Banning Possesion And Sale Of Shark-Fins Is Great. Finding Alternatives To Shark-Fin Soup Is Even Greater.

Finned Shark for Shark-Fin SoupShark finning is freaking nuts and how shark-fin soup ever ended up a status driven, sexual prowess boosting delicacy is beyond me. Maybe it started when some guy swam out in the open ocean with a knife in his mouth, caught and wrastled a shark with his bare hands and came back with its dorsal fin as a trophy. Then, in an even bolder move, the guy threw the shark fin into a pot of soup, ate it, and got a promotion and the digits from several ladies in his village. Sounds crazy but compared to the current method of shark-finning and shark-fin soup consuming, this is nothing.

Today, it’s a billion dollar industry as sharks are caught and processed on a massive scale and only for their fins. After their fins are removed, the still-living shark is dumped overboard to die a slow, immobile death. It’s like getting thrown into a bar fight with no arms or legs and that’s why California is the most recent state to ban its sale. All this is good enough for me but there still needs to be another change – how do you get a growing market of shark-fin soup consumers to kick the habit?

After reading hundreds of articles about shark-finning, Jubbling figured it might make sense to help reduce demand for shark-fins in addition to reducing supply. So we put our best minds on this one and here are our alternatives for getting the benefits of shark-fin soup without actually consuming shark-fin soup.


Shark-Fin Soup Benefit Non-Shark-Fin Soup Alternative
Enhance skin quality Bar of soap and moisturizer. Just about any brand of either will suffice and mix in a shower while you’re at it.
Boost Sexual Potency Same as above with the addition of a good tooth brushing. Ordering the book, “She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman,” wouldn’t hurt either. Think about it – a bowl of viagra soup isn’t going to boost your potency. It’s just going to boost the zipper area of your pants and if shark-fin soup does that, what good is it when you’ve got a souped stained shirt and shark-fin breath?
Increased energy Jillian Michael’s Ripped in 30 is a good start and follow it up with a 2-mile run listening to your new “Pleasuring a woman” book on your iPod.
Prevent heart disease, and lower cholesterol Stay with Jillian Michael’s workout DVD and daily cardio.


Shark-fin soup is also considered traditional and served at weddings and other events. But similar to a “Lords Right,” traditions do change and sometimes should.

So come on folks, consuming shark-fin soup is not going to truly improve anything and should find its place in history right next to human sacrifices and soon followed by kiddie beauty pageants. You’ve been suckered into believing its benefits long enough and now is a good time to make some real changes in your life to receive the sexual and financial prosperity you seek from a bowl of soup.


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Teach Your Kids Now About The 2-Minute Shower

2-minute showerWe can’t all go European but when it comes to bathing, our pre-teen kids would if we let them. Showering is something they don’t want to but have to do. My kids think swimming in a lake or participating in a water fight equates to bathing; something they probably learned from me. But since we’re tasked with making them bathe, why not incorporate some Jubbling and encourage them to shorten the process? I’m happy to report that all three of my kids are Jubbling their showers by rinsing and then scrubbing up with the water off, followed with a final rinse and then they’re out.

Now is a great time to help them develop good habits and in my case, it may be the only wisdom I have to impart. Oh, except the “if it’s brown flush it down; if it’s yellow, leave it mellow.” I guess they’ve learned three things from me.

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GreenFest Is Coming To A City Relatively Close To You

GreenFest Green FestivalThe Green Festival, or GreenFest, is a two day event that showcases products, ideas and solutions for consuming less and reusing more. And this year, they’re celebrating their 10th anniversary having welcomed 1 million attendees. Yes, green is prominent in their name but you don’t feel Jubwinked by attending because it’s all about the vendors. If you do decide to go, definitely bring your kids too. GreenFest is very kid friendly and includes a KidZone with crafts, games and featured speakers who’ll explain ways that kids can get involved. Here is their upcoming schedule:


2011 Green Festival Schedule
San Francisco/SF Concourse April 9-10
Chicago/McCormick Place May 14-15
Seattle/Qwest Exhibition Center May 20-21
New York/Javits Building Oct 1-2
Los Angeles/LA Convention Center Oct 29-30
San Francisco/SF Concourse Nov 12-13

Now Jubbling Festival, or JubFest, is still about 3 – 20 years off but I’m working on it. For now, it occurs in my house daily and consists of me walking around in a parka telling my kids to turn stuff off.

