Mad Cow disease spreads through Europe. Now as I understand it, cattle get it by eating food which contains parts of other cattle or sheep who had the disease.
The solution seems straightforward enough: stop using animal-derived ingredients in the food fed to cattle. SO WHY THE HELL ARE THEY STILL DOING IT? Why is this so complicated? Is there something I'm missing here?
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:47 PM PST - 18 comments "Blame Florida! Blame Florida!...with its stooges and its chad, the whole election's just gone mad..."
(Yeah, it's Salon: but Talbot has a point. Had this been outside the US, with Jimmy Carter and the other observers, the last few days' lunacy would have left no-one in any doubt that the state couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery.)
posted by holgate at 7:01 PM PST - 10 comments
A pageant of protesting puppets hopes to shut down
The School of the Americas at Fort Benning, GA, along with raising awareness of Lori Berenson's Peruvian imprisonment and other Central/South American issues.
posted by FearfulFred at 4:11 PM PST - 1 comments The body that regulates cable in Canada, the
CRTC, is licensing 283 new channels. All will be available only through digital set-top boxes.
Along with the expected Biography, Mystery, and ZDTV channels, in the mandatory tier we're getting Book Television from CHUM, a gay and lesbian channel, a documentary channel, and Land and Sea, a rural service from the CBC. If that wasn't wacky enough, the optional channels will include BBC Canada, the Wine Television Network, two wedding channels, several hockey channels, and channels dedicated to theatre, poetry, jazz, dance, pets, South Asian culture, international film, horses, law, martial arts… just about anything you can think of, actually.
While I don't expect they can all survive, it should make for an interesting six months.
posted by tranquileye at 2:30 PM PST - 7 comments
What's Bill reading over the holiday weekend? He seems to be deliberately holding the book so it can be observed, but I don't recognize the cover and can't make out the title. Anybody?
posted by quonsar at 2:01 PM PST - 10 comments Ancient Recipes: Foods of Bible Times will be broadcast on the
Food Network at 9:00 P.M. ET on Sunday, Nov. 26. For the longest time I was under the impression that the only food items mentioned in the Bible are
fish,
bread, wine,
quails and
heavenly manna (which you can now
buy on the internet). Then there are those
peddling Pulse as
bible food. Maybe it's time to change dietary habits.
posted by tamim at 12:55 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment My Real Baby Probably the most sophisiticated and artificially intelligent baby doll ever created. Are you going to buy one for your daughter? Better hurry - they are going fast. I cant wait to see how people hack this toy's operating system.
posted by triptych at 11:15 AM PST - 15 comments "They're closed" - After seeing millions of dollars worth of commercials for Amazon.com where they make fun of brick and mortar stores for closing at night, I go to their site today and find...... They're closed. Here's a
screen shot in case they open today. Sure, sites go down, but the wording seems a little odd considering....
posted by y6y6y6 at 8:47 AM PST - 8 comments Who's that in the park? Look at this image of Selhurst Park and tell me what you think you see?
Via linkmachinego
posted by Foaf at 1:58 AM PST - 32 comments Do the kids of today know about the greatness of
Julius Sumner Miller?
Why is it so? I love science thanks to him. Screw Mr. Wizard.
posted by gluechunk at 12:32 AM PST - 8 comments 
