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Y’know, it’s sad when the New York Times bursts a culinary bubble regarding one of my favorite guilty-pleasure NYC foods:

You know those hot dogs that you know and love, and can’t wait to eat this time of year? The ones served at Katz’s Delicatessen, Gray’s Papaya, Papaya King, the legendary Dominick’s truck in Queens and [...]

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Some thoughts that have been whizzing ’round my head today:

Summer traffic season has started in the District, so there are random drivers from points afar who stop in the middle of blocks, don’t signal where they’re going, don’t realize that you can turn on red (except where posted), and otherwise make life more dangerous for [...]

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Well, Carrie Underwood won American Idol. Good for her, I wish her the best.
But I won’t buy her single or her album. She’s just like any other female country-crossover on the air these days, save for one key difference: she has absolutely no sense of pitch, delivery, timing or anything needed to have [...]

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Dear god: there’s a magazine about blogs that will commence publication this summer.
Talk about nice marketing - yeesh!
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As anybody knows, Amazon has an extensive library of images: CD cover art, book jackets, appliances, etc. But what I didn’t know (until this morning) is that the various image composites (e.g. an album with a “30 percent off” badge) are generated on the fly.
Nat Gertler figured this out, and posted this wonderful guide [...]

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Just watched the last “competition night” of American Idol, and it was most telling. First of all, it’s a bit sad that a music “career” can be launched by a TV game show. Granted, it’s not quite as bad as it was in the past, and the expansion of the upper age limit [...]

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