sacratomato

Pretty cool, more accessible than Digg.

From the page: "We help you find movies, music, fashion, ideas, and technology that are on the rise and worth your time. Our approach combines buzz detection with editorial commentary. "

So I was wondering today, what is this "teh" that all the cool kidz keep using? Wikipedia offers teh answer:

Sometimes users make up abbreviations on the spot, therefore many of them can seem confusing, obscure, whimsical, or even nonsensical. Another feature common to Internet communication involves the truncation and morphing of words to forms that users can type more readily.

The form "teh" offers a special case of this transformation. This originated as a corruption of "the", and often pops up spontaneously when typing fast. So common has it become, in fact, that it has made the jump to deliberate usage particularly when satirising newbies; a common example is referring to the internet as "teh internet" or "teh internets".

"Teh" is also now used a lot more commonly, in sentences such as "That was teh pwnage!" or, a more common one used to indicate if someone is hot or not, "He is teh sex."

"Teh" is also used to denote a specific or immediately present article, for example, "dude, hurry up and get in teh car." teh can also, depending on where you are, mean a good thing, or something that is slightly bad-ass or awesome."
There you go!

You can blame MoveOn for my absence from pretty much everything for the last month and a half. Started out with phonecalling as part of their Call4Change campaign, and ended up on their volunteer technical support staff, taking calls from other MoveOn volunteers needing advice and encouragement to use the phonecalling system or to host phonecalling parties.

Exhausting and exhilarating, all at once. I only just stopped dreaming about talking to support line phonecallers. My house is a wreck and I've come down with a cold, but it was worth every single second. I'm proud and honored to have been part of it all, and I'm so happy that we made a difference in the election.

Since I'm on a culinary kick, I've been browsing the food/cookbook sections of my favorite bookstores. One thing I've noticed: Rachel Ray.

She's got like umpteen different books, a whole magazine, and some televisions shows. Yet somehow she's managed to completely evade my zeitgeist radar until now.

Who the heck IS this woman, and how has she built an entire media empire, based on food?

I thought it was hilarious that Anthony Bourdain called her a bobblehead.

A clever way to harvest your finished worm castings compost. It's titled "New Worm Bin Harvest Method", and though it's dated 1996, it's a new one to me.

I keep worms for composting food scraps and harvested a nice bunch of finished compost this summer, but it was a time-consuming, tiring, dirty job. The compost was so good (you should see my tomatoes!) that it made the effort worthwhile. However, I would LOVE to make that job easier. I'm going to try this "new" method soon.

Really cute:
I've read articles like "Switching for Windows to Linux in five easy steps" or "How changing your operating system can make fun with Linux" or "Why you should give Linux a chance" for five years now but there are always people who say Linux is difficult to learn and Windows has much easier install routines and so on. But what if the first OS you've ever used wasn't MS Dos or Win95 but some kind of Unix-based free system like BSD or Linux?

The many wonders of hydrogen peroxide!