This Cocktail Tastes Like Meat (And That May Not Be a Bad Thing)
2009-09-23 04:13:00 When I told people I was on a mission to try a "meat-infused cocktail," either ham or bacon-flavored, they generally replied with a grimace, then thought about it and said something like, "Well, bacon is the greatest food in the world." Then I got to Nacional27 on Huron and found out that it was not the season for meat-flavored drinks, which are heavier and usually served in the winter months. Nevertheless, mixologist Adam Seger promised to whip me up a drink called a "Ham and Cheese." "This is a great hangover breakfast," said Seger. The drink consisted of Iberico ham, one of the "pre-eminent hams" according to Seger, normally soaked in Cognac for two weeks. Add lemon juice, honey...
Does it mean the same thing to all of us ?
2009-09-22 14:45:00 The world just celebrated the day of peace,but a simple question kept nagging my mind : even as we went through the motions, did the day really mean the same thing to all of us, do we all define peace
Bryan Aspey: shred this,"the coolest thing I've done in a long while."
2009-09-19 17:35:00 I had a very nice response from Bryan Aspey since winning the Shred This competition... 168 entries, but there could only be 1 winner... Bryan Aspey says: Since 2000, I had been playing mostly acoustic, and then made the switch a few years ago exclusively to classical. It was a great experience for me and I plan to keep up with it, yet the further I drifted from my 90's shred roots, the more I... This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Name the Thing Contest - 101
2009-09-19 09:05:00 Thanks to the Ohm’s Law Calculator Website for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a useful Resistor Color Chart Mug to the winner. The site provides an Ohm’s Law Calculator, Ohm’s Law Wheel, E24 Resistor Sizes, Resistor Color Chart, LED Resistor Calculator, AWG Wire Sizes and mcd to Lumens Converterinformation. This site is sure to be useful when you are designing your next circuit, might even be a good idea to bookmark the site now instead of hunting for it when you need it! This contest will run for one week (Sept 19 - 25, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with "Name the Thing Contest" as the subject, and the message body consisting of: The name of the item in the above picture An example of what the item pictured above ca...
By: Hacked Gadgets
Transmission: That Thing Kanye Did, the Heart of SPACE
2009-09-18 16:05:00 Bad Veins, reviewed on Gapers Block TransmissionYou might have heard that Kanye got up at an awards show and made an ass of himself...again. Tearful (heartfelt?) apologies, conspiracy theories, and internet memes sprung up like weeds. The Prez even weighed in (off the record).Gapers Block looks north to Evanston and the intriguing venue SPACE.Chip in and help CHIRP!Stone's Throw music and Intelligentsia's Ethiopium coffee = great combination!The nearly week-long Chicago World Music Festival gets underway this weekend. Mindful Metropolis thinks it's the bees knees!Ronnie James Dio: Doo-Wop singer? True! Holy Diver!Download Kid Sister's "Right Hand Hi" (Kingdom Remix) from RCRD LBL free.Celebrate Chicago's hip-hop scene and Vote for the Truth.The Giving Tree's latest album was carbon-neutral from start to finish.Smashing...
Once a Passion Now an Investment: Art Has Become the Next Best Thing to Inv
2009-09-17 23:27:00 Once a Passion Now an Investment: Art Has Become the Next Best Thing to Invest in India (Video) Posted using ShareThis
you got me seeing the thing that i’ve been hoping to find, you g
2009-09-17 20:09:00 If you’re anything like me, Internet — and we both know you aren’t, but hope someday you will be and to be honest with you, I don’t think you’re smart enough to come anywhere close — you’re probably wondering how long it’s going to take before that dead Patrick Swayze starts bugging poor Whoopi while she’s trying to host that show with all the old women and that one cute chick that all the hippies hate because she’s a Conservative and bathes regularly or whatever. Because you just know he’s going to do it at some point. So the funniest thing happened to me yesterday. I had stopped by the Circle K — you know, the one on the corner of Airline and Goodwood — on my way to work to pick up some Pop Rocks and Snapple for breakfast, and when I saw the cashier was of Middle Eastern descent, I did my civic duty as a tax-paying American citizen who loves his country and apple pie (but can’t seem to g...
