I know a baby that has recently discovered sultanas, or ‘tanats‘ as they are called.

It seems Sunbeam has found bits of metal in some of its dried foods recently and is doing a product recall. Guess which company packages the tanas that are being eatern.

Some articles/posts I found on the recall:

• Sunbeam Fruit Recall (Essential Baby 23/09/2006)
• Angas Park and Sunbeam brand dried fruits (Product Recalls Australia 14/09/2006)
• Natural Country brand dried fruits (Product Recalls Australia 15/09/2006)
• Dried fruits - foreign matter (metal fragments) 13 September 2006 (Food Standards Australia New Zealand 13/09/2006)
• Sunbeam Foods recalls products (ABC 14/09/2006)
• Sunbeam issues product recall (Ninemsn 22/09/2006)
• Product Recall Information (Sunbeam Food site)
• Sunbeam recalls fruit over metal fears (News.com.au 22/09/2006)

While looking for info about the Sunbeam recall I also found this article about the Sunbeam/Angas PArk merger:

• 2004, ACCC ejournal no. 10 (search for Sunbeam on the page)

Change all the text books.

My Very Elderly Mother Just Sat Upon Nine ?

Astronomers can only count to eight.

At a recent meeting of International Astronomical Union (IAU) it was decided to redefine what constitutes a planet. As a result Pluto changed its status and is no longer classified as a planet. And is now only a”dwarf planet”.

So it looks like what kids are taught at school will have to change. And the mnemonics too.

I wonder what Astrologers will do? When Pluto was discovered they had to change Astrology to incorporate Pluto (part of the Age of Aquarius). And now will this just write it out again?

All the fun things you can do by removing a planet.

• Pluto may lose planet status - SMH 10 March 2006
• Scientists debate Pluto’s planet status - SMH 14 August 2006
• Pluto on the outer in space debate - SMH 23 August 2006
• One in solar plexus for Pluto - SMH 25August 2006
• Pluto stripped of planet status - SMH 25 August 2006
• Online Sellers Profit From Pluto’s Woes - SMH 26 August 2006
• No more pizzas - Suntimes 31August 2006
• Eyewitless News: Save Pluto
• Mnemonic eclipsed - SMH 22 August 2006
• English mnemonics (The Planets of the Solar System) - Wikiquote
• Astrological age (The Age of Aquarius) - Wikipedia

More displacement activities to chew up your time. Do you see your self as a mythological creature? If so Blogthings has a quiz to see if you see yourself correctly.

You Are a Pegasus

You are a perfectionist, with an eye for beauty.You know how to live a good life - and you rarely deviate from your good taste.While you aren’t outgoing, you have excellent social skills.People both admire you - and feel very comfortable around you.

More playing with GameWyrd.

Discovered this Adopt a Battle Imp thing. Interesting that is creates stats for the Imp based upon what name you give it. It even works with random and non alphebital characters.

Here are some examples:

• @@@@@@@’s Ilon
• @$%^&’s Opath
• Blob Blob’s Irord
• Assasa Fggfgf Hhghg’s Eaem
• Tshgmnbv,jnvbliu Ug ,jnb ,ugbyg Jcjhytfkuyf’s Opath
• Jhfkjhvjmhuygljn,’s Ouurd
• @#@#@#@#@’s Irid

I don’t have a good formula for working out the optimal Battle Imp yet though.

Feeling like a cynic?

Joined GameWyrd and found they have an interesting RPG Cynic’s Quest. Have you been gaming for too long and can see everything coming?
So you can have a laugh here are my results:

Cynic’s Quest

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The results are in! It seems all to evident that you’re a Haunted Cynic!

You earned a total of: 20 Cynical Points.
The average number of Cynical Points earned is: 11
Number of Wyrdlings with the same total as you: 103
Number of Wyrdlings with less Cynical Points than you: 3800
Number of Wyrdlings with more Cynical Points than you: 138

oats: A cereal that is cooked and eatern for breakfast

oates: Cooked oats (also called porridge)

oatification: The process where oats are transformed into oates

oatomation: Mechanism used to simplify the production of oates