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The turkey is native to North America, so why is it named after a country in Asia? I looked this up and it is really simple —Europeans mistook it for a bird from Africa. The guinea fowl, a game bird, lives throughout much of Africa south of the Sahara. Around 1500, Turkish merchants introduced the … Read the Rest of This Post.

The US version of the “three strikes” law is here with the US House version of Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA. This is the House version of a previous bill proposed by the Senate, which was known as the PROTECT-IP Act. If this bill passes and becomes law, the new act would give the … Read the Rest of This Post.

So glad to be taking a part in Blog Action Day 2011. This year the theme is food and I thought I would write about the food culture I have been surrounded with the most. Obviously the food in Italy is among the best, if not the best, in the world. Many non-Italians identify Italian … Read the Rest of This Post.

Do you know why time lapse photography is so cool? Because it takes this many people and this much attention to detail to make a seemingly impossible thing look so simple and beautiful. There are a lot of photographers and videographers that I admire and follow but I like Vincent Laforet’s site because he gives … Read the Rest of This Post.

With the advent of Google+ (which I am actually refraining from “officially” reviewing) and the fact that the book “I’m Feeling Lucky – The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59” is on my reading list, I just wanted to quote two interesting bits from a recent interview with author Douglas Edwards. This was found in … Read the Rest of This Post.