Michelle Obama wore $17,000 diamond chandelier earrings designed by Loree Rodkin to the "We Are One" ... her manicured toe in hot water for borrowing designer clothes after having promised she would no longer ... thanks to a pact created by the then-White House counsel and Office of Government Ethics — because [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 20:04:51
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Loose Lips Daily: Fenty Woos Wyclef
As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—”Rhee and KJ!“; “Bullpen Is Baracked“; “Barry–Fenty Contract Dispute Escalates” Morning all. Last night, at Mayor Adrian M [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 13:05:49
An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
This is a guest post by Peter Tatchell Dear President Barack Obama, Congratulations on the occasion of your inauguration. On this special day, the hopes of billions of people across our precious planet are vested in your presidency. They look to you to show practical and moral leadership in resolving the great challenges that face humanity [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 14:41:07
Adventures in Normal
I’ll go in to more of the Scrapbook Alchemy backstory and behind the scenes tomorrow. Today was just a regular day. A normal day. Right? ... , heck yeah), and the grocery store was a mob scene. Everyone stocking up on bottled water ... while the Lowe’s Foods employees bring me my bottled water… So everything - including Jared’s Red Hat [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 01:34:44
What price economy?
Far be it from me to try and understand fuel pricing. I don't think the people who set fuel prices understand fuel pricing. All I know is: 1. Gasoline is still the cheapest liquid you can buy per litre in a service station. 2. If the oil companies can deliver this highly complex product to every street corner at a price lower than water [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 17:39:52
Cheers With Gin and Tonic Cupcakes
Recently a great friend celebrated his birthday. To surprise him, I decided to turn his favorite cocktail into a cupcake! ... 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar, sifted 1/4 cup flour 1 1/2 tablespoons tonic water Frosting 1/2 cup ... in three stages, and then stir in the tonic water. Arrange muffin paper baking cups inside a muffin [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 23:30:14
Two Day Contest
In order to help promote HGTV’s 2009 Dream Home Giveaway, INO was giving one prize pack filled with lots of goodies! Here is what the pack includes: HGTV Wine Tasting Kit Water Bottle Holders HGTV decorating journals Cell Phone Holders Bags and Backpacks Pents Tape Measure Key Chains Magnets Nightlights [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 16:20:00
Make A Promise To Go Green And Get 250 GB Free File Hosting
Going green can have a euphorically contagious effect! Adapting green habits is good for the environment, but who knew it can get us great deals too. Here are some great environmental benefits for every ton of paper that is recycled. 7,000 gallons of water is conserved 380 gallons of oil is saved And we save enough electricity to power [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 23:17:19
Frozen in Time
Not many people take a vacation to New York in January. Actually, it’s quite likely no one does. But my friend Bill was having a birthday, quite a significant one too, and…umm, there were a bunch of good gigs coinciding with his birthday, so the trip was well worth any weather shortcomings [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:52:22
City Kitchen Chronicles: Righting Wrongs and Lentil Soup
City Kitchen Chronicles is a bi-weekly column about living frugally in Manhattan. It's penned by the lovely Jaime.About nine-tenths of the way through making this recipe, I was despairing. Rather than the delicious soup that I nearly lived on last winter, I was stirring a pot of tomato paste-flavored lentils. It was pretty gross [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 18:26:00
Looking Up
Hello Steph~ I’m rather new to climbing and I’ve been kind of desperate to find some female climber role models. I was definitely excited to come across your blog this morning. I’m also excited because of the vegan recipes you’ve posted! Peace, Rebecca Schneider Dear Rebecca, I hope you will like all those recipes! [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 04:27:00
When in Ann Arbor
Here is a piece of advice to hotel/motel owners: Do not leave copies of a newspaper in your rooms which contains a crime map. Your guests will not be reassured to discover two burglaries occurred in the area in November of 2008. However, it will make them double-check that the sliding door is locked [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 13:02:27
