Archive for March, 2007

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, History Channel – Che: A profile of the guerrilla leader and revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-67), who assisted Fidel Castro’s rise to power in Cuba during the late 1950’s.
• 7PM, Cartoon Network – Spirited Away (movie): Oscar winner for best animated feature, this 2001 fantasy concerns a 10 year old girl [...]

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, HGTV – Look What I Did!: Water Garden, Play Houses, Town Homes. A backyard water playground, an outdoor play house that is a replica of the family home, a livingroom decorated in a tiki-lounge motif.
• 6PM, History Channel – Our Generation: The Draft. The divisive issue of the military draft during [...]

Amazon Friday Sale Highlights

From the upcoming book “I Saw You: Missed Connections,” filled with cartoons inspired by posts on Craigslist’s personals section of the same name.
I Saw You: Missed Connections [Flickr]
Book Blog [MissedConnections.blogspot.com]

Gary Andrew Poole questions why the Ultimate Fighting Championship (and its now-sister league, Pride) don’t get more mainstream coverage:
When I reported a piece a couple years ago for TIME (check out Robert Gallagher’s excellent photo essay from the story) about the UFC I came away impressed; I was given a lot of access to the [...]

Book, our fat tuxedo cat, has been on a permanent diet for the last several months, as her post-spaying weight has been dangerously high. She’s out of immediate feline diabetes danger, but she could still stand to lose a couple of pounds, and the “Pipolino cat feeder and exerciser looks like it might do the [...]

As if we needed more proof that New York was the most delivery-friendly city in the world, today’s Thrillist uncovers a horrifyingly fantastic new service called, simply, “Fresh Meats.”
You choose an easy-to-smuggle, live delicacy (chicken, duck, squab, rabbit, even a snake or frog), and FM will lead it to your tub and do-what-must-be-done. Once it’s [...]

Mel Gibson, frothing actor and filmmaker, has succeeded in his campaign to prevent small Danish brewery Midtfyns Bryghus from naming one of their beers “Braveheart,” despite historical precedent of the name exists previous to its use in Gibson’s 1995 film.
But the brewery’s 72-year-old owner Keld Andersen initially refused to give in to pressure from Gibson, [...]

Our condolences to local favorite Smuttynose Brewing of Postmouth, New Hampshire, in the loss of Olive, the “Old Brown Dog.” Olive gave her likeness to the labels of their famous “Old Brown Dog Ale,” a brown ale they have brewed since 1988. Olive was just shy of sixteen.
Company Page [Smuttynose] (Thanks, Brigitte.)

With previously restricted markets like Russia and China opening up to the sale of nature’s finest beverage, beer has officially become the most popular drink—alcoholic or otherwise—in the world:
At the moment the US is the largest producer of beer in the world. However this expected to change within the next five years. It is thought [...]

From ABC News:
This egg hunt shortly before Easter was not for the faint-hearted. A team at Beekse Bergen safari park in the southern Netherlands on Thursday successfully harvested eggs from Ans, a 4,190-pound southern white rhino.
Hans, we are in alignment. Activate… jazz hands!
Dutch Team Harvests Eggs From White Rhino [ABCNews.com]

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, History Channel – Modern Marvels: The Butcher. butchers are spotlighted, the protection and grading of meat.
• 6PM, HGTV – Look What I Did!: Trapeze space, observatory, reflecting pool, cactus garden, woodwork. an acrobat themed entryway, a home built observatory, a reflecting pond, a backyard desert retreat made with faux rocks and [...]




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» Seems Jack Daniels is kicking some butt, profits are up and even their unsavory looking drinks are selling.  # 2

» The Royal Bacon Society is a fancy, fun blog all about you the Dethroner reader’s favorite food: Bacon. # 1

» Evidently a fan of Ebert’s is trying to help Mars breed the supreme race of M&Ms.

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them breaks and splinters. That is the “loser,” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.
M&Ms prove Darwin was right Thanks Ryan  # 0

» Baconpig. Zenith of mankind’s porcine proclivity or just gross? You be the judge. Don’t miss the Pig Butchering Guide in T-shirt form. # 0

» A man wants to know if jerking off into his guppy tank will cause his fish any harm. Just don’t forget to cuddle, I say. [StraightDope.com# 1

» An Atlanta florist is selling the “Broquet,” baskets of amply masculine cactus and carnivorous plants that can be given from one man to another. [BananaFlorist.com via Seth Godin# 0

» What may be my next car, the Mitsubishi Evolution X, goes on sale today in Japan. Next year for North America. [Crave.CNET.com# 0

» I haven’t really dug into it much, but JoS. A. Bank is having what appears to be a pretty major sale, with up to 50% off on Fall items and 70% off on clearance items. [JosBank.com# 2

» Cities collapse due to unsustainable growth? Naw it’ll never happen. We have science. [unsw.edu.au, creationmuseum.org] # 0

» Headline of the Day: “Men want hot women, study confirms” [CNN# 2



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