The study, to be published later this year in the Journal of Food Safety, is the only one I’ve ever seen to proclaim that it was inspired by an episode of “Seinfeld.” It was conducted as part of a Clemson University program designed to get undergraduate students involved in scientific research. Prof. Paul L. Dawson, a food microbiologist, proposed it after he saw a rerun of a 1993 “Seinfeld” show in which George Costanza is confronted at a funeral reception by Timmy, his girlfriend’s brother, after dipping the same chip twice.
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Professor Dawson told me that he had expected to find little or no microbial transfer from mouth to chip to dip, which would support George’s nonchalance. The results surprised him.
Designer Shepard Fairey created some awesome artwork for the Barack Obama campaign:
LOS ANGELES — Oregon’s athletic director has apologized to UCLA for the behavior of Ducks fans toward Bruins freshman Kevin Love last week.
Pat Kilkenny left messages Monday for coach Ben Howland, athletic director Dan Guerrero and Love’s father Stan, who starred for Oregon in the early 1970s.
The younger Love and his father were booed and jeered unmercifully by the student section at McArthur Court last Thursday, when the fifth-ranked Bruins defeated the Ducks 80-75. Love had 26 points and 18 rebounds.
The Love family was the target of homophobic chants and signs with offensive messages, some of which were confiscated.
“It was pretty bad and I heard a lot of stuff,” Love said Tuesday.
Hilarious illustrations showing what you should and shouldn’t do when caring for an infant.
From college dorm rooms to high school sleepovers, an all-but-extinct music medium has been showing up lately. And we don’t mean CDs. Vinyl records, especially the full-length LPs that helped define the golden era of rock in the 1960s and ’70s, are suddenly cool again. Some of the new fans are baby boomers nostalgic for their youth. But to the surprise and delight of music executives, increasing numbers of the iPod generation are also purchasing turntables (or dusting off Dad’s), buying long-playing vinyl records and giving them a spin.
A few weeks ago I twittered I was heading to the bank to wire money for a life change. People got excited, and assumed I was buying a house, fancy car, plane, company, jewelry… it was really amusing to see where people’s imagination went. I’m afraid the truth is much less exciting, at least to other people. I was wiring money for the domain I’m on now, ma.tt. How did this come to be?
WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg changed his domain from photomatt.net to ma.tt. Very web 2.0.
Google engineer and SEO guru Matt Cutts has posted a handful of tips for WordPress users to help make their blogs more secure. To wit:
- Secure your /wp-admin/ directory so only specific IPs have access to it.
- Make an empty /wp-content/plugins/index.html file to hide which plug-ins you’re actually running.
- Subscribe to the WordPress development blog and stay up to date with the latest patches.
- Delete the version information from your theme’s header.php file.
To secure your /wp-admin/ directory, create an .htaccess file with this code:
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is your IP address. You can also hostmask the allow field if you are on a dynamic IP connection (cable, DSL).
Instead of adding a blank index.html to the plugins folder, I recommend turning off modautoindex across your site (only enable it on a per-directory basis — my media folder, for example. At your site’s web root, add this code to disable modautoindex:
Options -Indexes
A contract with a major record company was always a 90 per cent guarantee of failure. In the boardroom the talk was never of music, only of units sold. Artists were never the product; the product was discs – 10 cents’ worth of vinyl selling for $10 – 10,000 per cent profit – the highest mark-up in all of retail marketing. Artists were simply an ingredient, without even the basic rights of employees.
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Recently, the Wall Street Journal investigated the industry and concluded that ‘for all the 21st-century glitz that surrounds it, the popular music business is distinctly medieval in character: the last form of indentured servitude.’
HEATH LEDGER filmed himself ‘commiting suicide’ – in an eerie tribute video to British songwriter NICK DRAKE, who killed himself in 1974.
The actor, who was found dead yesterday in a New York apartment with sleeping pills nearby, is seen drowning himself in a bath in the clip he shot for track Black Eyed Dog.
The song is about depression, which Ledger is rumoured to have suffered from and is allegedly the last song Drake wrote before overdosing on antidepressants.
U2 3D includes little visual or audio trickery. The band insisted that no audio overdubs be included; every note in the film was played live (although for on-stage close-ups, U2 agreed to be filmed playing one show to an empty stadium). “I could make my cat sound like a good singer with Pro Tools,” said Modell, “but we didn’t use any of that. What you see there are those guys, playing that night, in front of 90,000 people.”
I’ve love to see this in theaters, but it isn’t playing anywhere in Ann Arbor, currently.