Plant Ivory?

Plant Ivory?

Has anyone else heard of this stuff?

According to the CNN story, it's a material called Tagua, a coconut-milk like liquid that hardens to the consistency of elephant tusk ivory. It has been in use since the late 19th century, and was common in producing things like buttons until the advent of plastic. Then it just died out in terms of usage.

Why haven't I heard of this stuff before? Ivory is a beautiful material, you think someone would've had the idea to try to put an elephant-free environmentally friendly substitute into production as jewelry long before now! (Can you say "paydirt?")

It's amazing what you would find if you just look at the stuff "modern materials" have replaced.

Plant ivory. Who knew?

Oh well.

Off on a tangent, my blog's hits seem to have calmed down quite a bit. It was crazy for a while ...well, not server-stopping crazy, but for a random Webblog, it seemed pretty good to me. Search engine hits looking for a certain PSP licker took my page views up quite a damn bit. Referrals for her actually hit 85% of all search engine hits. Quite entertaining, if a bit disturbing.

But it's gone now. Drat. I was going to start putting ads on here to get cash. :P

But that's all I got for today, kids. So until next time, rock on!