ruhlman.com: Guest Blogging: A Bourdain Throwdown This guest-blog rant by Anthony Bourdain of "No Reservations" is so good, I had to quote the whole thing. Via Simply Recipes I actually WATCH Food Network now and again, more often than not drawn in by the progressive horrors on screen. I find myself riveted by its awfulness, like watching a multi-car accident in slow motion. Mesmerized at the ascent of the Ready-Made bobblehead personalities, and the not-so-subtle shunting aside of the Old School chefs, I find myself de-constructing the not-terrible shows, imagining behind the scenes struggles and frustrations, and obsessing unhealthily…
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Drain cleaning company Roto-Rooter is giving away this ridiculous “pimped-out” toilet as part of a promotional sweepstakes. The winner will be announced on April 25, National Plumber’s Day. The irony is that the toilet itself seems pretty standard. They should have gone for one of those self-cleaning Japanese models with the bidet and sound effects generator. That’s got to be a mockup. I agree that a high-end Toto Japanese toilet is the Cadillac of thrones. Via Boing Boing: Luxury crapper contest
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Joi Ito's Web: Free FON Wi-Fi routers for America Is this for real? It's Joi, and he's on the FON board, so yes, it's probably for real.
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Boing Boing: Dr Who Tardis USB hub Me do, that’s who: Dr Who, SciFi
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Boing Boing: Murdered spy Litvinenko was killed with radioactive teapot British officials say police have cracked the murder-by-poison case of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, including the discovery of a “hot” teapot at Londons Millennium Hotel with an off-the-charts reading for Polonium-210, the radioactive material used in the killing. Holy CRAP, what a development. I suspect that actually the poison was introduced into the tea so that Litvinenko would drink it, and the radioactivity is just a carryover of that. How horrifying to think of all the people afterwards who might have used the teapot, or handled it, but fortunately it…
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Here's a familiar byline I used to enjoy reading in the Salt Lake Trib – Holly Mullen makes a welcome addition to the rest of the citizen journalists of Blogaria. Or journalist citizens – it works both ways. mullentown » Blog Archive » How to Survive January All I can see of the Wasatch Mountains today is a faint outline. Same for the Oquirrhs to the west. The smog has swallowed them. It’s gone on far too long — a winter smogfest and temperature inversion going on three weeks now. The air is so chalky, sooty thick I gave…
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WIRED Blogs: Table of Malcontents Me: Are you optimistic as to what the future holds? Aldrin: We’re kind of a greedy society and very impatient. We are not thinking about twenty or thirty years into the future. We have to look ahead and see what we are gambling with. There’s no guarantee that our way of life is going to continue. I’m very concerned about the things that threaten us today. Me: Like what? Aldrin: Like extremism. The suicide bomber is a weapon of mass destruction. How do you stop it? How do you re-educate people who are predisposed to…
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According to this, the Flickr Album plugin that I had used and then abandoned for a while isn’t working with the latest version of WordPress 2.1, which we’re now running here. I’m hoping there’ll be a fix for the little problem I encountered where the default setting is to pull ALL photos from ALL groups onto the photo gallery page. Also, something to fix the display problem when there are links in the descriptions. WordPress 2.1 (and 2.0.7) Support Status : tan tan noodles – msg free since 2005
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The other day, I posted about loss. I was mostly thinking about the loss of the church I've worshiped in for the last 5 years, or at least the loss of the building. Naturally, it got all mixed up with relating it to another loss – Mom – and how losing something you love resonates every time you lose something else. And then I saw this post at Sarah Dylan Breuer right afterward, talking about when you lose people when they decide they no longer want to worship with you, that the differences are more important to them than the…
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Manolos Shoe Blog: Shoes, Fashion, Celebrity, and Manolo Yep, an item about a tall fashionable boot for the girls of the wide calves. A quick check: 13 1/2 inches circumference. Dude, we cankle around on 18-inchers around here; no amount of stretch is gonna stretch. I'm off to check out a commenter's lead on Duo Boots.