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Google Maps to Add Street View for Mobile Web (Hey There, iOS Users!)
Though it still lacks a replacement maps app for the new Apple iOS, Google is bidding to hold onto iPhone users by improving its maps for the mobile Web.
The company will add Street View images to the mobile Web version of Google Maps as soon as this week.
How do we know this? It comes straight from Walt Mossberg's Google Maps for Android review, which just went live.
Walt writes,
Google plans to announce on Thursday that it is adding its popular Street View feature, missing from Apple's maps, to the Web version of Google Maps accessed from the iPhone and iPad. I tested this addition, which displays 360-degree photographic street views of selected locations, and interior photographic views of certain businesses, using sample links Google sent me. These links worked well, allowing me to see the locations and pan around with a finger.
Lack of Street View imagery is one of the commonly cited downsides of Apple's new default Maps app, along with data errors (that's a biggie!) and lack of native support for transit directions.
Apple built its own app after failed negotiations to include Google's turn-by-turn directions in the previous Maps app.
Apple CEO Tim Cook last week apologized for problems with the new Maps app and referred users to competitors' alternatives, including Google Maps on the mobile Web, along with Bing, MapQuest, Waze and Nokia's mobile Web site.
Is Google working on a native version of Maps for iOS? Yes of course. But until that's ready, a better mobile Web version is what it can offer.

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A few moons ago there was a rumor on the tubes that the fine people at universal Pictures were planning a sequel to the 2010 remake of "The Wolfman". Since that movie was horrible it sounded like a terrible idea. Now it looks like they're just scrapping the entire thing and doing a full on reboot that will go straight to DVD sometime next year. There's no way this can end well but I guess it can't do worse than shirtless Anthony Hopkins.
If you love things that are good, and if you don't I suggest you stop reading my news because you're going to hate it, than you're going to be tickled pink by the news that "Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil" has been picked up for distribution by the folks at Magnolia Pictures. Looks like the buddy horror romp will hit VOD on on August 26th and see a limited theatrical release on September 30th. So that's awesome news if you haven't already downloaded it from some virus filled site.
Get ready to get excited, kids! The first shots of season 2 of "The Walking Dead" are hitting the nets and they're chock full of zombie goodness. Namely some bloodshot eyed zombie women that I find strangely attractive. These are all such strange new feelings for me. While I try to figure this all out you can sit there and diddle yourself over the fact that season 2 will hit AMC this October.
"Do you have Asteroids?", "No but my dad does". Name the movie! Anyway it looks like Roland Emmerich, the guy who directed "Universal Soldier" and "Independence Day" might be locking himself in to do a big screen adaptation of the beloved 80's video game. I'm so confused by what I just wrote I don't even know how to be sarcastic about it.


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I'm Feeling More Glamourous Already
Update: A new session of my favorite Finding and Creating Great Portrait Lighting class was just announced for the weekend of August 11th & 12th. Disney Hall is my all-time favorite urban location that is a perfect laboratory for learning how to see light and make compelling compositions. You will come out as a changed photographer with some great photos.
It's all because I now have Virginia Postrel as a new Twitter follower and Facebook friend. The glamour rubs off from from Virginia being the Editor-in-Cheif of DeepGlamour.net. We met back in 2004 when I was asked to create a portrait of her for a Research Magazine article where she was stressing the economic importance of design on a city. The new Frank Gehry designed Walt Disney Concert Hall had just opened and it seemed like the perfect place to highlight the style of Los Angeles.
It was scouting for the portrait session that I learned that much of the grounds and building are considered public property and are open for public use. I now use it as a location to a teach a portrait lighting class through the Julia Dean Photo Workshop. The next meeting of my Finding and Creating Great Portrait Lighting class is coming up soon on the weekend of August 11th & 12th.
Unlike basic square buildings that simply have a sunny and shady side, the Gehry building is full of curves and reflections. This makes the background and the lighting formula change every time you walk around the corner. There are also some great views of the city from some of the balconies.
The last time we held the class it actually rained in LA and just like a real photo shoot we improvised by jumping in and out of the building as the weather changed. This allowed us to explore the building interior more and the students ended up shooting some of their best photos of our models in the underground parking garage.
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Carrot Cake
(Havuclu Kek)
3 eggs, at room temperature
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 cups carrot, bring them to fine pieces by using food processor
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp lemon zest
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cloves
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup walnuts, crumbled
2/3 cup Sultana or Golden raisins
You can use any kind of Cake mold (I used one with a hole in the center).
Preheat the oven to 375 F (180 C).
Beat the eggs with sugar until creamy using a mixer for 3-4 minutes. Add the carrot, olive oil, lemon juice, lemon zest, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves, continue to mix. Toss the flour and baking powder in another bowl and add into the mixture. Mix until the batter is creamy. Slowly add walnuts and raisins, stir using a spoon.
Oil the mold first, then sprinkle 1 tbsp flour in it. Pour the batter into the mold equally using a tablespoon.
Place the mold on the middle rack. Bake for about 40 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean. Wait for 15 minutes, then place the cake on the wire rack to cool it down.
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o, what happens when you put together one of the finest American-born Swedish fiddlers with one of the finest American-born Norwegian fiddlers and add a guy who has traveled the northern countries of the world playing, well, yes, Scandinavian music with a multi-national band?
You get music that is anything but ordinary. Strings. Vibrating strings. Lots of them. One fiddle, one hardingfele, and one contrabass. Rich deep fundamental notes and ethereal haunting overtones. The scales twist your ears and the rhythm has a life of its own. From the tale of its origin to the names of the players who passed it along, each tune speaks of a land and a tradition.
None of this explains the raw life that fills the room when Andrea, Loretta and Charlie play. Perhaps it is the decades of experience and passion that each musician brings. Or maybe it is that they are playing music that fills their souls to overflowing.
Andrea, Loretta and Charlie's CD, Hambo in the Snow, was nominated in the Best Traditional World Music Album category for the 49th Annual GRAMMY® Awards. It was an honor to be nominated and they had a lot of fun at the Grammys!


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A recent report claims that the federal government could save lots after implementing tech innovations. Could states and localities find such cost savings too?
The Technology CEO Council (TCC), a group of chief executive officers from American information technology companies, recently announced in a report that the feds can save more than $1 trillion by 2020. The solutions, according to TCC Executive Director Bruce Mehlman, "do not require new legislation — they can start today — leading to innovation and long-term economic growth."
The council's report, One Trillion Reasons, says that the federal government could save $1 trillion by: moving toward green data centers via IT consolidation ($76 billion annually), decreasing duplication ($500 billion), stopping fraud with analytics ($200 billion), going digital ($50 billion over 10 years), and consolidating excess and underutilized buildings ($150 billion over 10 years).
