"John: Favorite movie? Casablanca.
Berg: Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Chris: You know mine, It's a Wonderful Life. And the other --
John: Gotta say, once you realize George Bailey dies in the middle, it's a totally different movie.
Chris: ... what?"
"Food Network is asking Iron Chef America fans: How do you Iron Chef? From videos of you in Japanese costumes to your latest home-hosted cooking competitions - we want to see it all! Upload your videos and tell us why nobody Iron Chefs like you do! If your video is picked, you could appear on Food Network in all your Iron Chef glory. " Who's up for a little cooking competition?
]]>I have this great travel pillow that works perfect 'cause I can put it on DJ L'il Bit's shoulder and lean on her while I sleep, but the TravelRest is designed so that the pillow itself gives you something cozy to lean on -- awesome!
]]>"The pricepoint for both of these products will be the same as regular high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) sweetened Pepsi and Dew. Their availability will be from April 20-June 13, which gives you just 54 days to enjoy sugar-sweetened goodness in these beverages." A brief substitute for expensive, imported Mexican Coke?
]]>Wish you had the audio from that awesome YouTube video? Plug the video's URL into this tool and get an mp3 with just the music/dialog/other auditory content. Probably particularly good for your next Songsmith masterpiece.
]]>"This recipe for a basic hard cheese works for any kind of milk." However, the author recommends reading Cheese Making for Beginners first, which I suppose I could do. The allure of being able to make all these cheeses with goat's milk is quite strong!
]]>Ruckus has shut down -- no big surprise to me, I didn't like it a bit. I wonder what the nail in the coffin was though, it sure had what looked like a good business model.
]]>"Three gut-bombs remain: Uno Chicago Grill's individual 2,310-calorie Classic Deep Dish is still the worst pizza that could pass your lips. Romano's Macaroni Grill's 2,430-calorie spaghetti and meatballs is a truly lethal plate of pasta. And Bob Evans' 1,543-calorie banana pecan pancakes won't just break your fast--they'll destroy it. What's more, we found 17 more deplorable dishes worthy of spots on our "worst" list."
]]>"Simply put, there's no reliable source of reach information. To start, the UFC (and other organizations) didn't even bother tracking this information until a couple of years ago. To make matters worse, the numbers thrown up on-screen right before UFC fights vary wildly for the same fighter across different fights." A very easy way to get involved in some very interesting research, if your Tivo happens to pick up a few fights.
]]>"To PIMCO, the remedy for this deflationary delevering and mini-depression is simple and almost axiomatic: stop the decline in asset prices. If that can be done, the real economy will level out as well. When home prices stop going down, newly created households will be more willing to take a chance on ownership as opposed to renting. If stock prices consolidate, recently burned investors will be more willing to invest, as opposed to stuffing their 401(k) mattresses with Treasury bills. Business investment, jobs, and profits should follow quickly behind."
]]>"In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty... True reform requires transformation at a stroke. But is this really the way it has occurred in other countries? The answer is no. And the reality of how health reform has come about elsewhere is both surprising and instructive."
]]>"Frieldl's Lightroom geotagging plug-in reads a GPS unit's track log, then deduces a photo's location based on the time it was taken. Although that's the same basic mechanism many other geotagging programs employ, Friedl's plug-in brings some welcome flexibility to the process by moving the process within Lightroom. "
]]>"Click on the Onion pins scattered around the globe to reveal mind-expanding factoids about the lesser, conquerable nations of the Earth. Come back each week to learn more about how little you know. "
]]>"It's rare to look back over a year of corrections and errors and see so many examples of organizational failure. Years past have seen plenty of malfeasance by individuals, but 2008 is remarkable for news organizations that pursued completely outrageous behavior." The most outrageous newspaper corrections of the year!
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