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A ride in a press elevator is too brief for a long conversation, but it does allow enough time for a few quick observations about a baseball team.  An advance scout for a National League team who recently followed the Padres for four games offered the following snapshot:

On Trevor Hoffman:

“Hoffman was scuffling a little bit while I was there, but I’m sure he’ll get out of it.  He has to have his changeup working, and at the time he wasn’t locating the way he needs to.  It was probably more a question of age as much as anything, but he should be fine.  He’s what now, 40 years old?  He’s had a marvelous career.”

On whom he was pleasantly surprised with:

“That Scott Hairston kid looked pretty good.  He’s more of a fourth outfielder to me, which he still might well be, but he played well when I saw him.  He hit for some power, and he played some center field while Edmonds was out.  He’s got some tools; he’s got some power; he can run.  And he showed me that he can play center field, which makes him of some value to a team.  He can also play multiple positions, including the infield.”

On the Padres’ offensive capabilities:

“Kouzmanoff and Gonzalez are pretty good hitters in the middle of their lineup.  Kouzmanoff has to get hot.  I think that Gonzalez is the real deal.  Edmonds was hurt then.  Giles is there.  They have an older team, more of a veteran club.  It will be interesting to see what happens with them.”

Originally posted by David Laurila from Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered, on May 3, 2008 6:33 PM

Jersey based pizza fanatic Scott Wiener (pictured) may have found a way to turn his appetite into a career with his just-launched Pizza Tours of New York City. Every Sunday, Wiener will escort up to 32 ravenous adults on a pizza tasting odyssey to half a dozen pizzerias stretching from Lombardi’s on Spring Street to Louie & Ernie’s in the Bronx.

The licensed New York City tour guide is charging $55 a person for the privilege, which includes a plain slice at each pizzeria and the pleasure of Wiener’s enthusiastic company aboard a yellow school bus. As the erudite self-publisher of his own Pizza Journal, maybe Wiener can use his tour as an opportunity to settle the raging debate on why NYC pizza is widely considered the best on Earth.

And on weekdays Wiener will soon start leading a three hour walking tour of historic downtown pizzerias. Those tickets are $30; you can find out more info on his website, Scott’s Pizza Tours.

Photo of Scott Wiener via Dr Baloney.

Originally posted by John Del Signore from Gothamist Weekly Favorites, on May 3, 2008 6:23 PM

It's only a week now until Pangea Day -- the worldwide festival of film, ideas and music, happening simultaneously around the globe on May 10. Thousands of locally hosted events worldwide will share the program, and if you're in Milan, you're invited to join the local viewing party hosted by Pangea Day Milano -- see their webpage for details (in Italian). These Friends of Pangea Day have also made their own anthem video, in tribute to the "Imagine" anthem project that's part of the Pangea Day program. Check out these Italian horn players taking on the national anthem of Tibet! We found out about this fan video on pangeadaymilano's Twitter feed.

Watch "Italy plays Tibet" >>

Originally posted by (author unknown) from TED | TEDBlog, on May 3, 2008 11:38 AM

It's only mid-afternoon on a Saturday, but four super-delegates endorsements have already come out:

• In New Mexico, where Hillary Clinton very narrowly won the party-run primary on Super Tuesday, state party chair Brian Colón has endorsed Barack Obama.

• In South Carolina, former state superintendent Inez Tenenbaum, an Obama supporter, won the add-on slot in a state where he won the primary by a landslide.

• In Maryland, where Obama won the primary by a wide margin but the state party establishment has supported Clinton, the state party committee selected one Obama-supporter, former Gov. Parris Glendening, and one Hillary-backer, former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, to fill their two add-on slots.

The opposite scenario -- a state where Clinton won, but many state party leaders back Obama and have it in their power to control the add-on seats -- will be coming up next Saturday in Massachusetts. It will be interesting to see what happens then.

The score so far: Obama +3, Clinton +1.

