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Self-portrait with sprouts
Originally uploaded by Alaina B..I'm not doing anything fancy with these tonight (olive oil, salt, pepper, roast), but the next stalk of brussels sprouts to enter my kitchen undoubtedly will find itself on the receiving end of the David Chang treatment.
My last post on the Stay Free blog was over 2 months ago. Yikes. I have reappeared. This summer has been a busy one. I'll be posting more in the coming days but one of the things I did this summer was close all the McDonalds in Manhattan (with some help)... Our prank is easily repeatable and the script and other resources are on my site under Ronald's Crisis.. P.S. I posted this on YouTube yesterday - my first video on YouTube - and within two hours got my favorite comment ever: "fake"
French Nuclear Test
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If you purchased Pokemon Battle Revolution than you have probably heard about the Mystery Gifts you can unlock in that game. For one thing you can get a “Surfing” Pikachu once you beat the game.
Rumors have been going wild around the Internet about other Mystery Gift Pokemon that can be unlocked in the game, this is one of them.
Today Pokemon-games.com put up a page where you have to go through several tests to unlock this code. After completing these tests I have posted the code here for your enjoyment!
Use this code in PBR to unlock a mystery Pokemon B416-X4HT-VTWF.
You also receive a Silver Battle Pass
1. From the reception desk, select the Profile menu.
2. Once you are in the Profile menu, select “Profile” again. Then, choose “Self-introduction.”
3. On the message input screen, enter the code EXACTLY as it appears, including the hyphens between the numbers. Once you’ve entered the code, select “Confirm.”
4. You will be taken back to the Profile menu. Select “OK” at the bottom of the screen
5. If you entered the code correctly, the receptionist will appear and tell you that you have received a special Mystery Gift. Once you get this message, go to the Shop menu, choose “Mystery Gift,” look for the Shocking Secret Gift, select it, then follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
After you complete the process and download the Magmortar to your DS you need to go to the nearest PokeMart to pick him up! Once you do you will have a Pokemon with the trainer ID of 06257/PKTOPIA. This Pokemon is level 50, holding a Charcoal and knows the following moves:
- Flamethrower - Fire
- Psychic - Psychic
- Hyper Beam - Normal
- Solar Beam - Grass
After a long wait, the time has finally come for some real Delicious Library 2 details and screenshots. I can't show everything because some of the features integrate with parts of Leopard which are still under NDA, but there is plenty to dive into...
Surfin’ Safari:
The current working spec for the HTML5 standard has a lot of exciting features we would eventually like to implement in WebKit. One feature we felt was exciting enough to tackle now even though the spec is still in flux is client-side database storage.
This is huge news for web developers.
Spent a little bit of time at the Web 2.0 summit this afternoon, with the express intent of catching the following early afternoon lineup: Kedrosky, Butterfield, Recordon & Fitzpatrick and then Safa Rashtchy's panel discussion with a group of baby boomers about how they use the web. Kedrosky convinced me that I need to learn more about dark pools; Stewart showed off some really sexy new photo mapping features coming soon to Flickr, and Safa's panel was as entertaining and enlightening as ever. (This couple was on the panel, and they were great.)
I'm admittedly biased, but the highlight for me was David and Brad. They did a great job of laying out the problem of closed social networks: as more and more applications benefit from social interaction, connecting those apps to an appropriate set of your friends will become a more frequent occurrence. In short, soon you will be very very tired of using the word "friend" as a verb, if you're not already.
The solution is a combination of a technology tools, a mindset change, and user education. The technology stuff is basically there -- XFN, FOAF and OAuth, for example -- and is being demonstrated now in the Six Apart Relationship Update Stream that David announced today. The mindset change requires social network operators to open up that data, which will come, even if it takes a while. The education piece is about providing simple user experiences that (a) teach users how this works and (b) shows them the value of expressing at least a portion of their graph publicly and (c) allows them to control and maintain their relationship data.
