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I just spent a couple of months in Mexico. While I was there I had tried several types of insect dishes. They were delicious, especially the Escamole. While they are not really part of the daily diet, they are not uncommon either. In fact, it's kind of trendy now.

http://www.slashfood.com/2009/11/13/escamole-mexican-ant-egg-delicacy/

There are better articles I've since read. Try one on nydailynews.com or collisionguard.com or drivers.com or slashfood.com or boston.com.

Not all of them make the same case, in fact I'm more inclined to believe now that phone usage is the more dangerous, but come on, if you're gonna criticize the source, maybe find one of the dozens of better ones a google search away!

Yawn.. here in Orange County, we've been doing this for over 3 years, because we're getting tired of people from up north bitching about us stealing their water. The plant they constructed near my house pumps out 80 mllion gallons of reclaimed water per day. Anybody who claims they can tell it used to be wastewater is insane.

http://www.slashfood.com/2008/08/13/orange-county-produces-the-worlds-most-recycled-water/

There food is horrible

Did you misspell "their" or just drop a comma? Either way it makes sense!

it tastes like a charred hamster

Where do you get charred hamster? I can't even get cuy around here.

Perhaps you were looking for:
http://www.slashfood.com/ ...which is an actual website about food, but not affiliated with Slashdot, AFAIK.

Not coincidentally, you're also not going to the kind of restaurant where people would consider taking a picture of the food.

Oh really? There are plenty of places on this wild world web that revel in taking photos of bad food from shitty restaurants or discussing bad food photography.

http://www.tetrapak.com/us/packaging/food_categories/wine/pages/default.aspx

http://www.slashfood.com/2008/05/17/would-you-drink-wine-from-a-juice-box/

I'll wait here while you hide your kids.

There is something very cool about having tailored advertisements. Google's found a way to make it work, and in the AFK world there is evidence of commercial tailoring for sporting events like the SuperBowl. People who watch the SB for the ads (like reading Playboy for the nudes, I suppose) typically enjoy funny and unique commercials. So while it may be many times more expensive to produce and show a commercial during the SB, it is also much more profitable since the viewers are already suggestionable.

Ironically, the answer is at a site called Slashfood.
I just found it, it's like Slashdot for culinary geeks; worth a bookmark.

I'll leave out really common feeds and a few that won't interest many people, but here are the top 25% or so of my feeds:

A Gentleman's C http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/rss.xml
An Angry Professor gripes about stuff

Armchair Generalist http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf
Blog by a moderate-left military analyst

Arts & Letters Daily http://aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml
Three interesting links every day (actually usually one or two INTERESTING ones)

Breaking News (History News Network) http://hnn.us/roundup/rss_full/41.xml
Stories about History with a slight conservative bias

Consumerist http://consumerist.com/excerpts.xml
Shoppers bite back.

indexed http://indexed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Note card humor, usually featuring Venn diagrams

Inside Higher Ed http://feeds.feedburner.com/insidehighered/OxmP
Stories from academe, with fairly grumpy comments

Junk Charts http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/rss.xml
Redraws charts to make data analysis easier

Obscure Store and Reading Room http://obscurestore.typepad.com/obscure_store_and_reading/index.rdf
Well-known wierd news site with comments

PostSecret http://postsecret.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Secrets on postcards, every Sunday. Fascinating.

ReelViews New Reviews http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelviewsNewReviews
My favorite currently-active film reviewer

SCOTUSblog http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/index.xml
Get the skinny on the latest Supreme Court actions

Slashfood http://www.slashfood.com/rss.xml
Because I love food

Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/rss/
The best of the online political mags; lefty bias

Spluch http://spluch.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Always something interesting. Similar material to the extremely popular Boing Boing, but with fewer posts per day.

The Monkey Cage http://www.themonkeycage.org/atom.xml
Analysis from political scientists. Much better than the usual partisan approach.

The Onion http://feeds.theonion.com/theonion/daily
Most of the humor is usually contained in the headlines, so I seldom read more

http://www.japanfile.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=462

"While NASA was content with the chicken and the egg, the Soviets chose natto for their research. In 1987, Alexander Serebrov, the Soviet Union's most experienced cosmonaut, took dried natto with him on a Soyuz mission. There he found that natto's 80-90% rate of soybean protein absorption made it an ideal candidate for future travel in space."

Also, see Slashfood (no, sorry slashers, it's not related to Slashodot... FORTUNATELY...):

http://www.slashfood.com/2007/06/29/japanese-space-agency-creates-astronaut-meals/

Hopefully, "fast food" won't be allowed to be delivered to space:

http://www.slashfood.com/2008/02/25/mcdonalds-does-delivery-in-china/

http://www.japanfile.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=462

"While NASA was content with the chicken and the egg, the Soviets chose natto for their research. In 1987, Alexander Serebrov, the Soviet Union's most experienced cosmonaut, took dried natto with him on a Soyuz mission. There he found that natto's 80-90% rate of soybean protein absorption made it an ideal candidate for future travel in space."

Also, see Slashfood (no, sorry slashers, it's not related to Slashodot... FORTUNATELY...):

http://www.slashfood.com/2007/06/29/japanese-space-agency-creates-astronaut-meals/

Hopefully, "fast food" won't be allowed to be delivered to space:

http://www.slashfood.com/2008/02/25/mcdonalds-does-delivery-in-china/

taste fried ?