Hong Kong residents have found a new way to energize themselves: get stoned, the legal way.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, drinking water in direct contact with energized mineral stones "gives a powerful bio-resonance", thereby transfering incredible energizing and healing effect to the drinker.

I wonder long it will take Amsterdam coffee houses to pick up on the idea.

Un petit graphique charmant qui nous montre le pourcentage de la population de chaque pays qui aindice corporel supérieur à 30, donc qualifiable d'obèse.

On pourrait en déduire qu'en France, on devrait arrêter de se prendre le choux pour rien avec tous ces avertissements ridicules sur les publicités qui disent de ne manger ni sucré ni salé ni gras ni du tout, mais il faut garder un oeil sur un détail — les données de ce graphique est valable pour les plus de 15 ans, or il semblerait qu'une proportion notable des enfants français soient aujourd'hui obèses.

Donc avant de vous moquer des USA, regardez vos enfants.



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When one watches sports on TV, one likes to indulge in the consumption of such products as pizza or beer, for example.

Well, one now has one less thing to distract one from the game at hand: instead of having to hold the beer with one hand and the pizza with the other (leaving no hand available for the TiVo/BskyB remote), one can just hold one thing — Pizza Beer.

One should not worry, there are no tricks behind this, Pizza Beer is just what its name implies, pizza-flavoured beer.

One can thank Tom Seefurth, a suburban brewer from Illinois for making the bold step of putting actual pieces of pizza (meat-lovers ? vegetarian ? the mystery remains) in the brewing bins, then calling the press to tell them about it.

One can rest assured, the world is going in a wonderful direction.

The world may be turning towards the natural, organic foods in farmers' markets, but the message does not seem to have reached up the Bayou in Mississippi. The Good Ole Boys have lately taken to marinating pickles in fluorescent-colored Kool-Aid to get that sweet and sour effect.

Do you prefer your pickle in cherry or tropical fruit flavored Kool-Aid?

Vegetarians will no longer be able to eat Mars bars.

Masterfoods, the owner of Snickers, Maltesers, Bounty, Minstrels and Milky Way has declared that it will start using animal byproduct to make its chocolate bars because of sourcing problems. One of the byproducts they may include, rennet, is a chemical squeezed from the stomach of dead baby cows. I'm not vegetarian, but you won't catch me eating one of those bars.

Veganism is a lifestyle you choose, not impose (on a newborn baby).

In Atlanta, a couple has been sentenced to life for malnourishing (ie. starving) their newborn baby who weighed no more than 1.6 kilograms when he died, 6 weeks after birth. Not suprising: the baby was fed a diet based on soy milk and apple juice. A diet not even a cat can sustain on. (cats and dogs, who, as we remember, are now fed home-cooked food)

The couple was found guilty of "malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children."

Can anyone revisit this license plate?

A website has started comparing fast food advertisements with the greasy mush that you actually receive at the counter. No surprises, but Yuuuk!

via ThomasCrampton

Ever wondered how cheese aged overtime? How cheese comes to stink, develop mold and change shape? Take a look at www.cheddarvision.tv, compressing 3 months of cheddar aging in less than 1.30 minutes. Good food takes time and patience.

Exploding corks and bubbles have long been the fun of champagne.

Napoleon's cavalrymen added to the excitement by sabering the bottles. They slashed their saber against the bottleneck to open it by breaking the glass.

While traveling in Champagne this weekend, I discovered that a Champagne house in Epernay, that exports heavily to the US and has developed a concept for venting champagne bottles before opening.

The idea is to prevent champagne spurting out and save people from receiving a cork in the eye. The inventor, Pascal Leclerc-Briant, seems to aim for profit from naive and safety obsessed Americans.

Leclerc-Briant's solution is for consumers to pull a the loop at the side of the bottle's neck to release excess carbon-dioxyde.

That sounds like a labor-intensive process to open a bottle. Isn't champagne all about spontaneity, unpredictibility and risk-taking?

Paradoxically, Leclerc-Briant also offers sabering classes (ie. the most dangerous way to open champagne bottle) at his vignoble for the steep price of 28 euros.

A recent study has shown that melting chocolate on the tongue excites people more than a passionate kiss.

As chocolate starts melting on your tongue, all regions of the brain were found to receive a boost far more intense and longer lasting than the excitement of a kiss.

I'm not convinced. The study missed a few parameters:

a. This can't be for all chocolates! As a dark chocolate evangelist, I'd love to know if dark chocolate has more powerful buzz power than the rest. As for that tasteless brown stuff the English pass off as chocolate, I'd rather kiss a dog.

b. Wouldn't the guilt parameter so familiar with women - argh, am eating chocolate and am putting on pounds - affect the so-called chocolate buzz? Kissing puts on no weight.

c. How did they evaluate the power of the kissing buzz? Doesn't it all depend on your partner. Passion for their partner might be the missing ingredient for those tested.

