100 Foods to Eat Before You Die
Very Good Taste has a list called The Omnivore’s 100 (via Jim Ray) of 100 must-try foods. As far as I can tell, I’ve worked my way through 43 to date, but I’m not dead yet.
Here are the ones I don’t believe I’ve had a chance to try yet. Do you have any recommendations [...]
Is Tim Pawlenty Gay?
I’ve noticed a big uptick in search referrals from people who are wondering if Tim Pawlenty is gay. Here are some of the example searches:
pawlenty gay
tim pawlenty gay
gay couples pawlenty
is tim pawlenty gay?
pawlenty and gays
pawlenty gay gov
pawlenty gays
tim pawlenty + gay
I suppose that could be one theory on why McCain would choose a less [...]
The RNC Welcoming Committee Receives a Preemptive Visit
Apparently, the RNC Welcoming Committee received an unwelcomed visit from the police tonight, who don’t seem to think the RNC Welcoming Committee’s plans for the upcoming RNC convention are well thought out.
Below is the publicly published first step of their strategy on how they plan to crash the upcoming RNC convention:
How we get there [...]
The “Rejuvenation” Candidate
What does the rotating banner advertisement below have to do with 3rd Congressional District DFL candidate Ashwin Madia and Republican candidate Erik Paulsen?
Give up? That’s an advertisement for one of Madia and Paulsen’s competitor’s businesses. It’s currently rotating on the front page of CityPages.com.
Steev RamsDell, an independent candidate for Congress in the 3rd [...]
iPhone 2008 is Like AOL 1993
Fifteen years ago, AOL was actually kind of cool. It provided email, shopping, entertainment, and chat applications through a slow internet connection to millions of people. But over time, the popularity waned as people realized they’re better off bypassing AOL for the actual world wide web.
To me, this seems quite similar to the state [...]
NY Times PR Pimps Low-Alcohol Beers
Few things make me blow beer out of my nose faster than a canned trend piece from the NY Times. I’m going to have to use a mop on my keyboard after publishing this.
It looks like the low-alcohol beer industry has a decent PR firm. They managed to get the NY Times to pen 1500 [...]
Minnesota’s Biggest Weather Junkies
Where do Minnesota’s biggest weather junkies live?
One way to find out is to look at which zip codes are getting the most weather searches on Google. Google’s Suggest feature helps guide us toward which zips are popular among weather checking addicts:
Drilling down, here is what the 554– zips around Minneapolis look like:
And the 551– zips [...]
Top-5 Recent John Battelle Posts
John Battelle is a busy man, and he makes sure to get that across with occasional posts on why he hasn’t been posting regularly on his blog. Here are my top-5 funniest posts from John from the past two months:
5. Back, Sort Of
4. Traveling . . .
3. Still Traveling . . .
2. Lite.
1. [...]
Camacho Watcho Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary
Congrats to Katie at Camacho Watcho on her first year of blogging and, coincidentally, her 7th wedding anniversary.
Tying into the 7 scene, here are my 7 favorite posts regarding local eateries reviewed by Camacho Watcho in recent months:
- Pizza Farm in Stockholm, WI
- Dominguez Family Restaurant
- Tin Fish vs Sea Salt
- Brasa
- Salut Bar Americain
- [...]
Bulldog Lowertown St Paul: For Realz
This just in from Olive in the comments of the previous Bulldog St Paul post:
Bulldog Lowertown is a sure thing! You can expect an opening sometime in the last week of Sept -first week of Oct. 40 tap beers, shuffel board, and of course vienna beef dogs and hamburgers, plus a few new menu items. [...]
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