Some question whether saving so much money is feasible, while others think it's definitely doable. This difference of opinion begs the question: If these suggestions would save so much money on the federal level, could states and localities also see huge savings? Three experts shared their thoughts.
Darrell West, director of government studies and founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution, said he's uncertain about the $1 trillion figure, but there are substantial cost savings the public sector could realize in the technology area. "Right now, the public sector is way behind the private sector in technology innovation in terms of taking advantage of the latest developments and using cloud computing and other new things," he said.
A specific area where the private sector has a leg up on the public sector regards streamlining the procurement process so that it's easier for agencies to buy and integrate new technology, West said. Until recently, technology contracts used to be negotiated on a department-by-department basis at the federal level. "So even though the federal government spends $76 billion on information technology and $20 billion on hardware and software, it never really was able to use its large size to negotiate the deals with contractors," he said. "That can certainly be an area where there can be big cost savings."
Michael Nelson, a technology professor at Georgetown University (who previously was director of Internet Technology and Strategy at IBM), said saving $1 trillion (at least) would most definitely occur, because the council has listed the easiest solutions. Most of what the report calls for follows the best practices of companies and certain agencies. The General Services Administration, for example, has taken steps to make it easier for agencies to buy cloud computing, and the National Science Foundation is making cloud computing available to the research community.
"It's not like they're asking for a total transformation of government," Nelson said. "They're not restructuring government. They're not going to change a whole bunch of laws and practices. This is just taking what the government does today and doing it more efficiently by using information technology."
If more federal agencies embraced technology in the ways outlined in the report, West added, it would provide a model for states and localities that are facing their own budget problems and there could be a good chance that states and localities would follow their lead.
"Some of the hardest-hit sectors have been state and local agencies, so they need to figure out ways to use technologies to innovate so they can cope with the massive budget problems that they have," West said. "If a federal agency can demonstrate cost savings through technology, you are going to see that spread throughout government because everybody needs to get faster and smarter — and what we need are some successful role models to lead the way."
But would another trillion or two of savings happen should states and localities follow suit in the other report recommendations? That's ultimately a difficult question to answer. Alan Shark, executive director of Public Technology Institute, said he thinks the savings would be a bit less, since a lot of innovation in this area already has begun. Many state and local IT offices have or currently are pursuing consolidation and digitization efforts. "We're way ahead of the federal government in doing things," Shark said. "We spend a lot of quality hours sharing best practices, and I think the federal government could take that as lessons learned on what we're doing and how well it's working."
When looking at the breakdown of $1 trillion over 10 years, Shark said that roughly $100 million per year technically could be feasible, but he has two main issues with the figure. "One, it's not going to happen all at once," he said. "To save $100 million a year, that means they needed to start, like, yesterday."
The second issue regards re-investment: money set aside to take care of aging equipment, replenish aging software systems and invest in innovation. Shark said that when he sees those things accounted for as opposed to just cutting, he feels more comfortable. "But I don't see any of that mentioned in this report," he said.
West said a huge amount of money could be saved if federal, state and local governments followed the recommendations. "There are great economies of scale to be had," he said. But Shark points to an issue with the potential savings: "Since states are in such dire financial pressure, they will have to come up with new monies as investments for the future — will they be able, politically and financially, to spend more today in order to save for tomorrow?" A good question for all levels of government, indeed.
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BCGEU members have ratified the 16th Master Agreement, which was concluded September 27 in Victoria after a marathon bargaining session.
The union has received some sharp criticism from members regarding reimbursement of professional fees. Our agreement with government changed this fee schedule from 2005 to 2009.
The Ratification Bulletin for BCGEU members who work for the B.C. Government is now available online.


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HistoryPoints News
Fly me to London ... from Llandod
In the 1930s Llandrindod Wells not only had its own aerodrome but also an air taxi service offering to take affluent passengers to London and other distant cities. The aerodrome ...
had been used for exhibition flights, before and after the First World War, including by "Cobham's Flying Circus". Nothing remains of the airfield today but if you scan the HistoryPoints QR codes in the Rock Park with your mobile you can discover where it was located, in relation to the park, as well as reading more about the aerodrome's history. The QR codes are near the river, south-west of the bowling greens. Our information about the aerodrome is also available here


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Blogger of the Moment: 5 Inch and Up
Sandra Hagelstam hails from Finland and lives in London, but her style surpasses continents—she's a total it girl worldwide. Her blog, 5 Inch and Up, is inspired by a love of stilettos, platforms, and other teeteringly tall shoes. But Sandra is more than just a girl with a heel habit. Currently a student at the London College of Fashion, she's both brains and beauty.
The best part about her daily outfits isn't that incredible shoe collection or an enviable stash of designer handbags, though both are seriously impressive. Rather, it's Sandra's signature wavy blond mane that seems to make every single ensemble totally "her." The Finnish stylesetter's hair is ever-so-slightly unkempt—she insists she only washes it a few times a week—but it adds an unexpected hippie-chic twist to her Alexander Wang and Margiela threads. From head-to-toe, this is one personal-style blogger worth keeping your eye on!


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To reiterate our homework assignment, we were instructed to choose a product and build an ad campaign for it. The product I chose was Sharpie marker 'cause who doesn't love the feel of a brand new Sharpie?
I got to class, did a little morning sketching to "connect our hands to our brains" and then got my first project of the day. Make a collage for the type of person that I thought was the consumer for my product and find pictures of who they are and what they like. We had to get pretty specific though, know what their job is, how old they are, what they like to do in their free time, the usual. The basic image of my consumer is a twenty-something year old toy designer who lives in Brooklyn (probably Williamsburg…), goes out to cool Brooklyn bars, and hangs out with friends when he's not designing the newest toys on the market.
The room was a beautiful mess. There were scraps of paper, glue sticks, and magazines scattered on the table. I forgot what color the table was to begin with, but clean up was surprisingly easy with so many hands.
The end result of the collage compiled and glued into my sketchbook looked like this:
(sorry for the bad quality pictures, I snapped 'em on my iPhone real quick, I'll try to get a better one of the collage)
By the way on a total side note, I was talking to a girl in my class (who doesn't live in the city) and asked her what the name of my consumer guy should be, and she suggested, "something french, like 'Lephlem'" 'cause there was a boy in her school who is french and has that last name. And it turns out that same boy was also in my kindergarten class! Small freakin' world!
Jada (my professor) did something really helpful as we were working. She asked us what schools we were looking to apply to, pulled up all of their portfolio requirements, and told what each school we were interested in wants to see in out portfolios! So many schools want so many different things its crazy! We compared it to our syllabus and we're actually going to be doing a lot of the projects they're looking for (I'd be scared if we weren't).
I hope your classes are helping you are much as mine is!
