from the e-newsletter by Michael Hebberoy of ripe, clarklewis and gotham building tavern in Portland, OR:

"wd-50 · ate here two years ago, two weeks after it opened. if you care about american food, and those half crazed geniuses that are pushing its boundaries… then you need to eat at wd-50. this trip I only had time for an afternoon gin sipping session with partner dewey dufresne, easily the most charming man in the biz."

banana leaf, one of our favorite locals, in $25 and under this week.

Last month, though, the American Library Association found at least 200 instances since late 2001 in which police targeted libraries in a hunt for information.

In one case, the names of people checking out books on Osama bin Laden were requested.

Because Section 215 makes it illegal for anyone involved in a search to make it public, there was no way the ALA study could determine if the actions were Patriot Act-approved.

The responses were anonymous to protect librarians.

sounds like a power shift at todays wh press breifing

googlewhack

Getting his war on.

My own opinion, expressed in this post last March, was that both the FCC and Congress overplayed their cards in 2004, inviting constitutional challenges they might have lost (in the FCC's case) and tacking on extra censorship baggage which might have doomed the new legislation (in the case of Congress).

Who supports prostitution?

Hello you pioneers who went westward ho. We need to know what happended next.

cuban vs R1aa

"The Whitney Museum and the New York-based arts organization Minetta Brook are collaborating to bring life to Floating Island, an unrealized project from 1970 by legendary American Earthworks artist Robert Smithson. Slated for Sept. 17-18 and 24-25, 2005, and planned in conjunction with the Whitney's major retrospective of Smithson's work (opening June 23rd), the project consists of a barge filled with earth and vegetation, towed around the island of Manhattan by a tugboat."

big media matts big media dad

that 70s show

"There are really two versions of the “pre-Code cinema” myth. They tell the same story but interpret it very differently. One held sway for about as long as the Production Code itself did, from the mid-1930s until the late 1960s. Like the Code itself, this “official” history served the industry's interests. According to this version, Hollywood was established by immigrants untutored in the finer manners of corporate capitalism, who occasionally had to be reminded to their civic responsibilities. One such reminder occurred after a series of scandals among leading Hollywood personnel, and led to the establishment of the MPPDA in 1922, with Hays as its first president. During the 1920s, Hays worked with civic and religious groups to improve their opinion of the movies, a policy that culminated in the writing of the Production Code in 1930. But as every Hollywood melodrama requires, a misfortune – the Depression – intervened. Needing to maintain income in the face of declining audiences, producers returned to their old sinful ways, exploiting their audiences' baser instincts with a flood of sexually suggestive and violent films. Without adequate powers to enforce the Code, the MPPDA was unable to prevent this, and the crisis was only averted by the Catholic Church, which established the Legion of Decency in April 1934 and threatened to boycott Hollywood. Almost immediately, the producers surrendered, agreeing to a strict enforcement of the Code under the administration of prominent Catholic layman Joseph Breen."

candle night

[nice feature with the html already in the post field on regenerate. was that dave?]

..or How to put a laptop inside a regular frame and hang it on the wall!!

homebrew ac

Okay, so those commencement speeches weren't very interesting, but this is a good story. Honest. To Cuba (almost) by Outrigger Sailing Canoe.

"Cradle to Cradle desisn rejects the assumption that human industry inevitably destroys the natural world. instead, C2C design emraces abundance, human ingenuity and positive aspirations."

Cradle to Cradle new housing competition.

whats in a......brand-naming quiz?

Two commencement addresses if you're bored:

Senator Barack Obama at Knox College and Steve Jobs at Stanford.

caught a few minutes (which is all anyone should ever watch)of this the other day. for me, its all about the tube socks. for you, maybe its linda blair in hot pants. or not.

Google maps has international satellite imagery. The detail of this image of Buckingham Palace is stunning.

cellblockvisions

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