Antonioni RIP

The Red Desert is one of my all time faves.
Tom Snyder R.I.P.
Google's battle for wireless spectrum -- Google is pushing the FCC to write rules for an upcoming auction to enforce openness.
Ingmar Bergman R.I.P.
sweet blackberries

The man who bought Jerry Garcia's house 10 years ago is selling everything, including the kitchen sink.
Its Really not easy being green
BH4J T-SHIRTS

if for no other reason than freedom of speach
audubon ch13 wed at 9
OMG

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France vs. USA: May the Best Cheese Win
In the past, American cheesemakers' reputations have lagged behind the French. Now we'll do a taste test and find out whether America's cheeses have caught up. Ruth Reichl of Gourmet magazine joins cheesemongers Rob Kaufelt of Murray's cheese and Anne Saxelby of Saxelby's Cheese.

Here are the cheeses we're tasting on-air today:
French
Valencay (goats' cheese)
Pyrenee Brebis (raw sheep's milk from the Pyrenees)
Chatelain Camembert
Persille de Malzieu
Mimolette (cows' milk, from Flanders and other parts of northern France)

American
Twig Farm Square Cheese (raw goats' milk, West Cornwall, VT)
Jasper Hill Farm Constant Bliss (raw cows' milk, Greensboro, VT)
Woodcock Farm Weston Wheel (raw sheeps' milk, Weston, VT)
Birchrun Hills Farm Birchrun Blue (raw cows' milk, Chester Springs, PA)
Uplands Farm Pleasant Ridge Reserve (raw cows' milk, Dodgeville, WI)

10 minutes or less
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Make Me Laugh (1979-80) - Frank Zappa appears in another unlikely scenario on this game show hosted by Bobby Van. Van was a regular face on 1970s television, showing up on programs like The Match Game, The Merv Griffin Show, CHiPs, Wonder Woman and that other show with a ridiculous Frank Zappa appearance, Dance Fever. Make Me Laugh regularly featured 1970s comedy icon Avery Schreiber, and 1980s comedy icon Gallagher, trying to make the contestant crack a smile (surely they could've found somebody more qualified for that job than Gallagher). It was a short-lived attempt to revamp a 1958 game show of the same name, previously hosted by Arthur Q. Bryan, the voice of Elmer Fudd.

Password Plus (1979-1982) - George Peppard is famous to one generation for Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and to another generation for The A-Team. He was also known for being testy. Case and point, appearing as a celebrity contestant, he chastises the network executives of Password Plus for what he feels to be their ridiculous and overbearing methods - while host Allen Ludden does his best to keep the show from going out of control in this 1979 episode. Ludden was the ultimate television square, awkward and obtuse, but also professional. His star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame lies next to his wife of twenty years, Betty White (It's also next to Gary Owens' star).

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if you thought decorated resin cows and donkeys as a civic activity was bad, how about these? (via AFC)
MHK show
tales of rat fink on sundance tomorrow.
in bad taste
YouTube here on the iPhone and net neutrality. I have no opinion.
they hate us for our freedom.
President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides about the firings of federal prosecutors.

The White House, however, did offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor available for private, off-the-record interviews.

skinny needs new computer.....all in favor of the 2.16Ghz over the 2.0 say BUY......and skinny is mostly a Sony guy and his office is non apple......all in favor say STILL BUY.....thanks