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White Whole Wheat Pizza Dough Recipe - 101 Cookbooks
I started out with the recipe from 101 Cookbooks and modified it so I think it is easier to make, and makes a bigger pizza
4 1/2 cups King Arthur White Whole Wheat Flour
1 3/4 teaspoons salt ( I use kosher)
1 teaspoon instant yeast
some tablespoons of oregano, [...]

Don’t Mess With Our Chocolate
Food standards ensure that consumers get what they expect when they purchase certain food products. These food standards prescribe minimum amounts of certain ingredients, Food standards are used to ensure that products sold under particular names have the characteristics expected by consumers.

Simply put, the FDA sets the rules that manufacturers need [...]

News - Pidgin
After a long, and unfortunately secret debate (as we could not say why we were looking at a name change, we ended up just doing this ourselves), we settled on the name “Pidgin” for gaim itself, “libpurple” for libgaim (which, as of 2.0.0 beta6, exists), and “Finch” for gaim-text.
no one bothered to tell [...]

dooce: Moving forward
The majority of my time yesterday was lost on the kitchen cabinets. Every time I would wipe down a shelf I would look over to see how many more shelves there were to clean, and I am not even kidding, they would magically multiply right in front of my eyes. The more shelves [...]

Daily Dose: dominomag.com
all about full disclosure so you can learn all about your snack before eating it.. that is if you can wait long enough to read the nutritional facts before taking a bite.

nice.
I took some cookies to work today, but that recipe is a secret
they were well received
apparently there is a rather large [...]

Rocketboom
happy earth day!
I also liked the commercials Walmart has been running about how if every one of their shoppers replaced just one light bulb with a more efficient compact fluorescent bulb how much of a difference it would make.

Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality
Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately. Nothing was tampered with, run over by a car, or anything of the sort. It is an accurate representation in every case. Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all.
I think that surprisingly, the McDonald’s Sausage McMuffin looks closest to the ad, and the [...]

People In Newspaper Ads Who Look Like They (are farting)

A traditionalist, Richard prefers the “tilting to one side” method. When it comes to farting, Richard doesn’t subscribe to the Flashy New Ways. He likes to keep it simple and real, out of respect for the past masters.

HARTFORD ADVOCATE - HARTFORD ADVOCATE
No, I’ll buy a dollar-store frame and keep it on my desk, and then someday — if God is good to me — an unsuspecting person walking through the office will say, “Why, Jennifer, whatever is that check?” And I’ll flash a smile filled with sunshine and innocence, and say “That’s [...]

No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
okay, so it isn’t screen reader capable, it sure is awesome.
the content of the website to promote her book was created with a dry erase marker and a digital camera.
I kinda want to read the book just because of that.

I am actually a huge fan [...]

Urlacher fined $100,000 for media day hat - NFL - MSNBC.com
Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher was fined $100,000 by the NFL for wearing a cap during Super Bowl media day that promoted a sponsor not authorized by the league.
lets hope they paid him more than that to wear it. and what the heck is [...]

MP’s clean-up destroys an artwork | NEWS.com.au
Canberra Liberal MP and anti-graffiti campaigner Steve Pratt may face arrest after he spent four hours removing an “obnoxious piece of vivid graffiti vandalism” - aka “commissioned mural”.
this is a great example of how in touch politicians are

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glumbert.com - The Apple iRack
The Apple iRack

“I will help the process along by throwing the rest of our money at the iRack”

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