David's got a post up on O'Reily Radar that summarizes their talk; it's a good followup to his post on Opening the Social Graph at sixapart.com.
(I'd love your comments on this.)
Our favorite new band to grace the CMJ lineup this year is the Chicago-based electro-meets-old-school hip-hop duo to end all Chicago-based electro-meets-old-school hip-hop duos The Cool Kids. They are really a force to be reckoned with. Which is why we were pleased as punch that they came by the PAPER offices the other day and agreed to do a little guest-blogging for us, when they're not playing about 875 CMJ shows. Catch 'em tonight as they open for MIA at Terminal 5. Here's Mikey Rocks' first installment... Yoyoyo what up peoplesss? I'm in New York right now... It's raining, I'm hungry, and confused all at the same time. But before I get into that, let's talk about the past few nights I've been here! OK, the Fools Gold show at Hiro was like 2 days ago... It was ill all across the board... (*side note* in chicago "ill" means good but I've noticed some NY people use ill to describe something bad or lame.) But anyway, it was a lot of fun. Seemed like the crowd was definitely rockin' with us and that's all I could ever ask for. Then after that we headed over to a club called Room Service where a bunch of the homies were at. It was crackin pretty hard. Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri were in there along with Cuba Gooding Jr. I think I saw Silk the Shocker and Mike Ditka as well but maybe I was just trippin? Lol. Chinatown smells like fish. A lot. And New York homeless guys are way less pushy than Chicago homeless guys. Out here they just shake the cup and make eye contact. Back home they like to touch -- haha. Anyway, I'll be back soon with more. Right now we're headed to soundcheck for tonight's show at Terminal 5 with the beautiful miss M.I.A. Halla at ya llama. M.rocks
I stood for a half hour on Madison Avenue trying to get a cab to take me to the Cooper Hewitt Design Awards and I was getting more and more stressed as the time ticked and ticked, as I was late anyway. Finally I took a bus which got me there 45 minutes late. OY. But hey, just in the nick of time to sit down for our first course with my tablemates from the Target team who were the sponsors of the evening as well as the sponsors of this week's free admission to the museum. EVERYONE should take advantage of this because of course the Ingo Maurer show is my favorite show that I've ever seen at that museum! GO SEE IT! Meanwhile last night had its moments. Isaac Mizrahi (who sat with us) gave the "peoples design award " to the cutie Blake Mycoskie who started TOMS shoes. My old left coast friend Ric Owens won the fashion award. Deservedly so, I might add. Owens' show blew my mind this season. I think it was his best show EVER and one of the best shows of Fashion Week. Fun to see him in New York! But I just have to gush about the best moment of the evening which I experienced after the dinner was over on my way out. I was sharing a cab downtown with Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell (who were there to give fabric guru Michael Maharam his award) when we ran into our friend Chee Pearlman who dragged us over to meet someone who has been my #1 design hero over the years: Jonathan Ive. I almost died. For those of you who dont know who Johnny Ive is, he is the head of the design team of all things Apple. (He was there as he was given an award also.) It's from his mind that the iMac design was born, not to mention every single incarnation of sublime Mac computers' elegance and style that Apple is famous for. This is THE GUY!!!! He is really and truly my guru and over the years I have desperately wanted to meet him or interview him (Paola Antonelli once interviewed him for PAPER years ago) but he is a hider. Very shy. Never wants attention. Rarely does interviews. (See the photo of him above.) I was speechless and so was Murray. What a nice guy he was. Now that I've finally met my Apple design hero, I just have one more hero I'm dying to meet from Cupertino. Steve Jobs. (Ya never know... maybe someday!)
Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Steve Ballmer is unique character. He’s animated and speaks his mind, even when he’s dodging a question. And he’s full of good expressions if you’re fast enough as a photographer to catch them. Of dozens of great faces, this was one that I managed to move fast enough to catch.
