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World Spice Festival Sri Lamka
2008-05-25 00:34:00 Sri Lanka will host the World Spice Festival from 14 to 24 August 2008. Sri Lanka has had strong links with spices since the 15th century. During the Festival dishes from all around the world are cooked and served in various hotels and restaurants around the island. There is a bazaar every evening on the shores of Beira Lake in the centre of the capital city .........
Son of Rambow
2008-05-09 03:35:00 "A likable, lightly sticky valentine to childhood, the 1980s and the dawning of movie love, Son of Rambow was written and directed by Garth Jennings and produced by Nick Goldsmith, the duo behind the underappreciated fantasy The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "Like that film, this one involves a snug community of oddballs and outcasts whose eccentricities, pluck and fundamental good cheer have long been durable staples of British screen .........
Wine Glossary: Enomatic
2008-04-24 01:23:00 Popular throughout Europe for years, at wine bars and stores such as Paris' Lavinia wine store, an enomatic is a self-serve wine dispenser. Patrons purchase a wine card (similar to a debit card) and insert the card into the machine for a wine pour.The enomatic just came to my area, the first such machine in Ohio is located at 87 West 2 wine bar in Westlake Ohio's Crocker Park, just west of Cleveland.I asked the establishment's owner, Tom Lutz why a wine bar patron would prefer to use the enomatic instead of having a server bring their wine. He explained that the ......... More About: Wine , Glossary
Attachment
2008-04-24 01:21:00 By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. Lao-Tzu© ......... More About: Attachment
Circular musing
2008-04-10 04:21:00 When we were last at Roundrock and took our obligatory hike around the almost full lake, we saw several spheres like the one you see above. I’m sure it’s obvious to you what the sphere is, but at the time I didn’t realize ......... More About: Circular
Andy Warhol's Time Capsules
2008-04-10 04:05:00 Andy Warhol, king of pop art, the factory, and his groupies, has a fantastic amount of goodies saved up. This late Marilyn Monroe painting, Campbell soup can sketching, white wig wearing artist & filmmaker amassed a collection of 570 cardboard boxes, or time capsules, which have now been opened and ......... More About: Time , Andy
Kiki De Montparnasse: It's Sexy Time
2008-03-27 02:16:00 Boy, oh boy, a new underwear brand has come to London town and its sexy. Kiki lingerie has my girlfriends (and their boyfriends) talking. I don''t blame them. Kiki De Montparnasse has some very exciting things on offer - they are chic, very hype, and very, very naughty and I don''t mean in an Ann Summers kind of way. Think Agent Provocateur but without the feathers and leather…I am talking sterling silver, 24K gold, pearls and some very interesting titanium ......... More About: Time , Sexy
Trespasser's will
2008-03-19 02:42:00 Yesterday I strapped on snowshoes for the first time this year — and possibly for the last (it’s in the 50s today). Unlike a lot of areas to the north of us, central Pennsylvania hasn’t gotten very much snow yet this year, so Saturday’s eight inches on top of the four to five inches already on the ground afforded our first real opportunity for .........
What should you do with your day
2008-03-13 03:55:00 What should you do with your day when the forecast calls for a March 2nd in Missouri with temps in the 70s? Rise early and get to Roundrock! When I rose at about 5:00, it was already 63 degrees out, and the sky was clear. We threw the usual gear into the back of the truck then threw ourselves in, sprinting out of town toward our little bit of forest on the edge of the Missouri .........
Obama Poised Better to Beat McCain
2008-02-09 03:08:00 After all Hillary Clinton may not be able to beat McCain in November, so what's the point in electing her as the Democratic Party nominee for November ......... More About: Obama , Beat
Vinturi fizzes your wine to fineness fast
2008-01-04 05:56:00 Be it a gift for yourself or for an upcoming celebration, the Vinturi Wine Aerator attempts to bypass cellar aging, decanting, "breathing" - perfect for party throwers and partygoers who seem to leave such details, as decanting wine and allowing it to "breathe" for a half hour or more, to the last minute (we''re not all perfect!). Vinturi accomplishes the process of breathing in ......... More About: Fast
The reluctant burn pile
2007-12-28 15:25:00 This is the one burn pile that never realized its full potential in life. When we had the lake made, the dozer man took down hundreds of trees that had been in the Central Valley. He made long piles of them that he later set afire. They all burned to ash. Except for this ......... More About: Burn
Merry holidays!
