Re: Indigo and Umami

2008-07-20 Thread Max Battcher
William T Goodall wrote: There used to be seven colours in a rainbow and four basic flavours (sweet, sour, bitter, salt) and then indigo became a shade of violet and umami became the fifth basic flavour. Don't forget that we're down to 8 planets and up to 2 plutoids (Pluto, Eris). --

Re: Indigo and Umami

2008-07-20 Thread sendai
On 20/07/2008, at 4:13 PM, Max Battcher wrote: William T Goodall wrote: There used to be seven colours in a rainbow and four basic flavours (sweet, sour, bitter, salt) and then indigo became a shade of violet and umami became the fifth basic flavour. Don't forget that we're down to 8 planets

Re: Indigo and Umami

2008-07-20 Thread Charlie Bell
On 20/07/2008, at 4:13 PM, Max Battcher wrote: William T Goodall wrote: There used to be seven colours in a rainbow and four basic flavours (sweet, sour, bitter, salt) and then indigo became a shade of violet and umami became the fifth basic flavour. Don't forget that we're down to 8

Religious Law

2008-07-20 Thread William T Goodall
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7516238.stm At least eight women and one man are reported to have been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran. The group, convicted of adultery and sex offences, could be executed at any time, lawyers

Denver/Denvention

2008-07-20 Thread hkhenson
It's a bit late to be mentioning this, but sometimes there are reasons not to let certain people get organized. I expect to be in Denver during the Worldcon. As most of you know, I have been working on an energy project that's large enough to replace all the fossil fuel use in the world