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Domain-hopping torrent site seized, founder arrested

Kevin Murphy, July 22, 2016, Domain Policy

A joint US-Polish law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of the alleged owner of the piracy-focused BitTorrent links site KickAssTorrents.

The US Department of Justice announced yesterday that Ukrainian national Artem Vaulin has been arrested in Poland and that it will seek to extradite him to Chicago to face criminal copyright infringement charges.

The site, which has been banned at the ISP level in countries including the UK, provides links to download and share copyrighted works such as movies and music from other BitTorrent users.

But it’s perhaps best known in the domain name industry for regularly jumping from one TLD to another as its domains are terminated by local authorities.

According to the DoJ, it has been seen on kickasstorrents.com, kat.ph (Philippines), kickass.to (Tonga), kickass.so (Somalia) and kat.cr (Costa Rica).

The department said it has seized seven domain names as part of its operation.

According to my records, there are 20 examples of kickasstorrents.example domains in the Alexa one million, all in new gTLDs (though I’ve no idea whether they’re part of the same operation).

The DoJ reckons KAT makes annual revenue of between $12.5 million to $22.3 million from advertising accompanying its links.

Domains seized as part of Liberty Reserve money laundering sting

The US government seized five domain names and is going after dozens more as part of its crackdown on Liberty Reserve, a digital currency provider apparently popular with criminals.

The Department of Justice said yesterday that the company was responsible for laundering $6 billion spread across 55 million transactions, “virtually all of which were illegal”.

The service was being used to facilitate fraud and child pornography, among other nasties, according to Justice.

Seven people have been arrested in the US, Spain and Costa Rica and five domain names were seized: libertyreserve.com, exchangezone.com, swiftexchanger.com, moneycentralmarket.com and asianagold.com.

Three are registered with Go Daddy. The main site, libertyreserve.com, is with Swedish registrar AB NameISP and exchangezone.com is with Internet.bs.

But .com registry Verisign handled the seizures, according to a court order published by Justice (pdf).

While Liberty Reserve was based in Costa Rica, there doesn’t appear to be any reason to believe the company’s activities were any more legal there than in the US.

Justice is also seeking the forfeiture of 35 other domain names, mostly .coms, that were allegedly (pdf) being used as “exchanger” sites, where Liberty Reserve users could exchange real money for virtual currency.

Cops seize 132 domains in Cyber Monday crackdown

Kevin Murphy, November 26, 2012, Domain Policy

Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe have shut down 132 domain names in order to stop the selling of counterfeit merchandise online.

According to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the now-annual Cyber Monday crackdown included domain names in the .eu, .be, .dk, .fr, .ro and .uk ccTLDs.

Law enforcement from those countries were involved, via Europol, in their respective local seizures, while ICE nabbed 101 domains in generic TLDs whose registries are based in the US.

One person was also arrested, and ICE plans to seize $175,000 in ill-gotten gains sent to a PayPal account connected with the sites.

It’s the third year in a row that ICE has led an operation of this kind before “Cyber Monday”, which in recent years has become the most popular day of the year for e-commerce deals.

The operation started when ICE and Europol “received leads from various trademark holders regarding the infringing websites”, ICE said in a press release.

Congressmen quiz ICE over domain seizures

Kevin Murphy, September 3, 2012, Domain Policy

Three US members of Congress have expressed “deep concern” over the alleged lack of due process followed when the Department of Homeland Security seizes domain names.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Jared Polis and Rep. Jason Chaffetz quiz DHS (pdf) about the methods employed by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in its Operation In Our Sites.

The Congressmen’s letter highlights the case of the hip-hop web site Dajaz1.com, which had its .com seized by ICE and then returned.

“Much of Dajaz1’s information was lawful,” the letter reads. “Despite this, DHS and the Department of Justice suppressed this website for more than a year.”

The Congressmen say that “if a website’s domain is seized, it needs to be given meaningful due process that comports to the US Constitution and US law”.

Operation In Our Sites has seen ICE seize hundreds of domains — mainly .coms accused of copyright infringement — from US-based registries including Verisign since late 2010.

Despite the relatively small number of domains seized, there have been a number of controversies.

Notably, the Spanish TV download web site RojaDirecta, which lost its .com and .org domains despite being ruled legal by a court in its home nation, last month had them returned to it by ICE.

Cops seize 36 carder domains

Kevin Murphy, April 26, 2012, Domain Policy

The FBI and UK Serious Organised Crime Agency have seized 36 domain names that were allegedly being used to sell compromised credit card information.

As well as seizing the domains and a number of computers, SOCA said it has arrested two men “suspected of making large scale purchases of compromised data” from the sites.

The sites all used what SOCA calls “automated vending cart” software to process the sale of credit card information. Judging by the video below, some of the operations were fairly professional.

One of the seized domains was cvvplaza.com. SOCA provided the following video which really has to be seen to be believed.

I wonder if the spokesmodel had any idea what she was getting into when she accepted this gig.

While the full list of domains was not released, a SOCA spokesperson said the breakdown by TLD was as follows:

.name – 2
.net – 11
.biz – 4
.us – 5
.com – 11
.org – 3

These are all TLDs whose registries are based in the United States, so I’m guessing the US authorities did the actual seizing.


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Ripley's Game -- film review

Ripley's Game is a film version of the Patricia Highsmith novel dating back to 2002. Back in 2009, I listened to the audio book version of the novel, and was by no means convinced by the story. This may have been due in part to the cutting-down of the story to a fraction of the original length, but it put me off reading the novel itself, but that may have been a mistake. Because I must say that the film is very good.

I suppose if you wanted to find an actor to play someone with superficial charm but a very sinister side, John Malkovich would be high on your list. And if you wanted to cast a thuggish villain, you could do a lot worse than pick Ray Winstone. As for a charismatic, sensitive yet troubled British man, how about Dougray Scott? All three are splendid in their roles, and Lena Headey is excellent as Scott's wife.

Jonathan, played by Scott, embarrasses Ripley and himself at a social event. Ripley being Ripley, when his chum Reeves wants someone killed, he suggests Jonathan for the job. And, for complex reasons, the essentially decent Jonathan does commit the crime. A big mistake, of course, because he finds he is now in too deep. There need to be more people killed, some in a very gory manner. Jonathan is paid handsomely, but struggles to explain to his wife where the money came from.

Highsmith presents us with a disturbing moral universe - arguably, a universe without many morals. Her world is full of ambiguities, good and evil are often distorted. She's a strange but gifted writer, and one of her special talents is picking out appealing facets of people who commit terrible crimes. I thought this film translated her themes to the screen very well. Tom Ripley gets away with murder, and so (in a good way) does Highsmith.

John said...

Good adaptation of what I think is the best of the Ripley books. Malkovich is far from my idea of Ripley in terms of looks and physique, but he does a fine job of conveying Ripley's duality.

Bob_in_MA said...

All the movies of her work I've seen are interesting. I've only read a couple of her books, but I think I prefer the movies to novels. She's just way to effective at evoking her negative view of the world. With the movies (especially on a TV) there's a little more distance.

She actually wrote a nice little primer for would-be writers, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction.


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"When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.”
-- Tom Waits, writer and musician

Chan Kobun said...

In episode 300, you called Kin Davis "whorey" for having four marriages. In this one, you call Coultergeist a "bitch".

Knock off the casual misogyny, unless you'd like to lose a listener.

Thomas Everett said...

Just a little correction. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is asked on Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. Also known for the time travel novel Time and Again.

