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[jenk]

Interesting article on plant confusions and not-so-commonly-known toxicities. Example: did you know the vines of a potato plant are poisonous, and so are sweet peas? Heck, the edible (red) part of the rhubarb isn't without the toxins of the leafy greens, it just has much less. One gets the impression that food variety doesn't just mean you get larger a variety of nutrients, it also means you get less-toxic doses of potentially problematic poisons. ("The dose makes the poison.")

Of course, reading Murder with Peacocks tends to make me curious about the edibility / toxicity of our garden ;)

Fun with planting false memories.

Building a treadmill into a bed. Gee, add a laptop and dustin_00 could use it when he's tired of biking.

Prayer is many things, but a business plan??

“We felt if we prayed and obeyed God’s word and did what He asked, that He would help us be successful,” the bank’s founder, Steve Skow, told the Journal-Constitution in 2005.

Meanwhile the FDIC and state regulators shut down the bank on Friday, and are investigating the bank for making improper loans. These people need to read Dorothy L. Sayers' exhortation that good works matter little if they are not also good work. "No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever came out of the carpenter's shop at Nazareth....The only Christian work is good work, well done."