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HOWTO make onion-ring eggs Tom Whalen Goes Daffy for Mondo Nazi rules for jazz performers Chicago Symphony Fist Fight: Conductor throws "dagger eyes" 98 major advertisers say no to Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and other right wing radio shows Unusual airbrushed illustration inspires cartoonist Christian card counters Caturday: cat vs. printer (video) HOWTO make onion-ring eggs
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 11, 2012 09:59 am The Apron Strings cooking blog continues its run of excellent ideas for making molded eggs by frying them inside vegetable cross-sections with this lovely recipe for onion-ring eggs: just half-cook rings of sliced onion, turn over, and crack in an egg. Add some water to the pan and cook covered over low heat. Be sure ...
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By Ben Marks on Mar 11, 2012 09:34 am For a little over a year now, Tom Whalen has been Mondo's go-to artist for contemporary movie posters of classic cartoons. Mondo, of course, is the Austin-based gig-style movie-poster publisher whose limited edition screenprints generally sell out within minutes of being offered online—these guys are literally printing money. Whalen, whose work can be seen at ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 11, 2012 01:54 am Famed Czech radical Josef Skvorecky recently died at 87 in his adopted land of Canada. In the Atlantic, JJ Gould remembers Skvorecky through his memoirs, including a detailed list of the rules for jazz performers during the Nazi occupation. The Reich's Gauleiter for the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia issued a 10-point regulation that ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Mar 10, 2012 07:32 pm Chicago never fails to remind me why I love it so; seems a fist fight broke out at the Symphony. Just as the second movement was drawing to a gentle close — with Music Director Riccardo Muti at the podium — a man in his 30s, according to police, started punching a 67-year-old man inside ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 10, 2012 05:38 pm After witnessing the effectiveness of consumer boycotts against The Rush Limbaugh Show, corporate America has announced it is pulling support of right-wing talk radio. Ninety-eight major corporations, such as Ford, GM, Allstate, and McDonald’s, have told Premiere Networks (which distributes Limbaugh and many other right-wing radio shows) that they want to advertise exclusively on “programs ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 10, 2012 05:15 pm Ian JQ spotted this airbrushed illustration on the tailgate of a pickup truck and was inspired to draw some additional illustrations of the model who posed for it. Oh my God. I have to Draw You
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 10, 2012 02:41 pm In the NYT, Mary Pilon profiles a (now defunct) ring of Christian blackjack card-counters who lead Bible-study classes and youth groups when they're not scoring millions at the casinos. One such Christian counter, Colin Jones, has branched out into running for-pay card-counting workshops for would-be sharps. One of the team has produced a documentary on ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 10, 2012 02:27 pm [Video Link]An internet classic from 2010 by Chris Cohen. (via @nytjim @janinegibson @bengoldacre)
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