This video features a nerdy-looking Seattle Sonics fan rapping about Dirk Nowitzki, Kobe Bryant, and Steve Nash. I know that doesn't sound very funny, but it somehow is. Very. (via truehoop)
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The hilarity never ends when talking about cell phone service in the subways. The City Council spoke to the MTA about the agency's upcoming cell phone service plans, and apparently some members suggested that there should be "quiet cars" on the subway. We cannot stop laughing! City Councilman Oliver Koppell suggested that quiet cars would be a haven from the chattering masses who would use cell phones in the cars. (Let's not forget that the plan for wire subway stations is only for stations, not tunnels - whereas aboveground cell service has been around, since, well, whenever cell service was first offered.) Per the Daily News, Koppell said, "You may say, 'People won't listen.' But there's a tendency for self-policing in that system. So, if you have a quiet car ... and someone gets on and starts talking on the cell phone, other passengers will say, 'This is a quiet car, please turn off the cell phone.' Generally, that works." Koppell definitely has an optimistic view of the average subway rider. We're not sure that people like listening to even gentle suggestions from other straphangers. If you can't convince people to stop yammering when they're just talking to each other - or give up their seats to a pregnant woman/senior citizen/parent with baby - how will quiet car policing work? Anyway, the MTA doesn't think it will add cell phone service to tunnels, fearing customer reaction. And City Councilman John Liu, head of the Transportation Committee said, "a subway train is not really the place you go for a lot of peace and quiet tranquility. There's plenty of noise on the subway already." Also, how will one find a quiet car, when you can't travel between the train cars. So many questions!
There are no details of what the "hacking" was, or whether it was anything more spoofing the Caller ID:
Randal T. Ellis, 19, allegedly impersonated a caller from the Lake Forest home shortly before midnight March 29, saying he had murdered someone in the house and threatened to shoot others.Allegedly hacking into systems maintained by America Online and Verizon, Ellis used the couple's names, which he had confirmed earlier in a prank call to their home, authorities said.
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Authorities spent more than six months tracking down Ellis before arresting him in Mukilteo last week. He was in the process of being extradited to California on Tuesday and was charged with "false imprisonment by violence" and "assault with an assault weapon by proxy." The crimes carry a possible prison sentence of 18 years.
Elizabeth Henderson, the assistant Orange County district attorney in charge of the economic-crimes unit, said Ellis' scheme was "fairly difficult to unravel."
Some more stories, with no more information.
If you're in New York this week, definitely check out this benefit show for Groundswell Community Mural Project. Groundswell is one of the best public arts organization in New York and they've put together a really good show this year. Just Seeds member Swoon and Kevin from Visual Resistance both have work in the show, and Visual Resistance recently collaborated with Groundswell on a mural project in Gowanus, Brooklyn, so this cause is close to our hearts. Here's the details: Groundswell Community Mural Project Annual Benefit and Silent Auction Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 7-10pm Live + Silent Auction featuring artwork by: Nicole Cherubini, Eric Fischl, April Gornick, Judith Linhares, Elbow Toe, Inbal Sivan, Swoon, Paul Villinski & Massimo Vitalli, and many more. 511 Gallery 529 West 20th Street, Suite 8 West (Between 10th and 11th Avenues) New York City See the Groundswell site for more benefit details. Photo at top from getbelle's flickr photostream
Following on from Devel::CheckOS I have been working with David Golden on Devel::CheckLib. It's similar to Devel::CheckOS, in that it will let module authors specify dependencies which aren't just other perl modules - if they need, eg, libjpeg, then they can use this module in Makefile.PL / Build.PL to make it a pre-req, and if it's missing then the CPAN testers will SHUT UP ABOUT IT and not annoy the author.Read more of this story at use Perl.
Seriously. Girls just love boys like this.
(Found over at The Coveted.)
