Hong Kong’s NMA News explains the Leno-Conan thing

saltandfat:

So, what to do with leftover pizza and other breads? Once they’ve called the fridge their home long enough to get cold, how do you reheat them? Do you reheat them at all?

Not to be the guy who pimps his own side projects, but reading Neven’s post about leftover pizza while eating leftover pizza (best. hangover cure. ever.), I actually learned something! Neven’s half of Salt & Fat is definitely my new favorite blog.

Nice work, Massachusetts

My pal Neven and I are both enthusiastic cooks and eaters so we decided to start a food blog together. We’re calling it Salt & Fat. Neven did the design work, I mostly drank and told him to make the logo bigger. We hope you’ll find it awesome.

saltandfat:

Welcome to Salt & Fat, a blog about food and cooking written by Neven Mrgan and Jim Ray. As sort of an intro, we decided to conduct an interview with one another, talking about what we like about food and why we want to tell you about it. Enjoy.

Internet Explorer allowed Chinese spies to hack gmail accounts

Of course, Microsoft is telling everyone to upgrade from IE 6 and XP to Win7 and IE 8, even though IE 7 and 8 still contain the vulnerability! Isn’t this the same company that was saying Google’s Chrome Frame made IE less secure – I’m not sure how that’s even possible at this point.

Using Internet Explorer – any version – is simply irresponsible. Every alternative, from Firefox to Safari to Chrome to Opera, is a better choice.

Cover it on Twitter, says newspaper editor’s daughter

via lostremote

You know, I love Twitter as much as the next guy who found a beautiful woman and a whole heap of amazing friends there (hi, guys!!), but I’m more than a little surprised by the sudden willingness to outsource publishing to what is at best a quasi-reliable, third party platform. Yes, Twitter’s API is great (when it works and when I’m not being woken up at 8am on a Sunday morning when Tweets are being delayed by 15 minutes because of API caching issues. (Seriously.)) and yes they clearly “get it” and are being very smart about being open and all of that. But at the end of the day news operations are being rebuilt around a company or two that seem largely disinterested in those very operations. To put it another way, imagine if there were only one network for email and one, albeit pretty cool, company controlled that 1. Would we be so excited about newspapers jumping on that trend?

I’d love to believe that this is a shining example of news orgs finally abandoning the very annoying “not invented here” habits that have hampered them for so long but they seem to be doing it by chasing a trend without much thought. Is real time communication important? Of course. Is Twitter a critical part of that still burgeoning ecosystem? Naturally. Instead of just relying on the chatter tools of “the younger generation”, though, it’d be nice to see a more vested interest in creating and using open, sustainable publishing platforms.

1 The “one network to rule them all” thing almost happened, remember. Before the web took off, AOL, Prodigy, the MSN network, eWorld, etc. were all trying to be the way we connected.

Someone sends me the links every time there’s a new one. I think I’ve seen about 145 of them! Of course, I have to put the sound down when I watch. Many times the lines are so funny, I laugh out loud, and I’m laughing about the scene that I staged myself! You couldn’t get a better compliment as a director.

—Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel is actually quite amused by all of your pissed off Hitler parodies. Which is actually kind of a shame because I could think of a really funny to way make fun of him if he were upset about it.

Is Wyclef’s charity a sham?

He paid himself $100k to perform at his own charity concert? It may have fewer hit records, but the Red Cross is a better place to send your money.

Tea Party convention organizer is a bankrupt tax evader who’s bilking supporters

This is almost too perfect. Teabaggers are certainly getting the political party they deserve.

NASA is launching an investigation after cocaine was found in one of its shuttle processing facilities.

—Astronauts smuggling blow to extraterrestrials, maybe? I hear the Venusians pay a premium for that uncut Colombian.