The Peninsula Hotel is offering a vegan tea service including dairy-free sandwiches, snacks, desserts, and of course, beverages. $22 per person and it must be ordered 24 hours in advance. Their website can be found at www.peninsula.com.

A new study reveals that grilling meat is polluting the atmosphere with polysaturated fatty acids, leading to smog. Scope it yourself: Barbecues’ fatty fumes add to Houston’s haze

Thanks to Vegan Porn! for the lead.

Hey everybody, it’s time for the Great American Meatout 2003. Try something different. Find a vegetarian restaurant near you.

Find the typo.

Here’s one perspective on how surprise will be a factor in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The unbelievable pastry chef, Ron Ben-Israel, proprietor of Ben-Israel Cakes in the city, is on Dave right now (although Dave is still sick). I envy how easy he makes cake decoration look.

It just so happened I was watching TV when NBC cut in with coverage of the first strikes at dawn in Baghdad. Pretty intense. It’s amazing that the U.S. would actually surprise and confound it’s own former military experts by attacking in near daylight.

At long last, Planet Neutral brings his indifferent perspective to yet another venue. We begin our tale as our young hero is less than two months from receiving his Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Oh yeah, he’s engaged too.