5 Friends You Should Have

Attached please find an article telling you what "5 Friends You Should Have". I think I'm pretty much all of them. I am amazing. hahah...

The Uplifter: This woman's favorite word: yes. You could tell her you're trading your six-figure income for a career in offtrack betting, and she'd barely pause before yelping "Go for it!" Don't you need someone who looks past the love handles to notice the extraordinarily gorgeous you?

The Travel Buddy: When the hotel in St. Lucia is a bust, one characteristic becomes all-important: flexibility. This agreeable companion need not be the girl you traded pinkie swears with on the playground; it's enough that she's comfortable with quiet (between gabfests) and is a teensy bit mischievous (as in tequila after midnight).

The Truth Teller: Intent is what separates the constructive from the abusive. Once you've established that the hard news is spoken in love (not in jealousy or malice), you'd be smart to seek out this woman's perspective.

The Girl Who Just Wants to Have Fun: One Saturday a pal and I -- and yes, we're both over age 12 -- pored over every glitter lip gloss in a drugstore aisle for an entire 45 minutes. Forget the crisis download (for that, see the Uplifter); this partnership is about spontaneous good times.

The Unlikely Friend: "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive," Anaïs Nin wrote. My friends -- some twice my age, others half, some rich, others homeless, some black like me, others Korean, Mexican, Caucasian -- have added richness to my life that only variety can bring.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/07/23/5.friends/index.html

Dunkin' Donuts: Pioneering the "Healthier" Donut

For any of you that know me, I am a Dunkin' Donuts coffee fanatic. The day that the added "turbo" (or espresso) is truly a day that changed my life. In any event, I'm thankful every day that I do not like sweets- mainly because I like other foods too much already! :)

So, for those of you that like donuts, this is your day. DD just announced that by October 15, 50 menu items will have no "trans fat". Not to be stupid... but what is the difference? Isn't fat basically just fat... when did it move from being saturated/unsaturated and then trans... whatever. Fat is fat - like jeans are jeans. :) hahah...

Dunkin’ is ahead of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., which has yet to roll out a zero gram trans fat doughnut but hopes to do so. Brian Little, a spokesman for the North Carolina-based chain, said, “We continue to work aggressively with outside supply partners, and our goal is to get to zero trans fatty acids while maintaining great Krispy Kreme taste.”
A call seeking comment from another chain, California-based Winchell’s Donut House, wasn’t immediately returned.
Starbucks Corp., Dunkin’s Seattle-based rival in the coffee shop niche, said in May that it would cut artificial trans fats out of its food and drink by year’s end in stores in the continental U.S., Alaska and Canada.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20450512/

Almost Like Costume or Not...

You guys are probably not as nerdy as I am, but there is a "quiz" on Mental Floss - "Headline or Plot From Scooby Doo?" I didn't do that well, but best of luck to you. I got 4/10. :)

http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=94?cnn=yes

A Whole New Google...

My default homepage is "Google"... surprise. However, I woke up this morning to find that Google's format has changed and now incorporates the various Google gadgets-- including news, clips from YouTube, time, date, etc...

Always changing. On a side note, the employees of Google have collectively contributed over $2 million dollars to one of the Presidential candidates (year to date number). That is some power.

Question of The Day

So, one of the features on "Mental Floss" is question of the day. One I found interesting (for all of you entrepreneurial folks), was the following:

Q: Have product placement deals ever found their way into novels?

A: Sure, we’ve all seen less than subtle product placement on the big screen. The lead character finding his fiancée while chatting on AOL, a couple serendipitously bumping into one another at a Starbucks, a ball player getting that extra ounce of energy from the last sip of his Coke.

But, for the most part, that sort of underhanded advertising has been relegated to film, right? Well, in 2001, literary types were shocked to discover that author Fay Weldon’s latest novel, The Bulgari Connection, had more than just a titular connection to the jewelry manufacturer. Bulgari had, in fact, paid Weldon to write it. That explains the dozens of sensual descriptions of their products found within (“it was a sleek modern piece … the mount following the irregular contours of the thin worn bronze”), but not why a respectable, Booker prize-nominated writer would accept such a payoff. In her defense, a defiant Weldon said, “I don’t care. They never give me the Booker prize anyway!” Having earned so much critical condemnation, she’s unlikely to get one now.

Mental Floss

I just came across this publication and it is pretty awesome. It's a magazine full of random knowledge and is meant to stimulate both halves of the brain.

"We're the sort of intelligent that you hang out with for a while, enjoy our company, laugh a little, smile a lot and then we part ways. Great times. And you only realize how much you learned from us after a little while. Like a couple days later when you're impressing your friends with all these intriguing facts and things you picked up from us, and they ask you how you know so much, and you think back on that great afternoon you spent with us and you smile."

Sounds like Viki needs a subscription!

All In The Name of Science

Here is a little history lesson from everyone... kind of a cool article regarding a brief background about the person and their bodyparts that didn't make it to the grave. Including...

Napoleon's penis allegedly in hands of U.S. doctor
Saint Francis Xavier's hands spread from Asia to Europe
Gen. Stonewall Jackson's body buried in two Virginia towns

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/08/21/mf.missing.famous/index.html