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The Escargot Revolution Begins

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Too long have humans, particularly those voracious French humans, feasted on snails, a veritable mollusk genocide, if you will.

Now, the snails are fighting back!

Via Gizmodo:

Ok, so, these are sea snails, not land snails like those ingested in fine restaurants. But, this could be an evolutionary trait that land snails will also develop at some point, one day, perhaps, when they get fed up with the humiliation of adorning fine china swimming in garlic butter.

Personally, this scares the hell out of me!

Stuff We Don’t Need: Caffeinated Waffles

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So, it was time for my morning coffee, and I was on my way to the Viking Union (student center), at my place of employment, Western Washington University, when I came across a vendor on Vendor’s Row selling what you see here in the photo to the right. (Click photo to enlarge to better read the label.)

That’s right. Caffeinated waffles from the people at WiredWaffles.com.

Context: It’s finals week at the university, a time of deadlines, all-nighters and sleep deprivation.

I continued on to my favorite vendor, The Coffee Lady, and as I filled my 16-oz. reusable mug I asked her, “Did you ever think that your competition would come in the form of a waffle?”

The Coffee Lady replied, “No, I can’t say that I saw that coming.”

I know it seems mighty hypocritical of me, a daily coffee drinker, to give a thumbs-down to the Wired Waffle, but there’s something so blatantly and disturbingly exploitative about it. At least from my experience, the vast majority of coffee advertising has nothing to do with the caffeine and everything to do with the flavor.

Finally, the fact that the WiredWaffles.com website BADLY needs proofreading, well, as a former English major, sorry, I can’t abide.

Tweet of the Day: @arstechnica

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Somehow, I don’t think the question is whether or not lab-grown meat will ever make it to the supermarket. Rather, the question I think of first is whether or not people would actually buy it and eat it if it did.

Eyecatchers: Transient Banana Art

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What do you get when you cross an artist from Melbourne, Australia with a banana and the Buddhist concept of impermanence?

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Via Geekosystem:

When most of us are confronted with a ripe banana, we either turn it into banana bread or send it hurtling toward the trash, but Australian artist Jun Gil Park turns your run-of-the-mill banana into astounding works of art by drawing on the fruits with a toothpick. Park uses a standard toothpick to scratch pictures on the skin of bananas; the harder he presses the darker the bruise on the fruit becomes. After about five minutes, the oxidation will start to show, and after a day or two it will become pretty dark, contrasted against the fruit’s yellow skin.

These are some seriously cool bananas, with a lifespan that falls somewhere between a sand mandala and the works of Andy Goldsworthy.

Whether or not the artist intended these works to evoke the transient nature of all things, they certainly strike me as a powerful reminder to avoid attachment to the material world.