Startling though it may seem, hamburgers and waffles both predated Columbus.
http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html
This food timeline is entertaining by itself, but some of the hyperlinks on the page are equally interesting. For example - a timeline for Crisco
http://www.crisco.com/timeline.htm
and a history of the potato chip including its diffusion through North America
http://www.geography.ccsu.edu/harmonj/atlas/potchips.htm
And did you know that food and fun are free on TWA? Golly - appetizing meals, between meal snacks and even sewing kits!
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/adaccess/T/T20/T2012-150dpi.jpeg
A richer culinary history links good for hours of diversion lurks at:
http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food1.html
Moving from food to the open road I note that O'Reilly has posted details on their mobile 802.11b network. Nothing very deep, but it was probably quite a bit of fun.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/08/01/highway_lan.html
It is my intention to keep this stream relatively free of politics, but the policies of the current administration in the US are over the top and amazingly short-sighted. Sometimes (actually often) the best perspective comes from outside the borders and the Toronto Star had a nice editorial in Sunday's paper.
http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1026143923317&call_page=TS_Opinion&call_pageid=968256290124&call_pagepath=News%2FOpinion&col=968350116695
I guess they do have to deal with the post-Enron economy in some dramatic way now that Cheney has become the liability in chief and unleashing business no longer cuts it with a disgusted (and newly impoverished) public.
6:22:32 AM 
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