Cooking with lava

This was so off the wall, I just had to post it: step-by-step instructions on how to bake a game hen with hot lava.

—Mellow Monk

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Look, ma, no cables!

Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corporation says it will construct, in an office building in Tokyo, the world's first-ever mag-lev elevator—a cable-less system that uses the power of magnetic attraction and repulsion to move an elevator car up and down.

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Landscapes of the East and West

Leping Zha, a Ph.D. physicist, also takes photographs on the side. His online galleries include mountainscapes (top photo) and a meta-category called "Visual Symphony" (bottom photo).

So pour yourself a nice, hot cup of Mellow Monk green tea and sip away as you enjoy the mellowness-inducing photograhs.

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A week as a waiter

It's Friday, so what the heck. Time for things amusing and frivolous.

New York Times food critic Frank Bruni spent a week waiting tables at a bustling restaurant to see what it's like "on the other side of the table" [registration required but free].

—Mellow Monk

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