Recent Posts Tagged With 'plants and flowers'

• Lei’ing down the line in Congress on health insurance reform

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 18:58 in politics, plants and flowers

  Which came first, the political insult with the lei or the political insult about the lei?  In a segment called “The Men Who Stare at Votes,” Jon Stewart took Rep. Michele Bachmann to task for her comment about a Hawaiian couple who came to ...

• Crayola Crayon Color Names ~ Rain = Pain

  Posted on Friday April 11th, 2008 at 14:21 in growing up, sun, contests and sweepstakes, cultural symbols, plants and flowers

  In case you wanted more feeling from the images that are thrust in front of you and your kids every day, Crayola has taken steps to give it to you with its new color names.  Three of them are relevant here: Best Friends, Fun in the Sun, and Supe...

• Tiffany conch and diamond Chrysanthemum Brooch ~ what do you call an octopus with 31 legs?

  Posted on Thursday January 10th, 2008 at 02:23 in jewels, sea and oceans, plants and flowers

  If you think that this Tiffany & Co. brooch looks more like an octopus than a chrysanthemum, your instincts might not be too far off:   Its petals are carved from a single conch shell, and the piece has an exquisite and rare conch diamond we...

• Ford Escape Hybrid ‘most fuel-efficient SUV’

  Posted on Sunday December 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 in automobiles, internet advertising, meadow, plants and flowers

  You wouldn’t know that this opening shot of a Flash ad from NationalGeographic.com is for an SUV: Just because a car is more fuel efficient than others doesn’t make it fuel efficient or green.  But Ford wants us to believe that the ...

• Poinsettia ~ Did you know?

  Posted on Wednesday December 19th, 2007 at 13:23 in plants and flowers

  Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), the popular holiday plant that appears in wintry white places across the country, is actually a warm-weather, sub-tropical coastal plant from the Pacific side of the Americas.  The red parts of the plant are a...

• The Dutch might build a tulip-shaped island

  Posted on Monday December 10th, 2007 at 00:06 in islands, plants and flowers

  According to Emma Thomasson at the UK’s Guardian, some people in the Netherlands are pushing a Dubai-like plan to build an island in the shape of a tulip.  Unlike the other islands that are being built exclusively for (terrible) aesthetic ...