http://www.bestblogsite.org/index.php Bestblogsite RSS Feed en-us http://www.bestblogsite.org/images/blogs/bestblogsite-rss-image.jpg http://www.bestblogsite.org/index.php 10075 http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/8-2008/berberis-sp.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/8-2008/berberis-sp.php Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:27:55 GMT The photographer behind today''s image is Jack Dykinga, who I assume must have done some work for the USDA''s Agricultural Research Service at one time (unless there are two exceptional photographers named Jack Dykinga). Artistic work commissioned by the US government has few restrictions on its reuse, and in this case, the photograph is licensed under the Creative ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/8-2008/beliefs-and-values-and-what-tastes-good.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/8-2008/beliefs-and-values-and-what-tastes-good.php Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:16:04 GMT , conducted by Michael Allen at the University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues, participants were lied to about the contents of sausage rolls they were tasting.

In some conditions they were told they were tasting real beef sausage rolls when actually they eating a vegetarian alternative that tasted the same. Then they were told they were eating the vegetarian alternative when actually they were eating the beef.

Meaty sausage rolls are aspirationalAllen and colleagues were inspired to this trickery by research demonstrating that how we experience something we eat is ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/sowine-preserves-your-wine.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/sowine-preserves-your-wine.php Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:48:35 GMT When you open a new bottle of wine (and don't finish it) you stand the risk of wasting the remainder of the bottle if you don't drink it soon. The SoWine bar is designed to hold two bottles of wine and keep them at the correct temperature for drinking. The bar claims to be able to keep an opened bottle of wine fresh for 10 days which is considerably longer than most preservation methods. Get one now for around ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/sunday-shambles.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/sunday-shambles.php Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:17:27 GMT Cross your fingers and whisper your incantations. As you read this, I think Pablo has finally managed to get back to Roundrock after a three week dry spell (in visits, not in precipitation). What surprises does the game camera hold? Have any more cattle come by to muddy the lake? Did any trees fall across the road? Will Pablo get the chance to swim in his lake for only the second time this ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/kabluey.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/kabluey.php Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:12:25 GMT In Kabluey, Scott Prendergast "assembles an assortment of unappealing characters, an exhausted setup (spiritual emptiness in McMansion land, ho-hum) and every conceivable anxiety-inducer known to late-00s Americans - joblessness, war, credit-card debt, menial labor, economic turmoil, live offspring - to pull off what may be the best evocation of contemporary alienation in a movie so far this year," writes Mark Holcomb in Time Out New ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/inanimate-alice.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/inanimate-alice.php Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:39:16 GMT Inanimate Alice tells the story of Alice, a young girl growing up in the early years of the 21st century, and her imaginary digital friend, Brad.

Written and directed by writer Kate Pullinger and digital artist Chris Joseph, this series of multimedia interactive episodes uses a combination of text, sound, images, and games as Alice takes us on a journey through her life from the age of eight through to her twenties.

Use your mouse to click on the arrows to move forward. Sometimes you may need to perform an action for the story to continue.

(via Ursi''s ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/connect-your-corporation.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/connect-your-corporation.php Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:24:05 GMT SocialCast allows your corporation to network and has recently announce a new way to do so. With their latest version of SocialCast you'll be able to integrate your SocialCast corporate network with such sites as Twitter, Digg and ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/pummeled-pecan.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/pummeled-pecan.php Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:49:48 GMT When the interloping cattle were wandering about Roundrock last week, they spent some quality time among the pecans. What you see above is one of the staked and fenced pecans that I guess one or two of the cattle decided might be a good place for rubbing. Obviously, my handiwork was no match for their ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/george-clooney-slips-the-noose-again.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/george-clooney-slips-the-noose-again.php Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:55:00 GMT It's beginning to look more and more like George Clooney is in fact a confirmed ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/nanoworms-and-malignant-tumors.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/nanoworms-and-malignant-tumors.php Sat, 24 May 2008 22:34:26 GMT You've probably heard that Senator Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor called glioblastoma. This is really unfortunate news because malignant brain tumors are very difficult to treat. There are no cures or really effective remedies. However, nanotechnology research may improve clinical care as scientists discover new ways to apply technology in healthcare. ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/somethingstore.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/somethingstore.php Mon, 19 May 2008 00:02:56 GMT Do you like surprises? At SomethingStore in New York, a new online shop, you can buy something for $10. But you do not know what you are buying. They will send you something, an item selected randomly. You will find out what your something is when you receive it.