One of these things is not like the other thing?
2009-09-14 20:25:00 Back a few years ago a game called Guitar Hero was released and thousands of music hipsters and video game nerds united to the sound of tiny plastic guitar buttons clicking away. Since then, the company that created the game, Harmonix, has split away and invented Rock Band, which is the same, but with a whole ...
By: Say No to Crack
What's The Next Big Thing in Technology?
2009-09-02 17:30:00 I've read an article in EDN magazine concerning which areas in electronics and semiconductors' technology will have a big development in the near future. Smartphones (iphone), led lighting and solid state drives (and solar panels in a smaller deegre though) are mentioned in this article. Can you poi
Best Thing Ever: A dramatic reading of a real break up letter
2009-08-31 22:04:00 Photo via: awkwardfamilyphotos.comBecause- it's Monday and this clip has been making the rounds on the interwebs lately, please enjoy a dramatic reading of a real break-up letter....
?Free Memory? Function Might Be A Thing Of The Past!
2009-08-31 18:48:00 The “Free Memory” function has become present in numerous apps both in the App Store and Cydia, but that will soon change. Apple has decided to put their foot down on the subject and demand all developers who currently use this function to remove it asap. Apple has banned any app on the App Store from being able to run in the background, for obvious memory hogging reasons. However Apple allows many of their stock applications, such as Mail, Safari, and iPod, to continue to run in the background making your iPhone signifigantly more difficult to use. This…
By: iPhone Hacks
Is there any thing Democrats won?t politicize?
2009-08-31 18:06:00 HARRY REID: Kennedy?s death ?going to help us? on health care.
By: GayPatriot
The Greatest Thing About CR4 Is...
2009-08-28 03:09:00 ....I realized how much I didn't know. Thanks to CR4, you have expanded my knowledge. I hope I don't make too many blunders in the future.
Me? I did not do a thing !
2009-08-27 00:53:00 We keep on moving on The Road. Last week, we had a long weekend here in Rome, and I took the opportunity of doing some major clean-up and re-organisation of my blog network.- I checked all links I have in the aid resources, aid worker blogs and aid news widgets in the side column to see if they were still valid.- As the list has expanded to over 400 links, it became impossible to manage manually, so I extracted all nonprofit blogs (excluding those from aidworkers) and put them in a dedicated delicious folder.- While I was at it, I made an aggregator of these nonprofit blogs. Check out NonProfit Blogs, and linked a Twitter account to it: @NonProfitBlogs- As I scanned over 200 of these blogs within 24 hours, I got a good view as to what's up in the nonprofit blogging world. And I wrote a post about my findings on BlogTips.- I also turfed all these blogs for their pageranks, and... (yes, you guessed it!)... wrote a post about it. :-)- One of the tools I use extensively to aggregate RS...
Business blogging: Write one smart thing a day
2009-08-25 22:01:00 Does a small business need a blog? Is Twitter worth it? And what's the real benefit of all this social media stuff? Chicago marketing consultant Andy Sernovitz does his best to cut through the buzz and get to the bottom line with Enterprise City, our small-business blog. A key piece of advice: start a blog (it's free), and post one smart thought a day -- if you're good at what you do, you should have one....
Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) - No New Thing Under the Sun*
2009-08-21 02:00:00 Saul Hansell from the New York Times published a blog yesterday called "How Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers." Now most people** are probably expecting me to launch into a robust defense of all things unassailable and security goodness here, but I am not going to do that. Why? Because Saul is right, and it should come as no surprise that any single security measure can be broken. If you want to know why, and also know why RSA SecurID is an essential part of a layered information-centric security system, please read-on.
Is There Such a Thing as ?The Great Teacher??
2009-08-18 09:07:00 Do an internet search under the topic, ?What makes a great teacher? and you will be flooded with opinions. The criteria range from an oversimplified checklist of behaviors to the esoteric musings of a professor emeritus of literature. My book, Teacher of the Year: The Mystery and Legacy of Edwin Barlow examines this issue, among ...