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Tango Group Creates Shower-Powered Radio

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Shower Powered RadioIt runs without batteries but is it Jubbling? Tango Group’s H2O shower powered radio is exactly what its name says; it attaches to the water source before your shower head and uses water to power a radio. According to Vivian Blick, one of the creators of the product, the shower powered radio combines two things the British public loves, “showers and radios.” Lucy Siegel of The Observer wondered if the product would encourage people to stay longer in the shower wasting heated water to listen to their favorite song. Mr. Blick pointed out that this was only the first generation. A future version will include a shower timer and by the third generation, H2O hopes to incorporate an shower powered LCD screen that displays how much you are spending on your shower.

Now, is it Jubbling? Hard to tell but thankfully, they did not include “eco” or “green” in the product name because then, it definitely wouldn’t be. But I’d like to help Tango with Jubbling up their next product and again, this is a freebie.


Dear Tango Group Ltd.,
I just wanted to let you know that I’ve read about your H2O shower powered radio and I think it’s cool. My only reservation is that it’s more than likely going to be powered by hot water. If a good song starts playing, a shower radio user is less likely to get out which is kind of a waste of hot water. So maybe having the volume level determined by how cold a shower is might be a good idea to implement. But I’ve got an even better application for your shower powered radio.

WhizCeiverWhat we need to do is attach a funnel to the top of the H2O shower radio and then here’s the kicker – we’ll put it in a urinal. Peeeak of Jubbling! You can strip out the volume control and the tuner because nobody is going to want to change either. Then give those in need of relief a nice target to aim for; like a funnel with a bullseye. That’s because adding the funnel and rewarding the whizzer with music not only encouraged them to whiz on the target, instead of whizzing the floor, but it may also get your male patrons to consume more beverages so they can finish a song. Double win!

Bars, restaurants, sports arenas, stadiums and even shopping malls will line up for this product. And another nice byproduct is that men may even share a urinal, saving water, in order to complete a song or raise the volume (a feature we could add in version 4.2). What to call it? How about the WhizCeiver?

Anyways, we look forward to hearing from you.

XO XO
Jubbling

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Is A Compost Heated Shower For You?

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Inspired by the work of Jean Pain, Darren Doherty and his group built a compost heated shower that can dispense 40 gallons of warm water every 10 minutes. The water travels through 400′ of 1″ hose that is snaked through a 6′ x 6′ compost pile. The compost piles’ day and night internal temperature reached and has remained at 90 degrees since day one. At some point, they do think the pile will run out of heat and when it does, they’ll be left with some good compost.

By far the best part of the video occurs in the first 25 seconds where Darren walks in and out of the shower and then calls out to his lady friend, “come on out doll.” Jubbling aspires to reach this level of eco-suavé but judging by the spam we get, we have to accept that our groupies peddle upskirt porn and sell cheap Zoloft. [Treehugger.com]

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Jubbling 101: Kids Making Pet Toys Out Of Trash

Cat Toys by Mandy and MaggieThis weekend, my daughter Amanda and her friend Maggie decided to make cat toys again. This time, their toy making materials included twine, toilet paper wrapper, a little tape and a pencil to draw eyes. It’s hilarious to see the results because they not only spend time studying how their respective cats play but they also factor in what they know about how cats hunt in the wild and then meet up to develop the toys.

Using the numbers from the American Pet Products Association, we calculated that Americans spent roughly $2 billion on pet toys in 2010; $700 million on just cat toys. It feels good not to contribute to a number that large.

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