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My review of the "debate":

The Asylum of the GOP
The undiluted insanity on parade during the GOP debate last night was intense beyond expectations (and that's no small accomplishment). It all started with CNN making love to itself in the opening ceremony, starting with a video that resembled a theater trailer for a campy action movie and ending with a performance of the national anthem, as if what should have been a formal debate was some sporting event. The logo "CNN" was plastered everywhere on stage that the eye might wander and one could just hear the executives on CNN cheering from their observation suite, "Ha ha, yeah, in your face, Fox!" The entire travesty of an event that ought to be a serious opportunity for voters to make an informed decision was set in a most fitting venue, the library of an actor-made-figurehead-president who's administrative history has been completely rewritten. Stephen Colbert picked a great time to retire from his Repor(t) as clearly there was nowhere to go for any satirist seeking to mock the carnival atmosphere.

Then the candidates opened their mouths and, in a strange way, the farcical framing seemed to fit the event. It's all just show biz anyway, barely based on a true story.

It's just as well that the major news outlets, CNN included, have abandoned the time honored practice of journalism, complete with all that tedious investigation and fact-checking of our politicians. Now, it's just entertainment. Place a microphone in front of a politician, let them say whatever they want to say and "report the controversy". I say "just as well" because the lies and delusions came pouring down like individual rain drops in a Kentucky thunderstorm. I pity the hapless blogger who seeks to fact-check every word spoken by any candidate last night, for surely they will wear out their "pause" and "rewind" buttons in a process that would take days of labor we once paid actual reporters to do. Had the moderators interrupted any candidate to correct them, we'd have never gotten through the first round of questions.

Here are just a few facts that leap to mind when reflecting on the sleaze parade we saw last night:
1. The "Planned Parenthood Video" was deceptively edited and has been completely debunked, just like the "Acorn Video" you didn't care wasn't really true.
2. There is no scandal in Benghazi.
3. W Bush signed the "status of forces agreement" with Iraq in 2008, putting down a timetable for our withdraw (after Bush had railed against time tables for withdraw in 2004). It wasn't Obama's decision.
4. Really, the Planned Parenthood Video was a fraud.
5. Our economy is better off now than it was at the end of the W Bush administration.
6. Our military isn't underfunded (with the notable exception of the VA, which clearly is).
7. Look, we've known about how the Planned Parenthood Video has been debunked for more than a month now.
8. Iran and ISIS are fighting each other. Think about that carefully before you bomb Iran.
9. We've tried cutting taxes and deregulation for almost 40 years now. It doesn't "trickle down". It's often the prelude to a meltdown and bailout.
10. Knock it off with The Planned Parenthood Video and give Benghazi a rest already.

But these facts will mean nothing to a party that has become completely unhinged, having retreated into its fantasy world of neo-con bluster, outdated theocracy and Randite flim-flam. We can predict the GOP will continue to delve ever deeper into the Rabbit Hole and can only hope they don't take the rest of the country, and the world, with it.

Ben Boyce said...

Deist, that was a brilliant and skillfully written analysis of the CNN debate. It's better than anything I've read in pr int. Please consider, if you have not done so already, sending an edited version as a letter to the editor in your regional and local papers. From my experience, they will print the letter if you stay within the word count limits.


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More Controversy: Cosmetic gynecologic procedures

I was recently at a conference and was listening to a talk on cosmetic gynecologic procedures. The talk sparked a great deal of emotion in the audience, which was made up primarily of Gynecologists, Urologists, and Psychologists.  The controversy began to be illuminated during the question and answer session following the talk.

The number of cosmetic surgeries performed each year has continued to increase. Cosmetic surgery of the female genitalia is among the most controversial cosmetic surgeries performed. Some may ask, why would a woman want to change how her vagina looks. Well, some say that a woman’s perception of her vaginal region can have devastating effects on her life and greatly effects her self-esteem, desire for sexual activity, her relationship, and might even cause vaginal discomfort.

There are several different female surgeries that exist, including, but not limited to:

Vaginoplasty (vaginal rejuvenation and tightening); Labiaplasty (labia reduction and “beautification”); Hymenoplasty (reconstruction of the hymen); clitoral hood reduction or clitoral hoodectomy (reduction of the excessive prepuce/clitoral hood).

Cosmetic gynecologic procedures are an aesthetic surgery. Those who are in favor of these types of surgeries typically say that women should have a right to choose if they would like to look differently. After all, we allow women to have breast enlargements, reductions, tummy tucks…So why is altering a woman’s genitals any different?

Those who disagree with this type of elective surgery claim that women are socially reinforced to believe that their genitals are unattractive while in fact, what is “normal” ranges. They say the media destroys women’s self-esteem.

So is a partner so concerned about what a woman’s genitals look like? Are we, as a society, so obsessed with photos or pornographic videos depicting the “perfect” vagina, that we are not able to see the beauty in a vagina that differs in shape, color, or texture to those we have seen? A well known OBGYN who I respect once said “if you are that close, you should be licking not looking”.

I’d like to hear from my readers…What are your thoughts on cosmetic gynecologic surgeries? Let’s please be respectful of differing opinions and agree to disagree!

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    October 17, 2011 at 10:04 pm (5 years ago)

    I have read a similar story about this one in the NY Times. Cosmetic gynecologic for women is often a gift to their husbands.

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Monday, January 28, 2008

In-ies or Out-ies

Are you an in-network doctor or out-of-network doctor? You know, an "In"-ie or "Out"-ie?

Depends on the insurer, doesn't it?

Honestly, I have no idea which insurer I'm "in" with and whom I'm "out" with for an individual patient. My job is to see patients, irrespective of whose insurance they hold.

But insurers, well, it matters hugely to them who patients see. After all, they have pre-negotiated amounts they are willing to pay for services with those physicians. And for the most part, this is OK - consumers sign up for these cheaper plans knowing they might be inconvenienced from time to time.

Until doctors don't agree to insurers' rates and refuse to accept terms negotiated by insurers. Doctors sometimes decide not to be "in-network" with a particular insurer.

Fair enough.

But sometimes, those doctors are emergency physicians or radiologists - all of 'em - for a particular hospital. So patients in a HMO plan sometimes have to go to the closest hospital for emergent care. They then receive bills from these "out-of-network" physicians. They become enraged because the ER doctor and/or radiologists bill them when the insurer has "promised" to pay for their healthcare! "How dare you!" they scream. Doctors become the bad guy.

But who's the "bad guy?" The doctor or the insurer? Doesn't the insurer have a responsibility to their patient members to at least provide adequate physician panels for coverage of their members? Do people really think doctors should work for free?

Inadequate healthcare networks is becoming an increasingly important issue and the efforts of the Texas Medical Association is a must-read as they fight to place the onus of providing adequate physician networks to the insurer and restore the doctor-patient relationship:
HMOs promise their enrollees that they will provide prepaid health care for a premium. However, they often fail to provide an adequate network of primary care physicians in their plans, leaving enrollees with unexpected medical expenses. A number of legislators and their staff have been victims of an unexpected charge and are blaming the one they receive their bill from – the physician.

At the heart of the inadequate networks issue is deciphering who is ultimately responsible for medical expenses incurred out of network. Insurance companies don’t want to be held accountable for creating adequate networks or informing their enrollees about adequacy of their plans. In essence, they want to keep breaking their promise to enrollees and surprise them with unexpected expenses, while continuing to post record profits and pay their senior executives millions in salaries and bonuses.
The Texas Medical Association clearly has their eye on the ball here and other states' medical societies should take note.

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SeaSpray said...

Interesting post!

