Entries written in February 2006
Written February 28, 2006 in Uncategorized
Chef creates world's most expensive pie
A CHEF has baked the world's most expensive pie costing more than £1,000 a slice, it was revealed today. The traditional steak and mushroom ingredients have been replaced by a £500 beef fillet, Chinese mushrooms worth more than £2,000 and truffles. The recipe includes two bottles of 1982 [...]
In a follow-up for my search for ethically made shoes, MotherJones.com is offering up a number of free-trade and sweatshop free apparel.
Among them are these One-Staresque sneaks.
Price: $47 + shipping
Mother Jones and No Sweat Apparel are proud to introduce the Mojo No Sweat Sneaker. These shoes are manufactured in a union shop in Indonesia and [...]
Fellow Metroblogger Destitute Rebel weighs in on the Dubai port deal over at Metroblogging Dubai:
We here at dubai metblogs have been sitent on the whole issue of DP world taking over P&O, which has created a stir in America because the deal effects Ports in the US, according to the $6.8 Billion buyout of P&O [...]
I'm torn as to what I want to do.
Do I go and see artist Gary Baseman speak at Rollins on 'pervasive art' and the merging of art and toys? Or, do I go to campus for Project Darfur and see Chuck D speak on the human rights situation in Darfur and other political issues? [...]
Proof that conservative journalists have no sense of humor:
A Letter to Jon Stewart
By: Lee Siegel, TNR television critic.
Dear Jon Stewart,
As the entire world knows, you'll be hosting the Oscars this coming Sunday for the first time. On this august occasion, please allow me to appeal to you as someone who wants to be a fan [...]
From Juan Cole @ Informed Comment:
Despite the daytime curfew, violence killed 29 in Iraq on Sunday and wounded dozens. A series of eight mortar shells slammed into Shiite neighborhoods, killing 16 persons and wounding some 45. Many women and children were among the victims. There was other violence in Baghdad, as well as in Baqubah, [...]
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Just imagine waking up tomorrow with no memory of today or any other since the day of your birth. Imagine living without a history, without experience, no relationships, no past troubles. Imagine starting your life over again, making a new set of friends, finding new talents and falling in love for the first [...]
Go! Go! GO!
Damn.
~FryGuy
Despite my disdain for all things Reality TV (sans Real World of course), I can't help but watch #1 Single.
Why?
Because Lisa Loeb is cuter than all hell (I'm a sucker for glasses, what can I say). How can a smart, sexy, successful little woman like that NOT find a guy in a city that [...]
The month is almost over so it's time to do the obligatory and predictable “recents” post. Hey, I've got time to kill and I'm tired of thinking about homework. February is a short month (as well as Black History Month, but we've all heard that joke before) but somehow I managed to squeeze [...]
Is it just me?
Or is Joseph Gordon-Levitt like the poor man's Heath Ledger?
Funny that they both played gay characters in rather risqué roles.
Back to your regularly scheduled nothing.
~FryGuy
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I took a lot of photos today so I've been going through them incrementally. I posted the best ones immediately on the Flickr thing and here. This will be the last picture though, and then no more Nazi talk I swear. I think this guy got lost on his way to MegaCON.
See, [...]
(BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)
Is it just me or is this picture oddly appropriate with the 'ONE-WAY' sign pointing prominently at the Nazis? The sentinel has a story up already, although I beat them to the punch. What I found funny that none of these guys met the normal aryan standard, the blond hair and [...]
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