Monthly Archives: February 2009

RSS Feed Added

Posted on February 28, 2009 by David

By request, I’ve added a RSS feed. The link is over there, on the right, below the search box. Now you can ignore me on your iPhone as well as your computer.

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The star maker machinery behind the popular song

Posted on February 25, 2009 by David

Chris is back from Wales, where he worked on the new record by Super Furry Animals. The band decided to document the entire production process: Super Furry Animals are never ones to stay still creatively, and with their forthcoming (currently … Continue reading →

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French Onion Pastina

Posted on February 24, 2009 by David

Pastina is little pasta shapes, often used in soups. In Italian families it’s also baby food, usually boiled and served plain or with some butter mixed in. When I saw this recipe for a variation on French onion soup, I … Continue reading →

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Meet the new juice, same as the old juice

Posted on February 24, 2009 by David

PepsiCo, it its unrelenting desire to maintain parity with the Coca Cola Company, has managed to create its own “New Coke” debacle. Their mis-step, however, had nothing to do with the taste of a product, but with its appearance. I’m … Continue reading →

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Reach out to Someone and the Somebodies

Posted on February 21, 2009 by David

U2’s Bono loves to talk to his audience during instrumental breaks. He usually goes on about politics or saving the planet, but every now and then he engages in Joycean free association (it must be a Dublin thing). If you’re … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Idiot Cake

Posted on February 16, 2009 by David

Valentine’s Day dessert was a flourless chocolate cake. Not just any flourless chocolate cake, but one that was included in The Essence of Chocolate, the cookbook written by the founders of Scharffenberger Chocolate. The cake had been developed by David … Continue reading →

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Boeuf Bourguignon

Posted on February 15, 2009 by David

I have been making boeuf bourguignon for as long as I have been cooking – almost 30 years. I used the recipe in Julia Child’s The French Chef Cookbook for most of that time, until I discovered the Cook’s Illustrated … Continue reading →

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Correlation is not Causation

Posted on February 12, 2009 by David

I can’t say it any better than Kathleen Seidel at Neurodiversity Weblog: This morning, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Office of Special Masters released decisions in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) claims, Cedillo v. HHS (Case No. 98-916V), … Continue reading →

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Shepard Fairey was here

Posted on February 10, 2009 by David

I met Shepard Fairey on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Newbury Street in June of 2000. He was climbing down from a utility pole, where he had just plastered his ubiquitous Obey stickers. I introduced myself, he handed me … Continue reading →

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Irresponsible, Criminal Behavior

Posted on February 9, 2009 by David

I have written previously about the nonexistent link between vaccinations and autism, and the harm that has been caused by the acceptance of this variety of magical thinking. Yesterday, the Times of London reported the results of an investigation into … Continue reading →

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