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Monday, September 24, 2007

Wikispices

Spice (disambiguation)

Spice usually means a pungent or aromatic vegetable substance, as pepper or cinnamon, used to season food. It can also refer to the following:

Science and Nature
  • A spicebush is an aromatic North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, with small yellow flowers.
Music
  • The Spice Girls were an English all-female pop group in the 1990s. Their members included Baby Spice, Ginger Spice, Posh Spice, Scary Spice, and Sporty Spice.
Television, Movies, and Literature
  • "Spice" is the colloquial term for the substance needed by the navigators of the Spacing Guild for interstellar travel in the novel Dune by Frank Herbert and the subsequent movie and made-for-TV movies.
  • If there isn't a pornography channel or production company called Spice, then I'll eat my hat.
Computers (probably)
  • SPICE is a powerful circuit simulator with many capabilities. Apparently.
Cuisine
  • There have to be like a thousand restaurants across the country called Spice, and they all offer an "exciting modern atmosphere for the discerning diner." Yeah, right.
College
  • Did you know that the Stanford Program on International and Cross-cultural Education (SPICE) was named the winner of the 2007 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize? Me either.

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