It was a great year of new books, re-discovered books, and books we meant to get to last year but didn't. The end of the year is nearly here and before we look forward, we'll take a look back. Last week, LAist Editors shared their favorite books of 2007. This week, a few LAist Contributors share their favorite book they read this year: Who: Christine Ziemba What: The Ominvore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan Why: It gave me such a different outlook on the food industry -- and how current food policy is just plain screwed up. ... lire la suite
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It was a great year of new books, re-discovered books, and books we meant to get to last year but didn't. The end of the year is nearly here and before we look forward, we'll take a look back. Last week, LAist Editors shared their favorite books of 2007. Who: Christine Ziemba
Using "favorite books" data from Facebook and the average SAT/ACT scores from the colleges the people in the data set attend, Virgil Griffith plotted a graph of "books that make you dumb". Lolita, 100 Years of Solitude, and Crime and Punishment were the "smartest" books while the Zane erotica books are the "dumbest".
It was a great year of new books, re-discovered books, and books we meant to get to last year but didn't. The end of the year is nearly here and before we look forward, we'll take a look back. LAist Editors share their favorite book they read this year: Who: Zach Behrens, Editor
A few times a month my husband goes paintballing, and though we have a number of things in common - a love of SciFi, an interest in cooking, among other things - paintballing is not one of them. He tried to get me into it, offering to buy me my very own Tippmann A5 paintball marker and a camouflage outfit.
Last month dana boyd and Nicole Ellison were guest editors for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication in a special theme issue on social network sites. One of my favorite papers was by Hugo Liu at the MIT Media Lab who investigated how social network profiles act as taste performances.
One for the Road Looks Ahead: Ten Travel Books on Tap for 2008 by Kelly Amabile  Dec 31st 2007 @ 3: PM As the year draws to a close, instead of compiling a list of favorite books from 2007, I've decided to focus this last post on what's to come. Looking forward, there are some interesting travel titles set for release during 2008.
Your blogger in PR last week, with the book she’s been reading for five effing months because she spends too much time on the internet and reads too many things for law school, leaving Tony Judt 2/3rds incomplete. This makes her sad, and potential partners will probably reject her for it.
Name: Tara Settembre of When Tara Met Blog Location: Los Angeles, CA Occupation: Public Relations and Blogger URL: www. tarametblog. com Tell us a little about what you do when you're not eating cupcakes. And when I’m not planning LA Cupcake Meetups either?
Winners of The Million Visitors Giveaway Earlier, I was thinking of giving away $5,000 to the actual millionth visitor on my site, but since I had no way to accurately track down the specific individual, the thought fizzled . At any rate, I have tried to approximate the event by holding last week’s giveaway where I had a few of my favorite books as prizes.
CNet spotted Microsoft jumping the gun today to avoid running into you know who: Microsoft has gone ahead and rolled out details onthe new Zune lineup we've been hearing about a day early. And it's what we've known all along: a storage bump up to 120GB for hard drive models, and an 8GB/16GB choice for flash.
When you view a YouTube video with a great soundtrack, you often see comments from YouTube users asking about the name of the song and where they can download it. Or when users watch the trailer for an upcoming video game, they want to know when it will be released and where they can buy it.
Food blogging opens a lot of doors. I’ve made wonderful friends, received gifts and marketing materials, started an occasional restaurant, and really had a lot of fun. About a week and a half ago, though, something new happened. BlissPR asked me to be the celebrity guest judge for their company’s holiday bakeoff party.
Watch as Vladimir Nabokov reads the first paragraph of Lolita in English & Russian, shares his favorite books, and lists a bunch of things that he doesn't like. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.
Participation in social networks continues to grow seemingly without bounds as more people seek to connect, share and collaborate with likeminded individuals online. Today, hundreds of millions of online users have already signed up, with an increasing number belonging to more than one network.
Have you begun to participate in this year's Menu for Hope yet? If you don't really know what it is or why it's important, take a few minutes to read about World Food Programme by someone who worked for them in Syria. Thank you for telling your own story, Mercedes. Dozens of prizes are being donated by food bloggers from all over the world, and for a $10 raffle ticket you could receive priceless possibilities and the chance to help someone else get the food and nourishment they need to go on.
One of my favorite things about living in the United States is the accessibility of ingredients from all corners of the globe. If the home cook so wishes, their pantry can be stocked with everything from chipotle to capers, tahini to tamari. I am taking my own sweet time getting to know and love some of these seasonings- and the joy that comes from hearing a distinctly foreign word, then taking the plunge and bringing a container home, picking it up and turning it around in my hands a little fearfully (hoping that the mere act of holding it will give me clues about how best to use it);
has been a pretty good year for me. A busy one? A-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y, but it held many wonderful surprises, leaving me both astounded and filled with happiness to the brim. How can you possibly beat a great chance to turn your passion into profession? So after all I’m not really complaining about the additional workload, although I am struggling a bit to meet the set deadlines concerning my book’s layout.
the life a blog continues to move and shake and form and evolve. like a closet. or a cupboard. spring cleaning, whether spring or not, is an important gesture. in the spirit of the mighty vacuum and turning over new leaves I have cleaned up eggbeater's sidebars a bit. I hope to keep them fresh with new content so they are no longer shelves in the garage but little packages left on the porch like colored eggs in tall grasses.
It's been awhile since I have posted anything here, and for that I feel shame. It's just that Dan and John and others are doing such a great job. Another guy who's doing a great job but isn't blogging yet (he's shy) is Mike Tholfsen. Mike is the test manager of the OneNote team, and he's also a tireless (and I mean tireless) OneNote promoter inside Microsoft.
Filed under: Full CDsSpinner. com: Matt Costa, 'Unfamiliar Faces'To write the songs for his second full-length album, the indie folker focused his energy on his all of his favorite things, including his favorite books, a wooden pipe and a box of 45s.