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I only have a bike, so I throw my groceries in my messenger bag. (It's a really big bag, but it definitely helps that I don't eat at home very often... If I was doing weekly shopping for a family who ate at home every night, I'm sure I'd be fucked.)
Forget what Zachary said, it's also good in boxed Mac & Cheese!

I put either Sriracha or hot sauce in nearly everything I make. yay!
Note that they're going to ban it at downtown City buildings. Not every building in downtown, just the ones populated with city employees.
My friend drinks Blueberry Stoli with Diet Coke. If you ever wanted to try a cocktail with the refreshing taste of plastic, this is it.
Oh, please, the point is to bring attention to the issue, not to see what it's really like. There's obviously a case to be made for "learning what it's really like", but that's a quest for a single person. This is a quest to raise awareness, and it's obviously working regardless of whether or not he lives in a mansion and uses a car.
I read, but can't find it now, that she had lasik some time ago, and only wears the glasses because it's part of her look that people recognize her by. But supposedly she never wears when she's not on TV.
The article sure did make an impossible confusion of the difference between Calories and calories. A Hershey's kiss has 26,000 calories, but only 26 Calories.

They say: "But almost every nutrition reference in the United States refers to Calories but calls them calories."

Really? Every food label I just glanced at said "Calories". They mix the two definitions in the article creating an terrible jumble. In one sentence, they use "calorie" correctly, in the next they use it to mean "Calorie".

And this is just wrong: "We're all used to thinking about "small c" calories -- the calories on American food labels."

The Calories on American food labels are "big c" Calories... and they're identified correctly! That's two mistakes in once sentence!

It's still an interesting article if you can wade through the sloppy notation errors.
Subliminal advertising is a hoax. It doesn't work. The original studies that talked about it were designed to sell a product that produced subliminal messages. But they were all faked and peer-reviewed scientific studies can not reproduce the effects.

There is ample documentation about this, but here are a few links to get you started:
http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/popcorn.asp
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_187.html

I should think anyone in marketing knows about this, and I doubt they'd waste the money and potential public backlash to try it. I'd say it was a glitch.
I've been using this recipe for Spiced Hot Chocolate from Bon Appétit. It's very good!
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"What's the best gaming laptop for under 1,500 bucks? I had my eye on the P7805u (Gateway), but it seems Best Buy has run out for the time being. Also, as a secondary question, I like the specs on brands such as iBUYPOWER and CyberPower and the like, but are they reliable? I'm a little worried about buying labels that aren't huge like Dell, Gateway, etc. Thanks!"
 

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