(More food porn – yum. -kg) THE guidebooks touted Bed Supperclub, where the hip and beautiful recline while they eat, and the airline magazine featured the Australian Amanda Gale, who has set the town on its ear with her fusion food at Cy’an. But I was looking for something more traditional, so as soon as…
Month: October 2005
China wins noodle battle – Neolithic noodles unearthed
The remains of the world’s oldest noodles have been unearthed in China. The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood. Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old. Scientists tell…
BBC NEWS | UK | Hair-raising surprise for baboon
A new baby at a Devon zoo has been attracting a lot of attention – for all the wrong reasons. The bald truth is that Reggie the hamadryas baboon has had his hair licked off with some excessive tender loving care by his mother. Reggie was born at Paignton Zoo three weeks ago, weighing 18oz…
Chris of the Day: Chris Okotie
(Chris’s exist all over the globe, we come from all religions, walks of life, political backgrounds, and more…we are Chris. Hear us roar. cd) Chris Okotie warns politicians on 2007 elections The flagbearer of the Justice Party (JP) in the 2003 Presidential election, Reverend Chris Okotie, has said that old politicians struggling to return to…
see, cats do suck.
( I have been know to do that as well after a night on the SAKE. B.E.) MSN-Mainichi Daily News: National News
Art exhibit a rough roe to hoe… – Yahoo! News
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A top Moscow gallery bowed to religious sensibilities and pulled an exhibit that combined two potent symbols of Russia — a gold icon and black caviar — local media reported Thursday. Churchgoers had appealed to the state Tretyakov gallery, objecting to “Icon-Caviar,” which depicts hundreds of tiny fish eggs where the face…
Browser Madness in China
Wang Yiming, 21, is a self-confessed internet addict, one of a growing number in China. He used to spend hours online each day, often going without food or sleep. His face is drawn and sallow. He said addiction changed his whole life: “A month or two after I started surfing the internet, I failed some…
Countdown to Liberian elections
(Jimmy Carter and his Carter Center in Atlanta have become a potent force for good across the globe. Bill Clinton could do worse things than to aspire to follow in Carter’s footsteps. Now, if we can just get the Carter Center to monitor the next US election…. kg) Peacekeepers, election officials and international observers in…
Reuters AlertNet – Post-tsunami chaos wastes aid
(The first rule in disaster relief is to ASK what people want and need. It is amazing how rarely this rule is followed. People do things like send their fuzzy sweaters to sweltering southern India, and then sit back feeling smugly self-satisfied while someone in southern India has to haul their fuzzy sweaters away to…
Chris of the Day: Chris Columbus
Today is Discoverers Day, formerly known as Columbus Day. It was on October 12th 1492 that Christopher Columbus set foot in the Caribbean and started the process that would destroy the Taino people and most of the other cultures of the Americas. It was on that day that the people he described as the most…