A Plague Undetected
That Rachael Ray has to be on yet another Food Network show, or that I’m going to actually end up rooting for Bobby Flay…
Has RACHAEL RAY met her match? The Food Network maven appears for the first time on “Iron Chef America,” teaming up with Chef MARIO BATALI to take on competing Chefs BOBBY FLAY and GIADA DE LAURENTIIS in the Kitchen Stadium…
(from the this is only going to make it worse dept.)
Largely because of this post, Google Adsense has been serving up ads for Composting made easy, Manure pumps, and Manure removal.
I’m sure some of you think those ads are appropriate for this web site. 🙂
Chocolate Linked to Lower Blood Pressure
Leave it to the Dutch to help demonstrate the health benefits of chocolate. A study of older men in The Netherlands, known for its luscious chocolate, indicated those who ate the equivalent of one-third of a chocolate bar every day had lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of death.
The researchers say, however, it’s too early to conclude it was chocolate that led to better health. The men who ate more cocoa products could have shared other qualities that made them healthier. Experts also point out that eating too much chocolate can make you fat _ a risk for both heart disease and high blood pressure.
All we need is to find the health benefits of beer and coffee, then we’ll have almost all the major food groups covered.
(via email)
A Ringwraith walks into a bar, sits down, and gets a beer. A local lothario comes over, takes the next seat, and says: “So tell me–what’s a Nazgul like you doing in a place like this?”
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Laser Show | Fountains Of Wayne | Utopia Parkway | Alternative & Punk |
| 2. | That Voice Again | Peter Gabriel | So | Rock |
| 3. | Siren Song | Alan Parsons | Try Anything Once | Rock |
| 4. | The Dreaming | Kate Bush | The Whole Story | Alternative & Punk |
| 5. | Soul Kitchen | The Doors | The Doors | Rock |
| 6. | Tonight Is Right For Love | Chef & Meatloaf | South Park: Chef Aid | Soundtrack |
| 7. | These Walls | Dream Theater | Octavarium | Metal |
| 8. | The Leave Taking | London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Voices | The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers | Soundtrack |
| 9. | End Of The Line | Stan Ridgway | The Big Heat | Rock |
| 10. | Big Bottom | Spinal Tap | This is Spinal Tap | Soundtrack |
(via Eschaton)
This port deal was approved unanimously by a board on which Donald Rumsfeld sits. Rumsfeld claims he was unaware of the deal until after it was approved unanimously.
The administration didn’t do the legally mandated 45 day investigation.
Secret terms of the deal include provisions which allow them to escape standard legal scrutiny.
— AND —
Is this what they meant when we were told back in January, 2001 that the “adults are finally in charge?”
A Bavarian village was flooded by liquid pig manure after a tank containing the fertilizer burst, German police said Wednesday.
Sewage rose to 20 inches in the courtyards and streets of Elsa after gushing from the tank, which held some 240,000 litres of pig manure.
“The village was swamped with green-brown liquid and it was pig manure — the mother-of-all muck,” said Rainer Prediger, a police spokesman in the nearby town of Coburg.
I’d hate to be on the Elsa tourism board right about now — talk about a tough sell…
(via Pharyngula)
Non-Religious Turmoil Escalates
15,000 atheists in London rioted after a blank sheet of paper was found on a cartoonist’s desk.
Turns out there’s a cartoon.
(from the pointless milestone dept.)
500th post since June 22, 2001