I'll have the soup. And the bowl, please

For those who can't stand the washing up, help is at hand with one of the strangest culinary inventions in years - the bread bowl.
A Nottingham food firm has started making bowls and plates out of dough. The idea is that diners enjoy a soup, chilli or curry, then eat the bowl too.
David Williams, the managing director of Butt Foods, which has developed the idea, admits: "Our banks, our investors all thought we were crackers. But we've now proved them wrong."Mr Williams says Butt's bowls hold their shape for eight hours without going soggy.

Hand Feeding a Hummingbird

Pretty cool.

Pet allowances given to employees of a Japanese firm

A Japanese company is offering its employees a monthly "pet allowance" to help with the upkeep of their cats and dogs. Kyoritsu Seiyaku, which makes animal medicines, said pets were a lifelong obligation for their owners. Kyoritsu Seiyaku is offering its pet-owning employees about $9 (£4.70) per month, and hopes the system will spread to other Japanese firms. The company does not, however, offer paid leave when employees' pets die. "For now, we have introduced only the allowances, but we want to consider the condolence holiday system in future," a spokeswoman for Kyoritsu Seiyaku said.

Do You Believe In God?

Campbell's Soup "Hunger"

This is a couple years old now but there is still a problem world wide.

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In a grocery store 4,820 cans of Campbell's Soup were used to build an installation piece that spelled HUNGER. Signage beside the piece encouraged shoppers to buy one and donate it to their local food bank. As shoppers bought cans from the display the word HUNGER slowly disappeared. This allowed people to see how their individual effort could help bring an end to the problem of hunger.

Soccer Ball Bike

Man Builds Tiny Bikes As Hobby (Dec, 1937)

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Contagious

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WHERE TO PROPERLY PLACE NEW EMPLOYEES

1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.

2. Put your new employees in the room and close the door.

3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.

Then analyze the situation:
a. If they are counting the bricks put them in the Accounting Department.
b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing.
c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering.
d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning
e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.
f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security.
g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology.
h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.
i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.
j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Marketing.
k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.
l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management.
m. Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Government.