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Sideswipe: Something for the weekend

By Ana Samways
11:00 AM Friday Mar 16, 2012
A whole new meaning to the term couch potato - the baked potato beanbag. Photo / Supplied

A whole new meaning to the term couch potato - the baked potato beanbag. Photo / Supplied

Comfort food: A baked potato beanbag and other food related art here.

Fashion: There is seriously a product to prevent camel toe. It looks kinda like a shoe horn and is called the Smooth Groove. Read about it here.

Diversion: A classic word association game with celebrity names. Who is the most famous John? (I'd say Wayne) Donald? (I'd say Duck). This is quite addictive and best when you don't think about it too much before answering.

News: Britain's worst photographer... Fifteen minutes of fame end for earless German rabbit when he is killed by cameraman... And this tree looks like a T-Rex.

Video: A British newsreel about a ten-stone baby (well, he's 3) manages to keep remarkably upbeat despite what would be considered quite disturbing these days...

Picture this: Exotic dancers of the 1890s were more fleshy (and corseted) and short compared to the type of woman considered attractive today. What's with that horse outfit?

Science: Scroll though this uber-geeky graphic of teeny-tiny things and the incomprehensibly enormous thing and you will have experienced the scale of the universe. Even though I didn't recognise anything much smaller than the e-Coli virus or anything bigger than the sun, I did get a real sense of the vastness of the universe and timely reminder of our own utter insignificance... Wow. What a great teaching tool this would be.

Link: You called your foodie site what? (Surely, they mean 'snobs'?)

Quick clip: Time lapse pregnancy *please note this is not really how babies are born.

Video: Major iceberg action at Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica... (make sure sound is down a bit)

By Ana Samways
mrskit (Japan) | 12:39PM Friday, 16 Mar 2012
Thanks Ana, I enjoyed today's one
David (Papakura) | 01:09PM Friday, 16 Mar 2012
As a former microbiologist, I can't help but cringe at the mention of the E. Coli virus. Last time I looked in a microbiology text book, E. Coli was a bacterium (ever so slightly bigger than your average virus).

You're getting as confused as the reporters talking about the kiwifruit disease PSA (a bacterial infection), which kept changing between bacterial and viral on a regular basis.
h m () | 02:48PM Friday, 16 Mar 2012
As an average member of the public I cringe at the mention of E.Coli virus.
But then these people think antibiotics for the common cold is a good idea too.
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