http://www.coconut.com/blog/ en-us brian@coconut.com 2008-02-22T12:02:41-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000103.html A roundup of recent fatalities around the world due to coconuts and coconut trees: Six Injured After Coconut Tree Falls In Bus's Path - read the story here Three Die in Crash - read story here Couple Cheats Death... 103@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Coconut Danger 2008-02-22T12:02:41-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000102.html Funny how cultures differ in their racist slang. In the US, generations of schoolkids grew up familiar to the term "oreo", used to describe people who were "black on the outside but white on the inside." In Africa, South Africa... 102@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Africa 2008-02-21T13:42:12-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000101.html And from the Newburyport (Massachusetts) Daily News comes this story, Man Seeks to Solve Mystery of the Names in the Coconut. Seems this guy named Tom Small of Salisbury, MA, found a coconut washed up on a nearby beach. The... 101@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ North America 2008-01-16T16:43:53-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000100.html The Miami Herald reports that the oracles have spoken: . . . In an email from Armando Durán, a babalawo (Santería priest) and spiritual guide of the Cabildo, the interpretation of the letra (forecast) for 2008 made by the Comisión... 100@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Da Kine Category 2008-01-16T16:34:55-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000099.html Calvin Godfrey does not like coconuts. When I first arrived in Miami, I was happy about all the coconuts. I bought a machete and looked forward to lavish coconut-splitting parties, involving rivers of rum and armies of women. The day... 99@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ North America 2008-01-05T19:52:57-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000098.html From Newsday in Trinidad and Tobago comes this sad news: REGINALD BEST, 46, who died after falling 65 feet from a coconut tree on Wednesday, was given a final farewell by family and friends at a funeral service yesterday. Officiating... 98@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Caribbean 2008-01-05T19:46:35-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000097.html Looking for an outdoors job? Enjoy climbing coconut palm trees? The Hindu News reports that there is a severe shortage of coconut pluckers in Kerala. Kerala, 'the land of coconuts' is hit by acute shortage of tree climbers and farmhands,... 97@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Indian Ocean 2007-12-28T11:51:10-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000096.html Hey, whatever. Elsewhere you wouldn't care to know. But here at the Coconut Blog, this is news. Current has-been, former TV star / pinup girl reportedly drives around Palm Beach, FL, with a coconut in her front seat, simply because... 96@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Da Kine Category 2007-12-28T11:29:40-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000095.html If you go visit the Harry S Truman Presidential Library between now and January 4th, one of the exhibits you'll be able to see is the coconut carved into the head of the former president himself. It's all part... 95@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Da Kine Category 2007-12-28T11:20:48-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000094.html CNET News has a story about "The waterless car wash", a liquid you spray on your car to attract dirt, then wipe off later. Lucky Earth Products has come up with a liquid, called Green Earth Waterless Car Wash,... 94@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Coconut Industry 2007-12-18T13:48:33-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000093.html This one's pretty original . . . a newspaper story about making a kid believe that a coconut was a shrunken head: " Being the mischievous big sister, I lived to taunt my brother. Once when my grandmother purchased a... 93@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Da Kine Category 2007-12-18T13:41:27-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000092.html A followup to this Coconut Blog entry from 2005: Grim story of rising sea levels in the Carteret Islands... "For drinking all we can rely on now is rainwater and coconut juice, but even the coconut trees are dying. You... 92@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Oceania 2007-12-18T13:29:31-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000091.html Another cocofuel story... "HONIARA (Reuters Life!) - Who needs crude oil when you've got cheap coconuts? An Australian entrepreneur based in the Solomons Islands is producing fuel and profits from the fruit he sells locally for 70 U.S. cents a... 91@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Coconut Industry 2007-05-07T07:06:42-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000090.html Salon.com has a story up on coconut-based fuel energy: Exhibiting a severe case of Brazil-envy, Philippines President Gloria Arroyo signed the Biofuel Act of 2006 into law last week, mandating that all diesel fuel and gasoline used in the country... 90@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Coconut Industry 2007-01-17T16:59:24-08:00 http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000089.html What does YouTube have to say about coconuts? Da Coconut Nut by Ryan Cayabyab: Here's a commercial. Only one problem. They're not coconut palm trees. Oh well: Someone trying to break open a coconut with their head. Not too bright:... 89@http://www.coconut.com/blog/ Da Kine Category 2006-10-28T12:50:39-08:00