of us do not make the distinction between the power of our positions and our own power, and start behaving as though they are one and the same. This eventually becomes addictive, and the idea of doing anything for our local communities starts to look so insignificant and boring