Friday January 29, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday January 29, 2010)
(1)- FINDING VINO – This website offers a comprehensive way to find great wines that are hard to track down. You can get fine wine for a quarter of the price. The down side is you’ll probably need to buy a case or at least a half case.

(2)- ICELANDIC RAPTURE -- The Blue Lagoon sits in a vast area of barren terrain which looks remarkably like the surface of the moon, 39 km outside of Reykjavik. The lagoon is man-made. It’ s an immense stretch of black lava blocks...

(3)- LOVE WISDOM -- Plato wrote in The Symposium in 416 B.C. that the God of Love "lives in a state of need." This need is a basic human drive. Like thirst and hunger, it is nearly impossible to stamp out.

(4)- FISH OIL STUDY -- A study just out in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that for heart disease patients, fish oil supplements omega-3 fatty acids may protect against death and illness by slowing biological aging.

(5)- SLIME MOLDS AND SUBWAYS -- Slime molds have evolved to produce some of the most efficient networks seen in nature, but just how good are they? As good as the notoriously complex Tokyo rail system.

(6)- SMELL TRAVEL -- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single sniff. Not exactly the famous Lao Tzu quote, but it’s close enough. Point being, do cities and countries possess a unique odor?

(7)- WORST CAR IN HISTORY -- For a fleeting moment amid the clichéd go-go excesses of the 1980s, the $3,995 Yugo—loosely based on a Fiat and produced by a one-time arms manufacturer called Zastava—captured the wallets and hearts, of Americans.

(8)- SOLAR POWER -- Europe's biggest space company is seeking partners to fly a demonstration solar power mission in orbit. The satellite system would collect the Sun's energy and transmit it to Earth via an infrared laser to provide electricity.

(9)- PRIVACY -- The ACLU has recently discovered international travelers are not only having their laptops seized and searched by Customs and Border Protection, but agents are making copies of files and giving them to third-party agencies.

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