"War Eagle!" ketchup, here I come...Link
Monday, August 21, 2006
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Saturday, August 12, 2006
Colombia's Big-Butt Ants Entice Gourmets
Joshua Goodman, AP writer
BARICHARA, COLOMBIA — The first loud crackle tastes and feels like popcorn, but by the time the juices spray wildly in your mouth and the filament-like legs slide down your throat, there's no mistaking this toasted ant queen.
The people of sun-soaked northern Colombia have been eating ants for centuries. They believe the accurately named 'hormiga culona' — big-butt queen ant — is everything from a natural form of Viagra to a protein-rich defense against cancer.
Now the invertebrates are going global: A businessman in Santander province exported more than 880 pounds of the inch-long queen ants last year, many of them to be hand-dipped in Belgian chocolate and sold in fancy packaging at $8 for a half dozen at upscale London department stores like Harrods and Fortnum & Mason.
But even as the delicacy begins to expand beyond Colombia, the ants appear to be dwindling in Santander, and that worries the region's ant-eating bipeds.
This year's harvest, which usually begins around Easter and lasts as late as June, was one of the worst on record, with peasants in the artist colony of Barichara reporting half their normal year's haul.
(go here for the rest of the story)
BARICHARA, COLOMBIA — The first loud crackle tastes and feels like popcorn, but by the time the juices spray wildly in your mouth and the filament-like legs slide down your throat, there's no mistaking this toasted ant queen.
The people of sun-soaked northern Colombia have been eating ants for centuries. They believe the accurately named 'hormiga culona' — big-butt queen ant — is everything from a natural form of Viagra to a protein-rich defense against cancer.
Now the invertebrates are going global: A businessman in Santander province exported more than 880 pounds of the inch-long queen ants last year, many of them to be hand-dipped in Belgian chocolate and sold in fancy packaging at $8 for a half dozen at upscale London department stores like Harrods and Fortnum & Mason.
But even as the delicacy begins to expand beyond Colombia, the ants appear to be dwindling in Santander, and that worries the region's ant-eating bipeds.
This year's harvest, which usually begins around Easter and lasts as late as June, was one of the worst on record, with peasants in the artist colony of Barichara reporting half their normal year's haul.
(go here for the rest of the story)
Monday, August 07, 2006
Top 10 Most Strange Monuments
I wonder how much tax payers paid for all of these...
Melbourne, Australia
Manhattan, USA
Los Angeles, USA
Paris, France
Erevan, Armenia
Oxford, UK
Monaco
Oslo, Norway
Bratislava, Slovakia
Turin, Italy
Top 10 Most Strange Monuments
Melbourne, Australia
Manhattan, USA
Los Angeles, USA
Paris, France
Erevan, Armenia
Oxford, UK
Monaco
Oslo, Norway
Bratislava, Slovakia
Turin, Italy
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Study: Tech Replaces Diamonds As Girl's Best Friend
"The study found 77 percent of women surveyed would prefer a new plasma television to a diamond solitaire necklace and 56 percent would opt for a new plasma TV over a weekend vacation in Florida."
Happy anniversary honey!
See, I told you I didn't buy my plasma just for me. My wife was really clamoring for it...(yeah, right).
Link to story
Happy anniversary honey!
See, I told you I didn't buy my plasma just for me. My wife was really clamoring for it...(yeah, right).
Link to story
Dog Drives Car Into House
This is the exact reason why I make my dog Ruby let me park the car in the garage myself when she gets home...
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Neighbors: Dog Drives Car Into House
CUMMING -- The worst damage most dogs do is chew up the occasional shoe, knock over a trash can or two or soil the carpet.But one Forsyth County pooch could be the new alpha dog of damages.Neighbors say a dog was behind the wheel of a car when it smashed into a Cumming house and then crashed into another car parked in the garage of the house.The owner of the delinquent doggie, a contractor, told police he left the animal in his car while he worked on a nearby job.He left the engine and the air conditioner running because of the heat.Neighbors believe somehow the dog knocked the vehicle out of park and sent it careening into the house on Tall Oaks Cove in the Charlotte Creek subdivision.Cassandra Mazzeo says, "The puppy was jumping around and hit the gas pedal and it started going."The homeowners were home at the time, but were not near the garage. No one was injured.Firefighters were called to the scene after being notified of a van crashing into a home -- they say they were not told of any dog responsibility.No word yet on if the dog will have his dog license revoked.Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Hermaphrodite Dolls Puzzle Russian Children
The title of this article really cracked me up but the picture at this site was really just very strange...
