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Posted by: Jayw3 on Mon Mar 17, 2008

Spend all the money you want to on a grinder or a brushed steel coffee machine with a fancy German name, but if the beans aren’t up to snuff, your coffee will suffer.

Posted by: Jayw3 on Fri Mar 14, 2008

Call me decadent, call me wild, but, yes, I bought a spice grinder today, and now I will impart to you the ancient secret of crafting your very own aromatic angel and guide sachet.

Posted by: Jayw3 on Fri Mar 14, 2008

When the Greek Embassy in Ireland sends an e-mail to a Macedonia political party declaring that "you are gays, you need bashing," and a honey-thieving bear who dislikes turbo-folk is tried in absentia while he's on the lam, you wonder why the Balkans are called "the powder keg of Europe" and not "the Enchanted Forest Animal Academy."

Posted by: Jayw3 on Fri Mar 14, 2008

2008’s hottest new employment opportunity is debt collection & is it really true that every time a creditor goes insolvent, an angel cries?

Posted by: Jayw3 on Fri Mar 14, 2008

North America may have the disheartening figure of schlubster Perez Hilton to remind us of just how far the trade of rumour-mongering and gossip-slinging has fallen, but Brazil has venerable Vesgo.

Posted by: Jayw3 on Fri Mar 14, 2008

Is the current rally of gold and other precious metals an indication of coming global inflation, or are weary investors simply opting for a conservative and prudent investing strategy in an unsure market by investing in precious metals?

Posted by: Jayw3 on Thu Mar 13, 2008

Sure, things in a past-life might have been great for Shirley Maclaine, the neighbourhood psychic with a crystal ball and beaded curtains, your great aunt even: but for most of us schleps? Eh, not so much. Sammy Sandal talks straight about past lives.

Posted by: Jayw3 on Thu Mar 13, 2008

It was Winston Churchill who famously quipped that "Dogs look up at us. Cats look down at us. Pigs treat us as equals," and I feel confident enough in my experience to append "But horses look at us with love and understanding."

Posted by: Jayw3 on Thu Mar 13, 2008

The history of the latex condom: It's a story with all of the swirling currents, tragic and not, of the 20th century: mass production, liberation from sexual reproduction, totalitarian movements, war, and state terror.

Posted by: Jayw3 on Thu Mar 13, 2008

Perhaps you've heard a lot about the National Do Not Call Registry in the past couple of years: How exactly do you go about stopping yourself from being contacted by telemarketers, and what are some of the ways you can ensure compliance?