100 Things About Micaela.
1. I have always loved those glass cake holders that are on a pedestal with a glass lid. 2. I love writing and buying journals to write in. When I get a new one that I love it’s hard for me not to abandon my previous one. Sometimes I compromise and just alternate. 3. I never watch scripted TV but I love reality TV. 4 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 00:21:04
Yo ho ho and a gallon of paint
You had to know that today was going to be an update on the backhouse painting project. At this point painting the backhouse feels a little bit like heaven, not so much in the “there will be no tears or sorrow” kind of way, but more in the “this will be how I spend eternity” kind of way. I’m not going to sugarcoat it. It’s going to kill me [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 08:58:24
Popeyes (Louisiana Kitchen) at Taman Tun Dr Ismail
Popeyes opens its doors to Malaysia!Contrary to what its name means to most children, Popeyes is not named after the Spinach Chugging cartoon character Popeye (and Brutus and Olive oil), but rather Popeye Doyle in the Movie, the French Connection. Read more about how this franchise has its roots in Baton Rouge Louisiana HEREApparently the taste of [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 08:58:00
Worst Bush Moments #3: Strumming While New Orleans Flooded
As the 9th Street Levee was gushing forth a torrent of water, water that was filling up New Orleans like a soup bowl, our president was doing this: ... , but even minor hurricanes do tens of millions of dollars in damage, and a hurricane of Katrina’s size ... , and that the damage might not be catastrophic. But it was cautious optimism, optimism that would [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 00:25:13
Today’s new word is BART
Actually it's an acronym. It used to be BART meant "Bay Area Rapid Transit" at least to me. Here in Columbus it means "Bias Assessment Response Team," and if the same nonsense weren't cropping up on most college campuses, I’d suggest you send your hard earned tuition dollars to another school [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 03:34:47
Afternoon update 01.20.09
San Joaquin Valley officials appeal for state help – Elected officials from all eight San Joaquin Valley counties travel to Sacramento Jan ... says. Capitol Alert Westlands: Zero surface water likely for growers – Responding to worsening drought conditions and pumping cutbacks to protect endangered fish, Westlands Water District informed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 03:05:02
Gossip Girl: Hot for Teacher [Recaps]
newVideoPlayer(”/GossipGirl_War.flv”, 506, 423,”"); Now that the small stuff is winding down, let’s move on to the important issues: Gossip Girl was on last night. It was about college! Everyone was in a snit-fit about Yale! Who would get in? Who would be forced to go to terrible commuter trade schools like Oberlin and Vassar and Grinnell and [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 08:00:09
Deep End? - Enter Bruton Smith
Never short of opinion, many based on long and successful experience as a track owner, Burton Smith believes NASCAR should follow the NFL’s lead and institute a local TV blackout to aid track attendance. As my headline suggests I think Smith has done a header in the deep end of the pool sans any arm floatees and is drowning in his own hubris [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 00:35:32
Joe Temp: Abby Blanchard and Julie Harris
T-shirts are as common a sight as cops. Hats, too. But two women from Brooklyn are claiming a corner on the Obama commemorative water supply. “I haven’t seen anyone with water like this,” says 23-year-old Julie Harris ... as “H2Obama.” “My dad got this Obama water and my friend made some Obama pins, so we thought, yeah, let [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 22:56:10
How-To: Safely Dispose of Prescription Meds
No matter how diligent I am about trying to keep my bathroom shelves clutter-free, ... are also showing up in your drinking water. To prevent further contamination, don't flush your medication ... some water or vinegar to pills to render them useless. For liquids, add some flour or kitty litter [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 23:00:00
Chili and Change: Dispatch From DC
Chili and Change: Dispatch From DC Along with 4 million other people in Washington, I'm trying to figure out how to keep warm and dry while waiting (and waiting…) to witness history in the making. Fuzzy boots and mittens with hand warmers and puffy rain pants are my own fashion statement for this inaugural ceremony [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 17:37:28
Chemist’s last words
Chemist’s last words By sahilNo Comments Science Jokes The last words of a chemist: 1. And now the tasting test. 2. May that become hot? 3 ... it a bit. 6. Why is there no label on this bottle? 7. In which glass was my mineral water ... , then the water… 13. And now the detonating gas problem. 14. This is a completely save experimental setup. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:49:35
marisa miller OH MY GOD!
Marisa Miller has the perfect female body, obviously. Skinny with long hair and a little ass and big tits. Really big. Like, even here in the ocean, you could do a water displacement test to measure them ... Illustrated Swimsuit Issue photo shoot, she dove into the water and her top slipped off. I should warn [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 00:26:00
Was Plague Outbreak Al Qaeda Chemical Weapons Mishap?
