“As the Chicago case shows, the obstacles to putting healthy foods in school cafeterias are many: the high cost of organic meals, long-standing contracts for frozen and pre-packaged food and labor union issues.”

“Chicago’s foie gras ban is one year old, but in spite of the law, restaurants are still serving it.”

“There’s a trademark sonic clarity to Cook’s work here; this isn’t an armchair experience, by any means. You feel the sweat of the musicians and the heat of the calypso tent around you, the best kind of travelogue.”

“Isn’t Google, at its core, an artificial-intelligence company using machine-learning algorithms to search the Web, recognize speech, and match advertising with keywords?”

“Some people have me over to drink beer and talk about their work in a casual setting, just to get ideas out. Some people hire me for weeks to prepare for a show, and aren’t afraid to ask me to pick up tools and help.”

“Though a band’s most-popular songs can be instantly sampled or bought, greatest-hits discs remain lucrative to labels. In recent Nielsen SoundScan sales charts, at least half of the top 50 top-selling catalog albums typically are compilations.”

“In my hometown of Cleveland, the Paris of northeastern Ohio, I spent a night in jail after the tragic bust of a coffeehouse. The charge was interracial checker playing and felonious guitar plucking while a local Ginsbergling moaned into the microphone.”

‘Off the record, Republicans use words like “catastrophe” and “Armageddon” to refer to 2008.’

“Bankers and investors need to suffer precisely because the methods of modern finance have been found wanting. It sounds Darwinian, but the brutal demonstration that you pay for your sins is what leads the system to evolve.”

There is no SpiderPig Young. “We learnt that internet memes are uncontrollable and unpredictable, that viral marketing is hit and miss, and if you try too hard you’ll more than likely fail.”

“Another twist of fate, or circumstance, and [Philip K. Dick] could have ended up as Rod Serling; another and he could have ended up as Marty Balin, writing lyrics for Jefferson Airplane.”

“A tribe in Papua New Guinea has apologised for killing and eating four 19th century missionaries under the command of a doughty British clergyman.”

“from the collective LTH mind and containing the insight of a dozen or more folks, what I consider to be the basic LTHForum Fried Chicken process. Do this and you’ll get up to pretty good quickly and can then spend the rest of your life getting to great.”

“The world is divided into two kinds of people: those for whom it’s crazy to drive 70 miles and back for lunch, and those for whom it would be crazy not to.”

“The heat was almost unbearable, and I was surprised to briefly lose muscular control of my knees”

“Politically, this step doesn’t help the administration undermine the regime — it helps to consolidate the regime.”

“Diebold takes such pride in the secure craftsmanship of its voting machines that it’s changing the name of that division to Premier Election Solutions Inc., and even giving it its own board of directors.”

“We have spent a lot of money and gotten some very good patches, but we’re putting them on this decayed old quilt.”

At the age of 88, Fred Katz carries on today as a consummate Renaissance man. Philosopher, anthropologist, composer and musician, he continues to produce new works, expressing his creativity through innovation and playing his beloved cello and piano.

“Windows security software vendors need the threats to make money. They have no economic incentive to support an environment where threats are ineffective. The status quo of weak Windows security suits them just fine. It sells their products.”

“Just because OS X has remained secure, Mac owners shouldn’t use their computers in a stupid or haphazard manner.”

Review of Alice Coltrane Tribute concert w/Myra Melford

Elton John: “I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span.”

“Edits made to author Al Franken’s Wikipedia entry was tracked back to a Fox News IP address. One of the changes … clearly reflects Fox News’ desire to avoid any bad press or misgivings about itself as a brand.”

In this post, I’ll be looking at several key aspects pertaining to two of today’s premier content management systems: WordPress 2.2, and the new Movable Type 4, which launched today.

“Over the years he challenged both his audiences and himself by working not just with standard jazz instrumentation, and not just in traditional jazz venues, but in a wide variety of contexts, some of them well beyond the confines of jazz…”

GEORGE WALLACE FOR THE BIG JOB (1960/1961) – Long Lost Alabama Anti-NAACP Gubernatorial Campaign Booklet

“In these days of quick-hit Web reporting, it’s too easy to skip a step and not contact the person you’re writing about.”

“‘When you eat it, it’s like dying.’ Outsiders, he insisted, shouldn’t even try it. ‘If you eat one,’ he told a visitor, ‘you will not be able to leave this place.’”

“The suite includes communications and control protocols for monkeys and the organizations that interact with them.”

“I haven’t figured out any way to stop listening. And if you keep listening, chances are you’re going to hear some things worth hearing. At least I hope so.”

“This is not your garden-variety rock-star worship we’re talking about here. An eloquent guitarist, an engaging vocalist, and a gifted composer/improviser, Garcia was charismatic, articulate, generous, well read, and a born leader.”

“With their cartoonish logos and uncomfortable seating, you might think these places peddle fast food, but the opposite is true: There are no stockpiles of fried chicken.”

“So ever since, the story goes, the English word ‘kangaroo’ has been based on a misunderstanding, and really means ‘I don’t know’.”

“Strange, really, that the best known sentence Noam Chomsky ever wrote is probably the one which wasn’t supposed to mean anything.”

John Safran vs. God segment featuring demo trailer for a new mormon thriller

“You shouldn’t bother with the appetizers, because the entrées are so friggin’ big. But if you choose Favela as your favorite Brazilian bar, you’ll find that many starters make wonderful bar snacks.”

The Velvet Tango Room in Cleveland

“OSKA’s and the curators’ goals—to build a space for children that wasn’t glaringly childish and retell the Noah’s ark story so that it focused on the value of working together—were only possible through collaboration.”

“With a population more than 60 percent Hispanic, Logan Square is home to a predictable number of Mexican restaurants, but other, less mainstream Latin American culinary traditions are represented as well.”

“Save the Deli is a space dedicated to the preservation of the Jewish delicatessen, a hallowed temple of salted and cured meats.”

McIlhenny Co’s attempt to control the Tabasco brand in the midst of user-generated content

“Nobody has ever in the history of the world said to their kids, “Let’s play with LEGO® brand bricks!” Unless they worked for WorldMegaLEGO®Corp Inc. and their boss, some Danish Larry Tate type, was over for dinner.”