I belong to a PPO plan. All 4 hospital systems participate but in 2 of them the anesthesiologists, radiologists and ED docs do not participate. One of those two hospitals is where I have been a frequent flier when all the urology stuff started and was ongoing.

My plan pays non ppo providers 75%. I can see where they would prefer to not be in network. Although...I guess the promise is more pts if they participate?

I called my ins company stating that I have chosen a participating hospital but I can't choose the doctors in those specialties.

They said they will pay the additional 15% so they get reimbursed 90% of the UCR charges. However I have to remind them every time.

I hope my reg docs don't drop our plan. As far as being a pt...the turn around payment times are quick to us or the providers and I am glad they pay 75% when I choose out of network.


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Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Steorn: the jury has spoken

The Steorn 300 program is underway, and yes, I am one of the 300 looking at their information which is coming out in once-a-week bursts in the form of educational modules. So far, nothing interesting. Some basic physics lessons, and somewhat more interesting forum activity.

But all signs seem to be pointing in the wrong direction for a miraculous breakthrough. A jury of members selected by Steorn recently unanimously stated:

The unanimous verdict of the Jury is that Steorn’s attempts to demonstrate the claim have not shown the production of energy. The jury is therefore ceasing work.

Even this announcement raises more questions, and at this point in the game, more questions is not a good thing. Of the 22 original jury members, apparently only 16 were left at the end. Those 16 were unanimous, but what did the other 6 think? Were they booted as dissenters? Also allegedly the jury was never presented with actual hardware, which seems completely crazy and counterproductive from the standpoint of the company that convened the jury.

This kind of story has unfolded many times before, and it doesn’t end well. I’ve spent many hours debunking energy claims and perpetual motion devices. But hey, the company says they are proceeding with plans to commercialize the technology by the end of 2009. No matter what happens, it will be interesting to watch. -m

Previously: How Orbo works, When the experimenter wants to believe, and The downside of free energy.

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

MarkLogic Server 4.1, App Services released

I’m thrilled to announce MarkLogic 4.1 and with it my project App Services, is here. Top-of-the-post props go out to Colleen, David, and Ryan who made it happen.

You might already know that MarkLogic Server is a super-powerful database slash search engine powering projects like MarkMail. (But did you know there’s a free-as-in-beer edition?) The next step is to make it easier to use and build your own apps on top of the server.

The first big piece is the Search API, which lets you do “Google-style” searches over your content like this:

search:search(“MP3 OR iPod AND color:black -Zune”)

The built-in grammar includes AND, OR, parens for grouping, – for negation, quotations for phrases, and easy ways to define facets like date:today or author:”Bill Shakespeare” or GPA:3.95. By passing in additional options, you can redefine the grammar and control all aspects of the search and how the results are returned. Numerous grass-roots efforts at doing someting like this had begun to spring up, so the time was right to come out with an officially-sanctioned API. For those developers who haven’t seen the light yet and don’t fancy XQuery, an API like this is a huge benefit.

The next piece builds on the Search API to offer a graphical App Builder tool that produces a simplified MarkMail-type app around your content. It looks like this:

App Builder screen shot, Search page

The App Builder itself is based on XForms via the excellent XSLTForms library and REST, making it a full-blown XRX application.

Lots more info, videos, screencasts, articles, and more are coming soon.

You can start playing with this now by visiting the download page. Under the Community License, you can put 10 gigs of content into it for noncommercial production free-as-in-beer.

Enjoy! I’ll be catching my breath for the next two months*. -m

* Not really

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

The Science of a Good Beer

When I get time, I want to watch all of this program on from Dave McLean in SF who talks about how to make beer, why it tastes like it does, and why some people prefer various styles of beer.

It’s a good follow-up to the NHC reception I made it to last week, with a 3 course dinner (each made with and served with a different beer), a lecture by the highly entertaining Brewing Scientist Charlie Bamforth, and a tasting panel of 20 different additives as palate training.

Even if you’re busy, take some time to appreciate the things you might otherwise enjoy without thinking. -m

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

RDFa List Apart

A great introduction article. Maybe it’s just the crowd I hang with, but RDFa looks like it’s moving from trendy to serious tooling. -m

Friday, June 19th, 2009

VoCamp Wrap-up

I spent 2 days at the Yahoo! campus at a VoCamp event, my first. Initially, I was dismayed at the schedule. Spend all the time the first day figuring out why everybody came? It seemed inefficient. But having gone through it, the process seems productive, exactly the way that completely decentralized groups need to get things done. Peter Mika did a great job moderating.

Attendees numbered about 35, and came from widely varying backgrounds from librarian to linguist to professor to student to CTO, though uniformly geeky. With SemTech this week, the timing was right, and the number of international attendees was impressive.

In community development, nothing gets completely decided just because a few people met. But progress happens. The first day was largely exploratory, but also covered plenary topics that nearly everyone was interested in. Namely:

  • Finding, choosing, and knowing when to create vocabularies
  • Mapping from one vocabulary to another
  • RDBMS to RDF mapping

Much of the shared understanding of these discussions is captured on various wiki pages connected to the one at the top of this article.

For day 2, we split into smaller working groups with more focused topics. I sat in on a discussion of Common Tag (which still feels too complex to me, but does fulfill a richer use case than rel-tag). Next, some vocabulary design, planning a microformat (and eventual RDF vocab) to represent code documentation: classes, functions, parameters, and the like. Tantek Çelik espoused the “scientific method” of vocab design: would a separate group, in similar circumstances, come up with the same design? If the answer is ‘yes’, then you probably designed it right. The way to make that happen is to focus on the basics, keeping everything as simple as possible. If any important features are missed, you will find out quickly. The experience of getting the simple thing out the door will provide the education needed to make the more complicated follow-on version a success.

From the wrap-up: if you are designing a vocabulary, the most useful thing you can do is NOT to unleash a fully-formed proposal on the world, but rather to capture the discussion around it. What were the initial use cases? What are people currently doing? What design goals were explicitly left off the table, or deferred to a future verson, or immediately shot down? It’s better to capture multiple proposals, even if fragmentary, and let lots of people look them over and gravitate toward the best design.

Lastly, some cool things overheard:

“Relational databases? We call those ‘legacy’.”

“The socially-accepted schema is fairly consistent.”

“It’s just a map, it’s not the territory.”

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Selling my house

I’m sticking around Sunnyvale, but am selling my house. It’s a smaller “starter home”place good for a small family. It’s close to Yahoo!, Google, Ebay, Cisco, and lots of other South Bay companies. In a great neighborhood with lots of parks, restaurants (Giovanni’s Pizza just down the street is fantastic), and a nearby movie theater. If you know anyone moving into the area and looking for a place, here’s a chance to short-circuit a lot of the hassle and get straight into well-cared-for place from a reputable seller.

I’m hesitant to post my address and pictures of my house, etc. here. Email me if you want to see more. -m

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Geek Thoughts: Pez, the movie (updated)

Since all these childhood media properties (just recently Transformers, G.I. Joe, Land of the Lost) are getting the movie treatment, why not a few more?

Pez, the movie (directed by Michael Bay)

A band of interdimensional travelers with rectangular bodies and grotesquely large heads arrive on earth to plant monitoring probes, with sprout out of their necks. Unfortunately for them, the probes turn out to be made of nearly pure sucrose. Will the children of Earth be able to stop the invasion in time, while dodging whole-screen explosions every 15 seconds?

Lego my Eggo (directed by George Lucas)

A rare double tie-in flick. The special edition will be out a few years later. Jar Jar guest-stars.