That little attack of bubonic plague may have been a Biological Weapons screw up. The al-Qaeda cell wiped out by Black Death may have infected ITSELF while developing biological weapons according to some sources. The terrorists to infect on Western targets but fell victims to their own weapon, a leading expert on chemical warfare believes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 05:56:45
Conceptual Menir House Features Innovative Green Elements
This conceptual proposal for a residence with combination solar panel and wind turbine offers the best of both worlds, with a dose of stage-like performance. Shaped to look like a rock, the dwelling stores water ... Angelidakis "The house is a portable vacuum-formed polyurethane shell that once filled with sea-water [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 17:17:42
Being a social media expert? Disclosure as a best or worst policy
A few months ago, I wrote about the issue of being immersed in a world of self-professed (or self-appointed) authorities ... . To create the theoretical framework of the project, I read over 300 journal articles about water ... -reviews of books, book chapters and journal articles, all focused on water. Does all my background [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 17:00:36
Capturing the power of whirlpools
An Austrian engineer, Franz Zotloterer, has developed a new method for small scale hydropower by creating a whirlpool that avoids many of the ... the vortex was, in fact, not power generation, but water purification. A vortex in the water serves to efficiently aerate the water and to aid in more rapid breakdown of contaminants.The idea to use [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 20:38:07
Thank You For Helping to Inaugurate Change!
InaugurateChange_letterfeatureright.jpg More than 2,400 people joined us in sending this vital message to the White House ... , we at Worldchanging thank you tremendously for your support. President-Elect Barack Obama The White House ... . Livable cities, clean energy, green jobs, new technologies, improved product design, better [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 13:55:51
Chocolate and Meyer Lemon Love
I hope you had a lovely weekend. The weather was so beautiful here that we spent most of our time outdoors. I did manage, however, to finish this mousse cake I had started last week. Here I am once again with meyer lemons, which I cannot get enough of.This cake was inspired by a yet another childhood memory [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 05:58:00
Winter Hack - How to Make Windshield De-Icer!
For those of you living in snow still while Californians are enjoying the winter sun, you can refer to this DIY on how to make windshield de-icers. Basically, these de-icer formulas can get rid of your morning “cannot-defrost-my-windshield” headaches. Mix one part water to two parts rubbing alcohol. Apply to the window and watch it peel [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 20:49:26
Wednesday recipe: Paella
Last weekend we had our “farewell-but-we-are-coming-back-dinner” for some of our friends; 5 Puerto Ricans, a Swede and a French. It was an experiment since it was the first time we invited some Puerto Ricans for a sit-down dinner - usually people here, just like in the US, have very informal gatherings with buffet-style dinners [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 04:30:52
Psychobabblers for Peace
The Huffington Post has an article from a representative of a group called "Conflict Analysis Professionals for Enduring Security" who attempt to place the Israel/PalArab conflict in terms of modern psychobabble.It is a fairly ... . I daresay that there is evil.You recently said, "If my daughters were living in a house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 03:12:00
Michael Tomasky: Hitchens, lukewarm
Christopher Hitchens writes on Slate today that though he voted for Barack Obama (!) and though he got a lump in his throat on the mall yesterday (!! ... it for the sake of proportion, I think we can be pretty sure that wiretapping and water-boarding ... on this point, but I think it's a certainty that historians will not conclude that the removal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 18:48:32
Journal Junk January 20th
Journal page for Jan 20th....I am so not good at keeping a regular journal, but at least i am trying to do it once a week. how do so many create a page a day????gesso, purple paint, graphite pencil, water soluble graphite in gray and shadow, white ink essential gel pen, black gel penI've had to start over so many times [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 02:57:00
Bronx Towing Services ” A Necessity For Your Car
by Freddy Poveda Have you ever stuck with the problems of flat tires, run short of gas, forgot keys in the locked car or required jumpstart? Then Bronx towing and NYC towing services are surly your cup of tea. This is because they are specialized in proving all these services 24/7 to their customers so that they have comfortable drive all the [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:57:05
Publisher X Brings ‘HydroTilt: Lite’ to the App Store
Publisher X has recently released HydroTilt: Lite , a free, limited version of its 3D platform / puzzle / maze game HydroTilt ... offers familiar tilt controls to control a bead of water on suspended platforms. The goal of each level is to find the a cold cube (which turns your drop of water into a ball of ice) and roll [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 15:59:28
100 Flower Blossoms - a beautiful beginning for Chinese New Year
I asked my Mom for a couple of Chinese New Year recipes to give to you, and here is one she came up with, ... florets) 6 ounces sliced carrots salt to taste 1 teaspoon cornstarch 1 tablespoon water ... pot of salted water, boil the cauliflower florets for 1½ minutes. Without removing the cauliflower, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 04:55:13
A Slave to Sin
A Slave to Sin Barb claimed to be a psychiatrist, but my guess is that she was not a very good one. One day she had asked our friends, her next door neighbors, to help clean up her house a little ... , she now holed up in her house, only rarely leaving the property. With no car, no bus routes and few friends [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 14:03:00
GreenMonk news roundup 01/21/2009
Fiat Gets 35% of Chrysler in Exchange for Small Cars | EcoGeek - Clean Technology As Chrysler struggles to survive, ... Stages, the nation’s first “green from the ground up” film studio, has been finalized and construction has begun in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District. All major elements of the construction project [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 08:30:22
Anna's fishies!