Best Thing Ever: That's Gay
2009-08-11 23:29:00 Since I'm getting over a cold and have the functioning brain power of a sexually precocious third grader, please enjoy this video by my new favorite person ever: Bryan Safi, of That's Gay. The same TV network that brings us Sarah Haskins' Target Women each week, Current, is now exploring gay (mis)representation in the media. The latest one is about gay characters in TV commercials:...
What's This Thing Called?
2009-08-10 15:20:00 I'm trying to think of the name of the device that translates the constant rotation of a motor shaft to a 1/4 or 1/5 rotation in the form of an index. (i.e. no motion until the index) I have forgotten the name of the special cam that does that. Can you tell me what it is called?
The most embarrassing thing I'm willing to admit here...
2009-08-06 20:18:00 Here at RedEye vibes, we love checking our inbox because of the hilarious emails we get. Single Chicagoans are so creative at answering our questionnaire! We had so much fun reading people's responses to "the most embarrassing thing I'm willing to admit here" that we've decided to share some of them, anonymously, here. Don't be afraid to leave your own in the comments!To see the full questionnaire and fill out your own form, check out our RedEye Vibes post.The most embarrassing thing I'm willing to admit here, as emailed in from RedEye readers:...
Social media blurs the lines — and that’s a good thing
2009-08-05 06:54:00 Facebook is where most every aspect of my life collides. There, my friends include people from grade school, high school and college; people I worked with at three of the five post-college jobs I’ve had; people who I have met via social media and some I have worked for as a contractor; and my immediate family and extended family like cousins. My professional and personal lives. Twitter is similar to Facebook in that the lines are blurred between professional and personal in who I follow and who follows me. But, hey, that’s social media, right? So listen up all you companies: You can’t really have your employees tweeting, facebooking, blogging, etc., just about your company. Personal aspects will naturally flow into those messages. And that’s a good thing. Sure, go ahead and have guidelines and policies to try to ensure that those tweets are not bashing the food you serve or other potentially negative social media mentions. But, do know and trust that it won...
By: Mike's Points
School Clout "A Good Thing," Says Mayor
2009-07-28 18:56:00 "Thank God people are trying to get in," Mayor Daley said at an unrelated news conference Tuesday. "It's a good thing."  Oh yeah, and furloughs are coming....
Obama health plan is the moral thing to do
2009-07-23 19:52:00 President Obama is doing the morally correct thing with universal health care. As a cancer survivor, my bills were well over $150,000. Battling seminoma cancer, as well as the side effects of chemo and steroids, was terrible. The hospital and oncology bills were probably worse. If I didn't have Anthem Blue Cross / Blue Shield, I probably would have died from cancer complications . Garrard McClendon after surgery. After surgery on my chest to remove the tumor, I also sufferred a paralyzed vocal cord. A silicon implant had to be placed near my Adam's apple to restore my speech. Adequate healthcare shouldn't be based on income, class, race, or neighborhood. Everyone deserves the best in medical treatment, and Obama is just...
The Latest Thing In Mobile Technology! The Handy Cooler
2009-07-23 02:43:00 If you're going mobile, you can't stop with an iPhone or a netbook. You've got to get a handheld mobile cooling fan. The Handy Cooler even comes with roaming minutes!
Cutting BJ the Right Thing to Do
2009-07-09 03:59:00 Cutting BJ the Right Thing to Do For a differing viewpoint, see the posting below. In my opinion, cutting BJ Ryan was the right thing to do. Sure he had a 1.04 ERA with a .207 opponents batting average. He also didn’t give opponents anything to hit and Cito quick-hooked him at the first sign of ...
By: Mop Up Duty
A Thing of Beauty
2009-07-03 19:19:00 Good things come to those who wait. Today’s lineup © Kman for Mop Up Duty | Baseball News Sabermetric | Baseball History Bio, 2009. | Permalink | | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: 2009 season, lineup, toronto blue jays $25+ of Free Baseball Media Files
By: Mop Up Duty
Funniest Thing You'll See All Week
2009-07-03 00:00:00 PepĂ© Le Pew voice:“You know, eet eez possible to be too attractive.”“Permit- me to introduce myself, I am your new lover.”“You are my peanut. I am your brittle.”(Thanks, Cute Overload.)©2009 P.L. Frederick. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. All other copyrights owned by their respective owners.