Pop Rocks (starring The Rock)

A thoughtful commentary on the futility of life, the meaninglessness of existence, and exploding candy.

The Night of the EZ Bake Oven (directed by George Romero)

Scores of digits horribly burned. Rated PG-13.

When Lawn Darts Attack (based on a true story)

Errol Morris and Ralph Nader join forces at last.

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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

The Inmates are Running the Asylum: review and RFE

The central thesis of The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper is dead on: engineers get too wrapped up in their own worlds, and left entirely to their own whims can easily make a product incomprehensible to ordinary folks. For this reason alone, it’s worth reading.

But I do question parts of his thesis. He (with tongue in cheek) posits the existence of another species of human, called Homo Logicus. Stepping on to an airplane, Homo Logicus turns left into the cockpit with a million buttons but ultimate control over every aspect of the plane. Regular Homo Sapiens, on the other hand, turn right and tuck themselves into a chair–no control but at least they can relax.

But if there was only one “species” of Homo Logicus, members (like me) would never experience usability issues in software created by fellow Logicians. But ordinary fax machines give me fits. The touch-screen copier at work instills dread in my heart. And the software I need to use to file expense reports–written by enterprise software geeks probably very similar to me–is a usability nightmare. Words fail me in expressing my disdain for this steaming heap of fail.

The book is sub-titled “Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy”, but one doesn’t have to look very far to find similar usability bugs in the low-tech world. Seth Godin, for example, likes to talk about different things in life that Just Don’t Work, along with reasons why. Some examples:

  • airport cab stand (75 cabs, 75 people, and it takes an hour)
  • “don’t operate heavy machinery” warning on dog’s prescription medicine
  • excessive fine print on liability agreements–intentionally hard to read and figure out
  • official “Vote for Pedro” shirts that look nothing like the ones in the movie
  • more examples on the web site

If anything, I think Cooper’s work doesn’t go far enough. It is relatively short on good examples, stretching out only four examples over four chapters. If properly-designed software is so hard to come up with examples of, then there are bigger problems in play (that would need to be dealt with by something more manifesto than book).

The book now 5 years old. Perhaps it’s time for an update. Particularly in the world of web software, lots has happend in 5 years. Flickr. Gmail. Yahoo Pipes. Google Docs. Even SearchMonkey. Instead of focusing on pointing at crappy software, I’d like to see more emphasis on properly-done interfaces. More delving into nuance, and common factors behind why both high-tech and low-tech products miss the mark.

But maybe that’s just me. -m

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Displaced Yahoo Placement Service

I was shocked today to find out that one of my old friends from the Yahoo Search days was let go in the last round. He’s simply brilliant and would have been one of the last people I would have expected that the managers-in-purple could do without.

At the same time, I’m getting hounded by recruiters–five so far just this week.

So let me put these two forces against each other and see if they cancel out. To any former Yahoos: get in touch with me and I’ll do what I can to hook you up with a cool opportunity. This offer is good for June and July–after that I can’t reasonably say I’ll have time for matchmaking. Send me your CV via email and I’ll get started. No promises on results, but I’ll do what I can. :-)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

See you at Balisage

Balisage, formerly Extreme Markup, is the kind of conference I’ve always wanted to attend.

Historically my employers have been not quite enough involved in the deep kinds of topics at this conference (or too cash-strapped, but let’s not go there) to justify spending a week on the road. So I’m glad that’s no longer the case: Mark Logic is sponsoring the conference this year. I’m looking forward to the show, and since I’m not speaking, I might be able to relax a little and soak in some of the knowledge.

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Farmers' Market Find - Fresh Duck Eggs

There's always a treasure trove of wonderful food at the market - in season now are ramps, fiddlehead ferns, asparagus, fava beans. Seeing all those delicious greens reminds us that summer is practically here.

But don’t forget to look for something new in the basics too. I first tried duck eggs last spring and was immediately hooked. It starts with the eggs themselves – beautiful mottled colours, all slightly different in size and shape, each egg looking as if it were cast of marble. These are eggs harvested by hand, not sorted by a machine.

The real prize is inside. While the eggs are virtually the same size as chicken eggs, the yolks are bigger and a deeper hue of yellow, the white pristine white. Use them for everything that you would normally use eggs for, but to appreciate the real “egginess” of them, make a couple sunny side up in a pan, served alongside freshly toasted bread. It will make your weekend a better thing.


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Democrats Gather to Praise War Crimes

There was a time when many believed that the Democratic party was significantly different from the Republican party, and some old timers can even confirm that the purpose of a party convention was to nominate a candidate.

Of course now, we know better. The differences between Democrats and Republicans are largely cosmetic, and the US voting class wouldn't have it any other way.

While there may be millions of people around the world who believe strongly in the concept of multi-party Democracy, in the US, such ideas are considered un-American and dangerous, terrorism, really.  The convention is a mega-media event whose purpose is to formally announce the corporations choice for ceremonial figurehead.

What US voters want is assurance that whichever candidate they choose, large corporations will continue to pull the strings, and whichever party is in power, the interests of those corporations will come first.

If that means sending armed gangs of torturers and sexual predators into ancient lands to rape and pillage and slaughter, both parties have experts on coming up with attractive names for things to make it sound better to the people who pay for it, and both parties have a ready team of CEOs to reap the spoils, with a  modest trickle-down for the ordinary investor.

The serf classes can scavenge from the dumpsters, or go sign up for the crusade and join their fellow gunmen in committing war crimes.

The most important thing for the Democrats this year is to avoid giving the impression that they disagree with Bush. Toward this end, they have selected a candidate who is pledged to continue pursuing the agenda of the corporate warlord syndicate, and confine his differences with the status quo to variations on the "I'll do it better and harder" theme.

There can be no whiff of suspicion that any official Democrat or Democrat official is opposed to colonialist wars of aggression based on the bedrock principle that the earth and all its resources, both human and petrochemical, are the divinely decreed property of the United States.
While adults and minor children languish in the concentration camps in between functioning as R & R toys for US-funded war criminals, while the halls of those camps resound with the screams of the victims, and their families, in harmony with the screams of children burned and shredded by cluster bombs, bunker bombs and just plain old bullets (America recently proudly announced that it had shot so many Muslims that it was running out of bullets, but luckily would be able to buy some from Israel), the elite Democrats will dine at groaning tables heaped with gourmet delights and sip the finest wines while discussing how best to portray their candidate as like Bush, but taller.

And below their luxury suites, those who object to torture and slaughter and feudalism will be safely caged, to protect the public from the knowledge that anyone in the US dares to object to such fundamental American values.

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Actions like Sep 11 do not happen in a vaccuum. Long before those hijackers ever stepped foot on the planes the damage had been done. They were brainwashed with the same type of garbage propaganda that is spewed from Fatwa's weblog.
Middle Eastern countries are so much more barbaric today and preAmercia than America can ever hope to be...America has only been around 230 years...who did you blame for everything before that Ductape? I am calling a Fatwa on your bullshit!
IMO - terrorist plain and simple. He is an Al queda operative who should be put in a cage on gitmo
My favorite..."In Defense of Holocaust Deniers"
I always thought that "The Enemy Within" was just a metaphore for liberalism, that is, until I encountered Ductape Fatwa. He should be in an orange jumpsuit for sure.
ductape is either a commie, al queda, or a deep cover mole
Tells you something about this asshole doesn't it. He's really serious.
I believe that DF is nothing but a Republican plant...
Ductape is a commie, a terrorist, and he drinks blood too. He drinks Capitalist blood. He eats unborn babies too
Give me your address and I'll send you $20 and a thank-you note for taking your hatred elsewhere.
A terrorist with a sense of humor!
He ain't nuthin' but shit
Jim Sagle

inadequate, halfway house bullshit
Arthur Gilroy
You are a dumbass. Fuck you and your condescension about us "benighted sheeple."
Untruthful, damaging bullshit
John Locke
no better than the neocons and no different than Timothy McVeigh space
a turd in the punchbowl...if DF were Joe Hill he probably would have killed himself rather than get put to death.
A compost pile of fecundity
despicable and literally mentally ill


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Democrats Put an Upbeat Face on Torture and Imperialism

It might sound odd, incongruous, even obscene out in the real world, but in the Big Disneyland of the Democratic Party convention, and even out in the admittedly small number of US living rooms that are tuned in to the festivities, it's not only doable, it's being done!

