Archive for February, 2007

My Website has been mentioned in the news several times before. It was the “hot site of the week” in USA Today once. And my website was featured in the centerfold pullout for Maxim Magazine’s 50 best websites.

Today I was listed in an article in the Toronto Star here.

Hostage lunch: a meal, often pizza, paid for by the company and delivered to employees whose bosses require them to attend a meeting on their lunch hour. E.g.: “I was planning on running some errands over my lunch hour, but the VP is keeping us in a meeting. At least he ordered us hostage lunch.” (UrbanDictionary.com)

Thursday is Pig Day. The saying “sweat like a pig” is a misnomer: pigs can’t sweat. Their well-known method of cooling off (rolling around in the mud) has contributed to the misconception that they’re dirty. (brownielocks.com; pbs.org) Sir Isaac Newton is credited with inventing the cat flap. (mentalfloss.com)

Fig Newtons were not named after the inventor of the cat flap. Rather, they took their moniker from Newton, Mass., a town near the regional bakery that created them. (As one wag noted, “Thank it wasn’t near Belchertown.”) (straightdope.com)

Belch.com has accumulated “the largest collection of digitally recorded belches on the Net:” 550.(belch.com) Thursday is National Beer Day in Iceland. It marks the end of a 75-year prohibition of the beverage, which expired on March 1, 1989. (www.geographia.com/iceland)

On this day in 1940, a hockey game was televised for the first time. Viewers of New York station W2XBS saw the Rangers beat the Montreal Canadiens, 6-2, at Madison Square Garden. (Hockey Night in Canada debuted on CBC-TV in 1952.) (nytimes.com/learning)

Dry ice weighs about twice as much as regular ice. (dryiceinfo.com)

How cool are you if you’re as cool as a cucumber? The inside of the fruit can be up to 20 degrees F (11C) cooler than the outside temperature. (foodreference.com)

Yuppie food stamps: “the $20 bills that everyone gets from ATMs. They become an issue when a group goes out to eat and it comes time to pay. Each person owes $11 and no one has anything smaller than a $20.” (BuzzWhack.com)

Thanks to John Sakamoto for the mention in the article!