Originally posted by Eric Kleefeld from TPM Election Central, on May 3, 2008 9:47 AM

You know, I kinda wondered about it when S. Pellegrino released its 50 Best Restaurants in the World listing this year—you know, the fact that the top dog three years running was El Bulli in ol' España. But I figured, well, Michael Jordan and the Bulls did a threepeat. And the Forbes richest dudes list seems to be pretty static. But Terry Durack in The Independent calls BS on the El Bulli win:

As El Bulli only opens for only six months of the year, and all seats are booked on the day they are released, I'm amazed that so many judges were able to get in. I was a judge, and I couldn't. So I suspect that some judges found it easier to go along with their peers' existing endorsement of El Bulli rather than actually get out there and find a challenger. If so, that casts serious doubt on the validity of the awards.

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Originally posted by Adam Kuban from Serious Eats: Main, on May 3, 2008 7:00 AM

The top Google result for the phrase “The American People” — as of this writing — is a project I created years ago that scans political stories on Yahoo for the phrase “the American People.” It pulls out the relevant paragraph and collects them together, in an attempt to show how the phrase (and, presumably, what it represents) is treated by politicians, i.e. like a three-dollar hooker.

That needs to change. There’s a band called “The American People” and they’re great. They actually deserve the top spot, earning it through effort and quality instead of a gimmick. I know Google is supposed to be the ultimate example of democratic participation and meritocracy, but if the abuse of the phrase “the American People” demonstrates anything, it’s that the enthusiasm with which something is cited almost directly relates to how insipidly it’s being used.

The American People deserve “The American People,” and “The American People” deserve your attention.

Originally posted by (author unknown) from An Entirely Other Day, on May 2, 2008 11:47 PM

A while back, I was lucky enough to get an e-mail out of the blue from Heather Armstrong, inviting me to contribute to an anthology of stories about fatherhood that she was editing. She’d been pointed at me by Jason Kottke, who has been around long enough to remember when I actually used to write things, and that at some point I had managed to become a father.

And so, to celebrate the release of “Things I Learned About My Dad (In Therapy)” and its inclusion of my essay (against all editorial common sense), I managed to get really, really mad at my boys.

The bit is called “Peas and Domestic Tranquility,” and is about paternal anger. Write what you know. I’ve managed to immortalize — between hard covers, in the Library of Congress — the fact that I’m kind of an asshole.

The first conscious parental thought I ever had — cradling my bawling three-week-old son in my arms, and staring out the window at the grey light crawling over the horizon — was, “OK. Don’t kill the baby.”

The previous weeks had been packed with various adoring unconscious parental thoughts, coming in unexpected and upending waves: so this is what pure love is; I have the most amazing wife in the whole world; he smiled, I swear he smiled, not gas, it was a smile, at me; good God, is that tar coming out of his ass?

But this was a very intentional and seriously considered conscious thought, something I had very intentionally and seriously worked at, very intentionally and seriously forced into my head. It was required in the face of the new and ugly unconscious thoughts that were suddenly welling up from some dark corner of my sanity after a series of long and grindingly slow nights spent cajoling, begging and ultimately attempting to bribe the boy to just goddamned go to sleep, sweet holy Christ, just please go to sleep.

OK. Don’t kill the baby. Breathe in, breathe out. No baby killing. OK.

Raising a child is easily the most maddening thing I’ve ever done. It is, of course, also the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done. The latter gets a lot of attention — frozen in time and assembled neatly in picture albums, scrap-books, family stories — while the former, nearly as significant in the big, day-to-day scheme of things, is the subject of only ominous public service announcements and scolding looks from strangers, your parents and your mate. Everybody gets mad at their kids; nobody likes to talk about it.

You bring an infant home from the hospital, and he seems the smallest, most delicate, most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen in your life. He’s brand new, a brand new person, and you are there to protect him and nurture him and teach him and mold him and help him to become the man that is everything that he might be. And he grows! He grows so fast. And he acquires a personality, and a will of his own, and he has wants and needs and he matures and blossoms in ways that you wouldn’t have dreamt of those first few special weeks. And as much as you love him and cherish him and are proud of him, you simply cannot freakin’ goddamned believe the massive trail of destruction he’s left in his wake. God! Just once, please just once, will you clean up your room? God!

Do not kill the baby.

It goes on from there, documenting everything Child Protective Services is going to need to put me away for a long time.

