Purple potatoes, Sparks, Martini Ranch music video
This week a guy I know was walking around with a bowl of purple potatoes for lunch. I don’t mean purple-skinned potatoes, but the radioactive-looking purple-all-the-way-through kind. The only question is whether he was eating a normal, terrestrial species of potato/yam (Peruvian or similar) or perhaps somehow got hold of a starchy product of [...]
Fertility phones, planting yellow plums, save as PDF
I have four things to share today. Ready, set, go:
1. Here’s some interesting technology news from Engadget Mobile: Samsung has filed a patent application for a fertility-measuring phone. The phone is capable of tracking a woman’s fertile periods. Oh, yes, it’s true … by measuring eardrum distance and body temperature. I enjoyed [...]
Conspiratorial ramblings: Fanta, Coke, Big Pharma and Monsanto
What makes for good Friday night conversation among friends? Some MSG-laden take-out Chinese and a few cans of orange Fanta.
Here’s a summary of some bits of yesterday’s conversation and associated (plagiarized) Internet research:
Q. Wasn’t Fanta invented by Nazis? Isn’t this a Nazi drink?
A. No, but kind of. Fanta was invented in Nazi [...]
“Pink Lady” apples (and Pink Pearls)
Over the past few weeks, a coworker of mine has been bringing yellowish apples with startlingly pink flesh into work. She apparently has a number of fruit trees in her backyard. She refers to these particular apples as “Pink Lady” apples, but I wasn’t convinced that this was the correct name.
After careful research, I [...]
Zen and the art of bonsai **
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