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Maybe one of the greatest discoveries by humans or about humans, is that our choices shape us. They shape indirectly, because how we interact with people and our environments, in turn, have effects back on us. People who are more generous, for example, will build better relationships and experience greater generosity in return.
What is less appreciated is that our choices also shape us directly. By no means is this idea new or revolutionary. Epictetus said "As you think, so you become." Mary Anne Evans (under the pen name George Eliot) wrote that "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice," and Thomas Jefferson wrote that "dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise." We've heard this message a thousand times, from all different cultures and times. For years now neuroscience has been showing us that these changes in the mind parallel changes in brain plasticity, the connections between neurons. The more a neural pathway is exercised, the stronger it becomes and the easier it is to activate it in the future.
While this is fairly well understood, to what degree do we recognize the implications of this and use it to its fullest potential?
Read the full article on: http://psychologyofwellbeing.com/201104/choose-loving-kindness.html
Thanks to Marcello and Jeremy for allowing to post this excerpt. Marcello Spinella, Ph.D. is a guest blogger on The Psychology of Wellbeing blog. He is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, who shares his insightful postings on the "Friends of Positive Psychology" listserv.


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I can't seem to reach the end of the fun stuff you can do with emerging web technologies. Today, I'm going to show you how to do something that—until the last while—has been almost unprecedented: uploading files via AJAX.
Oh, sure, there have been hacks; but if you're like me, and feel dirty every time you type
iframe, you're going to like this a lot. Join me after the jump!
Looking for a Quick Solution?
If you're looking for a quick solution, there's a great collection of file upload scripts and applications over at Envato Market.
This HTML5 file uploader is particularly nifty — you can add files easily by dragging and dropping them or clicking. All files will be uploaded via AJAX or can be added within a form, and files can be renamed before uploading. A great, quick solution if that's what you're looking for!
Why don't we get the bad news over with?
This doesn't work in every browser. However, with some progressive enhancement (or whatever the current buzzword is), we'll have an upload page that will work right back to IE6 (albeit without the AJAXy bits).
Our AJAX upload will work as long as
FormDatais available; otherwise, the user will get a normal upload.
There are three main components to our project.
- The
multipleattribute on the file
- The
FileReaderobject from the new File API.
- The
FormDataobject from XMLHttpRequest2.
We use the
multiple attribute to allow the user to select multiple files for upload (multiple file upload will work normally even if
FormData isn't available). As you'll see,
FileReader allows us to show the user thumbnails of the files they're uploading (we'll be expecting images).
None of our three features work in IE9, so all IE users will get a normal upload experience (though I understand support for `FileReader` is available in IE10 Dev Preview 2).
FileReader doesn't work in the latest version of Safari (5.1), so they won't get the thumbnails, but they'll get the AJAX upload and the confirmation message. Finally, Opera 10.50 has
FileReader support but not
FormData support, so they'll get thumbnails, but normal uploads.
With that out of the way, let's get coding!
Step 1: The Markup and Styling
Let's start with some basic markup and styling. Of course, this isn't the main part of this tutorial, I won't treat you like a newbie.
The HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <title>HTML5 File API</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />

Upload Your Images
 <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php"> <input type="file" name="images" id="images" multiple /> <button type="submit" id="btn">Upload Files!</button> </form>

Pretty basic, eh? We've got a form that posts to
upload.php, which we'll look at in a second, and a single input element, of type
file. Notice that it has the boolean
multiple attribute, which allows the user to select multiple files at once.
That's really all there is to see here. Let's move on.
The CSS
body { font: 14px/1.5 helvetica-neue, helvetica, arial, san-serif; padding:10px; } h1 { margin-top:0; } #main { width: 300px; margin:auto; background: #ececec; padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #ccc; } #image-list { list-style:none; margin:0; padding:0; } #image-list li { background: #fff; border: 1px solid #ccc; text-align:center; padding:20px; margin-bottom:19px; } #image-list li img { width: 258px; vertical-align: middle; border:1px solid #474747; }
Absolutely no shockers here.
Step 2: The PHP
We need to be able to handle the file uploads on the back end as well, so let's cover that next.
<?php foreach ($_FILES["images"]["error"] as $key => $error) { if ($error == UPLOAD_ERR_OK) { $name = $_FILES["images"]["name"][$key]; move_uploaded_file( $_FILES["images"]["tmp_name"][$key], "uploads/" . $_FILES['images']['name'][$key]); } } echo "
Successfully Uploaded Images
";
Bear in mind that these were the first lines of PHP I'd written in easily a year (I'm a Ruby guy). You should probably be doing a bit more for security; however, we're simply making sure that there are no upload errors. If that's the case, we use the built-in
move_uploaded_file to move it to an
uploads folder. Don't forget to make sure that the folder is writable.
So, right now, we should have a working upload form. You choose an image (multiple, if you want to and your browser lets you), click the "Upload Files!" button, and you get the message "Successfully Uploaded Images."
Here's what our mini-project looks like so far:
But, come on, it's 2011: we want more than that. You'll notice that we've linked up jQuery and an
upload.js file. Let's crack that open now.
Step 3: The JavaScript
Let's not waste time: here we go!
(function () { var input = document.getElementById("images"), formdata = false; if (window.FormData) { formdata = new FormData(); document.getElementById("btn").style.display = "none"; } }();
Here's what we start with. We create two variables:
input is our file input element;
formdata will be used to send the images to the server if the browser supports that. We initialize it to
false and then check to see if the browser supports
FormData; If it does, we create a new
FormData object. Also, if we can submit the images with AJAX, we don't need the "Upload Images!" button, so we can hide it. Why don't we need it? Well, we're going to auto-magically upload the images immediately after the user selects them.
function showUploadedItem (source) { var list = document.getElementById("image-list"), li = document.createElement("li"), img = document.createElement("img"); img.src = source; li.appendChild(img); list.appendChild(li); }
The function takes one parameter: the image source (we'll see how we get that soon). Then, we simply find the list in our markup and create a list item and image. We set the image source to the source we received, put the image in the list item, and put the list item in the list. Voila!
Next, we have to actually take the images, display them, and upload them. As we've said, we'll do this when the
onchange event is fired on the input element.
if (input.addEventListener) { input.addEventListener("change", function (evt) { var i = 0, len = this.files.length, img, reader, file; document.getElementById("response").innerHTML = "Uploading . . ." for ( ; i < len; i++ ) { file = this.files[i]; if (!!file.type.match(/image.*/)) { } } }, false); }
We don't have to worry about IE's proprietary event model, because IE9+ supports the standard addEventListener function.
There's more, but let's start with this. First off, we don't have to worry about IE's proprietary event model, because IE9+ supports the standard
addEventListener function (and IE9 and down don't support our new features).
