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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Neatorama
29 June 2010 1:25
by Alex
Someone must’ve really liked Marilyn Monroe – either that or chest X-ray – because they’ve shelled out $45,000 for it:
A 1954 x-ray of the stunning starlet’s chest sold at auction in Las Vegas on Sunday for a sizable $45,000. This was well above the estimated $800 to $1,200 it was expected to fetch.
The bizarre medical photograph was one of several of Monroe’s belongings that were up for bid at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino via Julien’s Auctions over the weekend.
“[The x-ray] was taken around the time she was believed to be pregnant, and rumor has it that she had a miscarriage,” President/CEO Darren Julien told the Daily News back in April.
Link (Photo: Julien’s Auctions)
Medicine auction Marilyn Monroe x-ray
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
If you are a heavy duty truck driver here is one to look out for!
photo by Dave Harcourt
(Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License)
Yes it is real – seen on the Nelspruit/Pretoria road around Belfast, near a truck stop area.
Tags: theft, truck, tyres
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Here’s a story that makes you remember how big the INTERNET is! One doesn’t have to say this time is a productivity cost, there were surely cases where it had a beneficial effect.
But its still worth reflecting on just how much can be achieved by getting a small input from all those people online!
Neatorama
26 May 2010 5:18
by Queuebot
Google’s celebration of Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary was fun, enabling people to play Pac-Man on their main search page, either as a one- or two-player game. And people certainly took advantage of the opportunity, spending approximately 4,819,352 hours on the game alone. The result is approximately $120 million in productivity lost, in one day.
Thankfully, Google tossed out the logo with pretty low “perceived affordance” – they put an “insert coin” button next to the search button, but I imagine most users missed that. In fact, I’d wager that 75% of the people who saw the logo had no idea that you could actually play it. Which the world should be thankful for.
Link – via gizmodo
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Tags: google, pacman
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
image from Wikipedia
The delicious mixture of soup and rice called gumbo is enjoyed in New Orleans and across Louisiana, as well as anywhere else gumbo fans live. But where did the Creole recipe originate? The answer depends on which ingredient you like most! Gumbo as we know it is a cosmopolitan product with contributions from African-Americans, the French, Choctaw tribesmen, the Canadian immigrants who came to be called Cajuns, Spaniards, Italians, and even Germans.
Its name is generally agreed to derive from ki ngombo, the term for okra in the Central Bantu dialect of West Africa, the homeland of many of the slaves brought to colonial Louisiana. Okra stews, served with rice, were a staple food among those slaves. And okra is the main thickening agent in many (though not all) varieties of gumbo. So it seems reasonable to conclude, as many culinary historians have, that the dish itself also bears some African heritage.
Nevertheless, a debate about gumbo’s precise origins has raged for decades, framed by Louisiana’s legacy of colonialism and complicated by the vast range of gumbo-preparation techniques practiced by the different peoples who make up the region’s complex ethnic fabric. Most gumbos achieve their thickness, color, and texture partly from the use of a roux, the mixture of flour and oil employed by French cooks as early as the 14th century. This French technique has sometimes been used to bolster the theory that gumbo derived not from African okra stews, but from French bouillabaisse. Another theory contends that gumbo originated with Native Americans. That idea draws support from the use of the ground sassafras called filé powder as a thickening agent in some gumbos. According to this account, filé was introduced to the French by the Choctaws, whose word for sassafras was kombo.
Of course, like most Louisiana recipes, the ingredients you use depends on what’s in season and in your cupboard. Link
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
image by Ack Ook on Flickr
From Neatorama
27 December 2009 16:52
by Miss Cellania
On December 31st, we will see the second full moon of the month, or the 13th full moon of the year. These rare occasions are called a blue moon, as in “once in a blue moon”. But that’s not the only thing special about New Year’s Eve this year. There will also be a partial lunar eclipse on the 31st (visible in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia)!
Only a very small portion of the Moon’s southern limb will be in the Earth’s umbral shadow, but there will be a noticeable darkening visible over the Moon’s face at the point of greatest eclipse. Need more? Then know this eclipse is the one of four lunar eclipses in a short-lived series. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations or 354 days. Afterwards it will begin shifting back about 10 days in sequential years. Because of the date change, the Earth’s shadow will be about 11 degrees west in sequential events.
For the eclipse, the duration of the partial phase will last within two seconds of a hour long, while the penumbral duration from beginning to end will run about four hours and eleven minutes. Penumbral contact will begin at 17:17:08 UT and umbral contact at 18:52:43 UT. The moment of greatest depth of shadow will occur at 19:22:39 UT, 31 December 2009.
Link -via Geeks Are Sexy
(image credit: Kostian Iftica)
Science & Tech eclipse lunar eclipse moon New Year
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
This article from the Science Blog of the UK Guardian is really worth reading – its a great blend of the physical aspects of making a loaf of bread and some science down to the level of equations and protein structure.
This isn’t really for the Food Technologist or the baker to learn about baking, but is rather a gentle and enjoyable read showing the interrelation between biological processes and science.
Tags: baking, bread, process, recipe, Science
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Just links to the two sites:
from: Le Whif (click image for full story online)
from: Gear Fuse (click image for full story online)
Tags: bread, chocolate, inhale, shoes
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
This website by the USA Wheat Foods Council tracks wheat from the field to the fork.
This is in the form of an interactive graphic presentation in which you choose your wheat variety and watch it being “planted and growing”. After the wheat has grown (the stage where I am now) you have to wait for an email to enter the next stage.
Not really a good idea if you don’t have band width and not really high tech but you always learn a bit! Lets see what the next stages offer.
You are probably better of visiting the wheat page on Wikipedia if you want quick but quite extensive background.
Tags: cultivars, history, interactive, wheat, Wheat Foods Council
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
Now if this is not an outstanding example of lateral thinking and innovation by Unilever, then I would like to see what is!
from: CNBC (click image for full story online)
Tags: ambient, ice cream, storage, troom temperature
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
I think we all know that we can’t just look at our own little bit of the world and hope to be able to be competitive. Out of this comes the Supply Chain concept which I often find is used as a catch word in discussions / articles but isn’t often comprehensive or well defined.
This article of a South Africa / Netherlands fruit value chain project is maybe more informative than most.
A bit more on the way we use catch words and jargon. Well known in South Africa was a company called Rent a Bakkie, whose name defined its activity totally which was the renting of light delivery vehicles. While looking for someone to transport a frozen food I got the number for Value Logistics. Suitably impressed I phoned them and got the telephonist who answered “Rent a Bakkie, can we help”.
Tags: catch words, fruit, jargon, supply chain
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