The Wet Wipe Manifesto has some good points. Also check out the awesome URL address.
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Hello, my name is Shawn. This is where I put things. This site has been active since 2002. A lot has changed since then but basically I'm still writing ridiculous articles about ridiculous things. You can also look at my Flickr photostream which is a lot of fun if you aren't blind.
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The internet bank USAA is allowing their customers to deposit checks by scanning them and uploading the image. Pretty neat! But USAA has recently changed their policy and is only available to people in the military… wha?
The best initial reaction to the Red Sox’ $51.1 million winning bid I’ve read so far is by Tom Verducci:
It would seem to be a stunning reversal of philosophy until you understand this: There is no more valuable commodity in the game than young ace pitchers, and the Red Sox boldly just redefined the value.
I definitely agree that this is not a departure from the Sox policy of setting a value on a player and sticking to it. It’s just that this time that value was extremely high. This caliber of player may not be available again by trade or free agent signing over the next 4 years.
The criticism is that if the Sox were willing to spend so much on Matsuzaka, why did they not sign Johnny Damon or trade for Bobby Abreu due to financial concerns? The reason is obvious to me: overspending on good veteran talent is a lot different than overspending on great young talent. It’s not that the Red Sox aren’t willing to spend money, it’s that they will save their money for when it really counts. I’ll take Matsuzaka over the combined efforts of Damon and Abreu any day.
Make no mistake, the Yankees feel burned. Matsuzaka would have been a perfect fit for the Yankees and solidified their playoff chances for years. It’s hard to put a price on (preventing) that.
It’s also worth reading Gammons piece on the deal (subscription required). Specifically:
Second, the Red Sox strongly want to build an Asian foundation. When Theo Epstein left the Red Sox last fall, after he turned down the Dodger job, he worked with two Japanese teams as a consultant. Epstein believes in the next decade the mass of baseball talent coming out of Asia will alter the landscape, and his owners want to be entrenched in Japan as well as China;
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Each and every visit to Chocolate & Zucchini brings with it a literal watering of the mouth. Usually that’s just an expression. I’ve always been satisfied just reading about the recipes and looking at the pictures but I think I’m going to take a stab at making these Aged Gouda and Dried Pear Biscuits. First of all, I love biscuits. Love. Second, I just so happen to have a block of 18 month aged Gouda in my fridge, much like Clotilde wrote that she just so happened to have 36 month aged Gouda in her fridge. The serendipity of that is too much to resist. I’ve never possessed any sort of Gouda of any kind in my life before this week. Third, this particular cheese that I have in my fridge is the best cheese I’ve ever tasted in my life. Contemplating it taking the form of a biscuit is causing the overproduction of endorphins in my brain.
The Onion’s humor kinda wore off a few years ago, but these are fresh and made me laugh. (via)
“The Package May Say Healthy, but This Grocer Begs to Differ”. Neat article about a grocery store chain that is labeling all foods with objective health ratings, regardless of what the food manufacturer claims. It sheds a lot of light on those products labeled “healthy” or with some esoteric health claim (“Anti-oxidants!”). Most include way too much sugar, fat or salt while promoting one positive health benefit.
I bought a package of ready-to-bake Nestle’s Tollhouse cookies that proclaimed “0 grams of Trans Fats!” Which is great, except that one cookie contained 10 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat. There is nothing remotely healthy about this cookie. You’d be better off with some trans fats and a lesser overall fat total. Most people don’t even know what “trans fat” means. I also saw a Swiss Miss hot chocolate package promoting how it was chock full of anti-oxidants. It’s also chock full of sugar and trans fat. Guess what, the anti-oxidants loose that battle.
All of these new healthy buzz-words are great for food companies because they can sell you peace of mind. When a package has the word “healthy” it promotes nutritional evasion. People trust it, knowing it’s probably bullshit, but at least they don’t have to think. They’ll feel good about it and never question it because a guilt-free food experience is hard to come by these days.
I found Campbell’s response to the realistic food ratings the most comical:
We don’t like the idea that there are good and bad foods out there, and these sort of arbitrary rating systems.
Of course they don’t, because most of their products aren’t remotely healthy. And of course there is such a thing as good and bad foods. The idea is to be realistic about it, stop practicing evasion, and understand that bad foods have a place in good diets. But that eating Baked Lays and Healthy Choice pudding isn’t necessarily the road to a sound, let alone enjoyable, diet.
Beck’s new album, The Information, comes out tomorrow but the cover art isn’t going to be quite done by then — in fact it will never be finished. Each copy of the album is packaged with a unique kit of stickers and a sheet of grid paper, out of which fans can create their own one-of-a-kind cover.
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Silly Things My 3-Year-Old Said That I’m Certain the Rest of the World Would Find Sweet and Cute:
HIM: […] I can turn you inside out with one phrase: What have you done since 2003? Do you feel the sting of it? The reckoning is coming.
ME: Do you like SpongeBob? Is SpongyBobby silly?