January 2009
43 posts
Peanut Recall Leads to Criminal Investigation →
Federal health officials have begun a criminal investigation into the actions of the Peanut Corporation of America, after recalls of more than 400 products.
Picking Oranges for Charity (SF Bay Area) →
This Saturday in Palo Alto, the Silicon Valley-based non-profit Village Harvest has another one of their great volunteer fruit harvesting events, this time picking citrus. Got time?…
Photography Is Not A Crime →
Bikes & The City →
I don’t ride a bike, I take MUNI or walk. But, Loyal Reader and Flickr friend Meligrosa rides a bike and she has a website here. You should take a look.
Obama: Snowy Washington Needs 'Chicago... →
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Washington doesn’t know what its in for … lol.
“We’re going to have to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town,” Obama said this morning. “I’m saying that…
Peanut Corporation of America Knowingly Shipped... →
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knowingly shipped products that might be tainted with Salmonella? crappppppyyyyyyy.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported Tuesday that the Peanut Corporation…
Third Time's a Charm →
Remember my twice-failed Dijon-Pecan Seitan recipe? I had a vision of creating a pecan-encrusted, dijon-flavored faux meat for my cookbook a few months ago, but I kept getting it all wrong. First, it…
100 Best Tracks →
Data gathered from pitchforkmedia.com, wikipedia.org, discogs.com and allmusic.com.
Where multiple release dates existed the earliest was used.
Genre was determined by the first…
Food Not Bombs Night (1/29) →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah
all you bay area peeps should go to this. ex-Greens chef cooking at MSF for FNB. do it. and then tell me how amazing this veggie master is.
This week’s guest chef will…
London | The Tweed Run →
What could be better than a big boozie group ride all cloaked in tweed? Leave it to the Brits to have all the fun. This past Saturday a group of fixed gear riders rode from H Huntsman & Sons…
Lawyer-Run Business Helps Attorneys and Others... →
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geez, lawyers are terrible.
Attorneys and bankers are the largest professional groups among agency clients, Biderman tells Bitter Lawyer. He speculates that lawyers are…
Obama Retakes Oath of Office Out of ‘Abundance of... →
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whoops …
When he took the oath the first time, Obama misplaced the word “faithfully,” apparently repeating an error by Roberts, as discussed in an earlier …
Obama Reportedly Gets a Super-encrypted BlackBerry... →
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Who’s in charge again?
Earlier this month, Obama said he was in a “scuffle” with his lawyers over keeping his BlackBerry. “I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry,”…
Oversight now has meaning for S.F. pot clubs →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah
the difficulties of legalizing and regulating something the feds still call a crime … i <3 sf politics.
The city stepped in because while medical marijuana is…
Snarkology, The Sweet Science →
As far back as the early days of A COOK’S TOUR, that earlier, less good show on that other, crummier network, when it was just me, Chris Collins, Lydia Tenaglia and Diane Schutz travelling around…
Miso Soup →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah
yummmmm.
Remember when I was sick last month? Well, after a couple days of nothing but crackers and popsicles, it was miso soup that eventually brought me back to…
Sasha and Malia Dolls: Legal Remedies for the... →
by Mark Goldstein
We’ve seen that Ty is selling Sasha and Malia dolls. Can the Obamas do anything to stop this? They have a couple of options.
The Obamas could sue Ty for under the…
The Real Deal
On Day One, Obama Sets a New Tone... →
The Real Deal On Day One, Obama Sets a New Tone - NYTimes.com “Starting today,” Mr. Obama said, “every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of…
Racist Tulane Law School Party? Ironic Tulane Law... →
Tulane Law School finished 3rd in our post about the Top Law Schools of the Year. Apparently, they took that as a challenge. Some of the law students there decided to throw a little…
Quote of the Day: "There just people... →
Quote of the Day: “There just people darl’n … treat’em like your kin.” @JTChandler on Twitter at http://twitter.com/JTChandler
Six Easy Suggestions for Improving Patent Office... →
For a government agency, the USPTO (PTO) is fairly transparent to non-parties hoping to learn about the patent system and about specific patent cases. The PTO website receives millions of visits to…
Coke Sued over Vitamin Water -- Sugar!! →
Center for Science in the Public Interest has sued Coca Cola over its promotion of Vitamin Water as “healthful”. In fact, the drink has 33 grams of sugar per bottle, about the same as a can of pop….
obama street →
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I <3 sf. lol.
