By Top Stories of the Week Get Ready for Rapture | Because those stereos aren't going to loot themselves What Is Planking? Planking is blowing up the news these day. Old people would say it's another instance of why the youth is screwed. Kids would fire back that it's the most fun you can have being still. Who's right? And just what the hell is planking? More » Scooba 230: My Beloved, Adorable, Floor Cleaning Robo-Slave The 230 is the nook, cranny, and floor-scrubbing baby brother of the Scooba family by iRobot. Taking up little more space than a CD, it's only a few inches tall. It won't replace your mop, but it'll tirelessly try. More » New York Times Editor Is a Horrible Troll Who Doesn't Understand the Modern World Bill Keller, the executive editor of the New York Times, thinks modern communication technologies make you stupid, destroy your relationships and even your soulscoobna. He is wrong. More » Facebook Fails Facebook wants to be your life. They want you to chat, exchange messages and publish your photos using their services. That's ok. It's a good concept. It's just too bad their technology sucks to the point of being unusable at times. More » SpaceShipTwo Returning to Earth Looks Just Awesome Virgin Galactic has tested the return capabilities of their SpaceShipTwo spacecraft for the first time. The video of its first feathered flight is just too beautiful and elegant to describe. Just watch it: More » This Is Not a Painting What you're looking at isn't a painting. It's not a Photoshop job or an artist's rendering. It's a photograph, taken by National Geographic's Frans Lanting, that captures the camel thorn trees of Namib-Naukluft Park at the most perfect moment imaginable. More » The Ejector Seat's Trial by Fire Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin at least knew what they were getting into - Lt. Jack Fruin had no idea he'd be the first man shot out of a plane. Punching Outhttp://gizmodo.com/5788242/mr-gagarins-wild-ride by James Cross recalls this Navy pilot's momentous flight. More » 153 Photos of Teeny Tiny Things Macro photography never gets old. And the 153 entries to this week's Shooting Challenge prove it. (They also prove that people loooveee taking photos of insects, eyeballs and flowers-not that there's anything wrong with that!) More » Massive Leak Reveals Intricate Details of Bin Laden Raid Details of what happened on the night we killed Bin Laden have been dripping slowly from the White House, but anonymous government sources have just handed the AP the entire story. Every single detail. Even the SEAL dog's name. More » The Lost Animals of Fukushima After much hand-wringing, the Japanese government finally created a mandatory evacuation zone around the radiation-spewing Fukushima plant. Humans should be safe now. But the same can't be said of the hundreds of thousands of abandoned of animals left behind. More » Remember When AOL Instant Messenger Was Our Facebook? After bowing down to Google Talk this week, AIM is effectively dead. Most buddy lists are ghost towns. Chatters fled to Google, Skype and Facebook for their conversational needs. But at its pinnacle, AIM was something singular and amazing. More » Share this:

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Joselito ham, the belle of the bellota (video)   Heir to a centuries-old tradition and scion of four generations of Iberian Ham producers, José Gómez has raised Joselito ham to the exclusive echelon of the finest gourmet foods. We visited his establishment in Extremadura. Watch the video  Champagne & Bellota: a match made in heaven (video) José Gómez, the president of Joselito, has recently opened a restaurant dedicated to bellota ham and Champagne in partnership with Dom Pérignon. Ham & Champ is part of Sula, one of Madrid's swankiest establishments. Most viewed destinations   Greece Loire Vietnam Stuttgart Michelin tourist routes   France: Châteaux of the Loire, By car, 28 km, 1 day Germany: The High Black Forest, By car, 100 km, 2 or 3 days 125 Years of Automobile Manufacturing Stuttgart, the car capital Mercedes-Benz Museum: the automobile as a work of art The Porsche Museum: an unforgettable journey The capital of south Germany's Baden-Württemberg state is the historic seat of two of the world's premier car manufacturers: Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. Open since 2006, this temple devoted to Mercedes is the world's largest automobile museum. The 160 vehicles displayed in its 16 000 m² are veritable relics of the history of the marque. The Porsche Museum opened its doors in 2009 in Stuttgart's historic Zuffenhausen quarter, where the marque has been based for over seventy years. A sensational attraction, it is visited both for its collection of sports cars and its surreal architecture. Incomparable Vietnam The High Plateaus of Vietnam Northeast of Ho Chi Minh City and far from its frenzied lifestyle, the high plateaus where Vietnam's coffee and tea are grown have not yet been overrun by the influx of tourists. Touraine: a taste of France Lamprey Fishing in Touraine (video) Former scientist Philippe Boisneau is one of the last fishermen of the Loire River. We joined him while he was fishing for lamprey, a surprising creature that was around long before the dinosaurs. Bernard Charret's Loire River lamprey stew seasoned with liquorice root (video) Chef Bernard Charret has always given local products pride of place in Les Chandelles Gourmandes, his restaurant on the banks of the Cher River. European Capital of Culture 2011 In the beginning there was Turku Chosen as European Capital of Culture 2011 along with Tallinn, Estonia, Finland's fifth largest city has far more to offer than just its historic cathedral and medieval castle. Dynamic and inventive, Turku invites visitors to discover the heart of Jean Sibelius's homeland. News This year's Solar Decathlon Ecological House Contest is held in China Inhabitants of the Himalayas bear witness to climate change Architect Zaha Hadid's Mobile Art Pavilion has a smooth landing in Paris Quizz   Finished in 2009 and inaugurated in 2010, this is the world's tallest skyscraper. At 828 metres (2,717 feet), it rises even higher than Taiwan's Taipei 101 or Toronto's CN Tower. Can you name this building? Right here!  Bon appetit in Paris! Pinxo Restaurant: a healthy serving of the Gascogne At Pinxo, an Alain Dutournier restaurant, pride of place is given to ingredients from Gascony, the chef's homeland in south-west France. Pinxo offers elegant, delicious and convivial cuisine at affordable prices. Paris names best baguette maker in the city After smelling, crackling, tasting, and scrupulously examining an interminably long row of baguettes, a panel of judges whittled down a list of 174 contenders, all vying for the Grand Prize for best baguette in Paris, to just one. The beefburger is fifty years old! Fifty years of Beef-burgers made by the butcher Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec This famous dish came into existence due to an appeal made by the French army in 1961. The idea was to provide the French soldiers with an essential ration of proteins which was perfectly healthy, safe and adapted to their needs... Greek renaissance The fine red wines of Naoussa In the 19th century, the wines of Naoussa were considered to be the finest red wines of the Ottoman Empire. Today, after a long period of relative inertia, these prestigious vineyards of yesteryear are back in the spotlight thanks to a new generation of young vintners. The Omnivore Food Festival European chefs encounter Russian cuisine A group of French, Spanish and Swedish chefs with a bent for creative cuisine recently travelled to Moscow to participate in an international food festival there. With a new wave of inspired cooks, Russia's culinary arts are now being reinvented after the dreary Soviet years. AUDIO Guide Haute-Loire ViaMichelin, in partnership with Zevisit.com, is pleased to offer you their audio guide of our tour of the Haute-Loire. The guide can be downloaded to your mp3 or iPod FREE OF CHARGE. The Haute-Loire département is sometimes called 'the south of France in Auvergne'. And what a delightful département it is, with green hills and vales, volcanoes and 3,000 kilometres of rivers.   So grab your iPods and enjoy the journey!

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