Archive for the '@aside' Category

Jan 5th 2009 Real Life Superheroes

This article in Rolling Stone (very long article) recounts the adventures of Master Legend, a self-styled superhero in South Florida who, along with his trusty sidekick Ace, is fighting for truth, justice and the American way.

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Jan 5th 2009 Hunter S. Thompson Motivational Posters

If you feel like you just cannot get your act together in the new year, maybe these motivational posters featuring the wisdom of Hunter S. Thompson will do the trick.

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Jan 1st 2009 Sexism in The Kitchen

If you are a woman and you can cook, nobody cares. However, if you are a guy and you can cook, people make a big deal out of it. Like combining ingredients properly involves a uterus. 

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Dec 31st 2008 Does a Lobster Feel Pain?

First, a confession: I love the taste of Lobster. I really do. However, after reading this article from Gourmet magazine, I am not sure if I will be eating any more of it.

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Dec 29th 2008 Still Here

Just sitting out, being quiet for a few days. I will be largely offline as well. A lot of thinking, planning and so on, preparing for the new year. Be patient if I do not email you back immediatly.

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Dec 9th 2008 I Told You Community is Important

Hedviga Golik disappeared in 1966. She just vanished. Or did she? Turns out, she has been sitting , quite dead, in front of her television in her own living room for the last 42 years.  I swear, I could not make this stuff up.

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Dec 2nd 2008 Hackers Almost Break the Internet

Great story in Wired about how fragile the tech underlying the web really is, and how we narrowly avoided disaster from hackers.

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Dec 2nd 2008 Fame the film to be re-made

They are doing a re-make of the musical movie Fame. Is this really something that needs to be done, or are they just out of new ideas?

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Nov 25th 2008 Another Hope Shattered

Stephen Baldwin has announced that he is not leaving the country after the election of Barack Obama, despite his threat to do so before the election. Now he says he was only kidding. Well, heck.

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Nov 21st 2008 Bloggy Improvements

Some of my posts go wild in the comment box. If you, like 19 other people, recommended a place to eat in my recent call for restaurants and want to see if anyone else had better recommendations, now you have the option when you leave a comment to subscribe and get an email when someone follows your comment with a comment.  Just one more way I am wasting your time trying to make your life easier.

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