Have you ever wondered what the Easter Bunny gets up to on the other 364 days of the year? Click through on the photo below to watch a video of his non-Easter exploits – this is one seriously bad bunny.
Thanks Girgoyle for the link.
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Flat White
Make mine a flat white. At least now I have the recipe [^]:
It seems that this is mostly an Aussie [^] or Kiwi [^] variation of the classic caffé latte, and isn’t well known anywhere else. Even in the Antipodes some cafés manage to make a mess of this; one even served me a white instant coffee!
Lokesh’s infographics in would make a great selling point in any coffee shop.
Lake Wendouree – Swimming Not Recommended
It was only a photo similar to the wikipedia one below on Nothing To Do With Arbroath [^] that reminded me about Lake Wendouree.
Lake Wendouree [^] was one of the stand out attractions in Ballarat for Ballarat people. The problem is that despite the name, the lake [^] is dry and has been almost completely bone-dry since October 2006 – two and half years ago.
To add insult to injured pride the “lake” experienced several fires over summer (Ballarat’s Courier Newspaper [^] and The ABC [^]). All of this got overshadowed by the outbreak of the more serious Victorian Bushfires in February. If it wasn’t so serious it would be funny.
It is sad to hear that the lake has suffered such indignities. I spent a good few afternoons wandering around Lake Wendouree while I was in Ballarat. And there may have been the odd late-night ramble past it on the way home from a night out on the town. Let’s hope that the lake is soon returned to it’s former glory.
Salvaging Flight 1549
Wired have just run a story about the salvage operation [^] for US Air Flight 1549.
US Air 1549 was the flight that landed on New York’s icy Hudson River [^] in January 2009. Luckily all 155 people on board survived, mostly due to the skill of the pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, and quick thinking ferry operators.
Interestingly only one photographer, Stephen Mallon [^], was allowed to take photos of the salvage operation. And as the Wired article points out, the release of even these photos was almost stopped by legal action.
Packaging Blunders
How could someone get this so very wrong?
These bananas were seen recently in a UK supermarket. Can you imagine how much more this adds to the cost; and there is no reason to claim “value-adding” like there is with peeled oranges.
Plastic Packaged Bananas - UK Supermarket
Over-packaging a product, especially as blatantly as this, should be a crime. Bananas have gone from being a healthy, convenient snack to an absolute environmental disaster [^] in one small step.
There are plenty more Un-TreeHugger-y Things [^] for you to check-out at treehugger.com [^] a website devoted to trying to make sustainability mainstream.