By: Small and Big
Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: man decays like a rotten thing, like a gar
2009-07-02 14:53:00 Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: man decays like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten It is 9:31 AM Thursday morning. It is a cold dark damp day. It has been in the 60’s the last couple of days. It has not felt like Summer for a long time. Maybe as time goes on the days will get warmer once again? One can always hope for sunlight to appear once ...
By: BackBeat
Creepiest Thing You'll See All Week
2009-07-02 00:00:00 Thanks Facebook, with your Michael Jackson (right) and unnamed caucasianoid (left) siamese twins, you’re officially even creepier than this.©2009 P.L. Frederick. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. All other copyrights owned by their respective owners.
By: Small and Big
The Hardest Thing About Love Is...
2009-06-26 05:19:00 Of all the emotions that I've experienced, I think love is the most complicated. Seriously, you are elated about a person throughout the entire day, and one small thing can make you worry over them.It makes me almost feel like a parent or something (even though I am not one). But you often worry about their health and even the smallest things (like a potential spider bite) can throw you off (Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!).Although this is the first time I've been in love with someone special, I find that I become concerned over the smallest things (which usually isn't me for the record).While I have no regrets about being in love (as I think it makes life grand and is ultimately worth it), I wish there was a way to turn the "worry mode" off.At least for a while.(Image Credit: Southern Illinois Uni-versity)
By: Darnell Clatyon
One Thing to Remember....The Cubs Are Only 1 Game Out in the Loss Column
2009-06-25 22:43:00 Yes, I am as frustrated as anyone by the performance of the Cubs this season but we do need to keep their performance so far in perspective.After today's 6-5 loss to the Detroit Tigers their record is 34-35 but that lackluster performance has them just 1 game out in the loss column and just 3 1/2 games out in the NL Central. The blame for the Cubs poor play has to fall squarely on the shoulders of Alfonso Soriano, Milton Bradley, Geovany Soto, and the rest of the offense that has woefully underperformed....
The Best Thing That Is Only Good, Really, If You Experience It Second-Hand.
2009-06-14 15:05:00 The world can be divided into two kinds of experiences: Those that are best when you are directly involved in them, and those that are best when you just hear about them from someone else.I don't mean that those are the only two kinds of experiences; there are an infinite number of ways to divide the way we experience the world -- there are experiences, I suppose, that are best when they happen accompanied by music, and experiences that are best only if they never ever ever happen to us, and experiences that would be awesome if it wasn't for the fact that during them we had a hangnail, and so on. The multitude of ways we experience our lives cannot really be boiled down to just two.But let me do that anyway. Let me boil the way you and I and everyone else live our lives down to just two ways: Things that are best experienced directly and things that are best heard about from someone else.Things that are best experienced directly include: Love. Pizza. The ending to that episo...
Cameron Diaz does the decent thing
2009-06-13 18:30:00 Single, childless and proud of it. That was how one newspaper report described Cameron Diaz last week when the actress revealed that, despite being 36, she was not particularly desperate to have children. The headline might as well have said: Drunk, disorderly and proud of it. "The cheek of the woman!" was the inference. How ironic that in complaining about how women are shunned for deciding against starting a family, Miss Diaz met with precisely the same prejudice in the way her remarks were presented. In speaking honestly about how it felt just fine to be single as her biological clock ticked away inexorably, she was said to have "defended her status". But there was absolutely nothing to defend. As she talked about her struggle to find a husband, she was described as "Miss Diaz, who has never married". "Miss Diaz, who is not married," would have done. "Never married" subtly suggested she was past it, on the shelf. (Can you imagi...
By: The Cameron Diaz
Is Wireless Video the Next Big Thing?