So, what do we want to do when the user has selected files? First, we create a few variables. The only important one right now is
len = this.files.length. The files that the user has selected will be accessible from the object
this.files. Right now, we're only concerned with the
length property, so we can loop over the files …
… which is exactly what we're doing next. Inside our loop, we set the current file to
file for ease of access. Next thing we do is confirm that the file is an image. We can do this by comparing the
type property with a regular expression. We're looking for a type that starts with "image" and is followed by anything. (The double-bang in front just converts the result to a boolean.)
So, what do we do if we have an image on our hands?
if ( window.FileReader ) { reader = new FileReader(); reader.onloadend = function (e) { showUploadedItem(e.target.result); }; reader.readAsDataURL(file); } if (formdata) { formdata.append("images[]", file); }
We check to see if the browser supports creating
FileReader objects. If it does, we'll create one.
Here's how we use a
FileReader object: We're going to pass our
file object to the
reader.readAsDataURL method. This creates a data url for the uploaded image. It doesn't work the way you might expect, though. The data url isn't passed back from the function. Instead, the data url will be part of an event object.
With that in mind, we'll need to register a function on the
reader.onloadend event. This function takes an event object, by which we get the data url: it's at
e.target.result (yes,
e.target is the
reader object, but I had issues when using
reader in place of
e.target inside this function). We're just going to pass this data url to our
showUploadedItem function (which we wrote above).
Next, we check for the
formdata object. Remember, if the browser supports
formdata will be a
FormData object; otherwise, it will be
false. So, if we have a
FormData object, we're going to call the
append method. The purpose of a
FormData object is to hold values that you're submitting via a form; so, the
append method simply takes a key and a value. In our case, our key is
images[]; by adding the square-brackets to the end, we make sure each time we
append another value, we're actually appending it to that array, instead of overwriting the
image property.
We're almost done. In our for loop, we've displayed each of the images for the user and added them to the
formdata object. Now, we just need to upload the images. Outside the
for loop, here's the last piece of our puzzle:
if (formdata) { $.ajax({ url: "upload.php", type: "POST", data: formdata, processData: false, contentType: false, success: function (res) { document.getElementById("response").innerHTML = res; } }); }
Again, we have to make sure we have
FormData support; if we don't, the "Upload Files!" button will be visible, and that's how the user will upload the photos. However, if we have
FormData support, we'll take care of uploading via AJAX. We're using jQuery to handle all the oddities of AJAX across browsers.
You're probably familiar with jQuery's
$.ajax method: you pass it an options object. The
type, and
success properties should be obvious. The
data property is our
formdata object. Notice those
processData and
contentType properties. According to jQuery's documentation,
processData is
true by default, and will process and transform the data into a query string. We don't want to do that, so we set this to
false. We're also setting
contentType to
false to make sure that data gets to the server as we expect it to.
And that's it. Now, when the user loads the page, they see this:
And after they select the images, they'll see this:
And the images have been uploaded:
That's a Wrap!
Uploading files via AJAX is pretty cool, and it's great that these new technologies support that without the need for lengthy hacks. If you've got any questions about what we've done here, hit those comments! Thank you so much for reading!
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Anyway, another feature that I enjoy with StatCounter is that you can see the searches that people did on Yahoo! or Google that were directed to my blog. Some of them are obvious, like ward, ward-o-matic, or ward animator. There was even someone from the West coast who did a search for ward jenkins. It blows me away that there was someone 3,000 miles away doing a search for my very name, of whom I have no clue as to their identity. Is it me, or is that not bizarre? Very strange. Ahh, the internet.
But then there are some searches...well, it's beyond my comprehension. Allow me to showcase some of the most recent searches performed that directed people to The Ward-O-Matic:
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not really sure what to do with that last bit of information. it is both horrifying and hilarious.ReplyDelete
"It blows me away that there was someone 3,000 miles away doing a search for my very name" who was it NSA, FBI, MI6, MiB..?ReplyDelete
Your blog aside, exactly who is doing a search for "big booty andrea"?ReplyDelete
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this post is hillarious! and i added the stat counter to my blog. it was super easy. it's so fascinating!!! and addictive to check it! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 15, 2005 8:43 AM
Thought you might be interested to hear that I got a hit to my blog from a search for "ward-o-matic" the other day. I checked, and my site is the 127th result, so who knows what that person was up to...ReplyDelete
I also use Statcounter, and check it obsessively. They provide a really great service.
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thanks for the tip.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Seven, Level 4, Atlantic gymnasts captured a third-place team finish against some of the region's top competitors recently at the 20th annual DGS Northeast Invitational Meet held at Trinity College. Approximately 91, Level 4, competitive gymnasts representing 12 gyms from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey participated in the event.
In the 6 and 7-year-old age division, Madeline Brandt of Portsmouth placed sixth on vault, sixth on the parallel uneven bars and eighth on floor exercises earning her a sixth place all-around finish in her age division. Teammate Grace Hanson of Kittery achieved an eighth place position all-around scoring fifth on vault and eighth on the balance beam.
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Camille Holvoet's (b. 1952, San Francisco, CA) work is deceptively sweet as her practice tends to draw on remembrances of life's anxieties and forbidden desires. Holvoet's process is an endless discovery, in which – through repeatedly drawing in oil pastel her sacred objects: dessert, Ferris Wheels, and crossed eyes – the pressures of the past are relieved by the joy of the creative process. When Holvoet combines text with imagery, the resonance between the two is powerful as beautiful, vibrant renderings of cakes and pies are overwritten with recollections of nightmares, fears, frustrated sexual feelings, and religious doubt.
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I've been digging back into Skyrim, updating my mods (and downloading some sweet new ones) and getting ready to really get into Dawnguard now that it's finally out on the PC.
I also finally beat the storyline a few weeks ago. Considering that I didn't love the story to Oblivion, the Skyrim finale was pretty cool. That said, the version in this video would've also been fine by me. After all, when Dragons breathe fire, they're talking, and so a battle between Dragons is actually a deadly debate!
(I learned that from the loading-screen lore.)
Bonus points for Aela the Huntress' t-shirt.
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"Cut the cord" has become the rallying cry for those interested in abandoning cable television in favor of streaming online video to their phones, tablets, desktops and—forsooth!—televisions.
It's an apt phrase, not merely for its echoes of severing the umbilical cord in the delivery room but for its metaphoric reach between baptismal rebirth and outright renaissance.
There are variations, of course. Google indicates that "cut the cable" is a fraternal twin. It also brings up a blogger who simply calls himself "John," who launched Cut-the-Cable.com two years ago. John matter-of-factly identifies his online effort as "the anti-COMCAST blog and resource site" and admits to having a "chip on my shoulder" due to the layoff that affords him the free time to take on the "fat bastards," which presumably no longer fits his budget.
