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Latest to go on the unsub: Steven Johnson's weblog, which has of late become less and less interesting and more and more self-advertisement. I expect a certain amount of self-promo when you've just published a book, but his blog has just basically turned into itineraries and press clippings, and was headed that way even before the Ghost Map came out. Another sigh of relief.
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The Blog | Bill Maher: New Rule: We Don't Need Drug Tests for Librarians | The Huffington Post
Via Unalog.
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How Many of Me - Census Search
According to this site, there are 0 people in the US with my name. Which is making me wonder where I've been all this time.
New .Mac webmail Not Enough Reason to Stay (for me, anyway) - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog
I just let my .Mac membership lapse as well. I had gotten a couple notices about it and was about to just reflexively renew, when I thought about it for a moment and realized that I never use it except to send eCards, which I can do without a membership. The only mail I ever got there was promo stuff from Apple, I never think to use the iDisk, and Backup has nothing on SuperDuper. There's $99 or however much saved. I just switched the few things that did use that address to my gmail account.
I just unsubscribed from Boing Boing. I'm actually kind of surprised at the relief I felt.
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Here's a little PSA:
--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl
--AZ-01: Rick Renzi
--AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth
--CA-04: John Doolittle
--CA-11: Richard Pombo
--CA-50: Brian Bilbray
--CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave
--CO-05: Doug Lamborn
--CO-07: Rick O'Donnell
--CT-04: Christopher Shays
--FL-13: Vernon Buchanan
--FL-16: Joe Negron
--FL-22: Clay Shaw
--ID-01: Bill Sali
--IL-06: Peter Roskam
--IL-10: Mark Kirk
--IL-14: Dennis Hastert
--IN-02: Chris Chocola
--IN-08: John Hostettler
--IA-01: Mike Whalen
--KS-02: Jim Ryun
--KY-03: Anne Northup
--KY-04: Geoff Davis
--MD-Sen: Michael Steele
--MN-01: Gil Gutknecht
--MN-06: Michele Bachmann
--MO-Sen: Jim Talent
--MT-Sen: Conrad Burns
--NV-03: Jon Porter
--NH-02: Charlie Bass
--NJ-07: Mike Ferguson
--NM-01: Heather Wilson
--NY-03: Peter King
--NY-20: John Sweeney
--NY-26: Tom Reynolds
--NY-29: Randy Kuhl
--NC-08: Robin Hayes
--NC-11: Charles Taylor
--OH-01: Steve Chabot
--OH-02: Jean Schmidt
--OH-15: Deborah Pryce
--OH-18: Joy Padgett
--PA-04: Melissa Hart
--PA-07: Curt Weldon
--PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick
--PA-10: Don Sherwood
--RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee
--TN-Sen: Bob Corker
--VA-Sen: George Allen
--VA-10: Frank Wolf
--WA-Sen: Mike McGavick
--WA-08: Dave Reichert
All of a sudden lurkers will have a new advantage, and the lurkees might not be happy about it.
Ever notice that the only industry not in need of disintermediation is technology?
I want my foie gras! | Salon Life
I know I'm in peril of being thought of as some kind of culinary Ted Nugent.
Actually, I think of Bourdain more as a culinary Vanilla Ice.
The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Blog Archive » A visit to Clark Summit Farm in Tomales, CA
The chickens are raised and harvested using Joel Salatin’s popular methods, then she lets the carcasses sit for two days on ice; her buyers must come to the farm promptly to pick them up.
"Harvest" is such a lovely word; I wish that the "humane slaughter" types would just stick to "killed" or "slaughtered," (as, admittedly, they do later in the post.) You harvest vegetables. You kill chickens. "Harvest" is just another euphemism. Though I still don't get oohing over how sweet and cute and civilized the pigs are (they actually only shit in a corner! Isn't that amazing! It's like they're sentient! Where's my grassfed locally harvested pork?) while also wanting to eat them. Pollan's book has made it possible for people to feel like they don't need to actually see the animal slaughtered; they read about Pollan seeing it, so that's good enough for them.
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