June 2010

“WARNING: Do Not Leave Pumps Unattended. You Are Responsible For Spills.” swirlspice: Spotted at BP station in Ohio (Photo by Mark and Vicki Cipolle, published by The Rachel Maddow Show)

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National Donut Day is on the first Friday of June each year and follows on the Donut Day event created by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the women who served donuts to soldiers during World War I. The holiday celebrates the doughnut (a.k.a “donut”) — an edible, ring-shaped piece of dough which is

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Without salt, many processed foods would have a “warmed-over flavor” that can make meat, for example, “taste like ‘cardboard’ or ‘damp dog hair.’” Two (more) good reasons for cutting back on processed foods

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When we launched, some skeptics said that, you know, ‘Joel and his people don’t really understand new media, they don’t really understand the internet.’ And I would plead guilty to that. At the time I even said, I’m a journalist, I come out of a print background, although we did have a couple of editors

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Over the Memorial Day Weekend, I started twittering one-word updates. Strangely, it was refreshing for me. I found that the one-word update was never interesting alone, but the string of updates could potentially be interesting. I also cheated sometimes by deleting spaces. I also used different punctuation sometimes. I also have no idea how annoying

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