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A quirky friend of mine with a vegetarian sweetheart recently launched Carrot Eat Cow, an online community and recipe clearing house “for us carnivores who either want to incorporate a vegetarian diet into our lives or have been forcibly asked to.” Check it out if your lover loves veggies, you’re sick of salad and […]

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For the last nine months, I’ve been running this little site for fun, as a writing exercise, and mostly as a labour of love. For some reason — likely a neurosis of some kind — I just really love digging through the many fascinating stories that don’t make it to our TV screens, and […]

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Surely it had nothing to do with the title of G&R’s new record. And since when do Chinese foreign affairs officials moonlight as music critics?
The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reports:

In a rare comment on rock’n’roll, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang dismissed the creative output of US rock band Guns N’ Roses as […]

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Knowing that this story combines three of my favourite things — beer, Eastern philosophy and neat-o whatnot — a buddy of mine sent me some info about this most postworthy endeavour.

Lloyd Alter at Treehugger reports:

Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It […]

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Why shallots? Why not shallots?
From the Times of India:

India would make Pakistan a barren land in the next six years by blocking its water through construction of dams in violation of the Indus Water Treaty, Pakistan Indus Water Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah said on Monday.
[…] Dismissing India’s claim that it had stopped Pakistan’s water […]

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When I first saw this little story on the Consumerist, I thought it had to be a joke. But out of curiosity, I googled it — and came up with 113,000 hits, a flag-waving liberty dollar nutbar website, and a too-strange-to-be-true article in the Washington Post:

Once upon a time, a “monetary architect” named Bernard […]

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The remains of German billionaire Friedrich Karl Flick have apparently been stolen for ransom, on the same day that the skeleton of famed astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was identified.
The thieves who made off with Flick’s body in Austria somehow managed to get through the solid granite slabs that surrounded his remains before carting off a solid-zinc […]

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Once again, the folks at FlowingData have taken reams and reams of inane-seeming data, compared it to scads and scads of other inane-seeming data, and turned the whole reamy scaddy mess into something fascinating. Check out these maps of cotton-picking intensity in 1860 and presidential voting today in America’s South — see anything interesting?

And […]

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According to a new study, nearly a third of Canadians diagnosed with asthma may not actually have it. The CBC reports:

In Monday’s online issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Dr. Shawn Aaron of the Ottawa Health Research Institute and his colleagues looked at 496 adults from eight Canadian cities — Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, […]

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Though my girlfriend would insist otherwise, I don’t really consider myself much of a geek — I’m geeky enough to take things apart, but not usually geeky enough to know how to put them back together. So I generally have no business watering down the genuinely geeky clientele at Den of Geek with my […]

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