links for 2008-04-29

• Cutest Cupcake Contest Winners
  final grand-prize winner in a first-ever Cutest Cupcake photo contest. these were fun to look at, but for most, I don’t think I’d eat all that frosting as much as I like it.
  (tags: food design)
• Flickr: Search
  Never heard of rice burgers before. How cool. (Not rice patty burgers. Here the buns are made of squished-together grains of still-whole rice.)
  (tags: food rice burger)

links for 2008-04-28

• Thanks Toni, But I Got This
  “I didn’t have space to list all the evidence of Clinton’s true ethnicity: The fact that his mother smoked Kools to his marriage to a not especially good-looking white woman.”
  (tags: bill_clinton race black white)
• Grateful Spread: Rustic Place Card and more entertaining ideas for holidays, special occasions, parties, and every day on marthastewart.com
  the tip contains a link to a .pdf of the place cards that you can then cut out.
  (tags: blueprint entertaining)

links for 2008-04-20

• Edwardian Supersize Me
  Ha. I loved the documentary Super Size Me. I didn’t realize Edwardian food could kill you too.
  (tags: food history)

links for 2008-04-12

• Flickr: The Lasagna Pool
  yep. yum.
  (tags: food photography)
• tornado potato on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  Too cool. I think I would rather eat this than those fried onion blossoms some restaurants offer (”awesome blossom”, etc.). Maybe it could be sprayed with a little bit of BBQ sauce?
  (tags: food photography street_food)
• Pizza Cone | Slice Pizza Blog
  Interesting, but I don’t know. Would I get too much cheese in some bites on top? And then on the bottom of the cone, too much tomato sauce? Anyway, it must be time for dinner if I keep finding food links.
  (tags: food pizza photography)
• Browsing MEMO
  Plates for eating that look like notebook paper. Graph paper option too.
  (tags: paper design)

links for 2008-04-09

• My Recycled Bags.com » Large Plastic Market Bag
  A market bag crocheted from many plastic shopping bags. More like it.
  (tags: bags crafts plastic recycling)
• Cheaper Bras Are More Satisfying Than Expensive Ones — The Cut: New York Magazine’s Fashion Blog
  Target wins. “A poll revealed 22 percent of women are unsatisfied with their bra purchases, so the magazine…took a break from frozen dinners and mini–food processors to test-run 3 bras of the same style at 3 different price levels.”
  (tags: bras consumer_reports target la_perla victoria’s_secret)

links for 2008-03-06

• YouTube - Ugly Betty: Bradford Heart attack
  This is so totally the inspiration for my series of Hallelujah links the other day. Should have included it.
  (tags: ugly_betty america_ferrara vanessa_williams hallelujah music tv video youtube)
• How to Make a Real Man’s Magazine Cover @ AMERICAN DIGEST
  I love this breakdown (by a former Penthouse mag editor) of John Edwards on the cover of Esquire magazine. If it’s too long for your reading tastes, scroll down to the bulleted list.
  (tags: magazines equire john_edwards photography)

links for 2008-03-01

• nancynall.com » Blog Archive » Copycat.
  White House presidential assistant plagiarizes his columns written for the hometown newspaper.
  (tags: plagiarism journalism white_house)
• Senior White House aide admits plagiarism - CNN.com
  Ha. CNN mentions the blogger even if the plagiarized paper doesn’t. Also, look at the timeline. Blogger breaks news 2/29 - Victim of plagiarism claims he got apology from WH aide on Thursday. Sure.
  (tags: plagiarism journalism west_wing)

links for 2008-02-29

• Lear Aircraft for Sale - General Aviation Sevices
  This came up as an ad in my gmail.
  (tags: gmail ad lear jet)
• Hallelujah (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  When you search for “hallelujah” on google, this is the first result - “”Hallelujah” is a song written by Leonard Cohen.”
  (tags: wikipedia lyrics music history leonard_cohen)
• YouTube - Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
  The songwriter sings it. (I think it’s on German TV. Check out the vintage 80s outfits on the chorus during the closeups.)
  (tags: hallelujah leonard_cohen music youtube video)
• YouTube - Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah
  During his famed early gigs at the New York club Sin-e, Buckley used to break hearts with his version of this Cohen prayer. Buckley called it an homage to “the hallelujah of the orgasm” and had misgivings about his sensuous rendition: “I hope Leonard does
  (tags: music video youtube jeff_buckley hallelujah leonard_cohen)
• YouTube - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) - Allison Crowe live performance
  Cohen’s original version is a spoken poem, all of the meaning contained in the words. Crowe’s version is a living thing, a meditation and a celebration and a benediction.” ~ anacronym (Canada)
  (tags: allison_crowe hallelujah leonard_cohen music video youtube piano)

links for 2008-02-26

• YouTube - The Oscars in 60 Seconds
  Not bad.
  (tags: Oscars film)
• OSCAR.com: The OSCAR Night Blog with Joel Stein
  Talk about multi-tasking. The trophy presenter liveblogged it, including details about the stars like Martin Scorcese getting his eyebrows trimmed.
  (tags: oscars blogging trophy)

links for 2008-02-25

• Onan the Vegetarian - A Raw-food Guru Turns “Subway Perv” — New York Magazine
  “Other adherents believe he simply fell off the program. “I don’t think he was eating totally raw,” one wrote.”
  (tags: subway nyc nymag)
• Amazon.com: S.E.M. “public school…’s review of Organix Shampoo Citrus Mango 13 oz Curling
  “So maybe my citrus is just familial.”
  (tags: shampoo)