Whether or not John's informative if pungent tirades are justified (and they are to anyone who has ever made a phone call to Comcast's customer service), they're a bellwether of sorts, since John is not alone. If Crystal Collins, the discount doyenne behind TheThriftyMama.com, doesn't cast cable providers as evildoers, she does provide a gleeful step-by-step guide to cutting the cable—which, depending on one's cable consumption needs, she claims can save upwards of $600 a year. Lifehacker.com also shows how to slice and dice one's media diet, with additional info on where to stream that favorite live television feed.
With all this blogging and flogging of cable companies, cutting their core product might seem to be grassroots movement. However, one should keep in mind the fact that broadcast networks themselves have stoked much of the fervor by streaming their content directly to consumers via their respective websites, effectively sidestepping cable.
Moreover, Hulu is a consortium of a several networks—NBC itself owns over a 30 percent stake. This is ironic given the fact that Comcast now owns NBCUniversal (the merged version of the network and the studio). However, the Department of Justice mandated as part of Comcast's acquisition that it "must relinquish its management rights in Hulu" lest it "interfere with the management of Hulu, and, in particular, the development of products that compete with Comcast's video service."
Comcast isn't crying, since it dominates much of the broadband market. To wit, the cable behemoth still profits by the umbilical link through which the data that is, say, Parks and Recreation comes tumbling. The revolution is being televised on the internet, brought to you by the very entity against which you're in revolt. One could say it's like cutting off cable's nose to stream its face.


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LETTER: Buying local boosts whole community
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Did you know that locally owned retail businesses and restaurants provide a greater economic benefit to the community than chain outlets? Not to mention the pride in service and quality that shine in the business men and women who live where they do business.
We've all heard the periodic slogans to "buy local" and to "support your local businesses" because they provide local jobs. Now there's growing evidence that independent businesses play a significantly greater role in the health of the local economy.
A new study has concluded that shopping at a locally owned store spurs almost four times as much economic benefit for the surrounding area as shopping at a chain store. This 2012 study by research firm Civic Economics, which looked at independent retailers and restaurants in Salt Lake City, Utah, also concluded that dining at a local restaurant generates twice the local economic impact of eating at a chain restaurant. The study found that local retailers return an average of 52 percent of their revenue to the local economy, compared with just 14 percent for chain stores. Local restaurants return an average of 79 percent of their revenue locally, compared to 30 percent for chain eateries.
Why the difference? Independent businesses spend much more on local labor, buy more goods for resale locally, and rely more heavily on local services.
A 2008 study in Michigan showed that when patrons spend $100 at a local business, on average 58 percent more money stays in the community compared to what happens when buying at a chain store. What does that mean?
With a non-locally owned business, $43 of that $100 stays in the community for such things as taxes, wages and employee spending.
An independent local business returns $68 of every $100 to the community -- buying local supplies and services, providing wages and employee spending, supporting schools, police and fire departments, and giving donations to local charitable programs. Other studies in California and Texas found similar results.
To top it off, the group, Independent We Stand, calculates the economic impact of "buying local" around the country. "If every family in the Utica-Rome metro area spent just $10 a month with a locally owned, independent business instead of a national chain, over $9,597,139 would be directly returned to the Utica-Rome community," the group reports.
Independent We Stand also points out that small businesses account for 75 percent of new jobs, and employ half of the U.S. workforce.
Maybe if every family spent an extra $10 a month at a local business, we'd all feel better about the economy.
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Some may remember the name Winamp from the late '90s, back when AOL chat rooms and 56K modems were all the rage. Well today, the Nullsoft-made media player lives on, and it is now available for use on Android devices, as well as on Windows and Mac machines. Of course, it has since been updated.
Winamp for Android offers an adequate, though not particularly outstanding, alternative to the stock music player on your mobile device. It is outfitted with standard music playback controls, including Shuffle and Repeat, and it lets you create playlists with your favorite tracks. Just as many other players do, Winamp lets you browse your music by Artist, Album, Genre, or Song Title, and it can generate links to artists' bios, related news, discographies, and other information.
Visually, Winamp is drab and unimpressive, but when it comes to playback, it is reliable and offers sufficiently crisp sound quality.


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I myself can't believe I'm writing another of these stupid essays, but it seems desirous to tease out some previous remarks concerning joke-craft and funny-making. Let's talk about DougExeter, then.
Before you vomit or flee in nausea, hold on. I'm not even gonna start with Doug, who doesn't require lengthy preamble, to be honest. He's merely tangential to what we need to talk about at the outset. Sit down, Doug. We'll get to you. Christ. In fact, this piece began as a rather mundane discussion of Exeter's wit and the comedy of punchy one-liners, but, in light of the conversation we're having today on Sidespin, it seems advantageous to expand our discussion on the nature of over-the-line jokes and dark humor in a general sense. As I write this without an end in sight, I hope not to arrive at an aporetic "be funny, don't be unfunny" or "you better work extremely hard to make those kinds of jokes funny" statement. People want closure, resolution, and I won't presume to offer you the closure you want, but I do hope to offer a counterpoise to what has already been said. I also don't want to speak in generalities. I want to dissect specific examples and show how they can be construed as funny and constructive, even when the worst of human actions lie at their center.
(Here, in my opinion, is the requisite reading if you want thorough discussion of "the line" in comedy and joke-making. And here's a follow-up to that essay.)
What I want to talk about first is creation. That's right, the beginning of everything. Take a second and think about creation. Did we come from nothing? If not, if we came from something, what was that something? Wherever you fall on the spectrum of religiosity, this is one of the original questions, because creation drives to the heart of intellectual activity. It's creation that prompted the first human to raise a hirsute face to the sun and ask "why? what does it all mean?" It's creation that kick-started our need to find meaning and order in this crazy fucking world.
Ok, by now you're scratching your head and cursing Your Curator for waxing esoteric. I get that. I also say, "Fuck you, and hold on, I'm getting to the point." Remember the terror-horror discussion a few weeks back? Let me refresh your alcohol-addled memory. Terror relies on the "not yet" or tension nerve, while horror relies on the "there it is!" that accompanies the end of suspense.
Creation stories are helpful to think about here because they all boil down to more or less the same type of tale: there was nothing (or an inchoate something), and then—through some act of divine intervention or random chance—there was our universe. What was chaos became order. Meaning-making—on the human intellectual plane—works in similar fashion: presented with a string of letters, words, and sentences (or, if you're Earless, a cow carcass), you, the butcher/joke-writer, must put those symbols into recognizable order so that we, your readers, can make meaningful sense of the whole. YOU, dear butcher, in a sense perform an act of creation every time you offer up a comment on Deadspin. And we, your audience, also perform an act of creation when we make meaningful sense of your comment. In short: cow carcass : filet mignon :: chaos : order.
