• Clan: McTiVo - SciFi/Fantasy

    Dresden Files Nears End of Season

    SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM The Dresden Files, based on Jim Butcher's series of novels, follows the adventures of Chicago detective and wizard Harry Dresden. So far this season, Harry's relationship with the High Council, a powerful group that oversees the magical community, has been tenuous since they suspect he used dark magic to kill his uncle. The final episode of the season will be "Second City," which will air April 15. Simkins promised that it will not be a cliffhanger. "While that does work for a lot of shows, we…

  • Notty Problems: Even Leaving Doesn't Solve Them

    Salt Lake Tribune – A lot to improve

    Salt Lake Tribune – A lot to improve I am writing to agree with S.J. Moormeister's sentiments (Forum, April 3) hoping for a productive interfaith dialogue between Mormons and those of other beliefs in Utah. I also lament the tensions that General Conference protesters and DVD distributors have aroused. But, the Mormon cultural, social and political dominance in Utah has contributed to the fact that no such dialogue is taking place. From the intolerance seen in certain state legislators to the religious divisions in society beginning with grade-school children, Utah has a lot to improve on. The LDS Church, with…

  • Mini-Posts

    Sweet Rivalry

    See You in Court, Sweetie – New York Times remember what I said about the artificial-sweetener business being huge? The stakes are high in a lawsuit between "the blue stuff" and "the yellow stuff."  

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Funnies - Hot Off The Presses - Only in Utah...

    Holly Mullen: Name Editor

    I read just now on her blog that Holly Mullen will now be an editor at the City Weekly, a Salt Lake alternative newspaper. She had been a well-regarded columnist at the Salt Lake Trib, but left in a disagreement over the direction the paper was taking. She is happy about this development. Very happy! And before the news was even official, a former collegue called and got the scoop. And somehow, the Trib has even discovered Holly's unofficial new duty: she is now apparently in charge of editing names. The City Weekly's blog noticed this fact in an early…

  • Dear Mom - Food, Glorious Food - Random Access Memories

    Sweetness and Light and Distress and Diarrhea

    A passing reference to maltodextrin, a sugar-based sweetener, on BoingBoing turned on the little lightbulb what hovers over my brain, and I Googled around to find this: Sugar substitutes and the potential danger of Splenda Saccharin, the first widely available chemical sweetener, is hardly mentioned any more. Better-tasting NutraSweet took its place in almost every diet soda, but saccharin is still an ingredient in some prepared foods, gum, and over-the-counter medicines. Remember those carcinogen warnings on the side of products that contained saccharin? They no longer appear because industry testing showed that saccharin only caused bladder cancer in rats. Most…