Freaky China-made dolls appeared in the shops of several Russian cities — Kalilngrad and Chelyabinsk, Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported Thursday.The price of the toy is just 12-15 rubles (25-30 cents). The girl-dolls are dressed in pajamas, but if you undress them you will find out that the plastic baby-girl has something girls do not have...
It seems difficult to explain to children what a “hermaphrodite” is and more over it does not seem necessary, even though our world changes rapidly.
Ice cap beer hits the market
I wonder if my friend's "beer of the month club" will send him a sixer of these...
A Greenland microbrewery has something no other beer producer in the world can offer - ales brewed in water at least 2000 years old, melted from Artic ice caps.
Greenland's ice cap beer hits the market
Beer drinkers in Denmark and Greenland are getting a taste of history. Greenland's first microbrewery is brewing ale with water as old as timeA Greenland microbrewery has something no other beer producer in the world can offer - ales brewed in water at least 2000 years old, melted from Artic ice caps.
Greenland Brewhouse, based in the southern Greenland town of Narsaq, launched its first-ever melted-ice brewed dark and pale ales on Monday.
Ex-boxer no pushover
So, this is where Sylvester Stallone got his ideas for the 6th installment of Rocky flicks, "Rocky Balboa"...
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Ex-boxer no pushover
Three men tried to rob 60-year-old Aage Piltingsrud by ambushing him with an iron bar. Piltingsrud doesn't think they'll try again.
Piltingsrud had a wound in his head and some aches and pains, but the ex-boxer said he wasn't about to go to a doctor, he'd seen worse before, newspaper Ringerikes Blad reports.
Piltingsrud was heading to take the bus home after meeting friends at a local Honefoss pub.
'I'd bought some pals a few rounds and probably someone noticed I had some cash on me,' the 60-year-old told the newspaper.
When he passed a drugstore a man suddenly appeared at his side, and when Piltingsrud asked him what he wanted the stranger pulled out an iron bar and hit him in the head and back.
'He had two more guys with him,' Piltingsrud said.
But the surprise and pain were not enough to knock out the former boxer, who had no intention of surrendering his wallet.
'The guy who hit me with the bar got one hell of a beating,' Piltingsrud said. 'The two others ran through the hedge and into the parking lot nearby. They had met their match,' said the former Oslo boxer.
A trip to the doctor afterward did not occur to Piltingsrud.
'No, I took the bus home and washed the blood off me. Later I called the police and said that if a man came to the hospital that had been beaten up, I was the one who had done it. I told the police it wasn't nice, but I didn't regret it. I think it's appalling that you can't walk the streets in safety,' Piltingsrud told the newspaper.
The Honefoss police confirmed that Piltingsrud had called and told police about the incident, but no one has filed any charges."
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Ex-boxer no pushover
Three men tried to rob 60-year-old Aage Piltingsrud by ambushing him with an iron bar. Piltingsrud doesn't think they'll try again.
Piltingsrud had a wound in his head and some aches and pains, but the ex-boxer said he wasn't about to go to a doctor, he'd seen worse before, newspaper Ringerikes Blad reports.
Piltingsrud was heading to take the bus home after meeting friends at a local Honefoss pub.
'I'd bought some pals a few rounds and probably someone noticed I had some cash on me,' the 60-year-old told the newspaper.
When he passed a drugstore a man suddenly appeared at his side, and when Piltingsrud asked him what he wanted the stranger pulled out an iron bar and hit him in the head and back.
'He had two more guys with him,' Piltingsrud said.
But the surprise and pain were not enough to knock out the former boxer, who had no intention of surrendering his wallet.
'The guy who hit me with the bar got one hell of a beating,' Piltingsrud said. 'The two others ran through the hedge and into the parking lot nearby. They had met their match,' said the former Oslo boxer.
A trip to the doctor afterward did not occur to Piltingsrud.
'No, I took the bus home and washed the blood off me. Later I called the police and said that if a man came to the hospital that had been beaten up, I was the one who had done it. I told the police it wasn't nice, but I didn't regret it. I think it's appalling that you can't walk the streets in safety,' Piltingsrud told the newspaper.
The Honefoss police confirmed that Piltingsrud had called and told police about the incident, but no one has filed any charges."
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