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gregladen | April 11, 2008Le Petit Singly, a French company, now produces cheese made from human breast milk. And it is not really new.
Apparently they've been doing this for some time now.
"Small Singly is the only cheese made from a woman's breast milk, and has remained for a long time in the shadows of the more ordinary cheeses made of sheep, goat, or cow's milk. ... made with the expertise of master cheese maker Patrice Cosma ... With a tint of hazel nut and a subtle caramelized colore, its softness and texture will undoubtedly allure you. This cheese was discovered in the 19th century, and follows grandmother'…
gregladen | April 7, 2008Our Overlord, Virginia Hughes, has just posted a new reader poll concerning book clubs.
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More information on the book club concept here.
gregladen | April 7, 2008One of my students mentioned the other day that she was mortified when she found her house in Northeast Minneapolis on Google Earth. Just for fun, she was flying around on Google Earth and decided to stop in and see her own crib. It turns out that the local photograph of her home on Google Earth had been taken in the latter, very messy, phase of a giant yard sale. So her house looks like total trash. "Who cares?" you might ask? Well, anyone who might like to put their home on the market, for instance.
Well, it turns out that a Pittsburgh couple is suing Google for "mental suffering" and…
gregladen | April 7, 2008Police said William Singalargh, 27, had hurled the hedgehog about 5m (16ft) at a 15-year-old boy.
"It hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks," said Senior Sgt Bruce Jenkins, in the North Island town of Whakatane.
It was unclear whether the hedgehog was still alive when it was thrown, though it was dead when collected as evidence.
Story here
gregladen | April 6, 2008Charlton Heston, Ben Hur, friend to future apes, Moses, English King, has died at the age of 84.
In the words of Michael Levine, Heston's agent:
"If Hollywood had a Mt. Rushmore, Heston's face would be on it"
Here some footage of Heston getting stoned:
(... and meeting his ape-anthropologist girlfriend ... )
gregladen | April 4, 2008Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. In this 50-minute slideshow (before TED's 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific nature of his buildings -- context he felt was lost in the discussions of his then-controversial work. In this candid and funny talk, he exposes his own messy creative process ("I take pieces and bits, and look at it, and struggle with it, and cut it away...") and the way he struggles with problems ("This…
gregladen | March 23, 2008
I'm happy to say that Amanda still read my blog every day. Almost.
[Stolen from here.]
gregladen | March 18, 2008Arthur Clarke, author of a number of important science fiction books, member of the British Interplanetary Society, co-inventor of marvelous technologies, and accomplished scuba diver, has died at the age of 90, in his long time home of Sri Lanka.
My favorite book of his was Childhood's End, which I read when I was about 12. I remember almost nothing about it, but somehow it impressed me. Ha. I just read Dave Bacon's post on Clarke, at The Quantum Pontiff ... Yes, Dave, I have exactly the same feeling:
Although I learned to cringe at some of Clarke's writing as I grew older, I have very…
gregladen | March 17, 2008The following is a total ripoff of Steve Martin, who pulled the same exact gag on one of his early TV specials. But it is still fun:
[Totally ripped from Sandwalk]
gregladen | March 16, 2008So we arrive at the cabin, and something seems amiss. With each new clue uncovered, we are at first disturbed, then aghast, and finally, astonished. None of it made very much sense until we found the note. Wow. The note.
The reason we were there at all was to drop off an old refrigerator and to check on things. There are two cabins, one semi-heated for winter, the other closed down, and into the second of these we would haul the fridge, staying for the night in the first.
Someone noticed a bag of cans, mostly soda, and some beer bottles, not our brand, sticking out of the snow. Since…
gregladen | March 13, 2008A woman was stopped at Munich airport after baggage control handlers found the skeleton of her brother sealed in a plastic bag in her luggage, police said Wednesday.
The 62-year-old woman and her 63-year-old friend, who both live in Italy, were hauled in by airport police Tuesday after a scan of the bag showed a human skull and other bones. The women were traveling to Italy from Brazil.
It turned out, however, that the woman was simply trying to fulfill the last wish of her brother _ who died 11 years ago in Sao Paulo, Brazil _ to be buried in Italy.
Read the gory details here.
gregladen | March 11, 2008Check it out:
Dear Friend of the Bell Museum:
Thanks to your efforts, the Bell Museum's building project is included in both House and Senate versions of the Minnesota State Legislature's 2008 bonding recommendations.
Now is the time to contact Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to express your support for the project.
You can reach Governor Pawlenty by phone at (651) 296-3391 or (800) 657-3717; or by email at tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us.
As it did with our Senators and Representatives, your message to the Governor will make a difference.