Disturbing and fattening at the same time: 10 statutes made out of butter.

via Kiplog’s Food Blog.

Chow.com has a great overview of whole grains, what they are, how to cook them and more. They call it “Whole Grains 101“.

grain edit, which is a sweet little blog, has a great collection of vintage travel posters. Here is one sample:

Wired has a greatly informative piece on the litigious and protective nature of Toho Co. Ltd., the rightsholder to Godzilla, and quick they are to protect their piece of IP.

A true sign of these tricky economic times, Bloomberg reports on the collapse of the white truffle market.

During Ireland’s years of economic prosperity, the country opened its borders to Polish and other eastern European immigrants to fuel the good times. And they came in record numbers.

Poles have changed the face of Ireland. Bars sell Polish beer alongside Guinness; butchers advertise Polish sausages and pork cuts along with Irish beef.

In all, 1.2 million Poles may have moved to the U.K. and Ireland since 2004, according to Warsaw-based Centre for International Relations.

With the global economic crisis and ensuing downturn the Irish economy, hundreds of thousands of Poles are expected to be out of their jobs and many of those are expected to leave Ireland and look for work elsewhere.

Here is an interesting diversionary read, Melanie Berliet writes in Vanity Fair about the experience of being a naked sushi model.