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• Sadly, No! » Dick Cheney is So Secretive …
  lots of giggles to be had here
  (tags: Cheney humor)
• Sourdough Bread: How To Begin (easy sourdough for the beginner or novice)
  I made a bread from this (slightly adjusted to accommodate what I had on hand) and it came out really well. Briefly, I had one cup of starter, so added one cup/water to the 1 lb of flour. 1 tsp of honey helped too. Excellent flavor and texture.
  (tags: bread diy food howto)
• “You know, I used to wonder just what it would take to make me miss Ed Meese…”
  (tags: humor politics currentaffairs)

box office n.

Box Office: Formerly known as the Cockpit. Renamed by Female Pilots.

Lethem annoints director for “You Don’t Love Me Yet” copyright experiment:

Lethem, a Macarthur-winning sf novelist,

I haven’t read any Lethem (any recommendations?) but I don’t see any of his books classified or described as SF. Post-apocalyptic, perhaps. <sigh> Why take the trouble to type those two characters? is it that much more cool to be an SF writer than just a plain old MacArthur-grant winning novelist? Or any kind of published novelist?

It bugs me as much as Apple bothers the perpetrator of the above, but at least I know who’s responsible for the offense.

from a mailing list I get:

Daughter does market analysis, she called long
distance to warn me that oil just jumped $3.00 a
barrel, Gas prices are expected to pass $4.60 by
Friday morning. If you have a gas can, I suggest you
fill it. Oil Stocks will go crazy. She fears it may
jmp more then a dollar, as something huge is going on
in the middle east.

Interesting. Wonder what has happened/is happening?

Pajamas Putziness.:

I, on the other hand, pine for War Presidents who could rally the nation and effectively manage the efforts to simultaneously defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in under 4 years. As opposed to one who still can’t seem to handle two fourth-rate powers like Afghanistan and Iraq after 5.

Curious story of what’s up with JPG Magazine, a photography…:

Curious story of what’s up with JPG Magazine, a photography mag founded by Heather Champ and Derek Powazek. Derek formed a new company (8020 Publishing) with a friend (Paul Cloutier) and that company bought JPG. Then, says Derek, “Paul informed me that we were inventing a new story about how JPG came to be that was all about 8020. He told me not to speak of that walk in Buena Vista, my wife, or anything that came before 8020.” The founding and the first 6 issues of JPG were removed from the site and Derek left his company. More from Heather and on MetaFilter, including this nice sentiment: “The great thing about a labour of love is the love, not the labour.” (link)

Rebecca notes this:

Oregon State University: The History of the US Minimum Wage, in graphs. Very interesting. (via dm)

Feel free to superimpose the party of the president at each point in the graph and see how it relates to real wages.

Calculated in real 2006 dollars, the 1968 minimum wage was the highest at $9.27.

And it’s never been as good since.

• Noted Without Further Comment
  Wow. Just look at the similarities.
  (tags: values culture politics)
• reading this will be enough to make you queasy
  The way they were: the Edwardian diet, too much of a good thing (some things not so good).
  (tags: food history culture values health)