One Dollar Diet Project

Another interesting blog:

Two Social Justice teachers have decided to start eating on one dollar a day.

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And here’s an article about them:

ENCINITAS — “Most of the world eats on less than a dollar a day,” Christopher Greenslate said, spearing single grains of Spanish rice on his fork. “And we thought, why couldn’t we do the same?”

Next to him, Kerri Leonard nodded. “It didn’t start as a big statement — it began as a way to save money,” she said. After a particularly expensive month this summer, they agreed that the magnitude of their food expenditures was ridiculous. Eventually the question arrived: Why not eat on $1 a day? So they did. Starting Sept. 1 and ending Sept. 30, they limited themselves to a $1 a day allowance for food.

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Toilet Roll Puzzle

Tired of being the butt of a joke? Well now you can get your own back. Just install the Don’t Pee Me Off over the toilet roll and any unsuspecting victim will find themselves a bit flummoxed when it comes to wiping.

To gain access to the toliet paper you’ll have to work out how to undo the puzzle first.

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China’s pyjamas police fight Shanghai’s daytime love of nightwear

The neighbourhood committee – a volunteer outpost of the Communist Party – in the city’s north-eastern district of Rixin has decided that wearing pyjamas in the street should be discouraged.

“We’re telling people not to wear pyjamas in the street because it looks very uncivilised,” Guo Xilin, a local official, was quoted in local media as saying.

In contrast to their leaders’ formal appearance at official functions, China boasts some of the most laid-back dressers in the world.

Partly as a result of living at close quarters in city alleyways, especially since Chairman Mao flooded the rich suburbs with the rural poor, privacy is at a premium and inhibitions are loosened.

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