<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : potato : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Potato famine disease striking home gardens in U.S.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/127395/1/" /><id>127395</id><summary><![CDATA[Potato famine disease striking home gardens in U.S.]]></summary><issued>2009-07-11T13:57:23+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-11T13:57:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Late blight, which caused the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and 1850s, is killing potato and tomato plants in home gardens from Maine to Ohio and threatening commercial and organic farms, U.S. plant scientists said on Friday.<br/>The fungal disease, spread by spores carried in the air, has made its way into the garden centers of large retail chains in the Northeastern United States.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[It is supposed to be potato &quot;chips&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19269/1/" /><id>19269</id><summary><![CDATA[It is supposed to be potato &quot;chips&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-05-06T16:26:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-06T16:26:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Man buys a bag of Cape Cod potato chips, finds a few chips and a whole potato]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Local woman finds unpleasant surprise in her potato chips]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/97173/1/" /><id>97173</id><summary><![CDATA[Local woman finds unpleasant surprise in her potato chips]]></summary><issued>2009-03-02T08:00:41+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-02T08:00:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Found: One Nokia cell phone covered in crumbs and grease. Unmistakable odor of potato chips.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Potato Portraits by Ginou Choueiri]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/115162/1/" /><id>115162</id><summary><![CDATA[Potato Portraits by Ginou Choueiri]]></summary><issued>2009-05-18T08:25:21+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-18T08:25:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels.  Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms.   Potatoes grow, live, and then decay, mirroring the ephemeral existence and fragility of our own human nature.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Butt stops here, 29 hours into couch potato contest ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/46177/1/" /><id>46177</id><summary><![CDATA[Butt stops here, 29 hours into couch potato contest ]]></summary><issued>2008-01-06T05:57:34+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-06T05:57:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Manhattan librarian emerged as a champion couch potato after three rivals gave in to sleep deprivation or nature's call.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Don't worry: you CAN call the Polish president a potato]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43763/1/" /><id>43763</id><summary><![CDATA[Don't worry: you CAN call the Polish president a potato]]></summary><issued>2007-12-10T14:14:14+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-10T14:14:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Polish prosecutors have dropped a libel case in which a German paper likened their president to a potato. (Theme pic is president, I'm with the Germans on this one...)<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/crime/l/29495/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">But Americans, you still can't say one sentence...</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Do-It-Yourself Potato Gun! Irresponsible BUT powerful and destructive ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36374/1/" /><id>36374</id><summary><![CDATA[Do-It-Yourself Potato Gun! Irresponsible BUT powerful and destructive ]]></summary><issued>2007-09-21T13:48:40+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-21T13:48:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In this short controversial film, Scott VanPala takes you on a chaotic yet adventurous journey with a powerful and destructive Potato Gun. He illustrates how he made his using nothing more than hairspray and pvc pipe from Home Depot using gift certificates he got for Christmas. He then demonstrably shows the various, and perhaps irresponsible, uses]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Vicar with a potato up his bum]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/80711/1/" /><id>80711</id><summary><![CDATA[Vicar with a potato up his bum]]></summary><issued>2008-10-31T07:56:40+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-31T07:56:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A vicar claims a potato got stuck up his bottom after he fell on the vegetable while hanging curtains in the nude.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[When Potato Peelers are Outlawed...]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/129382/1/" /><id>129382</id><summary><![CDATA[When Potato Peelers are Outlawed...]]></summary><issued>2009-07-29T17:57:05+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-29T17:57:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Chef Neil Wyles initially thought news of an arrest of a 25-year old woman in Vancouver for assault with a potato peeler was a joke. He does not regard a potato peeler as much of a weapon.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Shippensburg couple finds likeness of Christ in potato chip]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/96872/1/" /><id>96872</id><summary><![CDATA[Shippensburg couple finds likeness of Christ in potato chip]]></summary><issued>2009-02-28T04:23:11+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-28T04:23:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Brian and Linda &#8220;Lyn&#8221; Hershey have one potato chip that won&#8217;t get eaten any time soon. It has a likeness of Jesus Christ cooked into its surface.