2009-06-13 14:20:00 Wireless video is technically feasible, and it would certainly make it easier to install that new big screen. The technology is theoretically capable of transmission speeds of 25 Gbps, more than twice the 10.2 Gbps of wired HDMI v1.3. But will consumer pull be sufficient to spur vendors into making
IT Outsourcing To China As Next Big Thing.
2009-06-01 13:15:00 KPMG recently came out with an excellent report on outsourcing to China (h/t to Experience Not Logic), entitled, "A new dawn: China’s emerging role in global outsourcing." KPMG summarizes its report as follows: Outsourcing is on the agenda of the Chinese government as they seek to boost foreign investment into China and support the development of the services sector. Companies are also looking at China as an alternative to India, especially in light of recent security and governance concerns. This paper looks at how China is moving up the value chain in developing the necessary infrastructure and outsourcing centers, and how that will impact the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world. Because my firm recently started doing legal work for a very large China outsourcing company, I do not think it appropriate or even fair for me to comment on this article, but I am citing to it because it most certainly is well worth the read.
By: China Law Blog
Nosaj Thing - "Drift" Digital Download
2009-05-26 19:35:00 Nosaj Thing has gained a strong reputation with his remixes of Flying Lotus etc. (check his MySpace profile). His new LP title "Drift" is available for digital download from today (26th of May), the CD hits shelves June 9th. These days I've pretty much dispensed with CD except for the occasional mix CD, prefering digital or Vinyl depending on what I'm buying. Drift features Nosaj Thing's stunning beat driven ambient electronic soundscapes.Listen to the full tracks "Quest" over at Analog Giant and 'Coat of Arms' at spinner.com. You can also listen to previews of all the tracks at amazon.com and boomkat (UK) Via: Nosaj Thing - "Drift" Digital Download Read More tags: ambient, beats, downtempo, electronica, experimental, hip hop, idm
By: podflower.com
Genomics: The next big thing?
2009-05-15 15:00:00 "Genomics may be the 'next big thing' after the Internet and biotech," explain small cap growth stock specialist Jim Oberweis, Jr.In his The Oberweis Report, he explains the "politics" behind this bullish scenario as well as his top pick for log-term investors seeking exposure to the developing healthcare technologies if genomics and personalized medicine." The argument can be made that the surge of biotech development in the 1980s and 1990s was a result of increased government funding for programs like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that bridged the gap between the academically possible and the commercially profitable."From 1983-1993, the budget of the NIH increased 158%, rising from $4 billion to $10 billion. From 1993-2003, that same budget increased another 163% to $27 billion."Indeed, we believe that the biotech boom was a direct consequence of rising National Health Institute (NIH) funding, cheap equity capita...
Good Thing I?m Not A Civil Rights Activist
2009-05-08 03:07:00 [From: Cinie's World] Image via Wikipedia Good thing I?m not a Civil Rights activist, because, if I was, I?d probably be majorly pissed right now. I mean, if I had worked my ass off trying to get a guy elected who I thought would, and should, have my best interests at heart, and he turned around and ...
By: News for Greens
Video of Pam Oliver Doing Her Thing
2009-04-30 07:23:00 This video has led to the most famous picture of sexy sideline reporter Pam Oliver. You know the picture. The one where Pam’s sporting the pink top and tight-fitting Baby Phat jeans. It’s almost impossible to finish typing with that image of Ms. Oliver bouncing around my mind. Related posts:Video: Heather Mitts Pulls Pranks on Her ... Related posts:Video: Heather Mitts Pulls Pranks on Her Teammates Heather Mitts and Natasha Kai of the U.S. women’s Olympic...Video: Serena Williams Surfing in Hawaii Props to You Been Blinded for sending us this video...New York Jets Cheerleader Tryouts Either the New York Jets Flight Crew have changed... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Tedisco & the Whole Albany Hack Thing
2009-04-29 14:14:00 While national Republicans who don't pay a lick of attention to state politics had the straight-faced hilarity to refer to former Assembly Minority Leader and hack extraordinaire Jim Tedisco as a true conservative and sitting statesman, people in the actual district saw right through who he was and what he ...
