From Japan with Love

A farm in Kumamoto Prefecture has been working at growing these melons for four years. This is like cantaloupe foot-binding, or maybe it's just romantic.

via Coldmud

Pocket Guide to Wine

This pocket guide from Slate promises to help you the next time you need a good bottle for cheap. It focuses on trusted importers rather than vineyards which seems like a brilliant idea when every wine store has such different selections. Read the full article here.

Visualize

I don't really think this is fair way to illustrate how much sugar is in a given food. However, the image of the cubes stacked next to the Coke is arresting. Less so when you compare it with the grapes though. As Sugarstacks.com mentions on their blog, a lot have people have been giving them guff for making such a comparison given that there are different types of sugar.


And apparently there is more sugar in Vanilla Frozen Yogurt than Vanilla Ice cream...

Slap Chop Remix

I really love this guy Vince. I don't understand why I can actually watch his infomercials, but he has a real gift. Between SlapChop and ShamWow, pretty much everything he touches turns to gold.

Thanks Sham.