People tell me that they can lose hours on YouTube. I don’t get it. Sure, there are millions of good things there. But they are buried among squillions of not such good things. I seldom find anything of stunning interest just by goofing around. So I was pleased, astonished, surprised and delighted t...

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I need to chase down the full-length version of this movie. Not because pastry is my thing; it isn’t. But because documentary is.

Seth Roberts, he of the Shangri La diet, has a blog. I see it in my RSS reader. I was amazed to see a post that seemed to have been, er, penetrated, thusly:

So I went to the blog post itself. And lo! all those nasties were invisible.

So I checked the source, and they’re not there either....

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It’s fair to say that I was an early and enthusiastic adopter of Jim Lahey’s no-knead bread, hymning its pleasures a week or so after the original article appeared in the New York Times. It is also fair to say that since I re-applied myself to serious bread-baking, which I suppose was about three...

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1. "You can't wake a person who's pretending to be asleep." Jason Clay thinks differently about sustainability.

   2. str_replace("Negroes", "Women", "Negroes want to be treated like men: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only seven words.") Sheryl WuDunn on gender equality.

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