1. Chemex Drip = smooth tasting’ beans (Taken with instagram)
  2. Sweet rewards for SGI Sophia study graduates! (Taken with instagram)
  3. Big Boi Raves About Kate Bush's '50 Words for Snow' | Music News | Rolling Stone

    accepting names for an Big Boi - Kate Bush colabo. Fellas… let’s not get crazy pervy on this.

  4. In New York, gifts circumvent a ban | David Cay Johnston

    Taxpayers can expect ever more picking of their pockets by businesses with political clout thanks to the Nov. 21 decision by Judge Theodore Jones and four colleagues on the New York Court of Appeals.

    At issue is $1.4 billion in state gifts whose primary beneficiary is a microchip maker, GlobalFoundries, a company controlled by Abu Dhabi’s hereditary ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, one of the wealthiest people ever. Con’t

  5. If you’re a Vegetarian, go no further.
(via Homemade Bacon Is So 2011 « Biscuits of Today)
  6. (via Mayor “1%” Bloomberg Tries to Make it Harder for Homeless to Get Into Shelters | Truthout)
  7. (via Washington Post defends publishing odd Occupy Oakland photo featuring cop petting kitten | The Cutline - Yahoo! News)
Carol McKay’s rational is not acceptable. Frankly, this is how an event is given a different subtext. The AP has many file photos that could have been used to show the demonstrators, maybe not at that specific time, but around it, and McKay could have used them. A picture of a cop petting a kitten will not drawn attention to the article, will give humanistic subtext to cops in the article, because you have just seen one caring for a kitten, not tossing tear gas and wearing riot gear as they were. There would be time for these pictures to be sent electronically over the internet, if not for the early edition on the street by 4 am, certainly by the late am edition.