Reading the book, I’m astonished at the quality of every essay that wasn’t written by me. Some are sweet, some are heartbreaking, all are funny — it’s a wonderful book, and it truly is an honor to be included. I’m now forever squatting squarely next to some of the best writers on the Web, and they can’t do anything about it, ha ha ha ha.

Told you I was kind of an asshole.

Originally posted by (author unknown) from An Entirely Other Day, on May 2, 2008 11:21 PM

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Originally posted by (author unknown) from kathryn yu dot com, on May 2, 2008 10:30 PM

The AP says that early voting patterns in Indiana look encouraging for Obama.

Originally posted by Josh Marshall from Talking Points Memo, on May 2, 2008 7:09 PM

One of the key topics (I think) in my Casual Privacy talk last week was the importance of “context” in privacy and sharing. That some people have trouble understanding how fundamental context is to all social interactions was my primary take away from SG Foo, and I’ve been preaching it quietly where I can.

All by way of saying, I made one of my rare visits to FriendFeed this evening, and I was reminded that I consistently regret it. Breaking down those contextual walls means I consistently like the people I find there less then I did when I was able to interact with them in isolated manners; fire walling the aesthetic from the technical from the political from the personal.

We need routing not aggregation.

Originally posted by Kellan from Laughing Meme, on May 2, 2008 7:07 PM

Filed under: Developer, iPhone

I don't know if this is going to pan out or not, but TUAW reader Skaro (exterminate!) reports that he's been accepted into the iPhone developer program. Not a big deal until you realize that he lives in the UK and paid up his £59 fees.

If true, this is huge. Many important 3rd party Apple developers are located throughout the world. Are you an out-of-States developer who's gotten your acceptance email? Please let us know.

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Originally posted by Erica Sadun from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), on May 2, 2008 6:31 PM

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Freeware, Graphic Design

The guys over at the Google Mac blog have dropped a new little open source application called Visigami, which serves as a more "interesting" and "fun" way to browse and play around with images online. Basically, after installing the app, you can then pull in pics from Picasa, Google Images, or Flickr (iPhoto is just a suggestion so far), and then search, animate, zoom in or out on them, and even turn them right into a screensaver.

It's a pretty neat little application -- not exactly the kind of thing that anyone has probably been hoping for (it seems more fun than utilitarian), but if you find yourself often browsing photos online, this definitely seems like a more fun way to do it. And it's one more reason to praise all the great developers working on our platform -- it's little apps like this that make the Mac user experience so much better.

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Originally posted by Mike Schramm from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), on May 2, 2008 6:00 PM

Join Six Apart and you, too, can get your hair cut by co-founder Mena Trott.

Originally posted by Michael Sippey from this is sippey.typepad.com, on May 2, 2008 5:26 PM

Join Six Apart and you too can get your hair cut by co-founder Mena Trott.

Originally posted by Michael Sippey from this is sippey.typepad.com, on May 2, 2008 5:26 PM

After Jim Lee's turtle was hurt in an auto accident, she never regained the use of her hind legs. Instead of letting her die, Lee affixed hind wheels to her shell to help her get around. That's right, a turtle with wheels:

After some weeks Little Bit seemed to have made a full recovery except for the use of her hind legs. So some wheels seemed to be the way to go. Some lightweight model airplane wheels on a wire frame did the trick. The removable wheels were secured by a velcro strip epoxied to her plastron. The velcro strips on the carapace were removed after four months. She was eating, drinking, and exploring all the rooms of my house. Eventually she was able to move around outside as well.

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Originally posted by jason@kottke.org from kottke.org, on May 2, 2008 4:15 PM

You know how it's hard to get into the corners of your yogurt cup?

By designer Nojae Park. No word on whether this thing is conceptual or real world yet. [via Swiss Miss]

Originally posted by Adam Kuban from Serious Eats: Main, on May 2, 2008 4:15 PM

In the Daily News, Adam Rubin wonders if, should the Mets decide to fire some one, could Rick Peterson be the first to go.

According to Rubin, “There was high-level disenchantment with Peterson at the end of 2007, enough so that his job status was briefly murkier than Randolph’s.”

…well, what goes up, must go down…

…by the way, High-Level Disenchantment may be my favorite of the Smashing Pumpkins albums…

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Originally posted by Matthew Cerrone from MetsBlog.com, on May 2, 2008 10:54 AM

[Part two of a recurring series...part one is here.]

