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The Trouble With Truffles

Wes Phillips Nov 13, 2006 First Published: Nov 13, 2006 0 comments

The Amateur Gourmet received a press release promoting Alain Ducasse's $320 white truffle prix fixe menu. He wrote back that neither he nor his readers could afford that, but he'd gladly come taste it and report on his experiences. Ducasse said sure and TAG posted his report, as promised.

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Symbolic Logic

Wes Phillips Nov 13, 2006 First Published: Nov 13, 2006 0 comments

Jeff Wong sends along a link to the Oxford University Press's "Ask the Experts" page. I like the "Jargon Buster" grammar feature, but this page on symbols is cool, too.

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Reverse Dictionary

Wes Phillips Nov 13, 2006 First Published: Nov 13, 2006 0 comments

Ever been stuck for a word—say, you know exactly what it means, but you just can't remember le mot juste? A good reverse dictionary can help.

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Recognize That Tune?

Wes Phillips Nov 10, 2006 First Published: Nov 10, 2006 0 comments

I know what you're thinking. "Did he ask 36 questions or just 35?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is the most powerful melodic neuroimaging test in the world, and could blow your ears clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

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Bagheera's Box

Wes Phillips Nov 10, 2006 First Published: Nov 10, 2006 0 comments

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an empty box in a good location, must be in want of a cat.

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I Can So Hear the Difference

Wes Phillips Nov 10, 2006 First Published: Nov 10, 2006 0 comments

"You think I can't?" sez Huckleberry. "Look at these ears—solid gold, baby."

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Into the Abyss

Wes Phillips Nov 10, 2006 First Published: Nov 10, 2006 0 comments

CJR's oral history of embedded journalists in Iraq 2003–2006.

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SkyMaul

Wes Phillips Nov 09, 2006 First Published: Nov 09, 2006 0 comments

If you've flown anywhere in the last decade or so, you've seen SkyMall, that compendium of useless, hopelessly geeky, and just downright strange products. Pretty hard to parody something like that, eh?

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Personal Factories

Wes Phillips Nov 09, 2006 First Published: Nov 09, 2006 0 comments

Want a new bike? Just hit "print."

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Prince Igor

Wes Phillips Nov 09, 2006 First Published: Nov 09, 2006 0 comments

Stephen Walsh's new biography of Stravinsky sounds as though it proves that, at least when it comes to hagiography, sometimes art is better without Craft (ahem!).