With the miniscule minority of would-be troublemakers variously caged, bought off and generally muzzled in ways not announced to the press, the party's elite can get down to the serious business of telling each other with straight faces that a taller Crusader-in-Chief will make child rape more palatable. It's just a question of putting a new face on it.

They even provided a new face -  a bright and shiny toy - Barack Obama - who mesmerized the crowd so thoroughly that had he made his speech while dragging an Iraqi on a leash across the convention floor, the Faithful would have praised how skillfully he did it.

There! they would have said, that's what we need to see. Not that po-white-trash England girl, but an immigrant, an African-American who went to an Ivy League school. That's what America is all about and that's who we want to think of when we think of tortured Iraqis. And Afghans, and Palestinians, and Lebanese, and Syrians, and on and on, across the deserts and mountains and oceans white with foam to Colombia, the gem of a large chunk of the world's mercenary supply who are not in Iraq.

The Forward seems quite pleased with Obama, gives him good marks for courting and impressing the pro-Israel lobby. He is committed to Israel's security after all, and its "special relationship" with the US.

Business friendly. This is of course a profit-critical issue, and  hey, that's the way the game is played. Child malnutrition levels in Palestine have now passed those in sub-Saharan Africa. Not a small accomplishment, when you consider it has taken decades to get to goal in Africa, and the Palestine results have been achieved in just a few years.

Obama, an African-American for real. Who best to put a diversity-embracing face not only on genocide in Palestine, but on the depopulation of the continent that birthed us all? There's a young man with a future!

Such a good speaker. So full of life and enthusiasm, and (significant look, nod) a clear voice. Very well spoken. Living proof that in America, if you have enough money and the right connections and the willingness to obey orders, like Lynndie England, you can go to a fancy college and wear expensive suits even if you are unlike Lynndie, black.

Lynndie may not be convention speech material, but she has her fans. They have set up a website for those who wish to contribute to her Cause. While her lawyers work for free, a girl's gotta have new leashes every now and then.

Bright shiny toys. Who can resist 'em?

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Actions like Sep 11 do not happen in a vaccuum. Long before those hijackers ever stepped foot on the planes the damage had been done. They were brainwashed with the same type of garbage propaganda that is spewed from Fatwa's weblog.
Middle Eastern countries are so much more barbaric today and preAmercia than America can ever hope to be...America has only been around 230 years...who did you blame for everything before that Ductape? I am calling a Fatwa on your bullshit!
IMO - terrorist plain and simple. He is an Al queda operative who should be put in a cage on gitmo
My favorite..."In Defense of Holocaust Deniers"
I always thought that "The Enemy Within" was just a metaphore for liberalism, that is, until I encountered Ductape Fatwa. He should be in an orange jumpsuit for sure.
ductape is either a commie, al queda, or a deep cover mole
Tells you something about this asshole doesn't it. He's really serious.
I believe that DF is nothing but a Republican plant...
Ductape is a commie, a terrorist, and he drinks blood too. He drinks Capitalist blood. He eats unborn babies too
Give me your address and I'll send you $20 and a thank-you note for taking your hatred elsewhere.
A terrorist with a sense of humor!
He ain't nuthin' but shit
Jim Sagle

inadequate, halfway house bullshit
Arthur Gilroy
You are a dumbass. Fuck you and your condescension about us "benighted sheeple."
Untruthful, damaging bullshit
John Locke
no better than the neocons and no different than Timothy McVeigh space
a turd in the punchbowl...if DF were Joe Hill he probably would have killed himself rather than get put to death.
A compost pile of fecundity
despicable and literally mentally ill


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Dugpa.com Celebrates Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary

Wow. What can I say that hasn’t already been said before? Has it really been 20 years since Twin Peaks first premiered on Television? I remember it like it was yesterday. The first time I watched the Pilot was off a VHS taped copy of the original broadcast. Commercials and all. I didn’t watch it live, as by the time I had gotten the VHS copy in my hands, the Series was well into the Second Season. However, that was not my first exposure to Twin Peaks.

I have vague recollections of being at a party and everyone that was at the party decided to stop what they were doing to watch the Episode where Bob kills Maddy. I saw a frame or two out of the corner of my eye, but was more interested in smoking a cigarette with the boys outside. I remember one of the girls from the party coming outside and saying something about how scary this “Bob” character was. But even that wasn’t my first real exposure.

The high school I went to was trying out a new program called SSR. Sustained Silent Reading. The school mandated that for 15 minutes each day before the recess break, students were to bring a book to class and be completely silent for the duration of the class.  A friend of mine that sat behind me asked me if I watched Twin Peaks. I said no. Then he said, take this. He handed me a copy of Laura Palmer’s Diary. At first I resisted. He looked at me and said “Trust me… you won’t be disappointed.”

Needless to say, I spent those 15 minutes in my SSR class completely transfixed. When I got home that night,I devoured the entire book. I was just so mesmerized by this story. This tragic character. I had to know more. BOB, Donna, Troy. WTF?! I begged my friend for more but he didn’t have copies of the Series on VHS. I asked another friend who knew a friend of his mothers that had taped the entire series up to where it was at.

Reading the Diary was an experience like no other. It was like  door that I never knew existed had opened up, but only just a crack. The Pilot swung that door wide open and I fell right in. What was it about this beautiful yet tragic world that ha unfolded before my very eyes? Music like I had never heard before. Visuals that I had never seen before. Storytelling at its best, completely sucking me in. From that day forward, my life had changed. Not sure how to describe it, but it opened my eyes to worlds that I had never seen before. Never would I have thought in a million years would a Television show completely alter my perception of the world and what it had to offer. Only three other things have done this for me since then. Episode 29 of Twin Peaks, seeing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me in the theater, and the birth of my daughter this year.

In any case, rather than continue to go on and on, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank David Lynch, Mark Frost, Ron Garcia, Angelo Badalamenti, and the entire cast and crew of Twin Peaks for creating one of the most powerful pieces of art I have ever experienced. If it weren’t for their works, I would not be the person I am today.

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Quote of the Day | November 22, 2008: The Courage to Be an Absolute Nobody

From J.D. Salinger's 1961 novel, Franny and Zooey:

"I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete -- that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theater Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash."

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Boston Early Music Festival comes to Victoria!

For the first time ever, Victoria audiences will have the opportunity to experience a semi-staged baroque opera, performed in a period style by one of the world’s leading baroque music ensembles.

Close to thirty singers, dancers, and musicians will perform a double bill of operas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, first played for the Dauphin of France.

It is the most ambitious production in EMSI’s almost thirty-year history.

To ensure the best seats, purchase your tickets early for this special event.

