09:30 pm: @fightingwords:

07:38 am: Network inauguration coverage impressions so far:
Fox News:
We're here amidst the integrated crowd - people of all colours and creeds - on the National Mall to bring you the inauguration of this country's first Black president. [pan camera back from sole Black face in the chorus] Here's an interview with an actual Black person. "What does today mean to you?" "Isn't that great!" Look! There's another actual Black person! "What does today mean to you?" "Isn't that great!" Oh. My. God. They're everywhere. "Isn't that great!"

CNN:
We have some exciting inauguration records for you! Ronald Reagan's first inauguration was the coldest on record! His second was one of the warmest!!! OMG! All of our field reporters today are hot blonde women! Let's ask people in Chicago what this means to them. OMG! Facebook FaceBook FACEBOOK! LOOK AT THE COMMENTS COMING IN FROM FACEBOOOOOOOOOK! boobies.

What the fuck happened to news? Time to try C-SPAN.

02:03 pm: Comedy gold
http://www.whitebirdbrowser.com/

Esp White People Food.

12:52 am: Adventures in cooking part 1
Tonight at about midnight, I tried making quiche for the first time in many years. Mushroom and cheese quiche. I went the VERY easy route and used eggbeaters and frozen crust from the grocery store.

I sauteed mushrooms, shook the living daylights out of the egg carton to aerate them a bit, layered mushrooms, cheese, eggs (repeat) into the pastry shell, and popped the whole thing into the oven. Because I was nervous about the whole thing overflowing, I checked in on it every 10 minutes of its expected 35 minute baking time.

Check 1: flat, wet. As expected.

Check 2: flat, wet. Is it actually cooking?

Check 3: flat, clearly setting. That's good.

5-7 minutes later: WTF.



also: 3/4 view and top view"

Follow-up: not so good. Almost too much cheese, and the mushrooms were awful. I think they were a little old to begin with. Overpowering. Bleah.

01:09 am: I think I peed a little.

http://www.236.com/video/2008/get_your_war_on_new_world_orde_10121.php

08:40 pm: A little bit of what happened yesterday

01:22 pm: Wow. Super Ralph Nader fail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibsP6XN2dIo

08:56 pm: I might have an elerection right now.

08:29 pm: Virginia AND Florida. Holy cow.

04:24 pm: http://isobamapresident.com/

03:09 pm: Am I the only person who thinks this election is a sham and the GOP is deliberately throwing it in Obama's favor?

02:51 pm: 8 years later
http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/k3RzeALpfPUap2OAj9

02:38 pm: Never Forget


http://antipatriot.net

Photos collected in the week following September 11, 2001

01:52 am: The omnivore's 1000
Despite being vegetarian for the past 6 or so years, here we go:

The Food tasting meme

1. Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2. Bold all the items you.ve eaten.
3. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (or eating again)
4. Optional extra: Post a comment http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

To make the filling out of this form and generating the HTML for it a bit easier, reddywhp has played around with some PHP. Go to http://reddywhip.org/lj/foods/ and fill it out there. After filling it out, you will be given the code to copy and paste into your blog.

Livejournal users, remember to use your LJ-Cuts!

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
( The rest of the list is behind the cut )

11:15 pm: The Georgian War and an MSNBC WTF?
I browsed an MSNBC photoessay on the Georgian war today. Therein, there was a really peculiar "censored for sensibilities" image.

( Cut for size of images )

08:55 pm: Go here, do this
http://www.evolutionsurvey.com/

It'll take you < 10 minutes. It's a very short survey on your thoughts on evolution. Unlike most surveys which tend to be multiple choice, this one includes two short essays ( <1001 characters each) asking you to describe in your own words your understanding of evolution, and asking why you do or do not believe in it. Go do it.

05:50 pm: Nick Pitera works for us now. If you don't know who that is, google him. Completely hilarious.

03:14 pm: For Animikwaan:

11:21 am: From Mark Millar, creator of _Wanted_ openining this Friday:
"Wanted 2 already being planned and they've asked me how I can develop some of the other stuff from the book into the sequel. We'll see what box office is like at the weekend, but everyone knows this is going to make a LOT of dough…Wall-E permitting. Fucking bastard of a wee robot."

03:36 pm: More movie
Now, not only is the movie done, but it opens on Friday, and I've seen it... 5 times so far, I think. I like it better with each showing. It might well be the best we've done. A notoriously tough Pixar critic friend of mine from PDI/Dreamworks came up to see it today and was completely blown away by it. Yay!