| In Japan.............................................. | | Japan's space agency plans to cook up Japanese "space cuisine" for hungry astronauts at the international space station, but the country's best-known dish is unlikely to make the menu.JAXA, Japan's space agency, is developing a full menu of Japanese cuisine after astronaut Soichi Noguchi slurped instant noodles in a pouch called "Space Ram" during his Discovery space shuttle mission earlier this year.With help from companies such as Nissin Food Products, JAXA has developed space rice balls, space seaweed soup, and space green tea, said agency official Yoshinori Miyazawa. It is also experimenting with Japanese beef curry, mackerel in miso sauce, and red bean cakes."So far, nobody has been able to make space sushi," Miyazawa said. "I think shelf life may be a problem."To meet space standards, foods must have a shelf life of at least a year, be nutritionally rich, and be easy to prepare and eat in a zero-gravity environment.Foods that are too runny or grainy are banned because portions might float off and interfere with equipment, Miyazawa said.Astronauts at the international space station currently eat food supplied by Russia or the United States, though... | |
| | Have you all heard about Google AdSense? | | I have been to a seminar recently about Google AdSense and the organizer passed us a very interesting article which I would like to share with you all. Anyone have experience in this? Maybe you can share your experience and let us help each other grow.A New Model For Getting Rich Online by Yuki Noguchi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 28, 2006; A01For hundreds of thousands of people, the dream of making an Internet fortune works like this: Earn pennies at a time in exchange for allowing Google Inc. or Yahoo Inc. to place advertisements on a personal or small-business Web page.Take Andrew Leyden, former House Commerce Committee csunsel and founder of a dot-com venture that failed, who started PodcastDirectory.com, a search engine for podcasts. As the site's popularity rose from a hundred hits a month in 2004 to nearly a million now, Leyden started making the equivalent of an entry-level government worker's salary - $30,000 to $40,000 a year -- simply because people clicked on ads. That allowed him to work at home in Chesapeake Beach, Md., trying to make more money by attracthg still more traffic to his site."I went from literally 26 cents a week or... | |
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