Category: Interesting

Ever wanted to know how long can you keep the ketchup in the fridge or when does your Pepsi go bad? This site has a pretty comprehensive list of Food and Household products and how long they last. The most surprising thing is mayonaise, according to the site:

Mayonnaise
Unopened: Indefinitely
Opened: 2 to 3 months from “purchase by” date (After this time, color or flavor may be affected, but product is still generally safe to consume.)

For some reason I though mayonnaise goes bad very quickly, this is why I usually throw out the jar after the first use. Actually, anything that has been in my fridge for more then a week gets thrown out, unless its in the freezer. [Link]

Mercedes-Benz this morning released the first official pictures of the new S-Class, which is due to be shown at this fall’s Frankfurt Auto Show and will go on sale in Europe in the fall. The interior reminds me a lot of the BMW cars while the rear end of the car reminds me of the new Chrysler 300C. At first glance the car looks a bit… strange and off in my opinion. I guess once we get used to the new look it will sink in better. [Link]

According to NASA, the moon will hang in the sky at its lowest point in 18 years over the next three nights. So go outside, relish the beautiful hot sticky Kuwaiti weather and enjoy the supersized moon. [Link]

Interesting F1 race today in the States, only 6 cars competed because the other 14 cars boycotted the race. CNN has the full details. [Link]

I just noticed CNN did some minor redesigns to their main page. If you also notice the site’s logo also has a “With Free Video” label attached to it. Seems most of the redesign is to include the free video links which is cool since there are many times I would rather watch the newstory then to read it.

Would you children have?

Turns out back in the 1950s, the US Airforce had plans to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon so they could examine the nuclear cloud for possible organic material. [Link]

Very useful, for me atleast, an English to Latin dictionary. [Link]

Wow, this is the COOLEST war movie ever, I love the music, its Rammstein. [Link]

I didn’t get a single one right! [Link]
Reminds me of amihotornot.com

From the Daily News: Salman Rushdie corroborates that new study that says video games can be good for you. Back when the the “Satanic Verses” author was hiding from the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 death warrant, “My main pastime was playing Nintendo games,” Rushdie told Webster Hall curator Baird Jones at the Francesco Clemente show at the Larry Gagosian gallery the other night. “I devoted so much time to mastering Super Mario that I must have been the world champion by the end of my seclusion”… [Source]

From BoingBoing ” This mash-up of Snoop Dogg’s Drop It Like It’s Hot with Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love is completely badazz — It actually had me up and dancing; those nasty guitars crossed with Snoop’s nasty lyrics, wow!” 3MB MP3 Link

Update: For those of you who haven’t downloaded The Grey Album (The Beatles White Album mashed up with Jay-Z’s Black Album) then click here to download it.

Dortmund, one of 12 host cities for the 2006 World Cup, is hurriedly building wooden sex huts with the aim of encouraging discretion among prostitutes and their clients. According to Reuters, “experts estimate as many as 40,000 prostitutes may travel to Germany to offer their services to fans during the tournament.” To make them comfortable, “Dortmund plans to arrange the Dutch-designed huts … in an area with condom machines and snack bar.” Like a highway rest stop, but cooler. “We don’t want a situation where prostitutes and their clients disturb residential areas,” says an official. [Link]

I found this link via Boing Boing, Bruce Sterling made his students write on a whiteboard stuff they should never say to a teacher during design critiques. Now other then the fact the stuff they wrote was hillarious, I was very surprised that Bruce Sterling actually blogs. [Link]

I found a Baseball field in Kuwait.. with grass!! [Link]