For more information about the opera see the concert page

Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s
La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs
Boston Early Music Festival: Vocal, Chamber, and Dance Ensembles (USA)
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Co-presented with Pacific Opera Victoria
“musically intelligent and dramatically affecting” THE BOSTON GLOBE

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Sarah Saylor

Sr. Legislative Representative

Issue Areas & Contact

  • Climate change / greenhouse gas controls
  • Regional haze (Clean Air Act)

Office Phone: (202) 745-5216

Sarah Saylor has been with the Policy and Legislation department in Washington, D.C. since 2001.

In that time, she has worked to protect some of America's wildest national treasures, including Yellowstone National Park, the Appalachian Mountains, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.

Sarah holds a BA in Botany from Miami University in Ohio, and is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, the land of the burning river.

As Senior Legislative Representative for Earthjustice in Washington, D.C., she advocates for transitioning our nation to a clean energy economy, energy efficiency solutions and positive and lasting federal protections for our shared resources.

Personal Story

It wasn’t until 6th grade that Science class distinguished itself from History as a field of exploration and discovery. Thanks to my middle school science teacher, Ken Radie, I became aware of where my trash went after it was picked up from the curb, that we could test the acidity of rainwater to determine whether to call it acid rain and that the Cuyahoga River, which caught fire in 1969, was neither fishable nor swimmable. This last hypothesis was tested due to the requirement under the Clean Water Act (it was post 1985, after all). After that, if I could turn an assignment in any class into one where I could delve into an environmental challenge, I would. In fact, I first learned of global warming while working on an essay for an English class in the 8th grade (shortly after reports first surfaced in the popular media on the subject).

I went on to study science as an undergrad, and then upon graduation, moved to Washington DC for an internship with the Clean Water Network. There I had the privilege to become acquainted with Earthjustice’s own Clean Water Act expert, the late Joan Mulhern. Though I was first hooked on water policy, I had long considered global warming to be the single most important issue of our time. It wasn’t until the close of the George W. Bush administration that I began to work directly on stemming the tide on climate change. I am still at it today.

"As soon as a court decision is made that the dirty energy industry doesn’t like, there’s a legislative effort to undermine that court decision."

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

(Reuters) - A Malaysian man faces charges of attempting to smuggle nine Chinese illegal immigrants into the United States as passengers on board the luxury RMS Queen Mary 2 ocean liner, officials said on Monday.
The group, carrying forged Japanese passports but speaking scarcely any Japanese, was caught by immigration officials after disembarking in New York City on April 26, said John Saleh, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer.
Officials said it was unusual for illegal immigrants to arrive in such grand style.
"We haven't really seen this in the past because of course it is expensive. It's quite an investment just to get on this ship," Saleh said.
"If they feel we'd be less likely to suspect a high-end ship as opposed to one of the fly-by-night cruise liners, they'd use that route," he added.
According to court papers, Fatt Kwee Wong of Malaysia admitted to customs officials he was paid $3,500 each to help the five women and four men sneak into the United States.
The nine Chinese boarded as paying passengers in Dubai for their voyage on the ship, which features 14 decks with opulent dining rooms, ballrooms, theaters and even a planetarium.
Cunard Line, which operates the ship, said the case was unprecedented. "To the company's knowledge, this is a first-time occurrence," said Jackie Chase, Cunard public relations manager.

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Electrolux Shampoo Machine

Electrolux USA is a company that is most well known for its appliances, but they also make a large line of floor care machines. Both vacuums and carpet shampoo machines are part of the Electrolux arsenal. The carpet cleaners are from a line known as Sanitaire by Electrolux. There are three different carpet shampoo machines which they call extractors.

Sanitaire by Electrolux SC6070

This small carpet cleaning machine is great for cleaning up spills and other spot cleaning activities. The SC6070 has a 1.5 gallon solution tank as well as a 1.5 gallon recovery tank. That means you can mix one and a half gallons of cleaning solution for the solution tank. As the machine sucks up the dirty used water, it is collected in the recovery tank. A floating ball rises to the top with the liquid level and when the ball hits the bottom of the motor there is an automatic shutoff feature. The machine also automatically shuts off if it tips over. The cleaning solution is delivered out of the three inch metal upholstery attachment under fifty five psi of pressure. The high pressure helps to loosen debris and stains. It also helps if you pour hot cleaning solution into the solution tank. The upholstery attachment is at the end of an eight foot hose so your mobility is slightly prohibited while using this machine.

Sanitaire by Electrolux SC6080

The SC6080 is a larger carpet cleaning machine that would be more appropriate for cleaning entire carpeted rooms rather than spot cleaning. It has a twelve inch wand and a fifteen foot hose. The cleaning solution is delivered at 150 psi which is much stronger. The capacity of both the solution tank and the recovery tank is nine gallons. As with all of the models form Sanitaire, there is a two year service and parts warranty available for with every purchase. Both this model and the 6070 are what you call canister carpet cleaners because the tanks are on a canister and the cleaning solution is delivered and sucked in through a wand on the end of a hose.

Sanitaire by Electrolux SC6090

If you have really dirty carpets that would benefit from the work of scrub brushes then you might want to consider the SC6090. This carpet shampooer is one that you walk behind as it works rather than using a canister and wand. The water is delivered at 100 psi and it also has a nine gallon capacity in the solution and recovery tanks. The main difference is that there is a seventeen inch brush roll where the cleaning solution is delivered. This is the largest cleaning path available from Sanitaire and the brushes really help to loosen dirt from deep in the carpet fibers and pad underneath.

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Ancho Chile Pumpkin Pie

Ancho Chile Pumpkin Pie
Photo by Lisa Romerein

  • 1 can (15 oz.) pumpkin
  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 3 large eggs, beaten to blend
  • + 3 more ingredients
    • 1 2/3 cups whipping cream
    • Pastry for a single-crust 9-inch pie, purchased or homemade
    • 1 tablespoon ground dried ancho chiles

1. Line a 9-inch pie pan withthe pastry and flute edges, then line pastry with foil. Partially fill with pie weights or dried beans. 2. Bake pie pastry in a 375° oven until edges are dry and barely golden, about 15 minutes. Remove from oven and carefully remove pie weights and foil. Reduce oven t...

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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

HObama and The Campaign for Free Food

The satirical publication, The Onion, was quite accurate in describing Obama's victory as President of the United States...

"Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job."

Without a doubt. Obama gets to tackle the recession due to the national debt, Iraq, Israeli's & Palestinians, the environment, Guantanamo Bay, Mexico's drug war and health care, just to name a few. Quite a load for anyone to take. But Obama has been vocal about change and hope throughout his campaign for the Democratic seat and we believe that it will happen. This is a hard time for him and us as the American people. With the recession going on, we have to cut back on everything. We can't go out as much, we have to conserve resources and sadly, we have to cut back on the amount we eat outside. Harsh. Especially for those who love to eat. That means you, otherwise you wouldn't be on this site. But you know what,

(Read the following paragraph with MLK's intense, prolific oration style.)

... I, HObama (my last name is Ho), of ED&BM, will march side by side with Obama as proud Americans in our own campaign. A campaign that will still provide us with sustenance. A campaign that will allow us to enjoy the thing we like to do most, which is to eat, and not dent the bank account while doing it. Obama has an economic plan, and I, have a gastronomic plan.

This is a campaign for... FREE FOOD!

(Applause and tears of joy!)

Yes, my fellow Americans and foreign people that stumble upon my site by accident and immediately hit the BACK button, I've provided a list of the best ways for you to get free food during this recession without lowering your social status. It will not be easy, but you will be rewarded. Shall we enjoy the beauty of $free.99?

