Week #2 of the Weekly 360 Game fest has come and gone. Last night, the game of the night was Burnout: Revenge. (more…)

The weekly sessions of 360 game play started off to a decidedly weak start.

Last night’s session of Gears of War was fought between DirtpileFox, whiteh0wler, and Archbishop Xero, and several other unknown soldiers. (more…)

This one slipped past my radar. The new seven wonders of the world, as voted upon by the technologically-enhanced members of the world, are:

• The Great Wall of China
• Petra in Jordan
• Brazil’s statue of Christ the Redeemer
• Peru’s Machu Picchu
• Mexico’s Chichen Itza pyramid
• The Colosseum in Rome
• India’s Taj Mahal

Hit up the following link for more details: New 7 wonders of the world named

Well, I guess I’ve heard of stranger things happening in contests, but it stands to reason that in a field of one, you can only have first place. However, that is using logic, and we should all know by now that never does anyone any good.

Read on…

Grandmother had the only cake in the contest - and still came second | the Daily Mail

‘My friend came over to me at the fete and said I had come second,’ she said.

‘I asked her how many more entries there had been but she just started laughing and said I was the only one.’

She was let down, in the judges’ eyes, by the indentations in the top of her sponge from the oven rack.

‘I definitely wasn’t annoyed about it,’ she said. ‘I thought my cake would do quite well but I didn’t expect to get first place.

Okay — I’ll have to admit, this is interesting and something that I will more than likely try, out of sheer morbid curiosity.

The recipe, which doesn’t state what meat it best compliments, includes garlic, onion, ketchup, vinegar, hot sauce, and Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup. Of course, there are more ingredients, but that’s the gist of it. (more…)

Over at MSN.com, there is an article details 10 secrets of the grocery industry that they’d rather you not think about. Most of it is common sense, but it’s interesting to have it spelled out for you.

10 Things Your Grocery Store Doesn’t Want You to Know - MSN Health & Fitness

9. The salad bar can make you sick. Raw produce at the salad bar, pre-made salads at the deli counter and other pre-cooked prepared foods all have the potential for harboring harmful bacteria (like E. coli, salmonella and Norovirus). “The biggest contributors to unsafe food are foods that are held at unsafe temperatures, handling of food by individuals with poor hygiene, and refilling partially used containers of perishable food with fresh food,” says Michael Doyle, Ph.D., director of the Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement at University of Georgia.

This is something that I have just failed to think about when I walk through the deli section. Ugh…

Anyway, give this article a read and just keep some of these things in mind.