Monday, September 28, 2009

Twenty Dollar Theory of the Universe



Tom Ciarella of Esquire pockets a wad of twenties, and travels the world to see what a twenty dollar tip/bribe will do. Very entertaining.

Posted at 3:56pm

The Arctic Ice Update. September is the Beginning of the 2010 Ice Pack


As everyone knows, the arctic ice melts in the summer, and freezes in the winter. In September, the melting stops, and the freezing slowly becomes more important. It is a good time to see…

Posted at 3:56pm

The 2009 Merlot


The big news this weekend is the 2009 Merlot, which is not really a Merlot, but a blend of two cases of merlot grapes with one case of syrah grapes. I got the grapes at California…

Posted at 3:56pm
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Surrogates







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Plot:  In a futuristic utopia, robots do all the work, and the people stay at home in their pajamas operating them. Of course, all the…

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Boxbe, Trojan Horse Spam Machine


Sorry to everyone who got a Boxbe invitation from me. Boxbe is a “white-list” email program, that I got invitation to, and then it grabbed by address book and spammed others. Also it…

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Monday, September 21, 2009

Stevia is Going Mainstream


Several years ago sister-in-law Tonee told me about Stevia, and said it was a great natural, sugar-free sweetener. I thought it had a strange aftertaste but the following year I…

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Non-Fermenting Sugars


I am toying with making a Hard Cider or sweeting some part of my 2009 Cherry wine. While I think that Spenda, sucralose, is an interesting idea, it is shockingly non-traditional, and…

Posted at 10:55am

The Informant!

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Plot: This is a dry, wry comedy about fraud at the agricultural products company ADM in the 1990’s. Mark Whitacre, Matt Damon, is a vice-president at ADM…

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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Foreign Media Exaggerate Carter's Racism Charges


I occasionally read foreign papers when I bored with American ones, and I was taken with a piece in the Singapore based Straits Times, that tried to explain Carter’s complaints about…

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

An Unreal Scene - Great Optical Illusion Display in Dresden


This optical illusion caught my eye, and the reason that it works so well is that the man is clearly standing behind the chair. If this is a trick in perspective, then the woman has to…

Posted at 8:39pm