By: BuffaloPundit
Thing That Go YOOOOUUUUKKKK In the Night
2009-04-26 05:38:00 Kevin Youkilis, 2009 AL MVP. (AP Photo) When I said that Kevin Youkilis was going to be the AL MVP for 2009 I wasn't joking around. The Greek Golden God of Sweat is so scorching hot right now that his...
By: SawxBlog.com
Well, a horrible thing to report…
2009-04-25 23:13:00 Hey everyone, it's been a loooong time, and i have some bad things to report. I am now, once again, an avid cutter, cutting over 40 times each night for about a week now. For the first time like ever, blood is dripping, the pain barely exists as i cut, and my leg swells a little where i cut. i know now that i really do have a problem with this, and that it just wont go away on its own. I tried all the coping mechanisms i read on the internet, like the ice and the rubberband, but it didn't work and now i'm cutting again. i'm not abusing anymore, but i have tried a couple times to no success (i know that sounds bad…) However, i do have some good things to report. i now have a boyfriend who i like very much and i believe will help me through this phase (although he doesn't know about my cutting). he is very sweet and supportive of my feelings. i also want to ask a question to anyone out there reading this who has maybe done the same thing. I am thinking ...
The #1 thing I Hate about Alex Rios
2009-04-21 16:51:00 Cast aside the .207 average. I also don’t care if his career year might have been back in 2007. Sucking in the three hole? Well, it happens. But the #1 thing that really pisses me off about Alex Rios is the number of times that he’ll ground into double plays! In the off-season I wrote an ...
By: Mop Up Duty
It's the only thing that could make baseball more fun...
2009-04-17 15:27:00 If you're going to watch a baseball game -- and this is the time of year to start doing that -- then do it the way it was meant to be: comfortable, fun, relaxed, and watching a historic ball club at a historic ball field.You can do that all in one move by getting Wrigley rooftop seats from the Wrigley Field Rooftop Club. You and your guests can watch the Cubs beat up on their opponents while taking advantage of an all-inclusive package deal from the Wrigley Field Rooftop Club. You'll get great views of the game, and luxury accommodations -- check out the pictures that I've got here to see what you'll be looking at, sitting in, and seeing.Your day begins 30 minutes before the start of the game, and includes complete food and beverage service throughout the gameYou and your guests will sit in the comfort of the rooftop club, looking out onto beautiful Wrigley Field, seeing the Cubs make a march to the World Series -- it has to be this year, right?--You can have climate controll...
Sure Thing Links
2009-04-17 01:36:00 Michael at DListed is f***ing hilarious! - DL Lady Gaga taped nipples - DSF Kim Kardashian works that booty out - BST Lindsay Lohan pics from 2006 - UMC Should this be used to sedate children or...
By: Celebrity Smack!
Joe Satriani: chickenfoot to be released on a big black round thing with a
2009-04-16 23:22:00 News: 16-04-2009: Chickenfoot have announced that the new album will be available in 12" vinyl format... or LP's for those old enough to remember... NB I'm not one of these guys who thinks vinyl sounds better than CD... my hearing is not what it used to be... In the meantime here's track 4 off the upcoming album, Oh Yeah!... that's right... pre order now Chicken foot Oh Yeah This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Maple Syrup, Maple Sap and the thing inbetween
2009-04-16 05:51:00 So I got this happening thing happening with maple syrup which has happened already. Basically it's reducing the amount of water in the sap to get at concentrating the carbohydrate and tannins. I'm stuck with a very traditional way of making maple syrup. The thing is that even after RO'ing 70% of
Allison Iraheta ?Don?t Wanna Miss a Thing? Video
2009-04-16 01:53:00 Allison Iraheta made a great go last night singing one of my least favorite songs ever, “Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith. She’s got chops, and I’m finding myself liking her more and more every episode.Paula says she possesses the same ?special sauce? as Adam and is one talented lady. Simon called ... Related posts:Allison Iraheta Video Give In To MeAllison Iraheta “I Can’t Make You Love Me” VideoAsia’h Epperson American Idol I Wanna Dance with Somebody Video |
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