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Images: How to make your car run on tequila (sort of): Start-up E-Fuel shows off a home ethanol distiller the company says can fuel your car in your own backyard for as little as $1 per gallon. by CNET News.com; Tags: News.com, Run, CNET News.com, Food, It', Food & Beverage, Government, Manufacturing; Image galleries 2008-05-09
Supermarket Mania (exe): Show your big business rivals what a little hometown pluck can do as you turn five small time grocery stores into huge successes. All it takes is a sharp eye and a quick wrist, so strap on your apron, grab a cart and play Supermarket Mania today. This version is...; Tags: Alawar Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing; Software downloads 2008-05-07
I can take costly energy, rice shortages, pricier platinum, but not my beer!!!!: If this be a harbinger of things to come, life is gonna get bleak here pretty soon. I'm not talking about recession or no recession, health care or not health care, not even worried about food prices going up 50% in a year. I eat too much anyway....; Tags: Hop, Food & Beverage, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-05-06
A new robotic tasting device: According to the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) Weekly PressPac, French researchers have developed an artificial mouth that chews apples like you and me. Here is a link to this PressPac, from which you'll be able to read a very short note titled 'Munch-o-matic: Scientists develop the artificial mouth.' The...; Tags: Food, Compound, Hre, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Upvise Shopping Lists (cab): Manage your shopping lists on your desktop and your mobile. You can maintain several lists, for different types of shops or items, i.e. one for groceries, for healthcare items, for household items. For each list you can maintain a database of all the items that you need to buy or...; Tags: Item, Unyverse, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Manufacturing; Software downloads 2008-05-05

Encyclopedia (gadget): This Encyclopedia gadget has 40 of the Best online Encyclopedia sites. Starting with American Studies, Anime, Artcyclopedia, Astronomy, Bartleby, Botany, Britannica, Canadian, Catholic, CIA Fact Book, Earth, Encarta, Food, Holocaust, Jewish, Legal US, Library of Congress, Life, Literary, Medical, Medieval Studies, MIT Sciences, Mythical, Nasa, Philosophy, Plant, Psychology, Reference, Scholarpedia,...; Tags: Gadget, Sidebar Gadgets, Wiki, Food & Beverage, Online Communications, Manufacturing; Software downloads 2008-05-05
Cooking Academy (exe): Grab your oven mitts and don your chef`s hat! From eggrolls to pancakes, to creme brulee, it`s up to you to prepare over 50 different recipes! Learn interesting trivia about food while mastering the skills of chopping, kneading, mashing, flipping, frying, and much more! Unlock new recipes and trophies by...; Tags: Pancake, SpinTop Games, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing; Software downloads 2008-05-05
Top food searches: Rank Search Term Volume 1. food network 0.85% 2. recipes 0.69% 3. pizza hut 0.57% 4. foodnetwork.com 0.39% 5. www.foodnetwork.com 0.22% 6. papa johns 0.22% 7. pepsistuff.com 0.21% 8. foodnetwork 0.20%...; Tags: Food, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, NB; Blog posts 2008-04-30
VC Supports Next, Greener Generation of Biotech: Using, not losing, all the carbon. Courtesy Zeachem and Mohr Davidow. Click on diagram for full view. We've had several blogs here recently reflecting the building political anxiety around the current generation of biofuels, esp. those based on using food products. You...; Tags: Food, Biofuel, Biodiesel, Clean Technology, Zeahcem, OPX, Genomatica, Biotechnology, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-29
A professor deals with political climate around climate change: I am NOT a scientist but I have two brothers who are. My father was a phycsics professor. I even admit to knowing and liking folks who are in the sciences, regardless of their reputation among certain politico-business factions in America. In the interest of dialogue, I...; Tags: Food, Science, Humans, Trite, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-27
Insects using plants as phones: A team of Dutch ecologists has found that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects use plants to communicate. 'Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already occupied.' This means that by using 'green telephone lines,' the...; Tags: Phone, Interaction, Plant, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-04-27
Can every day be Earth Day?: It's the annual attempt to make Earth Day important enough to get noticed. Amid the furor over Tuesday's Pennsylvania Primary and Americans' general sour mood about the country, the economy, the Iraq occupation, Earth Day will slide past with little notice from many folks here. In some...; Tags: Food & Beverage, Web Site Development, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-20
Urban food deserts in major cities: Canadian researchers at the University of Western Ontario have studied the evolution of food deserts in urban areas. Food deserts are areas where people have low or no access to food shops. In other words, they are neighburhoods with low average home incomes and poor access to healthy food. As...; Tags: Supermarket, Food, Food Desert, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Calm Camels Screensaver (exe): Calm and stardy, kind and confident, self-esteemed camels are our good friends. They are the real ships of the deserts. They could easily walk for a long time tirelessly almost without food. But if there some delicious trees on a road they will gladly stop for a minute or two....; Tags: Free-slideshow, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing; Software downloads 2008-04-17
An Untitled Story (exe): An Untitled Story is a chilled-out hardcore wonderland of action discovery, plus an unidentifiable je ne sais quoi that just makes you want to drink it down in one gulp and then spit out a rainbow. You start out as a lonely egg in a nest. You can jump right...; Tags: Goal, Helix Games, Untitled Story, Food & Beverage, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; Software downloads 2008-04-17
Bottled water and baby bottles: maybe not so good: There's at least one kind of plastic bottle that is NOT so good for you, or the environment, or the baby. It's the one with the little triangle and the number 7 inside it. The chemical that is under suspicion is popularly known as BPA, that's Bisphenol A,...; Tags: Bottle, Nalgene, Food & Beverage, Government, Branding, Manufacturing, Marketing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-16
MyLife Communicator (zip): A comprehensive suite of over 60 Personal productivity programs for your Digital Lifestyle. Document, Organize, Record, Picture, Account & Interlink all your life. Has Contacts, Email, letter, Diary, Scheduler, Journal, Personal Record, Hobbies, Music, collections, Home Mgmt., recipes, Inventory, Grocery List, Party planner, family tree, Kids, School, Courses, Handhelds, File...; Tags: Netscape Communicator, PowerHouse Software, E-mail, Food & Beverage, Storage, E-mail Clients, Databases, Online Communications, Manufacturing, Hardware, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-04-16
Biofuel just got even more unpopular across the globe: I blogged recently about criticism of ethanol and other biofuels in some parts of the world. A meeting of over 180 national finance ministers with World Bank officials just gave the whole issue of food or fuel a much higher profile. Political problems caused by hungry...; Tags: Food, Biofuel, World Bank, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-14
MyLife Smart Organizer Suite 5 (zip): A comprehensive suite of over 60 Personal productivity programs for your Digital Lifestyle. Document, Organize, Record, Picture, Account & Interlink all your life. Has Contacts, Email, letter, Diary, Scheduler, Journal, Personal Record, Hobbies, Music, collections, Home Mgmt., recipes, Inventory, Grocery List, Party planner, family tree, Kids, School, Courses, Handhelds, File...; Tags: PowerHouse Software, Food & Beverage, Storage, E-mail, Databases, Manufacturing, Hardware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-04-14
Biofuels, the debate continues: Nature.com has an interesting take on American governmental mandate for more biofuels. You'll have to pay to read the whole piece, but all the talkbacks are free and some quite thoughtful. They come from enemies, friends and interested observers of the whole biofuel issue. Corn lovers to...; Tags: Food, Natural Gas, Nature.com, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-13