Viggo Mortensen is back; he's similarly as mysterious as in his last Cronenberg outing, but looking like a scarier version of Kurt Douglas as Nikolai Luzhin, driver and 'cleaner' to a Russian gangster boss living in London. Hard-working Naomi Watts plays an innocent midwife drawn into a world of grimness when she tries to find the relatives for the child of a 14-year-old who died in childbirth.
OK - this sounds like a pretty contrived and slightly preposterous set up, but the script, by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), manages to just about wheel the characters into a world of probability. Personally, all my favorite Cronenberg films are the ones he's scripted himself (which he seems to have stopped doing around the turn of the century). Similarly, the scenes that work best for me are the ones where he and his effects crew get to go ape in: After watching this you'll realize that there are just not enough naked men knife fight scenes in cinema.
This was not a serious offer to Joe Torre. Nobody with any modicum of self-pride would be willing to accept a 33% pay cut at a late stage of his career, which is what this ultimately amounts to, from a base of $7.5 million in 2007 to $5.0 million in 2008. And nobody with any tangible sense of the randomness inherent to postseason baseball would be willing to give much benefit of the doubt to incentive clauses that are difficult to achieve under the best of circumstances, and which have little to do with one’s own performance.
No. This offer was a public relations stunt, designed to make it look as though the Yankees had not put Joe Torre out to pasture. It was not an offer that had any chance of being accepted, nor was it an offer that that had any chance of facilitating future discussions. It was an insulting offer, quite frankly, and a conversation-ender.
That is not to a render a judgment about what Joe Torre is ultimately worth to the Yankees. Very probably, the marginal revenue that Torre produces is not worth $7.5 million more than what Don Mattingly would give you, nor is it worth $5.0 million more. But it’s not like Torre went from being worth $7.5 million yesterday to $5.0 million today, just because the Yankees lost three out of four games to another very talented baseball club.
If it were my business, I would not have made this offer. I would have offered Joe Torre more, or I wouldn’t have made him an offer at all. I can’t entirely blame the Yankees for trying to triangulate the situation. But I hope that people see this offer for what it was.
Mike is going to jail for 3-mths for a graffiti conviction in Brooklyn. While in prison he will have to mount a case against a 43 count indictment where he may be sentenced to up to 7 years in prison with only the counsel of a court-appointed legal aid la
bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by yatta to graffiti graffitiresearchlab eyebeam - more about this bookmark...
Dan got everything right about Tumblr 3
We suck at keeping secrets.
The only thing that would make November 1 better is if Apple preempted us by releasing new Penryn-based Mac Pros.
tamarind glazed meat loaf and roasted potatoes with southern indian spices
Originally uploaded by Alaina B..It's a meatloaf extravaganza at Serious Eats today. To celebrate, I made tamarind glazed meatloaf (recipe).
I was all set to celebrate National Meatloaf Appreciation Day with Wolfgang's bacon-wrapped meatloaf, but an afternoon spent thumbing through Suvir Saran's new cookbook, American Masala, changed my mind. I've had a lot of success with recipes from his first book, Indian Home Cooking
, so Tamarind-Glazed Meatloaf it was.
I saved a little prep time by using my stick blender with its chopper attachment to "finely mince" my ginger, and then my garlic and jalapeño pepper. The hardest ingredient to hunt down was the tamarind paste (it's also referred to as "tamarind concentrate"), but I found it at Kalustyan's. I followed Saran's suggestion and served the meatloaf with roasted potatoes with south indian spices. And the verdict? Delicious! The mushrooms add depth and a pleasing earthy flavor while not screaming "mushroom!" — maybe because the texture of the diced portobello so closely mimics meat when cooked. Enjoy!
