It all started when the #ormgas IRC bot piped up with the following:
wormgas: Garlic icecream is a huge pupa in a special ops team to assasinate bin laden and his wife. It’s his thirtieth birthday!
Next thing I know, over in #ectomo I’m being introduced to a bitchin’ Cibo Matto track from Jet Set Radio Future!
Another version, illustrated by hand for someone’s English project. Will help you figure out the lyrics.
HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!
gawkermedia - like crack
I ate a hot pocket earlier
it collapsed part of my soul
cult leadership is tough with so many alternatives to be had.
I’m contemplating talking about a serious subject
that came to mind through a dubious link
conspiracy theory is weird, the truth is usually weirder.
Hey how many five year olds can you beat up? No really.
oh and don’t bother with the booze test. broke every time I tried it.
Moving up in the del.icio.us ranks is a little site called Cork’d. The concept? “Review, Cellar, and Share Wine”. Internet savvy dipsomaniacs rejoice! Now you have a place to chat about your maddening obsession with fermented grape juice of various ages, with all the charms that only a Web 2.0 named site could provide.
They’ve got a 100 point rating system for wines, and a handy price scale of 1-4 dollar signs to indicate general cost of wines.
They seem to have dozens upon dozens of different wines, but they’re lacking the one that really pops my cork: 2004 Georges Dubeuf Beaujolais Villages.
Had I the means to maintain a cellar, I’d probably be all over this site. Just like any other lifehack/organizer tool, this one’s looking pretty good at what it’s all about. Even though I’m not ready to make an account and start going all ga-ga over my perfectly preserved, carefully selected wines, I’ll definitely use this site as a reference for buying bottles of special occasion wines. Always handy to know if that bottle with the pretty label in the store is delicious or junk.
Via The Underwire:
UK Food retailer Tesco is going to spend $10 million on testing of foods at Oxford University in order to develop a carbon labeling system, letting their customers know exactly what kind of “carbon footprint” their cereal and steaks leave on the environment.
It seems to me that putting “Carbon Footprint” labels on foods is just another waste of energy. It would require more paper, more ink, more physical printing (which adds to the carbon footprint!), and would require a lot of changes to current labels. Not to mention the inherent consumer education issues. It is very popular to be passionate about the environment, especially the Global Warming issue and humanity’s role in it. However, does that mean that a lot of day-to-day consumers are going to understand these labels if and when they are implemented? Not likely.
How many people read and understand current labels? Do you know what Riboflavin is? How many diabetics use the exchange list information accurately?
Incidentally, for a quick reference on all the food you eat, I recommend NutritionData.com. They break things down much more in depth than the food labels can. (Incidentally, I bet the carbon footprint of running their servers for ANYONE to access this information is much smaller than the printing, applying, and shipping of all the individual labels, not to mention all the other work needed to get said labels to the consumers!) Take one of my favorite foods: Liverwurst (hush, it’s not gross!). Nutritiondata tells me how filling it is versus how nutritious it is. It will tell me exactly what vitamins and minerals are in the average serving. I can search for substitutions for liverwurst based on my needs, like weight loss, optimum health or weight gain. Granted, not all the data options are FDA approved, but the FDA also allows a certain amount of wasps’ heads in your fig newtons, too. Go ahead, scroll down and read it, I’ll wait. Yeah, don’t read the rest of that.
Still I think the poster that Underwire writer Sonia Zjawinski cited, from the NY Farm Bureau, really does sum things up the best.
Reposted here for your convenience:
I believe it was Dorothy Parker who once said “What fresh hell is this?”
This was my thought as well when I realized that there are now two awful, coffee-scorching machines of evil in the office now. One of which is dedicated to the dubious purpose of “flavored coffee”.
As a caveat to my particular derisive rant: At this point in my life, I have become more than a minor coffee snob. I lecture people on why it is not appropriate to store coffee in the freezer, among other common coffee faux pas that I won’t get into here for the sake of brevity and politeness.
Hypocritically, I have been known to drink coffee from gas stations, restaurants who don’t care about their coffee, and the burnt atrocity that is the office coffee.
So why then do I groan and sigh heavily at the introduction of another abomination of the Elder Gods being set into motion in my place of work to churn out caffinated liquids?
“Flavored coffee”
The pungent reek of this crime against nature’s most blissful jump start brew wafts into my area of the office, deceptively pleasant at first, souring into an aroma which I can only think to describe as what candy must be like in the darkest depths of Dante’s Inferno. It is intensely unsatisfactory state of affairs and I fear that my only hope for sanity in the face of what will surely be a daily affront to my olfactory will be willful densensitization. Kind of like learning to ignore the stench of a primate habitat while on a trip to the zoo.
Ah well, c’est la guerre, and as such I must soldier on as bravely as I can.
In other news, please take a moment to visit the newly updated davepasternak.org.
I don’t usually pay attention to the Biodemocracy newsletter, but I was skimming it, and read this:
With the Bush Administration’s reduced funding for education, many school districts have been forced to seek other sources of income, including widespread installation of junk-food vending machines. School districts can make up to $100,000 per year under these contracts, but as a result of increased access to unhealthy foods, the childhood obesity and diabetes epidemics are on the increase. In response, two dozen states are now considering banning junk food vending machines in
schools. The National Soft Drink Association is contesting this ban, claiming that high levels of junk food consumption are okay, and placing the blame on schools for not teaching the kids to exercise more.
It’s funny ~and~ sad.
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