chocolate

The health and weight loss industry has had its own Sokal hoax: http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800

Last night I watched a BBC documentary on ABC Australia's "Four Corners" program. It was about an issue I knew little about - the selling of very young children into slavery to harvest cocoa beans in Africa. http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2010/s2885745.htm The documentary reported...

I know I should be appalled by this, but I just find it hilarious: http://www.intentionalchocolate.com/info/About_Us I most certainly eat chocolate intentionally. Eaten in sufficient quantities, it has also been known to put me into a stupor meditative state.

The Chocolate Jesus is making its triumphant return to NYC after Catholics protested and mice nibbled on His chocolately goodness. I think it's kinda creepy looking. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-chocolate1017,0,7355154.story

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/30/chocolate.jesus.ap/index.html One wonders if Mr. Donohue is equally outraged by pedophile priests? Somehow, I doubt it.

Attention all chocoholics...please bring your wallets and spare insulin, and form an orderly line...no shoving, OK?

(cross-posted from the thread in Community) Hi there, I´m going to send Shane some chocolate, and it occured to me that he would get that a lot sooner if I brought the chocolate to TAM5 and one of the US attendees mailed it to Shane from the Continental US. I suppose it would be considerably...

Yes, my dear friends and enemies, I´ll be bringing chocolate again. And, once again, I challenge every one of you who thinks their country makes decent chocolate to bring some of it along for the Great Scientific Testing Event, aka The Chocolate Challenge. In the interest of focussing on the...

More at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-2250557,00.html (no anti-English racism intended)

Funny stuff, I might have to get one.

Discussing (well talking to a wall really) with xians of various flavours from fundy to tea-and-biscuit believers I usually end up asking the question "Are you a chocolate box xian that just chooses the bits you like from the bible?" I admire the ones that admit that they do and it works for...

Those of you who attended TAM2 will still remember the most delicious part of the meeting, the TAM2 Chocolate Challenge [shameless self-adulation] - which, as I may, without any undue humility (;)), remind you, was my idea. [/shameless self-adulation] I hope, though, that you do not remember...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7080890%255E1702,00.html Sounds intriguiging, but look at the numbers: This study is based on 13 patients and it's already being written up in newspapers? The drop in blood pressure was 2 points? Would any medical folk care to...