Barack Obama is poised to run the first privately financed general-election presidential campaign since the mid 1970s. One reason for the move away from public funds is that Obama could raise more many than would be available to him through the public financing program. [WSJ]

According to author Clay Shirky and IBM researcher Martin Wattenberg, Wikipedia represents about 100 million hours of human thought. Compare that to 200 billion hours of television watched in the US every year. [Clay Shirky]

Over the last six decades, the real incomes of middle-class families grew twice as fast under Democratic presidents as they did under Republican presidents. The real incomes of working-poor families grew six times as fast under Democratic presidents. [NY Times]

OPEC members will take in nearly $1 trillion in income because of record crude oil prices. [Reuters @ National Post]

A Berkeley study indicates that children who attend daycare or playgroups cut their risk of the most common type of childhood leukemia by about 30%. [BBC]

The starting price for a 1000-year-old olive tree is around €18,000. The trees are popular as landscpae art for wealthy homeowners, golf courses, and resorts. [WSJ]

SUV sales are down and with them, their prices. The rising cost of gas is to blame. Many dealers won't even accept SUVs as trade-ins. [AP]

Brazilian chica nailed seven. [My inbox, unsolicited bulk email from "Johnna Laird"]

And finally, a bit of housekeeping from last week's post. Several people wrote in to say that Bob Herbert's statement that "roughly a third of all American high school students drop out" was entirely out of line with the actual statistics. I'm no statistician, but if you take 2005's ~10% annual dropout rate and apply it to an incoming 9th grade class for 4 years, you end up with about 66% of the students reaching graduation...or "roughly a third" dropping out. Not sure that's where the number came from, but it's a possibility.

Originally posted by jason@kottke.org from kottke.org, on May 2, 2008 9:33 AM

Apple's Steve Jobs moves from the top of the tech CEO heap to just shy of the top ten in terms of 2007 compensation. $14.6 million ain't bad, but it's 98 percent less than than what he took home in 2006.

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Originally posted by ars@chrisforesman.com (Chris Foresman) from Infinite Loop, on May 2, 2008 8:22 AM

"It's the most wonderful day of all. Once a year, the teamsters go to this Italian sandwich shop in Brooklyn. No one knows what it's called, or where it is. It's a teamster's secret."

Watch the freakishly giddy happiness brought about by Sandwich Day on 30 Rock, after the jump.

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Originally posted by Raphael from Serious Eats: Main, on May 2, 2008 8:00 AM

Earlier this week, the Forum For Urban Design announced the Red Hook Bicycle Master Plan Design Competition, offering cash prizes for the best proposals to "re-imagine Red Hook as the most bicycle friendly neighborhood in all of New York."

Plans should center on the creation of a bike loft parking facility at the Smith/9th Street subway station, now scheduled for a 2010 remodeling. The Forum envisions a garage with space for at least 100 bikes, accessible to both neighborhood and visiting cyclists via "dedicated bike lanes and routes." Plans should also include feasible funding proposals.

Competition details may be found on the Forum For Urban Design web site, as well as in this video from Brian Lehrer Live, in which Lehrer interviews the Forum's Lisa Chamberlain and Loreal Monroe while looking at a couple of Streetfilms for inspiration.

The registration deadline is June 2; submission deadline July 31.

Originally posted by Brad Aaron from Streetsblog, on May 2, 2008 7:42 AM

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Apple Financial

There's no love lost between Steve Jobs and Dell founder Michael Dell. Back in 1997, when Michael was CEO of Dell, he famously told a group of IT big wigs, ""What would I do [if I were in charge of Apple]? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."

Oh, Michael. That's the kind of statement that waits in a corner for years, thinking, "I'm going to bite him in the backside ... hard."

The time has come. Earlier today, Apple rose $6.05 (3.48%) in NASDAQ trading, closing at $180.00. Compared to Dell's standing, Apple's market value of $158.66 billion is now four times Dell's $38.97 billion.

Only a year ago, we were excited that Apple had doubled Dell's value. Here's to the next twelve months.

