You do the Cryovac and keep the freshness back!

Is this the way to put more science into cooking? Seal the food and cook it at a standard temperature.

Weird things about the USA

What is ranch dressing? Why is it everywhere? Is it food?

55 gallons of olive oil a week

Google has its own chefs. They provide free food to employees. They go through 55 gallons of olive oil a week.

Film is still a powerful medium

Even with 36 million copies of the Da Vinci Code in print, some people are still upset about it being made into a film.

Tap water is more stringently monitored and tightly regulated than bottled water.

Ounce for ounce, bottled water costs more than gasoline. Bottled water is undeniably more fashionable and portable than tap water. Bottled water causes huge numbers of plastic bottles to go into landfills.

Jim Jarmusch and Crows

He listens to his mentor-ghosts, who tell him not to dwell on the past but to concentrate, instead, on the work. ''Blake said, 'The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow,''' Jarmusch recited, as if this explained the heartache of a good movie going unseen. He stared a second. ''I'd like to own a crow,'' he said. ''I think that would be an excellent pet.''

Peter J Denning on Locality of Reference

There's usually at least one cool thing in CACM. This month it is this wonderful history of Locality of reference in computing.

What Creation Records band am I?

No cheating, this was my first result. You Are...My Bloody Valentine. You tend to be a bit distant and reclusive. You are a leader as opposed to being a follower. You are a perfectionist and pay very close attention to detail. You have the tendency to be lazy, which sometimes get's in the way of you achieving whatever it is you may be trying to perfect. You don't really care about what's typically looked upon as the norm. You really don't care about what people think about you at all, or at least so you try and make it seem. You care most about just being yourself. what Creation Records band are you? (complete with text and images) brought to you by Quizilla

Peets

I don't drink coffee much nowadays, but Peets is cool