Food

Serious on the rocks drinkers prefer ice spheres due to their reduced surface area; the ice melts slower, meaning a less watered-down beverage. A Japanese company called Taisin [Google Translation page] has created a contraption that will create perfectly round balls of ice.

You place a chuck of ice inside Taisin’s Ice Mold, and as the ice melts the press will close around it creating it’s spherical shape. Extract the ice, and voila! I perfect, seamless ball. The Ice Mold can create 30 to 40 ice balls per minute.

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Have you ever stopped to wonder what was the difference between herbs and spices? The Supreme Spice Blog provides a definative answer:

“A simple answer to this question would be that the leaf of a plant which is used in cooking is referred to as a Herb and any other part of the plant that is used to flavor food is termed as a Spice. For example – Cloves (bud), ginger & turmeric (roots), fennel, cumin, coriander (seeds), cinnamon (bark), peppercorns (berries) [would all be conidered spices].

Herbs are used fresh and spices are generally in dried form.”


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Not only do I hate Starbucks for the overrated, mediocre coffee they peddle at exorbitant prices, but for the assorted douchebags and morons who frequent the place. Holy Taco has a spot-on and hilarious assessment of these types of annoying people you can find at Starbucks.

Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org have brilliantly planned a counter-offensive against junk science-spouting global warming fanatics by announcing “Carbon Belch Day”. They want people worldwide to waste as much energy as possible this June 12th by “hosting a barbecue, going for a drive, watching television, leaving a few lights on, or even smoking a few cigars.” Why? The group wants to “help Americans break free from the ‘carbon footprint guilt’ being imposed by Climate Alarmists.”

You can do your part by pledging to join in the “belch” at the Official Carbon Belch Day website.

This is a classic from Penn and Teller’s Bullsh*t! show. They sent someone to an environmental rally to collect signatures to ban dihydrogen monoxide – in other words, H₂O or water. You wouldn’t believe how many brainless lefties fell hook, line and sinker for this, demonstrating once again how quickly they join movements without even bothering to investigate the facts.

The Right Brain vs Left Brain Test … do you see the dancer rotating clockwise or counter-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice-versa. Personally I saw the dancer turning clockwise, although

If you’ve been on the internet longer than six months, then you’ve probably seen lists like these cluttering in your e-mail inboxes. Still, some of these are corkers and are worth reading again.

Did you ever stop and wonder……

Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are dead?

Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is not enough?

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Why do they call it a TV “set” when you only have one?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Why is brassiere singular and panties plural?

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

Why doesn’t glue stick to the bottle?

Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?

Whose idea was it to put an “S” in the word “lisp”?

Why do we say alarm clocks “go off” when they start making noise?

Courtesy of The Daily Mail:

The world will experience global cooling this year, according a leading climate scientist.

The prediction – which follows a bitterly cold winter in China and the Arctic – is prompting some sceptics to question the theory of climate change…

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One of the coolest hot sauces to debut in the past few years has got to be Dave’s Gourmet Adjustable Heat hot sauce. Adjustable Heat is bottled in a 7.1 oz container that allows you to change the spiciness of the sauce by turning the cap. The pump spray cap – similar to the homemade chili sauce mister I mentioned a few weeks back – mixes the ingredients from the two compartments (one containing the flavored portion and the other housing the heat mixture) of the bottle in different proportions. You can have a sauce that is mildly spicy to one that has a scorching zing.

Adjustable Heat is not merely a must-have for the geeky gadget factor. The sauce’s taste is one of the best in the Dave’s Gourmet lineup; even when cranked all the way down to bland, it’s base flavor is almost good enough to stand on it’s own even without barely any capsaicin extract. Turn up the fire and the overall hearty flavor is not lost in the spiciness. The elixir would go well on most anything, including chicken, tortilla chips, and pizza.

Adjustable Heat hot sauce can be ordered directly on Dave’s Gorment website.

Despite my grumblings about certain aspects of Google’s Gmail service, I’m still a died-in-the-wool user. Gmail has the best overall features of any web-based mail client, which include unparalelled spam filtering and mail searching. Now you can add GPG encryption to your capabilities with Gmail, thanks to this handy little Instructables article…

Still a user of XP? Yeah, me too. But just because you don’t have Microsoft Vista installed as your OS doesn’t mean that you have to do without some of its cool features. Lifehacker has a guide that shows you how to obtain the best of both worlds by getting Vista’s best features in XP.

Back in the late 1990s, then-unemployed Bill Geerhart had a ingenious idea – he would pose as a 10-year-old boy and write to both the infamous and the famous. He requested from convicted killers such as Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez,

Designer Matt Kirkland got curious and wanted to see what lurked inside of electronic stuffed animals and toys. After removing the fur, padding, and stuffing, he found that the innards ranged from simple voiceboxes to fairly-intricate robots.

Want a skylight or window in your office that gives a picturesque view 24 hours a day, 365 days a year? The Sky factory is a company that specializes in lighting that creates photographic illusions of real skies and landscapes. The realiistic-looking image tiles are backlit by fluorescent or LED lighting.

Instructables has a short piece on how to build a spice mister – which is basically a small spray pump bottle filled with hot sauce. Less potent than a typical pepper spray that you would use for self defense or crowd control, this ingenious little bottle is for quickly applying hot chile pepper sauce or even capsaicin extract to a large area when cooking or eating.