From Alba to Gangrene to Sausage

Reading that Jessica Alba said "I'll put whipped cream on anything" made my whole body tingle.

Australian smokers are asking for packs of cigarettes based on their preference of new government-mandated warning-label graphic. "I was in a newsagent recently when a young man asked for 'a packet of [Benson & Hedges]...the gangrene, if you've got it,'" writes a Sydney Morning Herald blogger.

The UFC is officially huge.

Did they see it coming? The city of Eastpointe, Mich. is considering "stringent regulations on fortune-tellers and psychics". More here.

Kudos to writer/blogger/world traveler (and friend of TtP) Newley Purnell, who got some love in today's felled-tree WaPoX blog roundup. "German sausage flavor" chips? Purnell also has a piece in the International Herald Tribune/ThaiDay about the Thai flavor of the upcoming World Cup.