TampaBayBeauty.com’s Carolyn Brundage is now writing a beauty column for the St. Pete Times‘ faux-alt, the *tbt. That in and of itself isn’t suspicious — unless you’re a fellow member of the media, and you know that TampaBayBeauty.com throws monthly “beauty bashes” at salons in the Tampa Bay area. Members of the media are VIPs, [...]
July 30th, 2005
Read...Imagine reading the front page of CNN.com: ‘Astronauts step out for spacewalk,’ it reads at 6 a.m. Saturday morning. Imagine that you browse around, read a few stories, then go about your day’s errands. You get home at 7 p.m., and return to CNN.com. Nothing has changed. ‘Astronauts step out for spacewalk’ is still the [...]
July 30th, 2005
Read...Gerry Thomas, inventor of the first-ever frozen meal — the Swanson TV Dinner — died this week at the age of 83. This man had a profound influence on the culinary habits of America — love ‘em or hate ‘em. WaPo’s got the story.
July 24th, 2005
Read...Wow. Aren’t you just falling in love with these? Words can’t describe how luscious my first-ever batch of mussels were. Fresh Prince Edward Island Mussels, kept live on ice until they were plunged into a sea of garlic, olive oil, and spicy white wine. Chewy in the best way possible, addictive, tender. Best of all? [...]
July 23rd, 2005
Read...Oh my god, I love it. Check DrunkReport.com’s “The Truth About MySpace” — a definitive guide to the reality behind those artful profile photos.
July 19th, 2005
Read...The day after Washingtonpost.com announces it will split its homepage into local and (inter)national views, (according to the zipcode folks provided when they registered), they post an announcement on JournalismJobs.com, looking to hire a producer. The post specifies that the job will be working with national and foreign news, making me wonder if the WaPo [...]
July 19th, 2005
Read...Two stories floated to my attention today, and I can’t help but wonder how they are related. The first: WashingtonPost.com will start ads in their RSS feeds. The second: TiVo — the aggregating technology that enabled users to avoid ads in the first place — is trying to market itself as an advertising vehicle — by [...]
July 18th, 2005
Read...I just found my first roach in the new house … not surprising, I suppose, since Atlanta is one bug-infested humid swampland. This beast was black, and nasty, and I suppose my fault … since I had some dishes in the sink for a while now. In honor of the occasion, I thought I’d resurrect an [...]
July 17th, 2005
Read...A Zimbabwean athlete was sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for pretending to be a chick in order to compete in women’s sports, reports SI.com. Unfortunately, no like sentence will be given to the makers of the film Juwanna Mann, which is the obvious progenitor of the whole hare-brained scheme.
July 14th, 2005
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