1. Costco Frozen Food
Costco, the freak of nature store that directly reflects the way Americans over-consume. Things here are sold in obnoxious proportions and a lot of times people are stuck deciding if it will benefit them or cause more problems. Does everyone really need the 25 gallon "Family Pak" of extra virgin olive oil? Not unless you're Rachael Ray. If you can endure the parking lot drama, SUV-sized shopping carts, saying 'excuse me' about 100 x's, then get ready to part the bushes and discover the frozen-food goldmine. On weekends, and sometimes weekdays when business is slow, you'll see the Microwave Maidens luring customers with wafts of freshly baked food and sounds of microwave timers going off. *Beep* Beep* Low and behold, le coleccion de calorie. Have a 1/2 portion of a pepperoni bagel bite, enjoy a soggy Tyson chicken tender, try the spinach quiche or if you're lucky enough, TGIF Jose Cuervo Tequila/Lime wings. Gross, but all for free! After you are done, pretend to go looking for something down the aisle and make a quick turn around the fridges back to the Microwave Maiden of your choice and say something like:

"That last piece I got was still frozen in the middle."
"May I have one for my (insert relative) to try?"
"I just want to try one more and make sure I really do like it. And then I'll buy it. I'm a man of my word."

But beware, those ladies will remember you and give you an evil eye. So don't be too greedy. I've actually seen this man get called out for free-loading. "Sir, the packages are RIGHT BEHIND me in the freezer for the low cost of $13.73." I love how Costco prices their items before tax. And the best part of Costco, there's more than one Microwave Maiden at work. I knew these guys once in college that would go once a month at around 11 am and find their lunch. By 12 pm, they've eaten a bit of everything and are fully content. How did I know about these poor bastards? I was one of them.

2. Wine Shops with Olive Oil Tastings
This one is a kill-two-stones-with-one-bird situation. You go in and pretend you are looking for a bottle for tonight's date, which is a complete lie – because if you're following the HOBama Plan you're way too poor to go on a date. Slowly edge over to the olive oil section. More than likely, there will be cubed french bread ready at your disposal. Take a piece of bread and dip it into your olive oil of choice. Something to note, the greener it is, the less pressed it is – and expect some major grassiness and bitterness. If an employee is nearby, nod your head and moan your approval for it and even ask a nonsense question like, "At what temperature are olives best pressed in the regions of Italy?" And then kindly ask if there is any wine for you to taste, to wash down all that edible lotion. Unfortunately, these finely pressed olive oils aren't cheap. You're looking upwards of $20 for an average bottle. I figure if you eat about 50 pieces of cubed bread, you've pretty much eaten a 6" sandwich with olive oil as your filling. But this part of the HObama plan can make you quite ill, and you may want to find the nearest trash can. Moderation, my people!

3. Tortilla Chips in Mexican Restaurants
There's this 'mexican' restaurant in WeHo that I forget the name of. People, please help HObama. Here, the waiters bark out their orders in some sort of harmony and serve up strong margaritas. But the goldmine lies right in the middle of the restaurant – a giant bucket of tortilla chips. If you can somehow blend in with a bunch of drunks during their company happy hour, you will be rewarded. Eat as many as you can, until your jaw falls off or until you go home with the wasted just-fresh-out-of-college receptionist.

4. Office Meetings
Sometimes you're just not important enough to be in that bigwig meeting in your company. The kind with people so high up in the company their heads are in the clouds. The kind that has a whole cart full of refreshments and smorgasbord of caloric delight. Bagels with 4 types of cream cheese, seedless fruit, well-endowed sandwiches, non-olive garden pasta and expensive desserts. This is all very painful to deal with especially when you're slurping your $.99 Kimchi Ramen Bowl that is so loaded with MSG, causing your throat to close up. *Gasp* But am i not The HObama, the one who will help you through this recession. Yes we can. Grab your Blackberry, a pen, yellow notepad and tuck your shirt into them khakis. If you don't have a blackberry, go find one of those bubblegum cellphone cases at the market. Find the meeting with the best food and walk in. If you're already late, walk in with head focused on the Blackberry. Careful not to make eye contact because you can blow your cover. Tell them you're sorry you're late and pretend you're surprised by the food on the table. "Ooh. My favorite." Grab a big plate and find the seat in the back of the room. Then, go to the ringtone menu in your phone about 15 mins into the meeting, and make that shit ring LOUD as though you got a call. You pick it up right away and excuse yourself from the meeting and give yourself a high-5 because you just scored some goodies. Works every time.

5. Trader Joe's
Head straight for the back and look for the happy, Hawaiian-shirted employee behind the sneeze guard. Why yes, I would like to try some of that Fat-free Green Tea Hibiscus Peach Tea you're serving. Along with the macrobiotic sun dried tomato garlic hummus with free-range rosemary-raisin pita bread. You can always count on TJ's to offer the world's strangest pairings. I give them a FAIL for the pairings but I give them a thumbs up for helping me live another day w/ their organic, macrobiotic, free-range, fat-free products.

6. Marathons
Find those old, 1986 velcro Pro Wings and get ready to work for your free food. This will take some work but you'll feel good about it. You'll need a ID number so grab an 8.5 x 11 paper and sharpie and make up some arbitrary number like '916' which spells 'pig' in the Motorola Pager code. Because that's what you are – a pig. Ok, race is beginning. Line up in the back unless you want to get run over by the Kenyans. Because you're not here to top them, you are a man on your own mission. On your mark, get set, GOOOOOOOOOOOO to the nearest lady handing out any of those trail snack/energy bar booths. Not only will those energy bars fill you up, you'll have the hardest time chewing it b/c it's made of rubber and bark. You'll be running down the streets looking like a chipmunk, but it's sooooo good for you. You'll need some Gatorade which will be everywhere. Don't worry about coming in last or being spanked by the dog with 2 front legs and wheelbarrow as hind legs (saw this in China, for real). You're a winner today regardless because you got free energy snacks. If the next marathon is for the opposite sex only, plan accordingly with props and duct tape.

7. Farmer's Markets
This is easy. It's like Souplantation, but like, delicious. I love the Hollywood farmer's market the most – probably the largest I've seen. There's the oyster man, pistachio man, heirloom tomato lady – anything you want. just ask the magic question... "how do these taste?" Grab a sample of everything you'd like to try, but don't eat it, just thank the nice vendors and toss it in your bag. Then head over to the sidewalk and compile your super salad. You are frugal and smart because you brought your own bowl w/ some olive oil and vinegar in your backpack. Voila, a free salad.

8. Halloween
Why hello there? What are YOU dressed up as for Halloween? Hungry. Don't even bother putting on an outfit. It's obvious why you're there because you are two decades too late for this fat-enhancing custom. People most likely will give you whatever you want and immediately shut the door because in their book, you are insane. You're a 45-year old kid that still lives with his mom that does your laundry and microwaves your Dinty Moore for you, while you find your soul mate in Warcraft chat rooms. (JK, John. not) You'll get the super sized candies – good stuff like 100 Grand, Caramello and Whoppers. Refuse those yellow butterscotch candies no one ever eats. Why does Brach's even make those any more? And like the marathon, you don't need to dress up, because you're clearly a winner – two pails filled to the brim with candy, and none for mom.

