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I've had some good luck with the ole Netflix queue recently and thought I'd do a 15 sec movie review.

Stranger Than Fiction

God Grew Tired of Us

From Business Online via AOL Money

Few people know that the food coloring listed as cochineal extract comes from female beetles. Food activists want to spread the word.

When you dig into a strawberry Yoplait yogurt, take a moment to contemplate where the beautiful pink color comes from. Strawberries? Think again. It comes from crushed bugs. Specifically, from the female cochineal beetles and their eggs. And it's not just yogurt. The bugs are also used to give red coloring to Hershey Good & Plenty candies, Tropicana grapefruit juice, and other common foods.

Rest of the disgusting truth here...

Thank goodness we're eating organic yogurt. Bleh. I don't need a helping of beetles in the morning.

Brushing Shelby every day results in a big pile of dog fur in the side yard. A pile that gets bigger, and bigger, until Steven tells me he think's is gross, and I go vacuum it up.

But, that got me to thinking...this stuff never seems to go away, and with all the fur that is lost by us, and our pets, and all the furry animals in the world, why isn't the earth covered in fur by now?

I"ve been meaning to Google this for months now, and I just found the answer.
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/organic/msg1109552123972.html
There really is a forum for everything.

Steven and I saw this documentary about her years ago. Despite finding her really weird, after we finished watching, we started to like her.

We saw a glimpse of her last interview with Larry King. She looked really gaunt. I hope she passed peacefully.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

I'm thinking that everyone is reading the Harry Potter book instead of posting.

I'm thinking that's wise since the internet is covered in HP7 spoilers right now.

Yes, I was at the local Borders at midnight to buy my copy.

I was number 209 out of about 500 people. I've NEVER seen a bookstore so packed.

I got home at 1:15.

Why do I bother?

from jezebel.com

Bananas are technically the fruit of an herb, therefore you can find all sorts of online references to them being a spice.

Cashews are legumes.

Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)

It took 2 days to get this movie out of my head.

It's future fiction, but not science fiction. In fact, the compelling part about this view of the future is how humans deal with overwhelming dispair. Scienticif presence is almost non-existent in the movie.

Completely unromaticized violence. The first-person, embedded journalist, view is suprisingly effective.

The movie treats it's audience as it they are intelligent (what a concept) and leaves you to figure out what's going on.

Ultimately redeeming, but it's quite an exhausting ride to get there. Really bleak. If you are in a good mood, and you would like to stay that way, don't watch this.

From the New York Times
Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much
Dr. Miller's data reveal some yawning gaps in basic knowledge. American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.