For this post, I thought it would be fun to look at some superstitions involving food. Some you may already know, but maybe you will learn some new ones. Enjoy!
~Giving somebody an orange makes them fall in love with you
~If you put milk in your tea before sugar, you may never get married
~If you catch the bubbles in your coffee with a spoon and eat them, you will unexpectedly come into money
~In Brazil and Italy, eating lentils at the New Year will bring good luck for the year
~Giving parsley as a gift brings bad luck (who does that?)
~If you cut open a loaf of bread and see a hole, someone will die soon
~Also, if you don't cut a cross into the top of your loaf before baking, the devil will sit on it and ruin your loaf
~Counting the seeds in your apple will tell you how many children you will have
~If you get an egg with two yolks, it means you will have twins
~Spilling salt is bad luck, but if you quickly throw some over your left shoulder, it will ward off the bad luck
I also made this blog post into a Flickr slideshow. You can view it
here.
The assignment for this blog post was to "find a recent article about how a specific company uses RSS or Atom to make information available to its employees or customers."
RSS seems to be a dying breed and the most recent articles I could find on the subject were written five or more years ago.
However, I did a little digging and found that CNN has a page devoted to RSS feeds. They have links on the page that bring up popups about what RSS is and how to use it. Then there are several categories that can be subscribed to, including Technology, Video, Top Stories, Most Recent, and more. There is a link for more feeds to subscribe to at CNNmoney.com. There is also a link to their podcast page where podcasts can also be subscribed to.
As much as it seems like RSS is falling out of favor in general, CNN is still going strong with it.