Tamarind-Glazed Meatloaf
- makes 2 loaves, each serving 4 to 6 -
Ingredients
For the meatloaf:
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup fresh bread crumbs
1/2 cup water
3 tablespoons canola oil
1 large red onion, thinly sliced
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and finely minced
4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely minced
1/2 jalapeño pepper (cored and seeded for a milder flavor), finely minced
2 teaspoons ground coriander
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground peppercorns
4 portobeIIo mushroom caps (about 1 pound), finely diced
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon garam masala
2 1/2 pounds ground beef (preferably 80 percent lean)
1/4 pounds ground pork
1 red beII pepper, cored, seeded, and finely chopped
1/4 cup fresh cilantro, finely chopped
3 large eggs
1/2 cup ketchup
2 ounces Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated
1/2 teaspoon sweet paprikaFor the tamarind glaze:
1 cup ketchup
1 teaspoon tamarind paste
2 teaspoons ground coriander
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground peppercorns
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepperProcedure
1. To prepare the meatloaf, melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add the bread crumbs and toast until browned, stirring often, for 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl and set aside to cool.
2. Place the water next to your cooktop. Heat the oil with the onion and salt in a large pot oven over medium·high heat, cooking the onion until it's soft and just starting to brown, stirring often, 4 to 5 minutes. Stir in the ginger and cook. stirring often to prevent the ginger from burning, and splashing with water if it starts to brown too much, until it's fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the garlic and jalapeño and cook until the garlic is fragrant, splashing water if necessary, for about 1 minute. Stir in the coriander, cumin, and ground peppercorns and cook for 1 minute, stirring and scraping the bottom of the skillet often and splashing it with water whenever the spices or onion begin to stick to the bottom of the pan.
3. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring often, until they release their liquid and the liquid has evaporated, 6 to 8 minutes. Stir in the cayenne pepper and cook for 30 seconds. Stir in the Garam Masala, turn off the heat, and set the pot aside to cool.
4. Preheat the oven to 300°F. Add the remaining ingredients to the bowl with the toasted bread crumbs, kneading it until everything is completely incorporated. Add the cooled mushroom mixture and knead again until combined. Divide the mixture evenly into two 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-inch loaf pans and bake for 1 hour (or cover the loaf pan with
plastic wrap, place inside of a resealable freezer bag, and freeze for up to 3 months; defrost overnight in your refrigerator before baking).5. While the meatloaves bake, make the tamarind glaze. In a small bowl whisk the glaze ingredients together. Remove the loaves from the oven and carefully drain off the pooled fat from the pan. Evenly spread some glaze over each meat loaf and continue to bake for an additional 30 minutes, or until the internal temperature reads 165°F on a digital thermometer. Let the loaves cool for 15 minutes before serving. Run a knife around the pan's edge, slice, and serve.
It's over: The House just voted on the SCHIP bill moments ago, and failed to override President Bush's veto.
The vote was 273-156, falling short of the two-thirds vote needed to overturn Bush's veto.
Incredibly, despite polls showing strong majority support for a veto override, and an aggressive ad campaign targeting Republicans on SCHIP, the GOP was remarkably successful in holding the line and sustaining Bush's veto. Only forty-four Republicans voted for the bill -- almost exactly the same as last time, save for GOP Rep. Pete King, a bill supporter who was absent this time. One-hundred and fifty-four GOPers voted against it.
The roll call is here. More soon.
Fraser Speirs: “Possibly the worst business decision we could make as Mac developers is to devalue iPhone applications to the same level as Dashboard widgets.”
This is an important discussion—thanks to Fraser for starting it.
“For all that, though, these are all deliberate decisions. So someone clearly designed it, which is a cause for applause.”
- Michael Bierut on the travesty that is the new NYC Taxi logo
Heh. This is GREAT.
... and one of many pictures I'm likely to use up at GameCity: if all goes to plan, I'm going to do a little intro to Keita Takahashi, and not unsurprisingly, I'll be talking quite a bit about Katamari craftiness. I'll also be wearing my Katamari crochet hat and my Katamari teeshirt, for that added je ne sais quoi. Oh yes.