2007-12-27 17:03:00 A “garden version” of The Night Before ......... More About: Holidays , Merry
Way Cool Post
2007-12-04 02:56:00 Frequent readers may know that a prominent sub-theme of this blog is the relationship between science and art, a subject of considerable interest to myself. Scientist/Artist Jessica Palmer at Bioephemera has an excellent post on the subject.Although the article is mostly about whether art can inform science, I found it jarring at some points because my view of art and science is so conflated, namely that science IS art (note this doesn''t make the reverse also true). I don''t know if Jessica would agree with me on that point, I was struck by this sentence from her post:"Even ......... More About: Cool , Post
Enjoyable Activities Beat Improved Life Circumstances
2007-12-04 01:58:00 Being happy and staying happy is all about our day-to-day activities according to this theory of sustainable happiness. Research suggests that the contributions to our happiness are 50% genetic, 10% from our life circumstances and fully 40% determined by our day-to-day activities. But what evidence is there for this theory?One prediction from this theory is that engaging in new activities should increase our happiness more than an improvement in our circumstances. This is exactly what Sheldon and Lyubomirsky (2006) tested in three related studies.New activities vs. new ......... More About: Life , Activities , Beat , Prove
Patricia Field for Payless: For Sale!
2007-11-07 04:55:00 Remember Patricia Field ''s Payless line, scheduled to be released this holiday season? Well, two of the designs are available for sale at Sushi boot, $55I don''t love the Sushi boot, but I think the Saki pump is pretty cute, even if it''s an ankle-breaker. The designs strike me as very playful, and very Patricia. I love the names of the shoes, too; so far I know that three of the shoe names are Saki, Sushi, and Tempora. Super fun!What do you think?I''m hoping that Payless steps it up this time. I saw Lela Rose''s line in the store a few weeks ago and was ......... More About: For Sale , Sale
The Living and the Dead
2007-10-27 23:32:00 "A bizarre psychological study of degeneration and dependency, The Living and the Dead is a horror movie only in the most literal sense," writes Jeannette Catsoulis in the New York Times. "Skirting genre conventions, Simon Rumley's twisted feature inhabits shores where the gore is minimal and the demons unseen - neither of which makes it any less .........
New Camera Buyers' Guide
2007-10-23 03:13:00 Maybe it's too early to hear sleigh bells, but it's not too early to start thinking about what kind of digital camera you'd like to see on Christmas morning. Online retailer Adorama has some suggestions in its just released . ......... More About: Camera , Guide , Buyers , Guid
Living large
2007-10-17 02:42:00 I went for a walk this morning along the portion of the property line that runs straight down the Bald Eagle Valley side of the mountain. A scrim of cirrus softened the contrast between light and shadow without actually blocking the sun, and thinned out as the morning wore ......... More About: Living , Large
The Emergence Of Advertising In America
2007-10-14 20:22:00 The Emerge nce of Advertising in America : 1850 - 1920 presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.The materials provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and ......... More About: Vert
Cardiospermum halicacabum
2007-10-14 11:55:00 Thanks again to David Tarrant for sending along a couple photographs from his local botanical garden in Mexico (I will visit one day, I .........
Higher education
2007-10-14 07:58:00 The locksmith’s daughter had beautiful bones that cast long shadows on her skin. She wanted to be thin. Cell phones were dwindling; why not those who pressed the sleek clamshells against an ear, as if to listen to the ocean’s test signal? She fasted, draped in hipster black, and learned to love desire for itself. Her hips grew sharp as blades of grass, and she trembled in the least ......... More About: Education , Higher , Higher Education , Duca
Fraud a growing problem
2007-09-27 21:50:00 More than five years after the Bush administration brought in the world's toughest anti-fraud law, and Governments around the world followed suit, the latest data suggests that fraud is stronger than ever.In the past three years, four out of five firms have suffered from some form of corporate fraud. One in five companies have suffered from information theft, management conflict of interest, financial mismanagement, internal financial fraud, procurement fraud, and corruption and bribery, according to a report by Kroll in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence ......... More About: Fraud , Problem , Growing
The challenges of going green
2007-09-27 08:06:00 This is the week of critical meetings to find answers on what to do about global warming. In New York, the United Nations will be looking at tighter emission mandates and the Bush administration will be looking at voluntary pledges, although one has to wonder whether non-binding goals are that effective.But as Jeffrey Ball says in The Wall Street Journal, the fundamental issue is coming up with a scheme that will provide incentives for the developing world to cut emissions. It's all very well for the developed nations to talk about emissions reductions but in places like China, ......... More About: Green , Going , Goin , Halle
The dangers of one-to-one emails
2007-09-19 06:34:00 With a fascinating email trail at the heart of an industrial espionage case involving McLaren and Ferrari and with Morgan Stanley's email woes last year, it's time to ask whether companies need to reassess how they treat emails.According to Rob Hillard, information technology global solutions leader for consultants BearingPoint, businesses should abandon person-to-person email for their own legal protection. When we interviewed Mr Hillard last week, he said companies needed to replace person-to-person emails with what he described as "collaborative communications" ......... More About: Emails , The D |
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