The terror experience sits on the chaotic, pre-creation side of the great divide. Terror—prompted while our heroine approaches the closet door—admits infinite possibilities for comprehension; what could it possibly be? you ask over and over and over. Terror—while we imagine what lurks beyond the closet door—yields a glimpse into that gaping maw of chaos. Terror in fact defies our ability to make meaning. To be sure, it opens up the ineluctable specter that intellectual activity will fall short of its task—or worse, that intellectual activity may be rendered altogether pointless.
Horror, on the other hand, rests on the post-creation, meaning-made side of the split. We succumb to horror when the big bad monster comes blasting out of the closet; so that's what was in there, runs our thinking, and goddamn is it hideous. Horror is in a way comforting, or cathartic, because it helps us control what was previously an unknown quantity. The suspense is done, and we can grasp the severity of the situation. In short, the puzzle pieces have fallen into place.
As I said in Echo's Profile, humor and joke-writing transpire along both currents: generally, longer comments make use of tension-based response, while shorter ones require the suspenseful-build element. SSE's quack comment is good example here, because we can't be altogether certain of what is happening before our eyes. Perhaps Echo has some loose idea of what the ducks are "saying" to one another, but that's not terribly important for the humor of the shtick. In fact, the gag is all the more funny without a full picture of what the ducks are talking about. In this way, we're peering into that meaningless void and in part laughing at our own inability to understand.
Where Same Sad Echo writes tension-based lunacy with the best jokers, DougExeter wields hammer-headed suspense with aplomb. Not that Doug can't write excellent longform comments; he can. Like SSE's ridiculous duck vignette, who the hell would think to stage RGIII's appendages in protracted dialogue? A veritable maniac, that's who. But, to my mind and for my money, Exeter's shorter efforts are more indicative and comprehensive of his body of work. (FUN FACT: Doug's body, such as it is, stands only about 4 feet tall, rendering him a "little person" in American P.C. parlance. So, when we talk about his shorter efforts, we're really talking about his day-to-day existence.)
The beauty of many an Exeter comment is its ability to toe the line between ignorant halfwit and laser-straight erudition. I'm thinking of his infamous Josh Lueke about-face, in particular, where the paragraph's concluding sentence went clearly unread by a large number of readers. Now, an argument can might be made that, in context, a joke is not the appropriate reaction to the story of a known rapist, especially since a reader coming fresh off what is a horrendous exposé is already tuned into a visceral, angry reaction (which is what Doug received head-on). Yet, I'm of the mind that humor can help deflate the anger there, displace it, and offer up an opportunity for perspective. That Josh Lueke is a rapist is not a recent story; to be sure, Stacy May Fowles makes clear that Lueke's dark past is just that, the past, and we need to remind ourselves—in the present—that this asshole has been convicted of sexual assault. (Go ahead and type "Josh Lueke rape" into Google, and her Deadspin piece is the first hit.) In fact, for this reader, Doug's setup—that Lueke should be allowed some sort of redemption—only reinforces how vociferously we need to remind ourselves that Josh Lueke is a sexual assault case of the worst type. Here's this asshole commenter trying to find forgiveness for Josh Lu—oh wait, nevermind, holy shit that's funny and goddamn if Josh Lueke isn't a fucking prick; and LOL Rangers. All of those responses are running in tandem, which makes the comment and the experience of that comment all the more memorable. Fuck Josh Lueke.
Doug's Lueke fiasco is representative of his propensity for making light of tragedy, which brings me around to Emilio Delle Banjo's thought-provoking piece from yesterday. A number of the responses to Banjo include a preponderance of first-person declaratives: "In my opinion …"; "I believe …"; "It's funny to me." That's fine, I'm not here to indict anyone. One of the goals here is to gain a rough picture of the various lines of thought on the matter of jokes surrounding the Janay and Ray Rices of the world. What the I's and Me's here belie is just how subjective humor is. One might say that humor is the most particular of human traits. It varies from person to person, from age to age, from continent to continent. Yet, at the risk of flying off into a radical form of moral and ethical relativism, there is plenty of overlap between individuals when "do you think that's funny?" is asked. Hit Bull Win Steak's all-time rec-leader demonstrates that fact unassailably.
But then emotionally and morally charged stories come along that drive a hard wedge between people. Some will flee in terror; others will dive headfirst into the deep end without a lifesaver; and still others will sit calmly back and watch the firefight in detached dismay. I tend (there's that damn first-person) toward the last of these groups, and that's because I've been taken to task before (and rightfully so) for making a reprehensible joke that, looking back now, makes me feel embarrassed all over again. I can no longer find it in myself to theorize a joke when I imagine Ray Rice dragging his fiancée out of an elevator after punching her in the mouth, because my first reaction is one of empathy for that poor woman. I eventually arrive at anger for Ray Rice, but only circuitously, once I remember that he will receive relatively trivial punishment in the grand scheme of things, and that the industry in which he works has issued a toothless, bureaucratic word-salad about "behavior inconsistent with league policies." Some fucking consolation.
And yet, from that anger comes a pang to satirize, to make light of, to flay the skin off of Ray Rice. Attached to that pang is a desire to read others' lambaste and anger. I need to wrap myself in a protective blanket when confronted with bald violence and hypocritical wrist-slapping, and yes, patches of that blanket include laughter. I need to see others' anger like my own, lest I turn that anger into an irrevocable loss of faith in my fellow humans.
To take an example, here's pkellen2313's comment on the Pink Jerseys post from yesterday, which Banjo cited as indicative of his larger complaint:
It starts pink, then turns a weird shade of purple, then green, and, finally, black.
Alright. We all know what this comment is referring to. It's a bruise. It's a bruise on the body of a battered woman. The sentence is just oblique enough in gesture that the reader is called upon to put the unspoken pieces into place. Now, Shitehawk earlier asked that we think hard about whether a comment can continue and reinforce the outright or systemic oppression and violence done to historically maligned groups of people. In the context of that post, in the maelstrom of Ray-Rice-Suspended-Only-Two-Games-And-That's-Fucked-Up stories from yesterday, pkellen's comment is quite funny in its ability to channel rage into a moment of release and re-stability.
Let me explain. Samer's framing of the story ("Ladies, Buy Your Pink Ray Rice Jerseys Today!") opened wide the floodgates for a comment like pkellen's. Indeed, a number of commenters went this route, since Samer laid the groundwork for such satire by exposing bald duplicity in the NFL. "Here's a Ray Rice jersey specifically targeted for female customers." That's enough to make your head spin on its own. pkellen pinched that nerve as hard as he could. Banjo criticized pkellen's joke, but the same line of interrogation could haul Samer's headline in for harsh questioning. In fact, the post's entire raison d'etre could crumble under what I view as too hardline a stance, Banjo. Shouldn't Deadspin be calling attention to the league's hypocrisy at every level? Who will watch the watchers?
