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Tomato Tasting Two: This Time It's Dinner

We helped to put on another Tomato Tasting. This time Slow Foods Upstate led the way and we were there to help with some design work for the menus and tasting cards. more

Published in 2005 but shared with me today, this quality of vitriol must be linked.

This would be a small thing were it not for the overall pattern. Thomas Friedman does not get these things right even by accident. It's not that he occasionally screws up and fails to make his metaphors and images agree. It's that he always screws it up. He has an anti-ear, and it's absolutely infallible; he is a Joyce or a Flaubert in reverse, incapable of rendering even the smallest details without genius.

Here's a crazy idea, let's not create robot clones of an organism we don't want to encounter in real life.

"Robot + Beer = Awesome" Or the Doom of the Planet?

I love Paste Magazine for many, many reasons. Here, they have honored the creators of a robot built to fetch beer. Not the most novel idea, but the fact it works is pretty freaking sweet. But really, a robot serving alcohol? Sounds like robot invasion tactics to me, especially after finding it's counter-part Beer2-D2. more

Why bother with SSL certificates?

There's a common misconception that SSL certificates are not needed if a website has no "sensitive" data worth protecting. At OC, we contend that every login or registration form should be SSL encrypted, no matter if there's 1 user account or 10,000. Sites with only internal users can get by at zero cost. A real SSL cert can cost as little as $20-30 a year. more

Zombies, Giant Squids, and Aliens, Oh Yeah! A Summer Reading List to Cringe, In a Good Way, Over

Do you think you're developing/honing a taste (or maybe a hunger?) for the non-human focused literature? Lucky, and not so luck for you, there's a lot of it out there. The literate minded, over your head jokers, and soft speakers that are NPR, have compiled a list of oozy, gritty, down right dirty summer un-dead, mutant and extra-terrestrial readings to assist in the forging. Shoo, even if you're non-fiction devoted, it's worth it just to read the NPR write-up. more

In the year since Peter Buchanan-Smith started selling axes, his dog died, he and his wife separated and he sold the house he thought he would grow old in at a big loss. Also, he parted ways with his business partner.

So starts the New York Times article on the Best Made Co.. It's a lead good enough for a quality country and western song. But certainly not the perfect country and western song.

Like Woot, I've got a company crush on the Best Made Co..

Damn it I love Woot. I've been saying it for years and they don't disappoint with their recent announcement of being bought by Amazon. See the video above or the letter from their CEO.

It's the best writing on the web people.

Josie needs a friend. Why not an AT-AT?

Paparazzi photos captured the brutal beating by a group of teenage thugs.

An anonymous tipsters said the group became irritated after years of randomly generated spats of incessant beeping. Apparently, having to power on the microwave and set the clock before each cup of tea is too much manual labor for the coming generation of tech savvies.

The leader of the group, identified only as Evan T., was heard humbling, "power on....clock....12:30....clock....1 minute...start....power off".