This & That, Ceci et Cela

Bernard Magrez's 32 vineyards from Morrocco to Napa signify a fresh approach to boutique viticulture and wine tourism. Diversity within exclusivity. He has recently built up a significant portfolio of winery properties in France, the US, Argentina, Morocco, Spain, Portugal and Uruguay. The Bordeaux shop also offers visits and overnight stays at the flagship chateaux in ...

Consider the following theorem (by God knows who, I'm just doing my duty and spreading the shit around): --The most functional word in English is shit. That's right, shit! Consider: You can get shit-faced, be shit out of luck, or have shit for brains. With a little effort, you can get your shit together. Find a place for your shit. Or be ask to shit or get off the pot. You can smoke shit, ...

World's 1st poop-powered train.  The world's first biogas-powered passenger train is taking its first passengers between the Swedish cities of Linkoping and Vastervik. And the biogas comes from the entrails of dead cows.

Who knew?  There are many beautiful Roman remains in Tunisia. During the times of Christ, Tunisia was apparently Rome's most valuable overseas territory.  This amphitheater located in El Djem is a more beautiful & complete than the Colosseum in Rome.  It could accommodate 30,000 people!  Tunisia's on my must-visit-someday list.

"Yahoo has suffered a good deal of opprobrium since it was revealed last month that, when government officials came calling, the company's Hong Kong division simply surrendered information on a Chinese citizen who had presumably sought refuge, anonymity and a bit of freedom in the bosom of a Yahoo e-mail address: huoyan1989@yahoo.com.cn. Shi Tao, the journalist using that address, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sharing ...

A camel has been condemned to death after a Bangladeshi worker was caught having sex with it in the remote emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.  (Gulf News) The camel gets condemned to death? What kind of perverted justice is that?

Scientists writing in the journal Science this month had wondered how far great white sharks roam as they swim up and down South Africa's coast and whether they venture beyond it. An international team tagged the dorsal fins of 32 great whites and tracked them by satellite over 15 months.  Although most of the sharks stayed fairly close to home, one female zoomed across the entire ...

Not so clean, Not so clean.  "Swiss drugs maker Serono has admitted it was guilty of illegally promoting its Aids drug, Serostim, and has agreed to pay a $704m (£398m) settlement. The payout relates to allegations that it offered kickbacks to doctors to write prescriptions for the drug to boost sagging sales. The settlement was agreed with the US Justice Department".

And vice versa as Mugabe lambasts Bush and Blair at UN food summit. Thug Mugabe may be, but his words were no lie. All three are quite alike although each individual's darkness of deed may lie in slightly different arenas. ...Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has drawn applause and anger for a speech denouncing the UK's Tony Blair and US President George Bush at a UN event." ... "Must we ...

Sacha Baron Cohen, of the "Da Ali G Show," has apparently pissed off da wrong nation this time. The Kazakh government is threatening to sue the comedian for portraying the state in a "derogatory way". They're referring to his pseudo Kazakh TV personality "Borat Sagdiyev". Apparently, "Borat" has mouthed off about his people on the Ali G show many times. He also hosted the Nov ...