S.O. Ogunwolu and C.O. Jayeola, food scientists at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, have mixed cornstarch with cocoa to produce a heat-resistant chocolate that they say compares “favorably with conventional milk chocolate in terms of color, taste, smoothness and overall acceptability.”The starch acts as a chocolate thickener and prevents the outflow of cocoa butter—the…
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Chicken lays mystery Allah egg
ALMATY (Reuters) – A chicken in a Kazakh village has laid an egg with the word “Allah” inscribed on its shell, state media reported Thursday. “Our mosque confirmed that it says ‘Allah’ in Arabic,” Bites Amantayeva, a farmer from the village of Stepnoi in eastern Kazakhstan, told state news agency Kazinform. “We’ll keep this egg…
What Kind of Genius Are You?
This is a great article… I’m stillnot sure what kind of genius I am, but I definitely like the idea that I might be a late bloomer if something incredible doesn’t materialize soon….(Thanks Chuck!) cd Wired 14.07: What Kind of Genius Are You? In the fall of 1972, when David Galenson was a senior economics…
Animal Liberation Front goes Violent with Molotov
I like animals. I like cocktails. this is a fine example of why you shouldn’t mix the two…ALF are a bunch of fukn kooks. They all need to be rounded up and put in zoos. btw…if you want to make a molotov cocktail, try to do it right. The diagram below should help. It is…
Metal Theft becoming a problem everywhere
I’ve been reporting on metal theft here in Hawaii for a while now but apparently it is a problem all over the place. Even Canada.Recently they busted two homeless people in their 40’s, a man and a woman, doing a similar stripping job in Honolulu. cd BCNG Portals Page Salvagers entered the building, which has…
The Fastest Readers in History – MSN Encarta
I took a speed reading course one time. We ended up reading Animal Farm in a little less than an hour. It worked, the problem was that reading is one of my favorite ways to relax and if I have to turn the pages constantly, I don’t get the benefit of getting lost in the…
Overheard in the Office | The Voice of the Cubicle
Were you ever sitting in your cubicle and heard someone in the next cubicle say something that made you want to burst out laughing? You wanted to share it with someone but couldn’t just call up your buddy across the room or down in accounting right? Now you can post it to overheard in the…
Japan considers strike on North Korean missile bases-
Hmm…what a good idea! Let’s continue with this idea that a preemptive strike is a good way to defend yourself. If some guy is looking at you funny on the subway, you should shoot him…it’s self defense. If it looks like your boss might fire you, you should start stealing the toilet paper…it’s self defense….
Magic Mushrooms could be the peak experience of your life
This is very cool. The last time I ate mushrooms was at a hot springs near Seattle…I wrote about it in Twenty Weeks a Bum. It was incredibly mystical. This makes me want to eat some again… cd NEW YORK – People who took an illegal drug made from mushrooms reported profound mystical experiences that…
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for Bad Fiction
The results are in…my favorite being… this one from Chris Harget… It was a day, like any other day, in that Linus got up, faced the sunrise, used his inhaler, applied that special cream between his toes, wrote a quick note and put it in a bottle, and wished he’d been stranded on the island…