This German website, when you click one or another spot on the main image, shows you both the inside and the outside of a package of food — that is, the difference between the “artist’s impression” / “serving suggestion” of a package, and what the contents really look like when you open the package and/or prepare […]

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In the NY Times travel section.
Tags: food, prices, US+airlines, flights, US

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I’d been wondering in an idle way what was going on with the New Line / Tolkien family lawsuit when I stumbled across this link to a good LA Times article on the situation (in an LA Times blog entry that also referenced this equally good article about “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”). I must watch out for […]

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(Hmm, sounds like a Doctor Who title. You can just hear the denouement. “All right, Masters of the Hydrox, now listen to me! In accordance with Section Eighteen, paragraph twelve of the Shadow Proclamation, and by virtue of the power vested in me as the last of the Time Lords, I order you to divest yourselves of all excess […]

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For those of you who’re interested: Peter and I both have stories out in DAW Books’ new fantasy anthology Enchantment Place. (There’s a lot of good company in the anthology, BTW: Jody Lynn Nye, Esther Friesner, Laura Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rausch, and numerous others.)
The anthology’s stories center around a shopping mall located in an alternate-Earth version of Chicago. This […]

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Which would be (originally) Independent Pizza Co. in Drumcondra, but (even more so) its younger sister-facility, Gotham Café in South Anne Street. The excellent Adam Kuban of Slice, the pizza lovers’ website par excellence, has just kindly posted a note I dropped him about the place.
Gotham Café is one of our favorite places to […]

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It was only a matter of time before someone did this…

(with a tip of the toque to Ed at Tomato)
Tags: restaurant, kitchen, chef, bad+language, do+you+eat+with+that+mouth+too, backlash, inevitable

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It was a charming convention. I look forward to coming back some time (with Peter, this time).
Stockholm is a city I look forward to visiting again when I have more time. The light here is very special. (The dark, not so special. Or maybe it is, but I’m a little set against it at the […]

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So here I am. Missing Peter (inevitable), enjoying the weather (hot, sunny, a touch humid), and working (also inevitable: Vasa is going to have to wait for the next trip, I’m afraid).
The eclipse passed without notice in most parts of the city, I think. (But at only — what, 30%-ish totality? — this is forgivable. […]

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Specifically, for online pick-your-own-ingredients-and-we’ll-ship-it-to-you muesli.
From this week muesli lovers in the UK will be able to order their very own custom made cereal choosing their ingredients online.
The German firm ‘Well’ launched www.mymuesli.com last year and it has proved successful in its homeland. Customers are able to use the website to dream up their personalised breakfast […]

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Yeeeeuuurrrrrrrrgh. What was this cake designer thinking of???
If I found myself at a party where that was sitting on the buffet or whatever, I would seriously consider leaving.
(shudder)
(Whereas this one merely looks like it wants to land at Area 51 or something.)
Tags: cake, strange, repellent, bizarre, ick

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Peter was riding over to the next town to pick up a couple of things yesterday afternoon when his bike’s chain broke and he went over the handlebars and came down in a friendly hedge. (“Friendly” only because it broke his fall and there were no nettles in it.)
He’s okay, thank heaven.  (“Shaken but not […]

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