The night before the inauguration, every single sign on Bush Street was changed to Obama Street. Not a single sign was missed. This runs…
Meanwhile in Berkeley: The war between a Thai... →
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This Thai brunch = wonderful. It needs to keep going.
The war between a Thai temple’s (in)famous weekend brunch and its pissy neighbors is reaching a boiling point,…
Begin Obama →
Some pranksters civic-minded individuals replaced street signs for Bush Street in the city with Obama signs.
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Image from Dawn Endico’s photostream
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President Barack Obama has hit the ground running. Even before President Obama was done flubbing taking the oath of office, the revamped White House website was launched. You can check…
TWITTER ISN'T EMAIL →
Mission Street Food, Neighborhood Edition →
Mission Street Food returned to it’s usual haunt this Thursday, and brought along some neighbors to play. The line was long, but the weather played along nicely - it was the…
Law Firm Technology Awards →
Which firms are on the cutting edge of the digital age? Law and Technology News has an opinion. The publication just released their sixth annual law technology awards: The awards…
mossy rocks on Lagunitas Creek →
click photo for full-size image photo by Donald Kinney Hi Folks, Just wanted to thank everybody for being so understanding about yesterday’s post — I really had to get that off my…
New official portrait released →
Today we are releasing the new official portrait for President Barack Obama.
It was taken by Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House photographer.
It is the first time that an…
4 meals inspired by 1 recipe →
I finally got around to trying another recipe from the Real Food Daily cookbook before it had to go back to the library. Back when I first posted about this book a commenter recommended the Ying…
The Computer History Museum →
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I seem to remember using my first computer in the 3rd or 4th grade. It was in the library, and I could use it to find certain books. My parents bought a…
Patently-O Bits and Bytes →
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Patent Suits: Massachusetts In, Texas Out?? Glad I’m here now =)
For the first time in history, fewer than 50% of US patents issued in the past year originated from…
Motion to Transfer Patent Case Denied (citing In... →
J2 Global Communications, Inc. v. Protus IP Solutions, Inc., 2008 WL 5378010(E.D.Tex. Dec 23, 2008) (NO. CIV.A. 6:08-CV-211, CIV.A. 6:08-CV-275, CIV.A. 6:08-CV-262, CIV.A. 6:08-CV-263) Judge: John…
Zak’s Bananas Foster →
After a very filling dinner of Rejewvenator Braised Chicken, Zak was ready to show off for dessert. Like any good dinner guest, he had arrived bearing two bottles of booze, and…
more streaming sunlight →
click photo for full-size image photo by Donald Kinney Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, fog is usually never more than a whisp and a breeze away… But some places are foggier than…
Stray Shots →
As seen around The City over the past week…
20th & Bryant
High in the sky
17th & Texas
Giant Chipotle White Beans →
Food & Wine magazine’s Emily Kaiser wrote an article in November that highlighted two of my favorite things: Steve Sando’s Rancho Gordo heirloom beans, and a bean recipe from NOPA - a…
Sight-Ems →
20th & San Bruno
Down With Overstuffed Sandwiches →
When, pray tell, did it become acceptable for nice restaurants to wad up the meat in the middle of the sandwich? I mean, I understand it at an Arby’s. Arby’s has no class. But I just had an…
Year In Review →
See previous Years in Review.
encroaching fog →
click photo for full-size image photo by Donald Kinney The fog is widely available for everybody, but there are some parts of the Golden Gate Bridge that are only “visitable” with a…