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A Vintage Cocktail That Packs A Punch. Hide captionCheers, Charles Dickens: In this illustration titled "Micawber in his element," Mr.
Micawber makes punch after a dinner party thrown for him by David Copperfield. Charles Dickens, author of David Copperfield, was a punch aficionado. Fred Barnard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Cheers, Charles Dickens: In this illustration titled "Micawber in his element," Mr. Micawber makes punch after a dinner party thrown for him by David Copperfield. Punch bowls are back — but they're not flowing with lime sherbet or ginger ale or sugary juice mixed with handles of cheap booze. Punch: The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing BowlBy David WondrichHardcover, 320 pagesPerigree TradeList Price: $23.95 The punch cocktail has a long history that starts with British sailors (who drank a lot), says liquor historian David Wondrich.
"They made it with local ingredients in India and Indonesia in the early 1600s," Wondrich tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. Rischgitz/Getty Images YIELD: 8 cups. January 18, 1847.
Parenting. Cub Scouts. Pearltrees > blog. Pearltrees videos. R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me. Social bookmarking service Delicious announced five years ago last Thursday that it had been acquired by Yahoo The first comment posted on the blog entry announcing the deal was from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, saying "Congratulations!
Yahoo sure does get tagging I see. " When I heard the news, I felt very differently. I was deeply saddened that it wasn't US Library of Congress to acquire Delicious. Five years later, Yahoo announced internally today that it is closing down Delicious. No date has been given for its closure. It's a loss not just for the many people who used Delicious to archive links of interest to them around the web, it's a loss for the future - for what could have been. Update: 24 hours later, Yahoo! Above: A leaked slide from the internal deck shown today at Yahoo, listing a host of services Yahoo will sunset, merge or turn into features of other services. How ReadWriteWeb Used Delicious Thanks for All the Bookmarks, Folks f_david - Félegyházi Dávid. Avoid Succumbing to "Computer Hunch" Posture with These Easy Stretches.
@BrianDawg: "Toxins" are nothing more than waste fluids / dead cells that don't need to be sitting around, building up in your muscles.
They don't help, and they prevent fresh blood from moving into an area and helping it heal. :) @BrianDawg: Ah, but one must regularly circulate the humours, yes? @jadefirefly: Detoxify is also quite the buzzword for shady products that due to FDA restrictions and threat of lawsuits (looking at you Airborne) can only claim to "support" functions that my body already does. Just saying he tainted good advice with hippie mumbo jumbo terminology. @BrianDawg: Oh, for sure. I mean, I could argue that there's really nothing wrong or hippie about the use of the word. If he'd explained what he meant by that? There's a huge difference between the language you use to talk to other people in your profession - whether you're a doctor, programmer, carpenter, whatever - and the language you use to talk to people outside of it.