Interesting Articles: July 18-24th 2005

* Tattooed Fruit Is on Way. i.e., labeling fruit using lasers instead of stickers. (New York Times)
* A Gene for Romance? So It Seems (Ask the Vole). Yet another neat article on simple genetic control of complex behavior. (New York Times)
* Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster. A sad story about computers being so complicated that people throw them out rather than reinstall the operating system. (New York Times)
* The Framing Wars. At first you might think this is just another article about framing. But really it is an interesting piece about how politicians have reacted to Lakoff's book and how it has affected political battles in recent months. (New York Times)
* Jon Stewart, Faking It and Making It. An neat and funny interview on WHYY's Fresh Air (via NPR).
* Public radio programs trying to move to the screen: Lake Wobegon Goes Hollywood (or Is It Vice Versa?), With a Pretty Good Cast (from Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion); Close Your Eyes and It's Almost Like Radio (from Ira Glass's This American Life). (New York Times stories)
* R We D8ting? A cute (cautionary?) tale about relationships and text messaging. (New York Times)