Archive for January 20th, 2008
Filed under: Coffee, Food Gadgets, New Products, Europe
You might think you’re a caffeine fiend, but you aren’t really until you have to take a portable espresso maker with you everywhere you go. Handpresso looks and works like a bicycle pump - you pump air to a pressure of 16 bar, fill the reservoir with hot water, drop in an espresso pod, and the Handpresso renders a steaming hot cup of espresso. There’s no word on how well it works, nor how the coffee tastes, but we’re pretty sure that it beats instant espresso powder mixed with hot water!
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Filed under: Business, Fish, Shellfish, Health & Medical
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Safer and better” than what? you may be asking yourself.
After a year of food (and toy) safety problems on their record including tainted seafood, the Chinese government is instituting programs and regulations to restore confidence in the safety of their seafood exports. Among the measures are a crackdown on the use of illegal antibiotics that have been shown to cause cancer and a focus on pollution and water-quality problems.
Let’s hope they get it together, since much of the world has to turn to China’s land-based fish farms as ocean waters become increasingly depleted by overfishing.
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Filed under: Recipes, Holidays
 Apparently, this is different than National Popcorn Poppin’ Month, which was back in October. That month you had to pop the corn yourself. Today I guess you just have to eat it.
Popcorn.org has a bunch of recipes and popcorn facts, while Kraft has a recipe for Chocolate Popcorn Trail Mix. Simply Recipes tells you how to make what they call Perfect Popcorn. If you want to make popcorn in your microwave (but don’t want to just throw in a bag of microwave popcorn), All Recipes shows you how. If you don’t feel like making popcorn, you can read about the history of Jiffy Pop.
And don’t forget the Honey Popcorn Balls Marissa told you a few months ago.
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Filed under: Dessert, Chocolate, Recipes
 I like recipes that are “light” but still manage to get chocolate in them three different ways.
These Light Chocolate Chunk Brownies from Everyday Food have chocolate and cocoa powder inside and chocolate chips outside, so they’ll make chocolate lovers happy (the readers at the Everyday Food site say these are more cake than brownie). They also utilize unsweetened applesauce and low fat sour cream, so I’m itching to try these. I’ve been craving brownies all week for some reason. I hope I’m not pregnant.
Continue reading Light Chocolate Chunk Brownies
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Filed under: Computers
We have a new reigning champion in the competition for the world’s cheapest desktop computer. Sears.com is now selling a Mirus-built, Linux-based desktop PC for $285. We know, we know — what about the OLPC XO or the Wal-Mart Everex Green PC?” ) Well, friends, what makes the Sears Mirus PC cheaper, for a limited time anyway, is a $100 mail-in rebate, making it total out to $185, which is $15 cheaper than the Green PC and $3 cheaper than the XO.
The Intel Celeron-based system also comes with 1-gigabyte of memory, giving it significantly more horsepower than anything else out at this price point.
The Mirus is part of a larger trend towards low cost, low power, Linux-running systems (Linux is an open-source operating system that’s generally more stable than Windows and Mac operating systems). The OLPC XO, the Asus Eee, the Green PC, and the upcoming Intel powered MIDs are all aimed at users who just need typical daily computer functions such as word processing, image and music management, and Web access. Linux already owns the server market (almost every Web site you visit is sitting on a Linux-based server), and is now beginning to make a mark on the low-cost PC market.
If things continue along this route, 2008 will be the year that Linux finally becomes a household word.
From BetaNews
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Filed under: Computers
Apple fans are usually easy to spot. Maybe it’s the trendy glasses or the messenger bag with the iconic Apple logo stitched on the side. Maybe its the way they cradle their iPhone gently. Maybe it’s how they laugh at you every time you mumble something about your PC crashing. This has led to certain … stereotypes being applied to Mac users, stereotypes largely reinforced by Apple’s own advertising. Now those stereotypes have received some (debatable) scientific backing, with a recent personality study given to Macworld attendees showing some revealing findings.
The study was given to 7,500 people at the show, and the results depict Mac users as “more liberal, less modest, and more assured of their own superiority than the population at large.” The study rated individual personality traits as “high” or “low” depending on the responses. Interestingly the findings show that participants had low modesty and high superiority but also have low self-esteem, an interesting combination that some could say results in a somewhat defensive position. Also interesting that, contrary to other stereotypes, Mac users did not rate high in creativity.
We’re hoping a similar study is performed at the next Microsoft press event to see just how things compare and give a different perspective on this Mac vs. PC war that has been raging for decades. Any guesses on how PC users would score? We’re thinking high in patience and low in bravado.
From Engadget
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Posted by: in Hollywood news
Filed under: Action, Steven Spielberg, Trailers and Clips
 We’re all wondering what Steven Spielberg cooked up for this fourth installment, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, almost 20 years after the so-called Last Crusade. Can Harrison Ford stay up to the Indy challenge, being in his 60s and all? Will we buy Shia LaBeouf as his Mutt son? Will Cate, Ray, and Jim make this puppy worth it, or are some much-loved, mega-blockbusters better left in the past?
Well, we won’t find out for sure until May 22, when the film is released. However, the days are ticking away, and a trailer has to be on its way. According to the folks over at CHUD, it will be the day of love, February 14 — on Entertainment Tonight. At least, they’ll be teasing it. It’s also said to be popping up in theaters that day. For folks adamant that they don’t want to watch ET, or brave the theaters full of people smooching, you can stay up late and get ready to hit refresh as the 14th slides into the 15th and the trailer pops up on the film’s official website.
For now, you can check out a tour of Indy’s home over at the film’s website. It’s just a brief featurette where production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas takes you through the new home, and how things have changed since Raiders of the Lost Ark. [via Coming Soon]
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Britney Spears has been warned by a top U.S. psychologist, that she’ll die in six months unless she gets the needed treatment for chronic mood…
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Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries
 Allan Melvin had so many roles on so many TV shows over the years that it’s hard to know where to begin, but I guess the most logical spot would be The Brady Bunch, where he played Sam The Butcher, the guy Alice dated. He was also a regular on The Phil Silvers Show, played Archie Bunker’s friend Barney on All in the Family, and also played Rob’s army buddy on The Dick Van Dyke Show. He appeared on dozens of other shows over the years, from the Andy Griffith Show (he always played a crook - that’s him on the right in the pic) and Gomer Pyle, USMC to Kung Fu and The Banana Splits (he was Drooper).
You would probably also recognize his voice in many cartoons, including Magilla Gorilla, The Flintstones, The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour, The Smurfs, Spider-Man and Friends, Foofur, Ducktales, Talespin, and others.
He died of cancer in Los Angeles.
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