L-epicerie is the first molecular gastronomy store I’ve ever seen

Where to go to get your dehydrated grapefruit powder [via kottke]

Turns out Kanye has a pretty damn good sense of humor

Dear Fortune, please stick to your mission of making boring rich people richer

And stop pontificating about shit you know nothing about. Facebook is not “the closest thing the world has to a next-generation Internet [sic]”

Bring back Times Select! And put [Dick Cavett] in it!

—thousandrobots, on Dick Cavett’s blog at the New York Times

Gawker’s got some good thoughts on blogs at newspapers

People are more interested in the content of articles, be they stories or blog posts, not where in the nav they live.

There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ’M-Fer, I want more iced tea.‘

—Bill O’Reilly discovers black people - they’re just like us!

NYTimes on the proliferation of great Portland restaurants

Makes note of the dearth of local chefs, though. Apparently, chefs from all over world show up in Portland and never leave, can’t say that I blame ‘em.

Finally, someone talks some sense about Facebook

Kara Swisher nails why Facebook is so overhyped. I’m one more “person I haven’t seen in a decade just friended me” away from dropping my profile.

CRAIG: Convey Republicans Away to Iran’s Gay-lessness

“In this country we have some people–they’re called Republicans–who want to prevent gay marriage and stop gay people from getting equal protection under the law. And now we know there’s a country without gay people to which the Republicans can move, thus living in peace and happiness, far from gays!”

FCC wants to fine Comcast for running an ad as news

But seriously, $4,000? How about a $4,000,000 fine for this kind of bullshit, the same for when the Bush administration does it, too.