First of all, my roll of Grov snus from SnusCentral.com arrived (Not to be confused with SnusCentral.org, an excellent community site and counterpart to their on-line store)
What is snus? In short, snus is a smokeless, spitless tobacco you use. Put it under your upper lip and forget about it. You'll be pumped full of nicotine in no time. Yeah, nicotine is evilbadscary, but it doesn't kill many people -- that's the tar (actually plant resin, but called tar) from the cigarettes full of carcinogenic nitrosamines that cause cancer.
But snus must cause oral cancer! Well, no, not really. It is true that there are trace levels of tobacco-specific carcinogenic nitrosamines (TSNAs) in snus, and much higher levels in American chewing tobacco/dip, but even with dip, your chances of getting oral cancer are about 8 times higher with cigarettes than with any kind of chewing tobacco. SnusCentral.org has way more information.
In short, it's not perfect. It's just way less deadly.
In other news, I ordered the OpenMoko Neo Freerunner phone! Yeah! This nifty little gadget does whatever I want it to do. Except make phone calls, probably. You see, Verizon (my carrier) is CDMA, OpenMoko only supports GSM (AT&T, T-Mobile, the rest of the world, etc). Did I know this when I bought it? Yes. I plan on using it as a PDA mostly.
If I really want to, I can just use prepaid T-Mobile on it. I talk on the phone about 20 minutes a month, and that's a *lot* for me. Link it up with my Google Voice account to handle text messaging. Done.
I can also use it as a wireless VoIP phone. I do have an Asterisk server chilling out in my kitchen after all. It's mostly just a PDA/dev toy for me. Those of you interested in being geeks should totally check it out; it's awesome!
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