links for 2010-02-25

I'm just bookmarking this to read later, but with Boing Boing describing it as "a brief, comedic monologue about the people who expect us to fix their computers while they patronize us and ignore our explanations," I'm looking forward to it.

I like this visualization of which health supplements are (likely) beneficial. So many axes of data all fit into one image, thanks to clever use of interactivity. Turns out green tea is good for cholesterol, but probably not useful for cancer. St. John's Wort can help with depression, but acai is totally useless for anybody except spammers.

That symbol of a decade of wretched excess and stupidity, the Hummer, is being discontinued. GM can't find a buyer. It existed only for the '00s, and for the second half, barely so. Trying to explain the Hummer to my grandkids will be like trying to explain Sarah Palin—you just had to be there.