<p>On our way out the door yesterday Luna asked, "Do I have a lama I can bring?" We were heading into D.C. to witness the presentation of the <a href="http://www.dalailamadc.org/">Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama</a>. I was slightly distracted, packing snacks, tying shoes and trying to remember the water bottles cooling in the fridge. "What, honey?"</p> <p>"A little llama I can bring," she said, and that time I could hear the extra "L." She likes to bring a toy along when we travel, usually a small animal. Of course, she would want to bring a llama with her to see the Dalai Lama. The night before she had been completely riveted by Demi's book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dalai-Lama-Foreword-His-Holiness/dp/080505443X/ref=sr_1_1/103-9383932-8858254?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192713401&sr=1-1"><em>The Dalai Lama</em></a>, and I had a sense that she was a little excited about this particular trip into the city.</p> <p>It was hotter than I thought it would be, but a little less crowded on the lawn of the Capitol. We easily made our way through the crowd of college students, monks draped in red and gold, families with small children, people waving Tibetan flags, women and young girls dressed in beautiful, glittering gowns. Snippets of conversations spoken in various languages, with various accents, slipped past my ears as we walked. We found a spot of grass, unfortunately not in the shade, but with a decent view of the mega screen broadcasting the presentation inside the building.</p> <p>His speech was not easy to follow, what with the helicopter traffic, Sol and Luna asking for snacks, and the Dalai Lama, as he joked, choosing that particular moment to practice his English. He is a very funny man. I think I caught the gist of it, at least the parts that were meant for me. There was a moment when I felt the urge to open myself up to the infinite stores of love and compassion, the ones I just recently discovered, and to connect with the people standing around me. I opened up, and a flood of tears and emotion spilled out of me. Then I quickly closed again, startled by the intensity, by the ease of it.</p> <p>I wonder if I would have been so quick to guard myself if I'd been there without the children. A mother must always be vigilant, and it's hard to be vigilant when you are emotionally naked on the lawn of the capitol in a crowd of thousands. I am glad I brought them. I'm glad I got to share it with them, and whatever they took from the experience, they get to keep. </p> <p>I think the music and dancing, and all the positive, hopeful energy will stand out in their memory over the heat and afternoon tiredness. I will remember Luna pointing to a Monk and saying, "Is it just me, or is he a Buddha?" I will remember Sol remarking at the very end, "Would you believe by looking at his face that this man has been through so much?" I will remember feeling in awe of that beautiful, most genuine of smiles.</p> <p>Afterwards, we met Adam on the mall and headed for the <a href="http://www.solardecathlon.org/">Solar Decathlon</a> to check out the amazing designs. Could it actually be possible to live in a house like this? Some people dream of living in mansions, but we dream of living in one of these. (Everyday I am reminded of how lucky we are to have found each other— two freaks in love with the idea of gardening on the walls!) </p> <p>We stopped off at the <a href="http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/gardens/sculpture.html">Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden</a> per Sol's request. We wandered a bit, talking about different sculptures and how they came to be. Mostly we discussed whether their names fit them properly. A few favorites were <em>The Great Warrior of Montauban</em>, <em>Seated Yucatan Woman</em>, and the "<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kubina/296367547/in/set-72157594373426981/">Burghers of Calais</a>," which Sol aptly renamed, "Monks Walking in a Circle." And what a circle.</p>
A review of the script for Where the Wild Things Are, written by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze (the script, not the review):
(link)Where the Wild Things Are is filled with richly imagined psychological detail, and the screenplay for this live-action film simply becomes a longer and more moving version of what Maurice Sendak's book has always been at heart: a book about a lonely boy leaving the emotional terrain of boyhood behind.
It struck me yesterday reading Steve Jobs' personal note about plans for third-party apps on the iPhone that the most telling thing about the announcement was the opening five-word phrase:
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February.
