Neil Caldwell is not revealing the secret behind how he was able to create bacons in bold new colors like red, blue and purple, but I suspect it has something to do with food coloring. The amazing thing is that the slices of porcine heaven retain their color even after frying. Ever had trouble getting [...]
June 16, 2010
Over the past year, the Ada County Library in Boise, Idaho, has been hit with more than 10 incidents of strange but serious vandalism. And each time, the vandalism has involved CONDIMENTS. One time it was a book that was filled with ketchup, and another time, a bunch of kids’ books were drenched in corn syrup. And [...]
June 3, 2010
A New Zealand funeral home has stepped in to stop a fake mourner who was attending up to four funerals a week to stock up on food, even filling up tupperware containers to take home, according to media reports. Harbour City Funeral Home director Danny Langstraat told local newspaper The Dominion Post that the “grim [...]
June 2, 2010
A huge sinkhole in Guatemala City, Guatemala, crashed into being on Sunday, reportedly swallowing a three-story building—and echoing a similar, 2007 sinkhole in Guatemala. The sinkhole has likely been weeks or even years in the making—floodwaters from tropical storm Agatha caused the sinkhole to finally collapse, scientists say. The sinkhole appears to be about 60 feet (18 meters) [...]
May 26, 2010
Computers are getting better at understanding human languages, thanks partly to algorithms that can analyse sentences for positive or negative sentiments, says Ari Rappoport of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. But picking up on sarcasm is still a problem. “In many cases, sarcasm is difficult even for people to recognise”, never mind computers, he [...]
May 21, 2010
Sustainability is important, but so is fashion. Hoping to bridge the gap between these two opposites is Japanese bra-producer Triumph. Having previously produced a solar-panel bra and a sushi-set bra, Triump is now selling a ‘rice bra’ designed for flashing your boobs while growing your own rice—and therefore making the world a better place in which [...]
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