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November 23, 2002
Stone Clonez: Rawk by Dawk. "...these gemstone characters are real and millions of years old. No artist will draw them, no computer will generate them, and they have been available all this time. Until now no one could figure out how to bring them into our world."
posted by agentfresh at 8:55 AM PST - 3 comments
Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrivé, but the wine's popularity
has more to do with clever marketing than the quality of the wine itself. "Why it was decided to make the region's humblest juice—a wine mainly borne of its worst vineyards, a wine barely removed from the fermentation vat, a wine that is nothing more than pleasantly tart barroom swill—its international standard bearer is a question that will undoubtedly puzzle marketing students for generations to come."
posted by mcwetboy at 5:32 AM PST - 22 comments
The Upper Crust Of Bread: What happens when the greatest
bread-maker in
France, Lionel Poilâne, talks to America's
finest baker, Peter Reinhart, and her most fanatical
bread-taster, Edward Behr? I'll tell you what: a scrumptious, crackling and very knowledgeable conversation about the the wonders of the
baguette, the complexities of simple bread and the
deliciousness [
"Forgiveness for mistranslations"] of
the staff of life in general. Last year, for the first time ever, an
American baker beat the French competition to win the "Best Bread in the World" award. Will what recently happened with wine in the New World now happen with
bread? Will the Americans [
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches notwithstanding] begin abandoning industrial, pre-sliced and sweetened white bread, just as Europe increasingly and depressingly
succumbs to it? [
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posted by MiguelCardoso at 3:26 AM PST - 29 comments
President Bush is pressuring Iraq because
he says that they support terror (there is
some evidence of that). So
what about Saudi Arabia? "Sources familiar with the evidence say the payments—amounting to about $3,500 a month—came from an account at Washington’s Riggs Bank in the name of Princess Haifa Al-Faisal, the wife of Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and the daughter of the late Saudi King Faisal." And why were CIA/FBI investigations of the Saudi connection
reigned in? When Bush
met that very same Prince Bandar in August, somehow the issue never came up. Don't want to step
on Dad's toes, you know.
posted by owillis at 12:27 AM PST - 18 comments
An official Q&A with the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, alludes to some extremely scary/interesting tidbits-- the Office of Strategic Influence is still alive, John Poindexter can do anything he pleases with DARPA, we just might renew nuclear weapons testing.
Don't worry, though. Rummy sez: "Anyone who is concerned ought not be. Anyone with any concern ought to be able to sleep well tonight. Nothing terrible is going to happen."
posted by LimePi at 12:11 AM PST - 7 comments
