life with booyaa

if you're female and use the web you can't have escaped the zillion ads for something called 'the pink patch'. the pink patch claims to help you lose a lot of weight in a very short amount of time, it works on the nicotine patch principle, with a slow release of, er, a magic weightloss potion, but, hey, it's for girls, so it's pink.

the first time i saw an ad for it i was so outraged i actually went to the site to see how they could possibly claim the results they tout on the ads. but, you know, it's pretty normal, frankly, for this day and age, for marketers to lie blatantly, so i shrugged and ignored it.

then i saw a headline that the ads had been pulled from facebook. hurray! i went to read all about it only to discover that the first google ad under the article was for, guess what? yup, the bloomin pink patch. irony rules ok.

go see it for yourself.

awesome.

by anthony burrill, via one plus infinity via booyaa's news reader.

a new take on mashups

a polish soap opera about a young woman leaving her family behind to go to college gets dubbed and turned into the story of a dysfunctional - and frankly crackpot - irish family suffering the culture shock of leaving their hometown of cork to move to dublin.

the visual aspect is actually quite slick, and the timing of the new voiceovers is impeccable. the stories the team come up are completely bonkers.

there was a pilot followed by an 8-part series. totally out there. watch part one and if you're not hooked then you're evidently too sane for this world.

currentconfig.com have pulled out all the stops here. this is one of those things you know, dammit, are right, but it always felt like gut instinct. now you have reasons. valid, robust, scientific ones at that.

why [over+toilet paper=good] and [under+toilet paper=bad].

here's the skinny. go get some learning.

one of my twitter buddies pointed this out yesterday. if you have four and a half minutes spare, you should watch it. if you're sad, it'll cheer you up. if you're happy, you'll have a ball.

they just don't make enough t-shirts for linguistics nerds.

but at least there's one.

i use the word 'food' in its broadest sense.

booyaa discovered this amazing site which shows you the photo on the packet and the substance once it's on your plate. i'm lost for words, to be honest.

go check it out. but please, don't ever buy any of these products.

in amongst my usual weekly offers from ocado, the grocery delivery company for waitrose supermarkets, came an email telling me all about food waste awareness week, 23-29 june 2008. intrigued, i googled to find out more and what i could do to participate - apart from the obvious. i was so disappointed to find very little info on the web, and what there is is hard to find. but at least it answered my question: i know what i can do to help, i can start by collating some resources here.

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at last, i got my chance to go to saf restaurant. i've been subscribed to the life co (saf's parent company) newsletter for a year, now, waiting for the opening date announcement... only to find out a couple of months back thanks to the raw food community grapevine instead. and poppy's blog post way back in march (the post has since been edited, as it upset the saf management *rolls eyes*) got me drooling. and confused, but that's all about poppy's blog and not relevant here.

by then of course i'd started my juicefeast. so we said we'd go when i finished. but booyaa was on call for three weeks. then we had my parents visiting for the weekend and on it went, until finally we could go. hurray!

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the only caffeine round here since i gave up coffee three months ago is this handy app for OSX. what does it do? it keeps your mac awake. cool.

when you're sitting up in bed watching your juicefeast videos - or, whatever, getting your vintage duran duran fix - on you tube, with one click of an icon this little cutie stops your screen from dimming/turning off/launching your screensaver by preventing energy saver mode from kicking in.

easy download and install and totally worth it. but remember to leave it off by default and on for special occasions or it'll drain your battery (bad) and you'll lose eco-cred points (very bad).

more info and download available here