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ultra-right wing potato sandwich launches in India]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/124470/1/" /><id>124470</id><summary><![CDATA[Ultra-right wing potato sandwich launches in India]]></summary><issued>2009-06-19T20:24:10+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-19T20:24:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Shiv Sena, the ultra-right Hindu nationalist party in India, has launched a global brand of snack food called the Shiv Vada -- a sandwich containing deep-fried potato ball. They want to make it as popular as hamburgers.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Spudly duckling: Four-year-old digs up a potato he can put in his bath]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130107/1/" /><id>130107</id><summary><![CDATA[Spudly duckling: Four-year-old digs up a potato he can put in his bath]]></summary><issued>2009-08-07T00:39:47+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-07T00:39:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[When four-year-old Zachary Clouter was asked to help out on his parents allotment, he didn't expect to find a spectacular spud.<br/><br/>The thrilled youngster dug up a potato the same size and shape as the rubber ducks which normally play in his bath.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[As the Iowa Caucuses Near, This Guy Is A Hot Potato]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45932/1/" /><id>45932</id><summary><![CDATA[As the Iowa Caucuses Near, This Guy Is A Hot Potato]]></summary><issued>2008-01-03T15:12:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-03T15:12:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;The candidates have been in Iowa forever. Why not have fun with the whole process?&quot; says Andy Green, a gimlet-eyed 20-year-old with a wide face and a perpetual smile, like he's been hiding a big joke he's just dying to tell. He's the kind of guy you'd imagine rushing up to Clinton, breathlessly saying: &quot;You need to pose with Mr. Potato Head. You're the last Democrat to do this.&quot; She complied.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Lord Justice Hath Ruled: Pringles Are Potato Chips]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/119186/1/" /><id>119186</id><summary><![CDATA[The Lord Justice Hath Ruled: Pringles Are Potato Chips]]></summary><issued>2009-06-01T17:59:20+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-01T17:59:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s Supreme Court of Judicature has answered a question that has long puzzled late-night dorm-room snackers: What, exactly, is a Pringle?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hold-up by potato-wielding gunman in Jersey City baffles police]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/127766/1/" /><id>127766</id><summary><![CDATA[Hold-up by potato-wielding gunman in Jersey City baffles police]]></summary><issued>2009-07-14T21:46:50+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-14T21:46:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Officials tell the Jersey Journal they still don't know why a gunman robbing a gas station near the Holland Tunnel was carrying a potato in his left hand, but one Jersey City officer speculates he may have been trying to silence his gun with the vegetable.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Eyes of Darth Tater]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/95320/1/" /><id>95320</id><summary><![CDATA[The Eyes of Darth Tater]]></summary><issued>2009-02-19T08:02:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-19T08:02:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[his is the story of how Mr. Potato Head became&#8230; Darth Tater!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Mother of All Potato Cannons]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/121190/1/" /><id>121190</id><summary><![CDATA[The Mother of All Potato Cannons]]></summary><issued>2009-06-08T17:45:08+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-08T17:45:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Christian Ristow was at Maker Faire with his giant pneumatically powered sculpture called Hand of Man. It&#8217;s great. It&#8217;s a highly interactive piece in which one puts on a glove with sensors and  controls a multi-ton pneumatic hand capable of picking up and crushing a refrigerator.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Latkes: The soul of Hanukkah culinary tradition]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/85332/1/" /><id>85332</id><summary><![CDATA[Latkes: The soul of Hanukkah culinary tradition]]></summary><issued>2008-12-17T03:32:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-17T03:32:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What makes a potato pancake a latke?<br/>A little Jewish culinary history for you.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[2008: International year of the.. potato.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/45310/1/" /><id>45310</id><summary><![CDATA[2008: International year of the.. potato.]]></summary><issued>2007-12-27T14:17:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-27T14:17:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Celebration of IYP will raise awareness of the importance of the potato, and of agriculture in general.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Edible Christmas cards are ultimate in environmentally friendly fare]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/85375/1/" /><id>85375</id><summary><![CDATA[Edible Christmas cards are ultimate in environmentally friendly fare]]></summary><issued>2008-12-17T08:07:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-17T08:07:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A company has created the ultimate in environmentally friendly festive fare - edible Christmas cards.<br/><br/>Each card features a bowl of Brussels sprouts printed on potato paper.]]></content></entry></items></xml>