It maybe something you need, something you want or something you desire. It may be a cool gadget, rare book, handmade necklace, box of gourmet chocolates, set of shiny shower curtains, popular video game, a set of kitchen knives, a pair of designer jeans, garden tool, electronic equipment, or a magazine subscription. Your ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/sfiff-dispatch-7.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/sfiff-dispatch-7.php Sat, 17 May 2008 02:18:02 GMT David D''Arcy on an award-winning ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/free-cookboook-from-cooking-allergy-free.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/free-cookboook-from-cooking-allergy-free.php Fri, 09 May 2008 00:55:49 GMT Got an email from Alex, about the revamped site design of Cooking Allergy ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/those-that-stand-in-the-way.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/those-that-stand-in-the-way.php Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:21:48 GMT A few years ago a producer was doing auditions for a television show that he was fighting another producer to ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/cheap-eats-in-phuket-khao-lak.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/cheap-eats-in-phuket-khao-lak.php Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:13:35 GMT If there is one thing I can tell you about budget travel in Thailand, it's to avoid eating your meals at hotels. They are never as authentic as what you will find outside, and they are far more expensive. In some Thailand restaurants, a meal for two can be had for under ten dollars. The great thing about food in Thailand is that it will vary distinctly at each location. For example, no two restaurants will have the same Pad Thai recipe. Fresh fruit drinks are both delicious and inexpensive. For a special treat, try the coconut juices that are actually served in the coconut ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/mulvey-philadelphia.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/mulvey-philadelphia.php Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:20:58 GMT "In 1973, Laura Mulvey dropped her essay ''Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'' on the unsuspecting world of film theory, and came as close to superstardom as any theoretician is likely to get," writes Sam Adams in the Philadelphia City Paper. "Mulvey, who will introduce the screenings [of her films Riddles of the Sphinx, Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti and Amy!] as part of a Penn Cinema Studies program on her work, has spent much of her career wrestling with the issues in her original essay, not least the problem that the feminist narrative she conceived is so self-marginalizing that its ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/what-you-didnt-learn.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/what-you-didnt-learn.php Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:14:49 GMT The Positivity Blog has an entry titled: 16 Things I wish they would have taught me in ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/my-blueberry-nights.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/my-blueberry-nights.php Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:05:04 GMT "A big deal no one is making: the first Western-language films by the two most inimitable, imitated Asian filmmakers of our time are opening in New York on the same day." So, on the same page, the L Magazine''s Mark Asch reviews both Hou Hsiao-hsien''s Flight of the Red Balloon and Wong Kar-wai''s My Blueberry Nights, "a film as American as apple pie, and as out-of-time iconographic as that phrase ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/portlands-gardens.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/portlands-gardens.php Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:26:24 GMT Portland is a green city. No, I do not mean green in the Al Gore/environmentally friendly way (though Portland does win praises for that kind of "greenness" too). I'm referring to the color. Portland is a city of trees and gardens. the positive side to all the rain that the city experiences is consistent presence of that color. ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/chapter-27.php http://www.bestblogsite.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/chapter-27.php Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:06:24 GMT "Visually ugly, morally non-existent and a complete black hole in the departments of insight and wit, Chapter 27 is quite possibly the most godawful, irredeemable film to yet emerge in the 21st century," declares Premiere''s Glenn Kenny. "This inverted vanity project of pretty-boy actor [Jared] Leto (he co-executive produces as well as stars), for which he packed on seventy pounds in order to portray John Lennon murderer Mark David Chapman, tries to take the viewer inside the head of the obsessive assassin. As it happens, that''s a pretty empty ......... ]]>