Daily Archive for May 28th, 2007

oops II

Oops

why you shouldn’t ever fart on demand

update: for the record, I’ve watched this at least 100 times now, and it’s still HYSTERICAL.

that’s Fugu’d up

A California company on Thursday recalled thousands of pounds of frozen fish from China after two people in Chicago became ill from eating what may have been toxic pufferfish, officials said.

The fish was labeled monkfish, but federal officials found life-threatening levels of tetrodotoxin in the fish. The toxin is typically associated with pufferfish.

Reason #32769 why I don’t buy food products that are from China.

The pufferfish poison “is really one of the most toxic things that you can find in food,” said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “It really illustrates the weakness in the U.S. program for overseeing imports.”

Factoid: Blue Moon


Thursday, May 31 brings us the second of two full Moons for North Americans this month. Some almanacs and calendars assert that when two full Moons occur within a calendar month, that the second full Moon is called the “Blue Moon.”