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Gift Guide: What the Serious Eaters Love

Our gift-guide marathon continues. Still looking for that special something? Try our full complement of lists. —Ed.



Gift Guide: What the Serious Eaters Love

Our gift-guide marathon continues. Still looking for that special something? Try our full complement of lists. —Ed.



Watch the 1967 Bob Hope special, save America's public domain videos

Last week, I wrote about Carl Malamud’s upcoming testimony on the need to free America’s governmental video archives for public consumption. This material is all in the public domain, but the government sells it through retail partners, to the taxpayers who funded its production. Carl is trying to convince them to free the video you paid for for your use. He wants to go into his testimony with some impressive viewership numbers to demonstrate the lurking desire for this video.



UTC Library Rave – Fall 2009

Looks like another flash mob/flash rave happened at MPOW, UTC Library, last night. From the footage already up on YouTube, looks like this time someone convinced the powers that be to let the students into the library instead of pepper spraying them outside of it.

Here’s the early footage:

EDIT: More videos coming online now



Video: Eric Ripert Visits Costco on 'Avec Alan'

In the first installment of Avec Alan, GQ’s food critic Alan Richman introduces French chef Eric Ripert to the wonders and horrors of Costco. How does the fluorescent light-filled warehouse club make make Ripert feel? Not so good: