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I’ve been doing a lot of cooking lately, and while everything I make is good I’ve made a few things that are truly outstanding:    Roasted red pepper dip    Garlic soup    Eggplant rollatini    Tomato cheese tart

The other day I thought I had thought of a new word: organique – a blend of “organic” and “boutique.” I Googled it and it turns out I wasn’t the first to think of it. On the other hand, I found a very funny collection of advertising parodies – False advertising: A gallery of parody* [...]

Five years ago, I was living in Casablanca, Morocco. A British friend of mine called and started babbling about how the twin towers were hit and there were planes blowing up and it was like a movie but it was real. I had no idea what she was talking about, and since she was always [...]

Is it totally narcissistic to post that on my blog?

Would you drink a Quarter Pounder with Cheese? If you order a venti (20-oz.) Starbucks Caffè Mocha, you might as well be sipping that 500-calorie burger through a straw…. Source: CSPI Newsroom Good Cup, Bad Cup – Advice on How to Survive in Latte Land Yikes. I’m glad I haven’t set foot in Starbucks (or [...]

This is funny: put on some music and use your keyboard and/or mouse to make the virtual pipecleaner puppet dance.

Now here is an idea whose time has come: PaperBackSwap is an online used book store, where you can trade the books you don’t want for the ones you do. There are no membership or per-book fees – you just list your books, wait for someone to order one, mail it,* and earn a book [...]

After pre-ordering months ago, I finally got my DVD’s of the third season of Arrested Development and watched the whole thing in two days. (Of course, there were only 13 episodes rather than a “full season” of 22 or so.) I can’t believe that show was cancelled – it was absolutely brilliant.

These two English words are very often used incorrectly by native speakers. It’s important that you understand the difference between it’s and its.

This video isn’t LOL funny, but it’s certainly clever and creative: Treadmill Dance