Monthly Archive
- January 2010
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All Hail Caesar
2010: Romaine is on the march! From a nearly forgotten lettuce variety grown on few acres, the crunchy green now covers nearly 80,000 acres of America, the Los Angeles Times article reports this week. What happened? A new Caesar salad came to power.
Then, all of a sudden,...
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Deus Ex Machina
2010: Today is the day that California, soaked with rain, will finally crack from the continental shelf and make its way out to sea to create utopia anew. In related news, today is the day that Apple will unveil it’s most anticipated product ever: a flat, handheld, touch-screen computer which... ...
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Tanked Up Beyond All Reason
2010: The United Kingdom is banning some barroom practices that the Home Office says encourage binge drinking, Reuters reports. The Home Secretary Alan Johnson claims that drunken disorder and damage costs the government up to 13 billion pounds a year.
The…measures ban irresponsible drinking promotions such as "all...
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You Cannot Fight It
2010: A large earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday afternoon, toppling the National Palace and causing widespread damage to the country's poorly built homes. The epicenter of the 7.0 magnitude quake was just a few miles from the nation's capital Port-au-Prince. While Haiti is located in a seismically active region, the last... ...
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Getting Counted
2009: There was a small uproar last week as the U.S. Census began to publicize the 2010 headcount when it was pointed out that the very box that the president of the United States would fill out actually read: “Black, African Am., or Negro." (The story was compounded by... ...
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A Ready Supply of Bullion
2009: Nerds are amassing in Las Vegas for the largest gadget trade fair of the year, the Consumer Electronics Show. In fluorescent-lit corridors and meeting rooms electronics designers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers furiously negotiate contracts with billions of dollars at stake. Meanwhile, a pop-up carnival rages all around them in... ...
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Home Sweet Capsule
2009: The Japanese capsule hotel, long a favorite of travel shows and quirky guide books, first opened in 1979. By the early eighties there were at least ten operating hotels offering rooms between $9 and $13 a night in a space approximately six and a half feet long by five... ...
