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According to this article in the LA Times, 61% of Americans thinks sea salt is a low-sodium version of table salt.

We’re not sure how the American people started believing that sea salt was a diet version of table salt, but we suspect their tendency to equate “natural” with “better for you” has something to do with it. To that way of thinking, anything with the word “sea” must be more natural.

Both table salt and sea salt are mostly sodium chloride, a naturally occurring chemical combination of sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl), familiar elements on the periodic table.

So, as the articles says, “salt is salt.”

This is how how the economies of US states compare to foreign countries.

I read it here: The size of the states: If they were countries | The Economist.

From Tim Ferriss in 37 Signal’s blog:

“One of the recommendations that I make to many of the startup founders I advise is to have at least three or four areas of interest outside the business,” he explains. “Don’t become a Dow Joneser, someone whose mood and self-worth goes up or down dependent on the Dow Jones, which you have no control over.

“If your entire ego and identity is vested in your startup, where there are certainly factors outside of your control, you can get into a depressive funk that affects your ability to function. So, you should also, let’s say, join a rock climbing gym. Try to improve your time in the mile. Something like that. I recommend at least one physical activity. Then even if everything goes south — you have some horrible divorce agreement with your co-founder — if you had a good week and set a personal record in the gym or on the track or wherever, that can still be a good week.”

The stinkin’ WordPress iPhone app won’t let me link properly, but I found the quote here:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2734-tim-ferriss-on-tolerable-mediocrity-false-idols-diversifying-your-identity-and-the-advice-he-gives-startups

I saw this photo on Yahoo News today:

Did Obama dye his gray hair away? – Yahoo! News.

The app is MegaReader

Looks like he got a fair amount of press on the new feature.

I’m mostly posting this link to WeTransfer because I want to remember how to find it the next time I need to transfer a big file via email.

I used to love Drop.io, but it closed down after Facebook bought it.

Now I mostly use Dropbox, but it’s not always convenient for large file transfers, mostly because I have to remember to delete files from my Dropbox after recipients are done with them. Usually, I forget to do that, so my Dropbox public folder is littered with junk that I’ll have to go clean up some time.

Any way, back to WeTransfer. I’m recommending it because all you have to do is 1) upload a file, 2) add your email and 3) enter your recipient’s email. Seems the site’s revenue comes from showing sponsored pictures while files are uploading and downloading. So it’s a very unintrusive revenue model.

The Stuxnet computer worm seems to have done more to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program than threats of war or written sanctions.

According to the NY Times, the retiring chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Meir Dagan, “told the Israeli Knesset in recent days that Iran had run into technological difficulties that could delay a bomb until 2015. That represented a sharp reversal from Israel’s long-held argument that Iran was on the cusp of success.”

Check out how the worm worked:

The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control. Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.

The attacks were not fully successful: Some parts of Iran’s operations ground to a halt, while others survived, according to the reports of international nuclear inspectors. Nor is it clear the attacks are over: Some experts who have examined the code believe it contains the seeds for yet more versions and assaults.

via Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel – NYTimes.com.