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Great Site About A Great Fruit

Talk about specialization! Still, Pomegranate Watch is THE site to read about the wonderful stuff out there featuring punica granatum: Vitamin Water XXX Acai Blueberry Pomegranate Vitamin Water has used the XXXtremely popular tried and true combination of Blueberry and Pomegranate, only this time they’ve added the other Pomegranate, Acai to the mix so people [...]

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Please allow me to introduce myself

“I’m a man of wealth and taste.” Well, I can dream, can’t I? Howdy folks, I’m “M.Christian,” though my pals call me Chris. I’m a moderately acclaimed and ridiculously prolific writer and editor. As I like to say: a literary streetwalker with a heart of gold. Here’s a capsule in case you’re interested: writer of [...]

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My Only Question Is -

- what happens when they drink and drive? Via Pasta & Vinegar: Seen in Amsterdam last fall, beyond tandems. What I like here is that there is a potential to have this sort of device circling around a certain path, taking and letting people along the way, each of the participant giving a contribution to [...]

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The absolute proof of a hateful god: The Durian fruit

By s.a. from meine kleine fabrik: From Wikipedia: The unusual odor has prompted many people to search for an accurate description. Comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray, and used surgical swabs. The wide range of descriptions for the odor of durian may have a great deal to do with [...]

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And this is news?

From The Raw Feed: Women Give Up Passwords for Chocolate Women are four times more likely than men to give you their passwords in exchange for chocolate, according to a “study” by Infosecurity Europe conducted on the streets of London. Nearly half — 45 percent — of women targeted were willing to give up their [...]

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Maybe Not a Better Mousetrap -

- but these silicone potholders/oven gloves are still a damned near perfect kitchen tool (from GadgetReporter) Here is a cool little item that you might not consider a gadget, but then again, you might. It’s called the Orli Oven glove, and it really comes in handy taking those hot items out of the oven. It’s [...]

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Coffee on the go -

- should go, at least from Paris.  One of my favorite things about the City of Lights, and most of Europe for that matter, is the way they take time to appreciate things like food – and coffee. Unfortunately it looks like that’s about to change (sigh): From the Paris Blog: Sadly, it happened. The [...]

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