Over half a billion people on the planet play online games.  They spend over 3 billion hours a week playing.

It can take up to seven pounds of fish meal for a farmed specimen like salmon to put on one pound of body weight.

Sometimes Daniel Craig goes to hotel bars in the mornings for interviews. In spite of the time of day people send martinis over to him!

The best way to predict the future is to invent it 
- Alan Kay

Very happy with the soymilk I made this morning.  I soaked a small handful of organic soybeans yesterday.  Today I blended them and added a bit of raw sugar.  I didn't filter it but you may want to.

"All of human consciousness is five years old emotionally. It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere."


- James Cameron

So this is how the zombie apocalypse all starts... get your guns ready!  First ‘zombie bees’ reported in Washington state: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/zombie-bees-reported-washington-state-article-1.1168298

Commercial fish stocks in the UAE have fallen by 80% since 1978. Nearly 50% of the local population order hammour (an endangered species) at restaurants. It's fished at more than 7 times the quantity that is sustainable.
- Time Out Dubai

I'm in disbelief that the hotel I'm in (Marriott Copenhagen) told me that everything in the minibar is free and they'll replenish it daily.

The original LED deadmau5 head weighed 12lbs and cost US$100K.  The new one weighs 5 lbs and is wireless.

"People say I can’t be a vegan. But all Mario ate was flowers and mushrooms and look how big & strong he was. Plus he could spit fireballs."
- Arian Foster, considered the favorite this season to lead NFL in rushing yards

"Hello I'm Dr Pain, your new dentist"

My dentist for the last 4 years, Dr Hussein, has left the dental practice I go to in my neighborhood.  I went for a checkup and cleaning today and met my new dentist.  After hearing her name once when she told it to me and after reading it once on my file I still can't remember it.  Even if I could remember it, in my mind her name is Dr Pain.  She pressed the cleaning tool hard along my gumlines, on my gums, and even in the gaps between teeth where I thought only floss could fit.  Maybe it's because I was her last appointment before her lunch break and she was rushing.  I hope she's not always going to be like this.

It's better to come over willingly than wait till it's too late.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/aug/26/food-shortages-world-vegetarianism

How James Bond books a hotel room: http://youtu.be/Q7eHinI95rc

In the past 4 years around30 chateaux in Bordeaux have been bought by Chinese businesses and investors, and an estimated 20 deals are in the pipeline. - CNBC

Many of the qualities that define millennials are simply signs of youth.  Young people in the 1970s were also disloyal and rebellious. -- Kevin Coyne

The True Cost of Hamburgers (Video).  Uploaded this month. http://youtu.be/ut3URdEzlKQ

Have you wondered what has happened to your grip strength?  See this article on how antibacterial soaps can weaken muscle function: http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/15/freaky-clean-chemical-in-antibacterial-soap-weakens-muscle-function/?iid=hl-article-mostpop1

Carrots were originally grown in Afghanistan and were violet for centuries. On arrival in the Netherlands in the 17th century they were cultivated to be bright orange - an emblem for the struggle for Dutch Independence.

If urban and suburban households in the US, UK, Spain and Brazil swap beef for lentils once a week the emissions reductions is the equivalent of taking 3.7 million cars off the road for a year (Oxfam)