Archive for April, 2005

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Why music geeks obsess over Wilco : Jeff Tweedy talks about his own music fandom.
Saucy Magazine : A hip, well written online foodie / entertaining magazine
Show Me The Way Home : Budget Living Magazine home buying tips, pitfalls, examples

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Restaurant Magazine Picks Top 50 Restaurants in the World : Some day…
How to freeze cilantro : I feel crappy using 1/20 of the bunch and tossing the rest, this seems perfect.
Find Cheap Fabric in LA : When we recovered a chair and built a valance, the fabric was without question the most expensive part of [...]

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Matt Ruff’s Author Recommendations : More authors should offer up recommendations, helping to find similar/influential authors.
Cornell Lax makes NCAAs, Wins Ivy, Beats Princeton : “They came out on fire,” Princeton coach Bill Tierney said of the Big Red. “They shoot the ball like nobody we’ve seen this year…”

A couple weeks ago, I went looking for a new photo for my desktop wallpaper at work to signify the change from winter to spring (at least the change elsewhere…in LA the change means a 4 degree increase in average temperature and a decrease of the chance of rain from unlikely to nil). Looking [...]

I’ve been occasionally keeping my eye on the ebay marketing for 2nd generation 8-bit Nintendos for the past couple years. Released around the time the Super Nintendo came out, they redesigned the unit to get rid of the problems original NESes developed with age. They’d begin to have difficulty reading cartridges, and eventually no amount [...]

I noticed Leonard’s photo of a scooter in Taiwan with an amazing slogan on the side. I showed it to Jeremy, who came up with a site that catalogs “Taiwanglish”, which appears to consist mostly of product taglines translated sloppily to english, often with hilarious results. Some of the best slogans on scooters include:
We Reach [...]