Top 10 Incredible Food Facts

December 8, 2008 · Posted in foundFings . . . · Comment 

Top 10 Incredible Food Facts:

More interesting foody facts (actually the first lot from last year) mentioning amongst other things that “The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter” … eewwwwwwwwww!

Another 10 Fascinating Food Facts

December 8, 2008 · Posted in foundFings . . . · Comment 

Another 10 Fascinating Food Facts:

Onions taste the same as Apples, Bananas have large hard seeds, Ketchup was originally a fish sauce and 7-up used to contain Lithium – the drug commonly prescribed now to sufferers of bi-polar disorder.

If you go to pub quiz’s this page could just win for you one of these weeks 🙂

Anti-realistic photography

December 1, 2008 · Posted in foundFings . . . · Comment 

Anti-realistic photography:

Most people using computers and graphics spend huge sums of money and time trying to make fake thing look as real as possible … it’s therefore a tad weird to see someone take pics of real and quite dramatic events and using some technique known as tilt/shift, make it look like a bunch of dinky toys!

I’m sure someone could sit me down in a pub and spend a long time explaining to me how this technique works but it wouldn’t make any difference, I still wouldn’t understand it … bloody cool though 🙂