(As an aside, I find it troubling that we—the Sidespin faithful—have in a way turned the focus of this tragedy back around to us. There's a very real story of a man punching a woman and dragging her out of an elevator, and our conversation now concerns boundaries on a sports blog? I know that everyone to the person condemns Ray Rice and the NFL for this fucked up news cycle, and in the confines of our personal relationships, home life, and twitter conversations with one another, we can lament the tragedy that is at issue. We are not the story.)
Let me tell you all a tale. A long time ago, there lived a king with very clear notions of what his citizenry should look like. For a time, he allowed everyone to reside in his kingdom unmolested—gay people, people of color, the mentally and physically handicapped. One day, the king woke up and decided that certain undesirables needed to be done away with. Over the next few months, this king carried out a bloody and cruel purge of his subjects under the guise of "social sanitation." The kingdom was sick, he said, it was diseased and infested, and the only way to heal her was a thorough white washing. Fathers died, as did their sons. Mothers were ripped from the hands of their daughters. In many cases, the king personally oversaw and participated in citizen executions. He loved the feeling of beheading a human being: the blood on his face and clothes; the jerky, kicking legs, the thunk of skulls striking stone. This was power.
At the end of these expurgations, the king stepped before his now-decimated subjects. He looked across their weary numbers, took off his blood-stained robe, and brandished it at them. "You should be thanking me!" he shouted. "I have done you a service, and aren't we better for it?" He received only silence in answer. Then, slowly, laughter rose from the people. They couldn't believe that this arrogant prick had the balls to cast the blood of loved ones in their faces and demand thanks for it. Here was the very banner under which state-sponsored murder had been carried out, and here was their asshole king asking that they kiss that banner. It was so absurd to be laughable.
Later that night, the king was assassinated in his bed.
The Tyrant's Bloody Robe story is a favorite among the sorts of people who talk about violence and human experience: violence as a breakdown in communication, or violence as a means of communication in its own right. An old saw in those circles involves how writers should cope with the atrocities of the Holocaust, and at the center of this debate is the "Poetry after Auschwitz" question. On one side of the dispute are those who argue that poetry (and thus art) died at Auschwitz, and any artistic attempt at coping—let alone recreating—the horror of that place is moot. The more compelling line of thought holds that it's not poetry that is impossible after Auschwitz, but rather prose, since cold, hard, linear narrative of the event deflates the horror of that place into rote nihilism. Art, it has been said, captures the universals of human experience. As aesthetic beings, art brings us into more direct confrontation with joy and suffering. Art is visceral.
Take another example. Certainly Jonathan Swift needed to deal with the horror of famine taking his countrymen on a daily basis, and the beauty of A Modest Proposal lies in just how immodest a proposal it is. "People are dying in droves, so why don't we speed that process along by eating the young," is irony of the finest kind, and the irony is built on Swift's postured insensitivity to human suffering.
What we have with the Ray Rice and NFL non-punishment situation is a microcosm of these questions. Samer's Jersey post is a mediated rehash of the Tyrant's Bloody Robe. "Ladies, make sure you get your lady-beater jersey and declare your support for your favorite lady-beater!" the league store is saying. The very face of violence made revenue, and that is fucked up. It's fucked up and it needs to be satirized. "It's difficult not to write satire," Pleatherface pointed out some months ago.
If you've read this far, thank you, and I'm sorry. This Profile in Commenting is nominally about DougExeter, and here I am waxing on about boundaries in joke-craft. As a way to conclude what's come thus far, then, I'll say this: I can't think of many instances where humor is entirely off-limits. As Shitehawk and Echo pointed out, though, be sensitive in your angle, punchline, and delivery. (The flip-side of this coin, of course, is that you should be prepared for the fallout should your comment land D.O.A.) Exeter's comment up there? Hilarious. pkellen's I also find perfect in the context of Samer's post. The terriblehuman comment is, well, terrible, Banjo. We're in agreement there. The violence is explicit, Janay is named, and the whole ordeal more or less plays out before our eyes. I've stressed context throughout here. When he wasn't busy writing novels or denying climate change, Michael Crichton famously said, "If you extrapolate the form enough, Bambi looks like the life of Adolph Hitler." Each Deadspin comment is a localized event, tied to a specific time and place and post. No one cow carcass is the same.
I hope I've demonstrated two localized instances that you and others can hang their hats on as viable examples of humorous reactions to admittedly tragic situations. And hopefully, together, we can call out insensitive submissions on a case-by-case basis. Or if we disagree on those cases, we should absolutely keep the floor open for discussion. We all do right by one another over here, and this is a constructive conversation to be having, y'all.
Let's move slowly away from joke boundaries and toward DougExeter's PiC. While we still have jokes about tragedy on the brain, recall this simple line from the Caleb Moore X-Games Death so long ago. Now again, we're dealing with making light of tragedy, and perhaps the tragedy is mitigated here because Moore's accident was just that: an accident. If we can't find humor in the foibles and happenstance of life, we would lead a miserable existence. And further, Exeter's joke here is so disarming and quaint in its cartoonish imagery. X's on his eyes? Really Doug? Are you Daffey fucking Duck now? Regardless, the comment stands up as a wonderfully cathartic response to, yes, loss of life, but there's still a tribute in Doug's voice, as the symbols of Caleb's athletic field become badges of honor as he passes on into the world beyond.
I'll bring this meandering post to a close with three of my favorite Exeter comments, since they'll hopefully go some distance toward deflating the high intellectualism of all that shit-spitting up there. Exeter has a far-reaching memory, and he can rework past material for hilarious effect. So take a gander at this little scene from (gasp) almost two years ago. Clearly, Doug finds humor in the imagined collision and stereotype of Russian careless indifference to automobile safety. Now, take a look at this more recent offering, where Exeter restages an entire chaotic scene from the previous compilation video for one of the best punchlines I've ever seen out of him. This here is suspense-based humor (pun intended), where the long, drawn-out setup on the Speaker: side of the dialogue format carries the burden of the joke. There's an inversion here that gives a novel take on the scene-construction meme, and the "Strip bars are irresponsible" kicker lends the absurdity of what's come before all the more oomph. That's how you slam on the brakes, folks.
Finally, consider this classic slapstick in the Chicago Running Horse post. A number of comedic tools are at work here: a slimy car salesman, a bickering middle-aged couple, and firm engagement with the already hilarious embedded video. I seem to remember this one requiring some mental lifting on the part of readers, when the punch of the joke is simply that this idiot got duped into buying a car he thought didn't require any literal horsepower. Horsepower, literally. A horseless car. That's it. It's so profound in its simplicity, and it's that profound simplicity that, for me, typifies DougExeter's finest comments. Thank you, Doug. And thank you all for reading.


