Twitter Dump

I use Twitter for twitchy utterances which are not as fully-formed or well-considered as the sort of material I'd put here in the Slog. But not all of you use Twitter (those who do can follow me here), so I'm dumping, below, some recent Tweets possibly of interest:

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Le Freak: one of the most interesting beers ever brewed in America (mailorder here).

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The clip of sleazy plotting Cramer that was unearthed by The Daily Show was actually written up in Slate a year ago

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New allergy treatment (makes sense)

Cheney loves Limbaugh (also makes sense)

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Halfway through the gigantic DVD set of Simon Schama's "History of Britain". Fantastic...Schama's the heir to Bronowski and Kenneth Clark.

Hmm, actually just 6 disks, so not gigantic. But is in a huge collection w/Schama's 2 other landmark series (Slavery and Art), now OOP

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Very good analysis of the whiff of creepiness in Jon Stewart's otherwise applaudable takedown of Cramer

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Colbert destroys Rush Limbaugh
lots more of same:

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Kashi's Autumn Wheat is the only breakfast cereal that can be described as beautiful. Weird, because other Kashi products are so inhuman.

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I've decided finely chopped fresh dates are the best sweetning/flavoring agent for lots of apps, esp. hot cereal (add before boiling)

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Two great anti-anti-stimulus quotes

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new solar tech: transparent plastic film, put over windows, makes electricy to power the building (inc. skyscaper!)

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Crashed US Air survivortards are suing. These are indeed the Final Days.

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Cute new eTrade talking baby commercial from superbowl.

Heh...for that matter, here's just about all the Superbowl commercials. God bless online video!

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If you're a fan of Bill Hicks (as I am), this is very, very big news

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Revealing, if snarky, NY Observer article on NY's new senator

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Dear God how I love Trader Joe's triple ginger cookies.