9. Business Card Fishbowls
2 out of 10 restaurants you eat at will probably have one of these next to those $.25 candy dispensers. It screams, "Drop your business card for a chance to win a free lunch!" Hey doesn't hurt. THEN, the miracle happens. You're at work sending out YouTube links and all of a sudden, the phone rings. "Congratulations, (insert your name). We've selected you for the free lunch sweepstakes. How does it feel? When would you like to come in for your free lunch?" Well as the saying goes, "there's no such thing as a free lunch." Rightfully so, because when you show up to eat, you're not eating alone. You're eating w/ some slimeball-sales-person with claws and hooves, dressed in shirt & clip-on tie. Think of him as a used-car salesman on his lunch break. He may sell you financial services, timeshare in a place like San Bernardino or something life-changing like mailbox insurance. But if you have adapted the art of pretending like you're listening and timing your head nods perfectly, you can phase out Sam the Slimeball and actually enjoy your lunch. And maybe even pawn off some of that $.25 candy, you slimeball.

10. Asian Markets like 99 Ranch
Like Costco but with really bad driving/parking, they have weekend giveaways too. You will usually find the freebies in the very back by the meat department since the aisles are the widest there. I actually look forward to their goods because some of it is quite delicious. You'll most likely see some sort of noodle served in tiny styrofoam cups with a light soy sauce broth. They give you these tiny tiny forks to use but I would actually like to see some miniature chopsticks – could be fun and messy! Then you move on to the dumpling lady serving boiled goodness . How about the lady serving up halved fish or meatballs? They give you a toothpick to take ONE, but I like to make my own Asian shishkabob by stabbing through 5-6 of those – tasty. Now it's time for dessert, make your way to the fruit wafers that come in those tin containers – childhood treat. Wash it all down with 5-6 types of high-fructose corn syrup yogurt drinks... mmm tasty. I like the peach one. Now repeat 4-5 times. Don't forget your facial sun visor/welding mask as it adds to the experience and hides the shame.

11. The Gold Room of Echo Park
Have you ever time traveled? I have. Sometimes unknowingly after having a little too much to drink. But if you want to time travel to Mexico come here. On the outside, it looks like a bar you would pass by normally, but once you walk in, bam, you are in Mexico. Awesome. The beauty of The Gold Room is the symbiosis between ultra-cool skinny-boy hipsters and the rancheros. They switch between latino and non-latino music, which is cool. Sorry, Creed and Akon not allowed. If you don't feel like dancing, take a seat up at the bar and do what you do best. But then something strange happens. One of the many large-bosomed bartenders will approach you slowly. You can't tell what she is holding in her hand b/c of the blacklights that are on. But it appears to be.... tacos. It's like she came over to pat you on the back for the excellent drinking you've been doing. How many times have you been rewarded for drinking? Wow, free beef tacos and peanuts. I have not had these myself, but my friends have. While they are nothing to write home about, a little power snack with your $1 tequila makes the belly and wallet happy.

12. The Coastline
On the show Lost, I am actually surprised everyone is alive on that show and how they are always looking good. Because you know what, I really don't know what they can survive on besides coconuts, insects and the occasional mammal on the loose. Most people would perish, except for the Asians who will just about eat anything. I remember seeing one episode in the early seasons, where the Korean guy, Jin, is off by the rocks finding lunch. I started laughing because I knew he had his ban chan ready to go with the sea urchin, mussels and oysters he was foraging. While Jack and Sawyer are busy restructuring each other's facial structures over Kate, he's over by the rocks rolling his eyes back and moaning with gastronomic satisfaction. Getting stuck on an island is anything but a nightmare considering it is a seafood buffet. And it's not called Todai. For this part of the HObama plan, one must work for to find the fruits of the sea. Go to your local beach or pier and bring a spear, pliers and shuckers. To make it even more interesting, wear a loin cloth to get that prehistoric, caveman feel. You're going to look crazy anyway, so might as well go 110%. Before you jump in the water, yell at people with incomprehensible gibberish. The first caveman to find an oyster, man, how hungry must he have been. Archaeologists have even discovered oyster shell piles as high as 3 stories! Now that's a party. Unlike Costco and Halloween options, this one is actually good for you albeit difficult. And you could care less about the rescue plane circling your island.

This is a democracy, and I would like to add more to the HObama plan. How else can we maximize eating during this recession? Thanks for reading, and God bless the hungry American people.

Eddie Lin said...

You got my vote, Fat Chinese Boy.

Chung Nguyen said...

Man, you put a LOT of thought into this. I was thinking about just blogging the different types of cheap-eats (pho, rice plates, burritos, etc.). $Free.99 is even better! I especially appreciate the meeting-crashing tips. You've got our executives pegged to a tee!

r a m e n i a c said...

what's that one movement... those dumpster-diving dudes... are those the locavores? nothing beats a big ole' steel trash bin behind the restaurant or supermarket of your choice, you can just climb into it like ewan macgregor did that toilet in trainspotting looking for his stash!

EatTravelEat said...

Great photo on the top! You must have done a lot of work on it!

Very intriguing post :). I would have not thought about those ideas. Agree about the Costco people; they remember you really, really well!

Jeni said...

Call your local Penny Saver and post a wanted ad for a fiance because tomorrow you're going cake tasting!

Pepsi Monster said...

Long live Free Food!!!

Then again, would I want to touch those food you provided on that list? Hahahaha

choisauce said...

these are genius. Im embarrassed to say I've taken advantage of 80% of these already but I see some new ones too. can't forget whole foods! yes u can sample almost ANYTHING in the deli/pre-made food section. awesomeness. go straight for the pizza yo

Pirikara said...

haha great blog idea. I personally like to surf the net for free crud. Look what I found!:

Anonymous said...

Another interesting follow up would be how to stretch that dollar. I have a friend that orders a meal at Olive Garden and gets the free soup and they just eat the unlimited soup and split the rest of that huge meal into lunch & dinner the next day.

e d b m said...

Eddie, thank you. You're phat.

ChungNguyen, cheap eats is great but free is better. Be right back, going to a meeting right now with my Blackberry. I see some bacon donuts.

Rameniac, dumpster diving would lower the status. But if you really think of it, I bet you can find about 15-20 foodbloggers nightly behind places like The French Laundry, The Bazaar and Animal picking up the scraps and writing about it.

ETE, I actually did not. Give yourself the Shepard Fairey look here at and retouch with photoshop as needed.

J, this is going to be a good year for us financially thanks to HOBama. *tears*

PepsiMonster, refer to my response to Rameniac.

Choisauce, no need to. Everyone here has – give yourself a hand. It's 2009, your cheapness is now nationally accepted thanks to the recession.

Pirikara, nice!

Anonymous, I have a relative who will arrive at Souplantation at around 3 pm for a very late lunch and STAY to have early dinner at 7 pm. I do not associate with her.

Pepsi Monster said...

Dude, I'm sorry. I rather eat hot dogs from 7-Eleven than picking up scraps from dumpster at French Laundry. Hahaha

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Saturday, 27 June 2015

Serrano ham wrapped prawns

I had some lovely serrano ham in the fridge, prawns in the freezer and it got me to thinking of how I could marry the two to come up with a lovely tapas style dish.

Ham wrapped prawns - makes 12

12 raw prawns, defrosted if frozen
3-4 slices of serrano ham*

Preheat the oven to 220oC, 450F, Gas Mark 7.

Cut the ham into enough pieces to wrap each prawn.   Wrap the raw prawns and secure each with a cocktail stick or small skewer.

Bake in the preheated oven for approx 8 minutes or until cooked through.  Serve with a chilled glass of wine!

*If you don't have serrano ham, use another cured "raw" ham like parma ham, black forest ham etc.

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