Sarah Palin from the 2006 Gubernatorial Debate
Am I watching too much 'liberal' media?
I need another bed (Jet's taken mine)
Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 3
This time with fudge made from Velveeta, butter, and cocoa powder. Formed into balls. Placed on sticks. Dipped in white chocolate. Rolled in nuts. She doesn't want us to live to see the New Year. Recipe here. Earlier: Part 1: Deep-Fried Butter; Part 2: Bacon-Wrapped Mac and Cheese...
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Keep Track of Your Meals
Meal Outlaw is a meal calendar, tracking, and journaling site. You can enter your future meals into your own calendar, look to the calendars of other users for ideas, and comment on any meal you see....
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Chocolate-Glazed Pumpkin Cookies
I put up my Christmas lights on Satuday night; it felt good. I usually don't ever decorate this early but the weather outside is frightful, as the song goes, and since I don't have a delightful fire inside (for lack of a fireplace), Christmas decorations will have to do. Plus...
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Airport screener boards flight without a ticket - USA Today
NY1Airport screener boards flight without a ticketUSA Today - 6 hours agoA TSA screener was charged with trespassing last night after he boarded a plane at JFK International Airport without a ticket. Officials tell the Associated Press that man was saying goodbye to his parents when the flight attendants closed the...
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Fifteen Foods that Burn More Calories than They Contain [Food]
We need to scarf down plenty of calories in a day, but if you've got a nasty snack habit that's tipping the scales to heavy, weblog Bootstrapper's list of 15 foods that burn more calories than they contain might be the perfect addition to your grocery list. Called negative calorie...
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Dinner Tonight: Chilled Avocado Soup
I don’t usually screw around with avocados. They don’t cook particularly well, smelling almost egg-like after a while. But I wanted to explore the world outside of guacamole for a change. A chilled avocado soup sounded perfect. No cooking...
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Chat With AIM Users From Gmail
After introducing colored labels earlier this week, Google now seems to be rolling out a web-based client for AOL Instant Messenger chatting as part of Gmail. You will still need an AIM account, as Google Talk and AOL are not joining forces, but Google is merely using the Open AIM...
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Motorola's Chief Technology Officer Splits [Breaking]
Motorola's personnel issues continue. We just got word a company-wide email went out announcing that Padmasree Warrior--Moto's chief technology officer--is out the door "to pursue other opportunities." Could this be because stepping into ousted CEO Ed Zander's shoes is a Moto insider--president Greg Brown--rather than fresh blood? Given their woes,...
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Bush to slash counter-terrorism funds
The White House has struggled for quite a while when it comes to disbursing federal funds to municipalities for counter-terrorism. In 2006, for example, the Bush administration, slashed money for Washington, D.C., and New York City using a bizarre grant...
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Signing statements make a comeback
Throughout his first six years in office, Bush had a habit of signing congressional legislation into law, but using "signing statements" to explain which parts of the law he didn't feel like following. Fortunately, the president curtailed the practice this...
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Motorola boss Zander to quit job
Motorola announces that chief executive Ed Zander will step down as chief executive on 1 January.
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Make Your Own Holiday Eggnog [Cooking]
Nothing ushers in the holiday season like a tall, thick glass of eggnog, and web site HolidayKitchen offers a nice video step-by-step for cooking up your very own batch of eggnog. Whether you prefer a virgin eggnog or with a touch of grandpa's cough medicine, it looks relatively simple (though...
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Master Your DSLR Camera, Part 2: Manual Mode and More [Feature]
In part one of this series you kicked your digital SLR camera's auto mode to the curb with the help of program mode. In doing so, you learned to control the flash, the ISO value, and the white balance. Now in part two we're going straight to manual mode to...
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Avoid Flight Delays [How To]
One major travel headache is behind us, but for some, another holiday airport rush is less than a month away. Wired's HowTo Wiki collects advice for those still buying tickets and anyone who arrives to find their flights delayed or even canceled. Here's one tip your local meteorologist never bothered...
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CBS: Obama Is "Dogged By Muslim Rumors"...
Just to give you a sense of how the damage can spread from a story like the ridiculous front page Washington Post piece today recycling "rumors" about Obama being a Muslim, let's take a look at the front page of CBS News' web site, which is now featuring the...
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Perino: White House "doesn't seek" permanent bases in Iraq. But
Perino: White House "doesn't seek" permanent bases in Iraq. But if they insist, what are we going to say?...
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Photo of the Day: 300 Minute Egg
Leave an egg in an oven at 220°F for 300 minutes (5 hours) and voila: you get what looks like a brown, hard boiled egg.. Is it tasty? According to François-Xavier, yes—the long baking gives the egg white a nutty flavor....
313 days ago | comments | read the rest...
Serious Eats Gift Guide: Kitchen Essentials
If you know someone who's serious about cooking at home, what better gift is there than gear? Some of these suggestions are more utilitarian than others—the kind that you might find in professional kitchens. They might lack the wow factor of expensive toys from those fancy home goods stores, but...
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Google Maps Adds Terrains [Google Maps]
Google Maps has added a saucy new terrain overlay to its already impressive view options. In addition to geographic terrain, this view also displays buildings in metropolitan areas à la Google Earth. You may also notice that the Hybrid view is now missing from the top row of buttons, but...
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Google is gearing up to store your data online, ...
Google is gearing up to store your data online, according to the Wall Street Journal, meaning the much anticipated GDrive may be just around the corner. Until then, these stop-gap solutions will suffice.
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Dare’s right about Facebook Beacon
One of the things I sorta tried to ignore over the past week has been the hubub about Facebook’s new advertising strategy. But it’s gotten too loud to ignore. This is evil. I’d write more, but Dare Obasanjo says it better than I could. Facebook: rethink this feature and make it...
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Manage Outlook in a GTD-Friendly Sidebar with Trog Bar
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Emeril Still Alive at Food Network
According to a spokesperson for the Food Network, Emeril Lagasse is not severing all his ties with the cable network that give him his start, contrary to what was mentioned here earlier today. Emeril Live, however, is no longer in production (repeats will probably air into the next century). Essence...
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Emeril Leaves Food Network
From mediabistro.com: "Contract negotiations between Emeril and parent corporation Scripps have broken down. Lagasse is leaving the Food Network as a result and the last day of production for Emeril Live will be on December 11." [Update: Emeril not leaving Food Network]...
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Free Money Finance: Thoughts from House Hunting
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ESPN - Tennessee vs. Texas Recap, November 24, 2007
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ESPN - Boston vs. Charlotte Recap, November 24, 2007
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Bush Admin: What You Don't Know Can't Hurt Us, 2007 Version
Another year has almost passed under the Bush Administration, and so it's time to review how much less we know. Last year, we launched the insanely ambitious project of recording every significant instance of this administration stifling government information. As we said then, "they've discontinued annual reports, classified normally public data,...
318 days ago | comments | read the rest...
Cook the Book: Eggs Baked on a Bed of Sautéed Mushrooms and Croutons
Deborah Madison describes her recipe for eggs baked on a bed of sautéed mushrooms and croutons as a dish you can turn to when you're tired but want to do something more satisfying than pop leftovers in the microwave; "this...
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Can't Help Himself
Rudy: I voted for McGovern but I actually preferred Nixon....
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