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I didn't even know that this site had anything to do with a cross promotion that Burger King is doing with the new Simpsons Movie. Even though I went to the site and saw that creepy king guy before I saw a commercial for the site last night it still didn't register.

But this site works really well. You upload a picture of yourself and it turns you into a Simpsons-ish character. I can't find a good enough picture for myself (it has to be a fairly close-up face pic, in color, and at least 640x480 pixels), but a friend of mine did it and the character it created was uncanny. If you do it, put in a link to your site in the comments and show us the results!

I don't know if it's more disturbing or more reassuring, but it seems that Americans are more likely to trust an actor like Brad Pitt before they trust a Senator like Ted Kennedy.

According to organizational behaviorist James Bailey, we trust actors because we associate them with the characters they play on tv or in movies. Forbes has listed the 10 Most Trustworty Celebrities, as measured by Los Angeles-based Davie-Brown Talent, which measures more than 1,500 celebrities' trustworthiness. Not surprisingly, actors like Tom Hanks appear on the list, as does Oprah Winfrey. And most surprising of all to me?

Rachael Ray was #2.

How cool is that?!?!

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the movie version of Dan Brown's mega-seller The Da Vinci Code arrives in theatres today.

What you don't know, however, is that the success of Dan Brown's novel has inspired me to write a pastry-related religion/art history/murder thriller, The Da Vinci Scone. An excerpt is below and a real scone (like our Pumpkin-Cranberry, Dried Fruit or White Chocolate Buttermilk recipes) might help set the mood:


What did it mean, this baked good in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre?

The security doors were slammed shut. There had been no way out for whoever had left the scone in front of the Caravaggio painting.

"Is this some sort of biscuit?" Sofie asked.

"It's what we call a scone," Langdorn replied.  "A scone is bread product made with baking powder as a leavening agent. It's a component of the ancient English ceremony of high tea. "

Langdorn stared at the currants flecking the scone. They formed a strange shape. A star? A pentagram? An asterisk?

What message was contained within the elaborate pattern of the currants?

What sinister truth did this scone hold?

If you don't know already, then we're here to tell you that the DaVinci Code movie starring tom Hanks, based on the book by Dan Brown that everyone has read, is scheduled to be released in theaters on May 19, 2006.

With the heightened interest in all things DaVinci Code, there has been renewed interest in a "diet" called the The Diet Code. The book is the work of Steven Lanzalotta, a one-time baker whose business suffered under the popularity of the Atkins and other low-carb diets.

Just like in the DaVinci Code, Lanzalotta uses "The Golden Ratio" as the magic formula that is the secret to optimal health and weight loss. The Diet Code is a supposed "revolutionary" diet program that is based on a Mediterranean diet. The Golden Ratio is a balance of carbs, protein, and fat.

Eating a balanced diet. What's so revolutionary about that? Has anyone read and/or tried this diet? Has it worked? Is it really as "revolutionary" as it claims?

Tom Hanks just might be seen at a Starbucks near you - wearing that green employee apron, not on the customer side of the counter. Universal just picked up the rights to an as-yet-unpublished book by Michael Gates Gill about a man who, fired from his executive job, is forced to start over in the service industry, working at a coffee shop. The movie, titled How Starbucks Saved My Life, is slated to begin production later this year. Though the memoir is based on events that happened in the late 1960's, it seems likely that the movie will be set in the present.

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