AAACK! It's BLOG GONE WILD day today! I had queued up a blog post for today with a Crafty Secrets set and forgot that I set it up! ... in. They are swimming in Copic Cool Shadow blue water! I also drew in the little wave lines so that it looks like one little crazy fish is jumping out of the water trying to fly with the dragonflies!I stamped [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 01:40:00
The Bush Years, as Told by The Onion
I remember snickering at the once-amusing, now eerily-prescient classic article in The Onion titled Bush: Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over: What better day than on the last day of the Presidency that made a virtue of willful ignorance to present a catalogue of George W [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 20:00:00
Eva Longoria Plants A Tree For Barack Obama, Or Something
For all the pomp and achievement around Barack Obama’s inauguration today, he’s bound to feel a little trepidation. Obama is inheriting a country that’s in its worst state for decades, and the wave of expectation which took him to the White House is so perilously high that he’s bound to disappoint great swathes of those who voted him in [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 14:02:01
Review: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
The good Doesn't actually cause your iPhone to crash, most of the time Has a lightsaber The bad Antiquated graphics Almost no control over the game None of the praised Force Unleash story Uneven and inconsistent difficulty No different from the Java version Simply not fun The [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 04:05:01
Don’t worry about Apple, Playboy needs a succession plan: 82-year-old Hugh Hefner should be allowed to retire with what’s left of his dignity
Steve Jobs has Apple investors nervous. The CEO returned to Apple in 1997 after over a decade long hiatus from the company he co-founded. He has since turned the company into a technology powerhouse. The iPod and iPhone make everything in its class look clunky, and the company has an operating system that actually works, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 02:10:03
Organic Pest and Fungus Control: Garlic Barrier - Yes, It Really Works
Last year, I picked up a pest control recommendation from HRH The Prince of Wales in his book, Elements of Organic Gardening (you can read my previous review here). Garlic Barrier is almost 100 percent garlic oil which can be mixed with water and sprayed on plants, including vegetables. It imparts no garlic taste [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 00:22:00
A day in the life…MLK day, this and that.
I had spent way too much time in front of the computer the day before, which was Sunday. I was determined not to do that today. I needed balance even at the cost of being behind on some plans/project/works. Sometimes one has to say Moutakusan (enough). I started the day as usual 6:30am. Checked my email and then did my Zazen [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 05:16:30
Greek Youvetsi With Lamb
This is a popular dish in Greece and quite easy to prepare. It is usually made with lamb, but you can use other meat if you so prefer ... ime the water should have been reduced in quantity by nearly a half.At this point you need to have at least 1½ litres of liquid in the pan, so add enough water to make up the difference and bring to [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 08:28:00
Waid Wednesday #7: Ground Floor Stuff
When I talk to aspiring comics writers, they’re often most mystified not by the scripting (there are plenty of script books out there) or the language (most anyone who’s interested in doing this for a living already knows what a “panel” is, what “balloons” are, etc.). They’re freaking out because they don’t know where to start [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 06:52:00
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