How Coconut Water Became So Ridiculously Popular; There Is Now a Vending Machine for Meat
• Regarding the booming popularity of coconut water, and how it came to happen. Hint: It's all about the yoga chicks. [Slate]
• Virgin CEO Richard Branson just made an undisclosed but "multimillion" dollar investment in SF-based Square, the company that makes those little credit-card-swiper things everyone is using to turn iPads into cash registers. [Biz Times]
• Restaurateurs (like AQ owner Matt Semmelhack) are increasingly using Kickstarter and other crowd-funding methods to finance their ventures. [NYT]
• In empire-building news: David Chang just opened Momofuku Seiobo in Sydney, which features Chang hallmarks like "a soundtrack notable for its decibel levels, and buttocks-punishing stools." [CHOW]
• A vending machine at an Alabama convenience store dispenses meat. Now old-school butchers are really endangered. [Zagat Buzz]
• The cantaloupe scare that so far has killed 29 people has one affected person suing Wal-Mart for selling the tainted fruit. [Bloomberg]
• Big seafood-restaurant chain Landry's has swallowed up slightly less big seafood chain McCormick & Schmick's. [NRN]
• "Boar meat tastes like a cross between pork and lamb," and you'll probably be eating some soon. [NPR]
