Wednesday February 10, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday February 10, 2010)
(1)- KULTURE BUMPH -- The past decade has produced thousands of new foodies and new yogis, all interested in healthier bodies, clearer consciences and a greener planet. Inevitably, the overlap between food and the eagle pose has grown.

(2)- FOOD PORN -- Surely thisiswhyyourefat.com is part satiric jab at self-righteous food purists and part reference to America's tendency to overconsume. But it is also a shrine to the national ideals of adventure and audacity.

(3)- SOLUTION -- In bioinformatics it is common to search for a pattern of interest in a potentially large set of rather short sequences We seek efficient approaches and algorithms to perform these computations both for low and high complexity.

(4)- RALPH WALDO EMERSON -- We have awakened from a century-long sleep to find ourselves confronted with a grave mistake, an intellectual blunder: an unseemly idolatry for one of the most confounding of American writers.

(5)- TEA PARTY -- By most accounts, the Paul Revere figure of this Second American Revolution is an excitable cable-news reporter named Rick Santelli, a former futures trader and Drexel Burnham Lambert vice-president...

(6) CUSTOMER FIGHTS PHONE COMPANY – A relentless woman in the right has fought a phone company for the 14 cents she was owed and finally got her Verizon check for that amount.

(7)- CIGARETTE POLL – New Zealand's nationowide Health and Lifestyles Survey found 49.8 percent of people agreed cigarettes should no longer be sold in New Zealand in 10 years, 30.3 percent disagreed and 19.9 percent neither agreed nor disagreed.

(8)- NYC SUBWAY NEWS -- New York City's transit agency is investigating a video posted online that shows a man kissing and snuggling a live chicken aboard a subway. The subway rider who took the video said she felt compelled to record.

(9)- HOT LAWSUIT – An Oregon woman sues her local McDonald's franchisee after spilling hot coffee from the drive-thru window on herself. She claims that the coffee was too hot and the lid too loose, and seeks $7,500 in damages.

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