Month: March 2007
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Google SMS for flight info
(via the Official Google Blog) Google now offers a flight info service (for flights departing from or arriving in the U.S.) with information from flightstats.com. Just text your flight number to 466453 (which spells google if your phone has a traditional key layout – on my blackjack I had to add this to contacts to…
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They eat what?
Excellent article from the Union of Concerned Scientists about factory farming, and what the industry calls CAFOs – confined animal feeding operations: “The Reality of Feed at Animal Factories” Specifically, they focus on what “food animals” are fed inside animal factories. If you are what you eat, I think the corollary should be that you…
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Grand Central Vegan
In New York City this week for work, staying at the Roosevelt Hotel at 45th and Madison. Looking for some vegan grub without going too far, came across this recommendation (Two Boots) on supervegan. Got good pizza for lunch:
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Vegan Austin
Had lots of good vegan food in Austin during SXSW. One good meal was the basil tofu from Mekong River on Sixth. I ended up eating there a couple of times – very convienent to the Austin Convention Center, the Austin Hilton, and 6th street in general. I had great meals at all these places:
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Music that Matters
KEXP has a podcast series called Music That Matters. You should immediately go download them all, if you haven’t been listening to them already. The music is all over the map – different episodes have different themes, so there’s quite a range of different styles. Browse the previous episodes page to get a sense of…
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What is the allowable seep?
So this morning I was supposed to fly to Cincinnati, OH, which actually means flying to Covington Kentucky, just across the Ohio river. (One of the rivers over which escaping slaves crossed in the antebellum U.S., But I digress). I get to Logan in Boston at about 5:10am for a 6:00 flight, but get through…
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KFC Rats
I wonder how people who ate here the day before are feeling?