John Bobbit (of penis-cutting fame) had the credentials to open a great concept store, if only he knew more about traditional Chinese medicine.

But the opportunity has now been seized (pun intended) by Mr. Guo who opened the Penis Emporium in Beijing.

Delving into traditional Chinese medicine, Guo claims that animal penis is low in cholesterol and good, not just for boosting the male sex drive, but for treating all sorts of ailments. Each animal's penis has unique characteristics: snake penises (did you know snakes had two penises?) is good for potency, donkey penis is apparently good for your skin, while sheep/horse/ox/seal penis is supposed to be excellent for blood circulation.

And the Penis Emporium concept is taking off! While we don't know how much eating "regular" penises costs (and we'd rather keep it that way), some customers spend more than $5,700 (£3,000) to eat tiger penis, and order it months in advance.

The sex of his clients? Almost exclusively male.

The origin of penises? Probably from endangered animals illegally killed.

I'm Chiquita Banana, and I've come to say
When guerillas ask me, I agree to pay
They traffic and murder until the day
Where I got finally nailed by the DoJ...

Anyhow, that's the song Chiquita Banana should be singing after it was fined $25 million by the U.S. Department of Justice for financing from 1997 to 2004 of Colombian junte/paramilitary/terrorist group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia.

This, of course, comes at a delicate time, since Chiquita was trying to charm and dazzle us, with Rainforest Alliance and Fair Trade certifications and whatnot, so that we would forgive her century-long track record of geopolitical corruption, monopoly practices, government overtaking, and worker abusing (among others) under the name of United Fruit Company...

Don't put that banana in the freezer, put it in the slammer.



Aux USA, il existe depuis des décennies une banana charmante, qui chante les bienfait nutrititifs et danse le mode d'emploi des bananes, une banane sensuelle... qui donne la banane (boum zing!).

Cette banane, c'est Chiquita Banana.

Mais que fait Chiquita Banana quand elle ne nous envoûte point de ses charmes ?? Et bien elle finance la guerilla colombienne à travers sa cousine colombienne, Banadex.

La Justice Americaine vient en effet de condamner Chiquita a payer 25 millions de dollars pour son financement entre 1997 et 2004 de Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, un charmat groupe paramilitaire d'au moins 15 000 personnes, qui est connu pour son traffique de drogue, ses kidnappings, ses massacres de villageois...

Tout ça, c'est pas fantastico pour la banana, surtout que celle-ci cherchait à se redorer le blason à coup de certification ecolo-éthique après plus d'un siècle de magouilles géopolitiques sous son ancien nom de United Fruit Company...

C'est vraiment une banane pourrie, cette Chiquita.

Don't you just luuuuuuuuuv Splenda ?

(psss... Splenda is the artificial sweetener that's not NutraSweet and not Saccharine)

Well if you don't, you're out of luck. Or rather, out of domain names.

You see, Johnson & Johnson, makers of Splenda, they like freedom of speech.
Well, let me rephrase that. They like the freedom of saying nice things about their products.

But let's say, just randomly, that you have something against Splenda, maybe because you've had experienced some side effects (like NutraSweet and Saccharine), well, you wouldn't be able to start a web site named SplendaSucks or SplendaKills or FuckSplenda or anything like that, because Johnson & Johnson have bought over 211 domain names of that type.

You can still have "maybeSplendaisnotsogreat.com" though, they haven't bought that one up.
With a catchy URL like that, you KNOW the traffic is just going to explode.

Via Diet-Blog

Not everybody likes billboards.
In Paris, an anti-advertising movement splatters paint on billboards to protest visual pollution.

Luckily, now there's a different way.

Thortons chocolatier made for Easter a 4.4m x 2.9m billboard from 390kg of pure chocolate in London's Covent Garden.

Ingredients included 10 chocolate bunnies, 72 giant eggs and 128 chocolate panels.

The gathered crowd became concerned that what claimed to be the world first chocolate billboard would turn into a large chocolate puddle, thanks to the warm weather and London rain.

Luckily a selfless group of 50 brownies (the girl scouts, not the chocolate treat) volunteered to help greedy passers-by climb ladders to eat the billboard. It was gone in less three hours,

It doesn't matter how you go about it, everyone can get sick from advertising.

For all those who luuuuved Lil' Jamie Foxx in Ray, Miami Vice (not so many) and DreamGirls...you may not remember he started out on In Living Color, doing such tasty and tasteful skits as Baby Got Snacks....

It's Snack Time.

PS: can you name the song which is being parodied here ?
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Ceux (surtout celles) d'entre vous qui ont adoré Jamie Foxx dans Ray, 2 Flics à Miami ou Dreamgirls, un petit retour en arrière, à l'époque où il n'était qu'un comédien parmis d'autres sur l'émission à sketch des frères Wayans, In Living Color. Ça nous rajeunit pas tout ça....

PS: même pas cap de dire quelle chanson est parodiée dans ce clip!