Line Items for 2008-11-19: Docs and Cheese
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Food, Spam | 2 Comments »- Latest spam trend: Word docs in Chinese. No clue what they are - I’m not going to open them! Also: Make Money Fast seminars…in Shanghai. #
- Making a list of my allergies. And I keep thinking I’m missing something. #
- I still find it amusing that http://caminobrowser.org/ focuses on a picture of the browser showing the Wikipedia entry for Cheese. #
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Food, You Must be Mistaken | 3 Comments »From a food allergy alert released today:
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., is recalling “Chocolate Covered Almonds” due to undeclared peanuts and “Chocolate Double-Dipped Peanuts” due to undeclared almonds. [emphasis added]
I have to wonder: are they just really bad about keeping their ingredients separate, or did they get the labels switched on a couple of batches?
Linkage: Authorship, Allergies & Alternate History
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 Posted in Politics, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Writing | No Comments »Catching up on interesting links from the past week.
Balkanized North America: what if every region that started independent had stayed that way, and every region that threatened to secede from the US or Canada had succeeded? (via ***Dave)
Enter Sandman: Who wrote “Footprints”? You’ve probably read the poem, or heard it, in which the narrator dreams of walking along a beach with God, and looking back and noting how many sets of footprints there are at different points in their life. It turns out at least four people claim authorship. (via Neil Gaiman)
Retro-Future: To the Stars! Science-fiction illustrations from 1930–1970, many of them from Soviet/Eastern Bloc countries. (via Slashdot, though I noticed it popped up again today on The Beat)
My Son’s Food Allergies: Danger Every Day: An essay on a family dealing with their toddler’s serious (i.e. life-threatening) food allergies. I am so glad I didn’t have things this bad when I was younger. Fortunately for me, mine didn’t get really dangerous until I was around 17 or 18—just in time to go off to college and get exposed to all kinds of strange food! (Found on CNN)
Citizens Against Ugly Street Spam (CAUSS): volunteer group that tears down unsightly (and illegal) signs stapled to telephone poles and such. I saw their site a few years ago, but had no idea that they were not only still around, but had expanded to multiple cities. (again, via ***Dave)