Let me just say it. What we're starting to see here (and of course in the anti-DRM letter from earlier this year) is a pretty significant shift in Jobs' public relations strategy, in that he seems to have recognized that there are limits to secrecy. Yes, some developments are best kept under wraps for as long as possible -- like the iPhone or the Intel switch -- contrary to all the principles of Web 2.0 openness and transparency. But with other decisions, you're sometimes much better off going public early, and exposing some of your thought process when you do. I had been thinking about posting something over the past week or two about the iPhone SDK issue, arguing that if Apple indeed was planning on opening up the platform sometime in the nearish future, there was absolutely no reason not to announce those plans -- unlike release specs for, say, the iPhone, keeping the SDK plans secret wasn't a competitive advantage in any sense, and it was bringing on a ton of ill will from people who would otherwise be iPhone fanatics.
But as it turns out, I didn't need to write that post, because Jobs decided to go public with Apple's plans, even if they weren't fully-formed. That suggests to me that he's still evolving as a CEO and as a PR wizard, still capable of adapting to new situations -- yet another reason for Apple's competitors to be nervous.
Here's my big question, though: I wonder whether Apple had the SDK as part of its plans all along, and merely changed its mind about whether to go public with it in response to the criticism -- or were they truly debating the merits of opening up the platform, and thus reluctant to say anything until they were 100% sure of their plans?
Second trailer for the could-be-amazing I'm Not There, a movie about Bob Dylan, starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, and three other actors as Bob Dylan. Not very related: would any of Christian Bale's characters be any good in bed?
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Meatloaves from What Smells So Good, Canela y Comino, A Sofa in the Kitchen, The Daily Raw Cafe, Add More Wine, and The Expatriate's Kitchen.
It's National Meatloaf Appreciation Day, and we've had such a strong response to our call for loaf that we're breaking coverage into a few posts—so you can have meatloaf for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
You may recall that we declared today National Meatloaf Appreciation Day to celebrate the unique combination of comfort and innovation that meatloaf embodies. We asked readers—and the Serious Eats team—to make a meatloaf, document the process and share their results.
The first 15 meatloaf submissions, after the jump.
Our very first submission was an Autumnal apple-and-rosemary spin from Baltimore's Coconut & Lime.
We were thrilled to get a raw food meatloaf recipe,and a gorgeously vibrant one at that, thanks to The Daily Raw. She showed us that you can eat raw AND enjoy comfort food.
Add More Wine went with more of a meat dome than a meatloaf, and relies on Heinz 57 Sauce as a go-to ingredient.
Inspired by Alton Brown to freshly grind chuck and sirloin, Eye of the Rabbit submitted a step-by-step photo essay.
One Musical Mom says she's not a meatloaf fan but it looks as though that doesn't hold her back from baking up a mean one. Her husband, a meatloaf lover, must be eternally grateful for her sacrifice.
Not content with one food blog event entry, What Smells So Good worked on her curried meatloaf at the same time that she made a Black Forest cake for Pinktober. All this on top of Canadian Thanksgiving!
Barbecue sauce and the power of substitution get some contemplation in the submission from St. Louis Eats and Drinks with Joe and Ann Pollack—and it comes from a family where the husband is nicknamed Mr. Meatloaf, so you know they mean it!
Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy lassoed her family into participating by trying out no fewer than three meatloaves before settling on a sophisticated (and tasty sounding) rolled meatloaf filled with cheese and salumi.
Our most far-flung submission came from Lima, Peru, where Canela y Comino made mini loaves and wondered whether she could recruit Peruvians to try cold meatloaf sandwiches the next day.
An even mix of lean turkey breast, buffalo, and pork in combination with veggies and olive oil makes for a healthy meatloaf and is a great way to disguise an disliked food for a toddler, as we learn in the Expatriate's Kitchen.
Gluten-free gal Hey, That Tastes Good added cranberries to her gluten-free meatloaf and recruited her boyfriend to make a cheesy scalloped potato side dish.
Lamb, feta, mint, rosemary, served with a dollop of tzatziki; all that was missing from Seriously Good's Greek Lamb Loaf post was a glass of retsina to wash it all down!
