Food Network's Alton Brown Talks to Giz: Caribbean Adventuring With a Garmin, an iPhone and a Shload of Cameras [Interview] (18)
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Tomorrow night at 10PM, Food Network kicks off Alton Brown's latest TV show, Feasting on Waves, where the Mensa-smart kitchen geek and his crew hop into two 50-foot catamarans and sail around 15 different Caribbean islands in search of quality cuisine, shooting and editing the hi-def episodes right there on the boats. It turns out, despite his disdain for specialized kitchen gadgets, Brown depended on regular high-end tech to make a cooking show on a ...
Douglas Rushkoff on the RNC (38)
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Our pal Douglas Rushkoff posted an insightful essay about the RNC speeches. I felt a bit nauseous watching the Republican convention last night. I’m very much a give-the-benefit-of-the-doubt kind of guy, so I try to listen to the arguments people make even when they’re made in over-the-top or patronizing ways. Sometimes it’s good to distinguish between the rhetorical devices and the underlying substance. Even people who use manipulative language sometimes have an important point beneath ...
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Sam said:
I agree with Douglas. It was very hard to watch the RNC on Wednesday, I got very angry.
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Casey said:
THX, JB.
AP Demolishes GOP Convention Lies (6)
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AP reporter Jim Kuhnhenn tears apart piece by piece all the lies told by the Republicans at last night’s convention. In other words, every word spoken is debunked. HuffPo: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth. Some examples: PALIN: “I have ...
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glecharles said:
Glad someone other than Fournier is covering politics for the AP.
A Free Thinker is Satan’s Slave (14)
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LiveJournal user scarlett_1975 snapped this photo a few days ago: Link - via Accordion Guy. Now, can someone explain to me what Pastor Ricky Shedd is talkin’ about?
Who's doing the window-smashing in Minneapolis-St Paul? (10)
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Over on Making Light blog, my friend Elise Matheson, resident of Minneapolis-St Paul, has some skeptical questions about the supposed anarchist looters among the RNC protestors: I cannot help but remember some people I knew in college, one of whom turned out to be an informant and provocateur who infiltrated antiwar and other related groups. I thought of it again, sharply, when I read this LiveJournal post about a past event. I look at that ...
Sarah Palin, would-be banner of books (41)
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Time Magazine says that when Sarah Palin took office as mayor, she approached the town librarian and asked how to go about banning books from the town library: [Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The ...
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Maurice said:
Wow. Just...wow.
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J. James B said:
Since we've established that we all read Boing Boing, is it really productive for us to keep "sharing" BB posts with one another? I'm just sayin'.
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[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.
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Lee said:
Now this is something to investigate. Reporters ask her this question, not silly questions about her children. Ask the hard questions.
DJ Mobile Car Speeds Along On Sound Rockets [Rolling Thunder] (5)
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For many enthusiasts, pimping out car sound systems (and even bicycles in some circles) is a time-honored tradition. However, Dutch artist Olaf Mooij may have taken this pastime to extreme new levels with his DJ Mobile. Inspired by the Popemobile and the song “God is a DJ” by Faithless, Mooij created a rolling PA system complete with two turntables and several gigantic speakers that look more like rockets. Details are scarce on the system itself, ...
Benedict Redgrove: Pininfarina (3)
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Banksy does NOLA, three years on (3)
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On the eve of the third anniversary of the Katrina catastrophe, Banksy has left his own commemoration. Photo Credits: jonnodotcom (Full Set) and anthonyturducken (Full Set)
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