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Austin Food Trailer Explosion

lunalaguna — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:22:02 -0800

Can I get some sushi with my taco? Until a few years ago, Austin's culinary tradition seemed to be limited to breakfast tacos and BBQ. From these humble beginnings, however, has come an bizarre explosion of food trailers. From kebabs to banh mi, there's something for everyone in the Austin food trailer scene. Take a stroll around South Austin, and you'll find crispy chicken cones from one of Austin's finest restaurants next to shiny cupcake stands. Food writers from coast to coast are talking about the trend. Austin's best trailer purveyors have even battled Bobby Flay. On the weirder side, someone's discovered there's always money in the banana stand. Ane some like the food so much, they've made off with the entire trailer.

Who's going to break the news to Cory Doctorow?

dersins — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:47:27 -0800

Nothing signals the death of a trend like an article in the NY Times Style section. Steampunk: "The subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world..." Our long (inter)national nightmare is over.

Web Trend Map 2008 Beta.

signal — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:59:55 -0800

Web Trend Map 2008 Beta.

Most blogged

leftcoastbob — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:46:53 -0800

BlogPulse keeps track of the most popular videos on the web, many of which have been featured in the blue recently. Are we trend setters or trend followers?

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ~ W.C. Fields

huckhound — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:00:50 -0800

Poitin, Hjemmebrent, and Slivovitz are all vying to be the next Absinthe. Though Poitin gets extra points for being banned by a 17th century monarch, they are all part of the very trendy, very quaffable moonshine revival.

trendwatching

stbalbach — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:19:03 -0800

Trendwatching reports on "emerging consumer trends and related new business ideas." It is packed with ideas and links for new online business concepts that are currently emerging. The language is marketingpersonbuzzspeak, but the ideas (with supporting website examples) are fascinating.

Every 30 years (ish) America gets itself into war. Time's up!

taumeson — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:44:56 -0800

Take a peek at this military timeline. And let's figure that the time from when Johnny, sergeant, age 25, gets home from fighting the war and tells 5 year old Junior about the experience to when Junior, Major/Lt.Col, grows up and wants to CAUSE a war, averages 30 years.

Now let's do some math...starting with the French and Indian War, 1754-1763. Add 30-ish years (21). American Revolution, 1775-1783. Add 30-ish years (38). War of 1812, 1812-1814. Add 30-ish years, numerous Indian wars. Add 30-ish years. American Civil War, 1861-1865. Add 30-ish years (37). Spanish-American War, 1898. Add 30-ish years (19). America in World War I, 1917-1918. Add 30-ish years (25). America in World War II, 1942-1945. Add 30-ish years (20). Vietnam War, 1964-1973. Add 30-ish years, and it's the turn of the millenium....it's now.

We haven't learned from 250 years of this cycle, and there's no reason to think we've learned anything since. I didn't count the Gulf War cause it wasn't much of anything, and I know the numbers are a bit forced...but I think this trend is worth discussing.