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Originally posted by Dave Caolo from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), on May 2, 2008 7:00 AM

T-Mobile and Nokia May 2nd announced that they are collaborating to accelerate the availability of new Internet services and personal social communities on mobile devices.

T-Mobile and Nokia will make it easier for their customers to access to all of T-Mobile's web'n'walk Internet services as well as all to Nokia's Ovi Internet services on a wide range of Nokia devices.

The companies say in their joint press release, that they intend to drive the mobilization of social networks. They intend to further enhance T-Mobile's community-oriented MyFaves service, launched in October 2007 in Europe, empowered by Nokia user experience.

Widget cooperation is another focus area for the companies. Nokia will customize its devices to provide a dedicated suite of T-Mobile services that will be seamlessly integrated to Nokia devices.

In March T-Mobile and Nokia announced the exclusive Nokia 6650 device for T-Mobile, which will be available in July in Europe. This collaboration is the next step in intensifying the good partnership between the companies.

Originally posted by MobileMonday from MobileMonday News, on May 2, 2008 6:31 AM

These are the things I saw yesterday that I thought were interesting, entertaining, and inspiring. First, Erika Hall, Copy as Interface. (See more on the Mule blog.)

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Mena Trott, Wasted on the Young.

Cheryl Coward, on AfterEllen, profiling Lynne d. Johnson. (See more on Lynne's blog.)

"When I think about black females on the web with technology, Lynne [d. Johnson]'s name easily comes to mind," said Karsh, founder of the Black Weblog Awards and blackgayblogger.com. "She has masterfully been able to understand and bridge the gap between online and print media in a major way, from her work with Vibe magazine to her current work at FastCompany."

Aaand that's all for now.

Originally posted by Anil from Anil Dash, on May 2, 2008 5:56 AM

Carol, a little while back, sent me THREE BOXES of patterns. Just because. (I know, am I lucky, or what?)

The boxes were FULL of treasures, but this one in particular caught my eye, even though I'm not a huge devotee of this era. But look at those gathers, and the sweet curve of the neckline!

So the plan is to go ahead and make the bodice, slap it onto a plain circle skirt, and see what happens. I'll have to change the waistline gathers to small darts (I don't like blousiness at my waist), and there will be some fiddling involved with the sizing (this is a B32; I ... am not). However, I figure that the 1940s propensity for shoulderpads will work in my favor; by leaving them out I will get more room through the shoulder seam and the gathers should help with fullness over the bust. (And I have the "make the waist bigger" alteration down pat.)

I'm sure La BellaDonna could tell me why I want to put a circle skirt on this one -- I think this straight-skirt cut is probably fine for those shaped like Rulers and Vs, but I need more sweep in the skirt to balance out what I insist is an Hourglass (but may in fact be a Pear -- or perhaps just an Hourglass that needs to be flipped over?)

The only thing I can't decide is what fabric to use. I was thinking "huge floral!" (because I always think "huge floral!") but this might also be adorable in, say, gingham. Or seersucker. Or even eyelet. Ideas?

Oh, if you want to see the back of the pattern, it's here.

Originally posted by Erin from A Dress A Day, on May 2, 2008 5:02 AM

A blog reader named Stella wrote in asking about the story behind the picture above. I always like hearing the stories behind other people's images so I don't mind telling the stories behind mine. If you have a question about a particular picture, just email and I'll answer when I have a chance.

This photo was taken two years ago durning a Tibetan festival where herdsmen gather to celebrate and do business—literally to horse trade. The white horse was up for sale and it was initially the horse that drew me (I have a thing for pictures of white horses). So I was walked over and was enjoying the the back and forth discussion when the owner of the horse came over to check me out. We traded hellos and he obviously found me amusing. He asked if i was married or single. I said married. He asked me if I had children. I said I had one. He asked if it was a boy or a girl. I said a boy. He smiled and putting his fingers to his mouth, whistled loudly. "My son" he gestured. His son came over and gave him a big hug and I took this shot. Then I took a polaroid and gave it to them as thanks. The polaroids drew a crowd and I only had a few pieces of polaroid film left so I quickly exited. For the rest of the week I would be wandering around when I would hear the distinctive whistle, then I would look around and see the man in the distance. He would tip his hat to me and I would tip my hat back to him.

That's the story.