Mera Pyaar says she's new to foodblogging but her lovely photo makes us think otherwise. She made her meatloaf after a visit to a farm to pick up apples and pumpkins—a perfect end to a lovely autumnal activity.
How's this for a title: Bacon Wrapped Molasses Glazed Individual Meatloaves with Corn and Cilantro Mashed Potatoes and Blackstrap Gravy! That's what A Sofa in the Kitchen submitted, borrowed from a favorite Seattle restaurant, The Icon.
And at the opposite end of the spectrum, Lewandowski adapted the mother of all published meatloaf recipes, the classic from the Betty Crocker cookbook, for moist, meaty, traditional results.
There are plenty more meatloaf submissions to read, so check back at lunchtime for second helpings of our food blog event!
Make me rich, you follow-fashion monkeys.
Originally uploaded by Mike Monteiro.
One of the biggest new features in Leopard Server, and one of the best web apps I’ve ever seen — and by far the best web app I’ve seen from Apple — including an amazing web-based WYSIWYG editor.
For once there’s some correlation between a rise in Apple’s stock price and good news from the company. Wall Street sees platforms as lucrative.
The NYC Dept of Transportation is introducing compass decals to be placed on sidewalks at subway exits to help orient disembarking passengers. I thought I'd posted a link about this idea before on kottke.org, but the only reference I can find is a discussion about compasses on manhole covers. (thx, erik)
Update: Aha, here's the entry. John has more.
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Congestion pricing advocate Carolyn Konheim and consulting partner Brian Ketcham are advising the Bloomberg administration to drop its resistance to a congestion pricing Environmental Impact Study.
The two say a study is needed to head off "likely 11th hour litigation" aimed at stopping the three-year pilot program from taking effect, a possibility Streetsblog alluded to following the first meeting of the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission late last month.
"[D]ecision-makers need to know that the selection of the system to be tested has considered all reasonable alternatives to achieve the Mayor's admirable goals," reads a press release announcing Konheim and Ketcham's open letter to Mayor Bloomberg.
The most promising alternative to be examined in an environmental assessment is "charging at the real chokepoints in roadway capacity -- our river crossings and highways," according to Ketcham, a traffic engineer who has regarded bridge tolls as the premier congestion pricing strategy since he introduced in his landmark Clean Air plan for New York City in 1973. Tolling the four free East River bridges equal to all MTA crossings and across 60th Street, river to river, he calculates "would be at least as effective as PlaNYC in reducing congestion and would generate far more funding for transit."
The independent Brooklyn-based planners estimate that a pricing cordon that crosses bridge and tunnel spans and 60th Street would require E-ZPass monitors on about 50 inbound lanes, whereas the charging network necessitated by PlaNYC's complex avoidance of tolls could require detectors and cameras on1,000 to 2,000 lanes. Based on London's operating costs for a simpler single cordon, they foresee that the charging grid in PlaNYC would consume most of the congestion pricing revenue, leaving little funding for transit -- a major goal of the mayor's plan and the long-term aim of transit advocates.
Mr. Ketcham and Ms. Konheim suggest numerous strategies as alternatives to or companions of congestion pricing, particularly, the kind of comprehensive parking control and parking pricing program instituted in London before road pricing, and measures to reduce taxi cruising, a "major source of New York's congestion."The full text of the letter appears after the jump.
Wired's Ben Paynter talks to ranchers, dairy farmers, and scientists about the business and science of cloned meat and milk. Although these products haven't yet been pushed onto the public, they may be seen in stores soon. Keeping clone offspring out of the food chain is "impossible to police," says Don Coover, president of bull semen company SEK Genetics.
Imagine you're the chick taking orders at Starbucks. In walks Britney Spears, who probably has a complicated order with extra shots, a lot of room and all kinds of fancy stuff. Do you ask for her name so you can write it on her cup -- or do you just write Brit and make a cutsie heart next to it. Ah -- the big questions in life.
PS: Where's her bra?
