I can't say as I've ever looked to Cracked magazine or it's new online existence as a bastion of good writing. I do love the way this is phrased, though ( Read more... )

Anthony Bourdain guest stars on Yo Gabba Gabba! on March 10th, 2010

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Around 1:17 - "No one gives America back. You keep it until someone takes it from you." I laughed a lot.

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surprisingly hopeful

Around :45 you'll see a perfect example of why green reporting works against intelligent interaction between green advocacy and industry ( Read more... )

today is a good day to start.


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"Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to [Bill Tancer]." -- Belinda Goldsmith, Reuters

Dethroning pornography? I thought MySpace was the premier outlet for amateur night. Shows what I know, I guess.

I'm generally not a Wynton Marsalis fan. He's a bit too wed to the notion that jazz music must be just so or it's not real jazz. His brothers I like better. Still, staged or not, I've got to give him whole bucket of cool points for this -- Marsalis and Wycliffe Gordon in a trumpet versus trombone duel out their hotel windows.

it's not a April Fool's jokeMost of the biofuel plans out there are pretty stupid. Using food corn to make ethanol and or soybeans to make diesel means crushing hikes in food prices for low-yield, expensive fuel mass. Recycling used oil is about the only non-destructive plan that involves a human food source ( Read more... )

Holiday-O-Matic greetings.

I giggled.