Google says today is the Lunar/Chinese New Year. It is also celebrated by Koreans, Vietnamese, Mongolians, and others. This will be the year of the Pig. I was born in the year of the Rooster, but I really dont care for that astrology mumbo jumbo. I remembered that Chicago has a Vietnamese/Korean town, similar to the Chinatown. I need to go there sometime.
Todays Eyes of Nye, Bill tackled overpopulation. I wish there was a greater initiative to make this content openly available on the web. The Eyes of Nye website has some clips, but even a podcast of the episode would be nice. Hmmm… should I?…never mind.
The Sarah Silverman Project is humorous. The majority of the episodes are probably too risqué for most audiences. This week she got an AIDS test, because she was bored. Frankly, I’m surprised that it’s being aired on Comedy Central, but I suppose it’s no more off-color than The Chappelle Show.
Thanks to Ceej for informing me about the new Nine Inch Nails songs circulating the web. In most cases, stealing music is wrong. But in this case, it is right. The songs were apparently released through a viral marketing campaign, where a usb drive was left in a concert bathroom. Two songs were on the device and are receiving a lot of attention for the hidden messages.
I use an IngenuiTEA teamug, from Adagio, when brewing most of my teas and the inside stains a light brown color. In this months teacast, they explained how to disassemble the mug for better cleaning. I was surprised by how easy it was to clean with a little bleach. Within a minute, most of the stains in the mug had disappeared, and now they’re all gone. For some reason, using bleach had never occurred to me.
I just saw that one of my favorite artists, Brant Bjork (check ‘Get Into It’ in the links), is going to release a new album next week. He really needs some better press or to update his website more often. I mean I keep close tabs on new info, and I only heard about this today because someone on ebay was taking pre-orders for the vinyl.
Oh yeah…preparations for Mustache March have begun.
clear :) said,
February 18, 2007 @ 5:28 pm
Have your teacasters mentioned anything about bleach: the pros and cons? Or whether or not the scare about it is just a bunch of hullabaloo? A little red flag went off in my head when you mentioned it. The ecofriendly people don’t like it because it isn’t good for that stuff to get into the water system.
Seems like it wouldn’t be so great to ingest it either, even if only in minute amounts. I mean, yeah your tea mug looks gross but it’s just tea stain. It’s not that big of a deal. If you have to clean it, I would recommend borax instead.
Optical Brighteners
Eyes of Nye probably isn’t available on the web because they want the individual stations to pay for all the episodes.
Annnd it’s produced by Disney. You can buy the whole thirteen ep set for the bargain price of $500. Somehow I doubt the Disney cash cow is gonna let free podcasts slip out for the fun of it…