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Pork Braised in Guajillo Chile Sauce
Daisy Martinez
Daisy Cooks: Latin Flavors That Will Rock Your World
Published by Hyperion
Most pork is very lean, so I try to find cuts of pork with a little fat in them; they braise better and stay moister that way. You might have better luck finding marbled pork if you buy a whole shoulder or butt and cut it into pieces yourself. (Don't worry if the pieces come out uneven.) But whether or not you're cutting the meat yourself, do search for the pieces of "silver skin" and remove them by cutting beneath them with the tip of a sharp knife. Toasting the chilies brings out their flavor, and blackening the onions and tomatoes brings out their natural sweetness—a little work up front that pays off big-time down the line. Serve hot with some kind of rice, white, yellow, or, best of all, yellow rice with corn.
NotesGuajillo chilies are the dried version of fresh mirasol chilies. They are long, tapered, and wrinkled, have a reddish brown color, and are fairly spicy. They are available in specialty stores or by mail.
Makes8 servings
Cooking Methodbraising
Total Timeunder 4 hours
OccasionBuffet, Casual Dinner Party, Family Get-together
Recipe Coursemain course
Taste and Texturemeaty, savory, spiced
- 4 pounds boneless pork shoulder or butt, cut into 2-inch cubes
- 2 tablespoons fine sea or kosher salt
- 1 bay leaf
- 10 guajillo chilies (see Notes)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large Spanish onion, peeled and cut in half through the middle
- 3 fresh plum tomatoes, cut in half lengthwise through the core
- ¼ cup canola oil or lard
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Put the pork in a heavy Dutch oven large enough to fit it comfortably. Pour in enough cold water to cover the meat by 2 inches. Add the salt and bay leaf. Bring the liquid to a boil and simmer for 1 hour. Skim off the foam from the surface as necessary.
Meanwhile, remove the stems from the chilies and tap out the seeds. Heat the olive oil in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add half of the chilies and toast them, turning with tongs until they start to change color and crisp up a bit, about 4 minutes. Heat them gently so they don't burn. Lift them out and place in a bowl. Repeat with the remaining chilies. Pour enough boiling water over the toasted chilies to cover them. Soak until completely softened, about 20 minutes. Drain well.
While the chilies are soaking, wipe out the skillet with paper towels. Place the onion and tomatoes, cut sides down, in the skillet. Cook, turning the vegetables as often as necessary, until the tomatoes are blackened on all sides and the onions are blackened on both flat sides.
After the pork has been cooking for 1 hour, remove 2 cups of the cooking liquid and pour it into a blender jar. Add the onions and tomatoes, and purée until smooth. Add the chilies and blend until smooth. Remove another 2 cups of the cooking liquid and set aside. Drain the pork, discarding the remaining liquid, and wipe out the pot.
Set the pot over medium-low heat and add the canola oil. Stir in the flour and cook, stirring, for 3 to 4 minutes. Pour the chili sauce into the pot slowly. As it comes to a boil, it will thicken. Stir well,especially in the corners, to prevent the sauce from sticking and scorching as it thickens.
Add the pork and return the liquid to a simmer, cover the pot, and cook until tender, about 1 hour. While the pork is cooking, there should be enough sauce to keep it moistened. If not, add the reserved pork cooking liquid as needed.
2005 Daisy Martinez
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Jan 29, 2010
Well I tried this recipe and it was a success! A brilliant combination of peppers and heat with a very well balanced flavor. Thank you Daisy for another wonderful recipe.
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Jan 23, 2010
I'm trying this recipe tonite. I'll let you know.
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8:11 pm
December 31, 2009
Greetings to you all who remember me.
It is on the last day of 2009 that I return to you people, simply explaining the things that have happened to me over the past year. John was kind enough to sent me a message on Facebook, offering me to come back, as did others before him. This does not mark my return but I believe I owe it to people to at least tell them where I stand.
Fact of the matter is, I have not been doing well. As some of you might remember I took my leave on the Vault months ago, seems years however, as a person who had found love and was working hard to transform himself from being a carefree 25-year old into a 25-year old stepdad and a lover, for lack of a better term. I speak to you know, a 26-year old person who is neither anymore.
Fact that hardly anyone knows about is that we were already in the planning phase for the possibility of marriage, sometime in 2010. A month or two after I moved in there, things started going south. Her family liked me, all except her parents who raised her very strict and it was that, that ultimately led to the break-up. Her parents started criticizing things about me, my past or the way I was with her son. I never really noticed anything of those but then again, my knowledge of the Turkish language was poor at best so many of the phrases just went by me anyway.
Eventually things became clear that the way it was, was not making her happy anymore and after another week or so, it ended. I moved back home, and was confronted with how my life was before her. Mind you, she was the first real serious thing that I ever gotten into, so I was confronted with what a lonely life I had been living up to that point. It never bothered me, because frankly, I didn't know any better. She had changed that, and once again I tumbled back in to that old way. The problem now being the knowledge of how much I had needed someone's support and love. That was gone now.
So the months after that, this realization grew ever stronger. With that, came the unavoidable depression and worse. I have been on and off medication for some time now. There are few days when I do not wish morning did not come. Wounds that should have been healed by now have no chance of that because I am confronted with her everyday at work. She has found someone, and is now a married woman. I, on the other hand, had tried a relationship with someone else, only to find I was being toyed around with. That didn't really help my current state of mind.
In those months I have alienated people around me, locked myself away to all but a very select few people. On Facebook, I have done so to numerous people of this community, for that I am sorry. Very sorry.
So here I am, New Year's Eve and I am in bed, sick. I wanted to take this chance to wish everyone a happy New Year and I hope 2010 will bring us all good things. 2009 has been a year filled with ups in the beginning but it all crumbled down from that. The only positive note I can offer is that my gaming hobby finally landed me a spot at Chief-Editor at a new website in Belgium. Hopefully my help can contribute to it's success.
With kind regards,
Stieven (MIB)
MIB they once called me. Yes, that was my name. But you probably never heard of him. [/hipster]
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Welcome back! Good to have some old names returning.
If you are interested in your old name, let me know... we can get in and change the password. Just email me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com
5:31 pm
December 31, 2009
Great... there ya go... have fun, and welcome back! I know a lot of people will be glad to see you return.
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3:34 pm
April 9, 2009
"En-Lugal" wrote: [quote="MIBby"]I hope a few of the ancient ones are still around 🙂
Yes, Greeney2 is still here. 😛
LOL! 🙂 Thanks for the smile this early in the morning 😉 You beat me to it! 🙂
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