CRON-O-Meter

Do you want to get the most nutrition for the particular amount of calories you consume? CRON-O-Meter is cross platform ( Java! Yay! ) software that will make achieving that goal easier. Just type in what you are eating or plan to eat. CRON-O-Meter will show you how much nutrition you will get for the calories you will allow yourself to consume given your food choices.

CRON-O-Meter is free software. That is, “free” as in “freedom” software, more commonly known as “open source” ( the freedom to see and alter the source code ). CRON-O-Meter is also free as in “free of charge”.

Get it here:
http://spaz.ca/cronometer/

TryVeg Bike

Compassion Over Killing publishes one of the best “vegetarian” ( only talks about vegan foods ) starter kits at TryVeg.com. The nutrition information is complete. The tone is respectful. It explains many of the reasons why people might choose to go vegan. It has a recipe section with great pictures. Compassion Over Killing will send you a very nice hard copy version of the starter kit for free. However anyone can read the starter kit and more for free at TryVeg.com. I also like that Compassion Over Killing also gives away “TryVeg.com” bumper stickers, because while I am stuck in traffic people behind me will see the easy to remember URL “tryveg.com”, some will be curious, some will go to the site, and some people will learn some cool things.

I gave such a bumper sticker to a friend who is a biker rather than a driver. Being a crafty Martha Stewart/MacGiver type of person my friend modified her bumper sticker for her bicycle in a really cool way: