A New York blog points out how much free publicity Starbucks garners from celeb shots.
Via Gawker, the original Cityrag post is here.
And now the allegation that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are effectively sponsored by Starbucks. From Lowdown via Gawker.
In a culture that pathologises eating, a timely reminder that food is also about pleasure.
“As often as possible, when a really beautiful bottle of wine is before me, I drink all I can of it, even when I know I have had more than I want physically. That is gluttonous. But I think to myself, when again will I have this taste upon my tongue. Where else in the world is there just such wine as this, with just this bouquet, at just this heat, is this crystal cup. And when again will I be alive to it as I am this very minute, sitting here on a green hillside above the sea, or here on this dim, murmuring, richly odorous restaurant.”
MFK Fisher (1908-1992).
A blog about the glory of food, Fire and Knives.
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$270 billion luxury business faces slowdown - Aug. 20, 2008 | |
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Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | |
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Superstruct! Play the game, invent the future. | The Institute For The Future | |
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My Long War - Dexter Filkins - NYTimes.com | |
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The Catorialist | |
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Daily Kos: McCain endorses song about "f***ing" at high school; reaction | |
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Cows Point North -- but can humans also sense the Earth's magnetic field? | |
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Oct 9, 2008: Urban Cookbook launch party at Cargo | |
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Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity | |
| South Bank Takedown | ||
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Sep 18, 2008: Osamu Tezuka: Movies Into Manga at The Barbican | |
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Magazines: How WSJ Could Make An Appetizing Version Of T (But They Won't) | |
| Addictive TV at the South Bank | ||
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Death Of Print: 5 ways the newspapers botched the Web | |
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Hamlet 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | |
| Wet Yourself @ The Aquarium, 24 August 2008 | ||
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George Orwell's diaries published online | |
| Our Big Shiny Lifestream Thing | ||
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The Uncanny Valley | |
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The GALA Committee -- culture jamming the 80s media mainstream | |
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Beijing Olympics: Boris Johnson and Downing St condemn Myra Hindley London 2012 image - Telegraph | |
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Plan to exhume cardinal is 'homophobic' - Home News, UK - The Independent | |
| Milking The Archives | ||
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Death Of Print: 5 ways the newspapers botched the Web | |
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BBC NEWS | UK | Iconic towers demolished | |
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| Buy A Better You, 21 August 2008 | ||
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Aug 24, 2008: a test event at somewhere | |
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B Store's pop-up shop in Selfridges (Vogue.com UK) | |
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Disney's rights to young Mickey Mouse may be wrong - Los Angeles Times | |
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Pew’s latest research on news consumption in the US.
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UK culture minister says product placement “contaminates” TV programmes.
A bit more political transparency in the UK
From supermodel to media brand.
And how to make a business from it
Surprise! Using IM improves kids’ linguistic skills.
Microblogging officially tips over into the mainstream
No, really.
Inventor of LSD dies aged 102.
The latest contender for ‘coolest imaging/photography tool’ turns snapshots into 3D scenes. And it works!
Women in Johannesburg have been staging a miniskirted protest
What did the twentysomething guy say to the other twentysomething guy?
More Flickr zeitgeist
Stop the clock!! We saw another ad on the internet!
A choice quote from The Economist
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Sales pitch for digital animation firm features fake actress.
The late great talks to Campaign.
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