The print is available through my gallery in several editions as both as a traditional print and a platinum print.

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Tags: horsemen, photography, story behind the picture

Originally posted by (author unknown) from Heading East, on May 2, 2008 1:48 AM

Before you run out to watch Iron Man this weekend, check out this gallery of fun Iron Man fan art hosted at the film’s site. Lots of great illustrations there from professional artists and kids alike.

The site was probably inspired by Michael Cho’s great Iron Man fan art blog: Tony Stark - Your Go To Guy!

I just went to see the film and I am already considering going again. It was probably the most fun I’ve had at a superhero film since Richard Donner’s original Superman.

John Favreau should direct every superhero film from now on. (NERDY TIP: Stay till the end of the credits)

Originally posted by Matt from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog, on May 1, 2008 9:05 PM

A few factoids have emerged in the last few days that shed new light on just what's up with the remaining undeclared superdelegates. One was the claim of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), an Obama supporter, that all the congressional superdelegates have actually already made up their minds. All that's up in the air is when different representatives and senators are going to announce publicly.

Added to that is the fact that Sen. Obama routinely seems to be able to roll out solid superdelegate endorsements in the face of bad news for his campaign. There've been rumors or chatter for some time that the Obama campaign has a few dozen superdelegates basically on ice, ready to roll out as needed to juice momentum or change the headlines in the face of bad news. They deny it, for whatever that's worth. And I've always found the theory a little difficult to completely credit since it's dangerous to leave a endorsing superdelegate unannounced. They're liable to go all wobbly on you at some point in the future if things don't go well. But as I said above, stuff like Andrew's announcement and the other reps Obama picked up earlier this week make me wonder.

But here's one issue that we've been hearing about recently that sheds a little more light on the question: money. No, nothing nefarious. But if you're out there running a competitive race yourself and you need to raise money (or think you'll need to do so in the future) the endorsement game is a dicey business. By definition, when you endorse one or the other you piss off roughly half the Democratic party -- or at least half the big funders, the people write and bundle the big checks. So that's really not productive. And it's a good reason to keep your powder dry.

Originally posted by Josh Marshall from Talking Points Memo, on May 1, 2008 7:10 PM

It's Flickr group nite, clearly. There's another interesting pixel group out there, this time called 8-bit. It's small at the moment, and it's got those famous Mario cup cakes there already, as well as this lovely thing:

Brilliant. Print-out on cardboard, you reckon?

Originally posted by Alice from Wonderland, on May 1, 2008 6:33 PM

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Originally posted by David Wertheimer from Ideapad, on May 1, 2008 5:37 PM

Finally got around to posting on working with video in the API. (been sitting in the “really should be edited a bit” queue for weeks now)

Originally posted by Kellan from Laughing Meme, on May 1, 2008 4:41 PM

Blogger announced today that they now officially support scheduled posting.

What does this mean for MarsEdit users? It means the nifty future posting technique that I described in a previous blog post will now work with Blogger.

In short, all you have to do is set the date (from the Post menu -> Edit Date) before you send your post to the server, and if it’s in the future, Blogger will automatically delay publishing of the post until that time. This brings Blogger’s behavior in this regard into line with WordPress, which also supports implied future posting by date. You’re next, Movable Type :)

I haven’t thoroughly tested this because it just became available, but I sent a post to my Blogger blog with a date of two minutes into the future, and sure enough it didn’t show up until the 2 minute time had elapsed. As always, I recommend testing this feature on your own blog before posting anything of a time-sensitive nature.

Originally posted by Daniel Jalkut from Red Sweater Blog, on May 1, 2008 4:33 PM

How to synchronize 5 metronomes. If you only watch one metronome video in your life, make it this one.

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Originally posted by jason@kottke.org from kottke.org, on May 1, 2008 4:06 PM

Nick Kindelsperger of The Paupered Chef went on a search for the perfect hard-boiled egg, that is, cooking it at 154°F for an undetermined amount of time, and found that four hours was the golden number. I'm rather impatient, so four hours wouldn't cut it for me, but I'm very curious to try these super creamy-yolked eggs that lack a funky sulfuric smell.

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Originally posted by Robyn Lee from Serious Eats: Main, on May 1, 2008 3:30 PM