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August 30, 2007

Perfect fried clam? Forbidden colors; Japanese Internet rocks; Idaho paper blankets Larry Craig; Patriots: 7:30 p.m.

The Times reporter searching for the perfect fried clam didn't make it to Evelyn's in Tiverton, but an Associated Press photographer did.

In a ’64 T-Bird, Chasing a Date With a Clam

Really nice NYT story -- a Swansea-born author searches New England for the perfect, sweet, plump fried clams of his youth. Unfortunately, he found disappointment in Point Judith. Clam nirvana turned out to be Lenny’s Indian Head Inn in Branford, Conn.

Interesting:

It was an offhand comment, though, that gave me the final piece of the puzzle: darker-fried clams, she said, have a nuttier taste, while the lighter version lets the clam flavor predominate. Bingo. “I like to please my customers,” she added. “Some like them big, small, lightly fried, dark — we give them what they want.” Funny, the concept of requesting anything special at a clam shack’s takeout window had eluded me for 40 years.

Me, too. Might have to go on my own clam hunt this Labor Day weekend...

Eye candy: Forbidden Color Combinations? Interesting post at an interesting site -- Colour Lovers -- where people create new colors and palettes, and give you the code to reproduce them.

Color theorists and designers in fashion or computer graphics have coined phrases based around what colors shouldn’t go together. A recent forum post, Red and Green Should Not Be Seen? discusses two of the sayings (”Red and Green Should Not Be Seen” and “Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen Without Something in Between”), and some lovers have even responded in protest, showing how there is no ‘wrong’ in love. Here are some palettes and applications of the forbidden colors that really work.

Left behind: Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future. WaPo:

TOKYO -- Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it.

Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States -- and considerably cheaper. Japan has the world's fastest Internet connections, delivering more data at a lower cost than anywhere else, recent studies show.

Accelerating broadband speed in this country -- as well as in South Korea and much of Europe -- is pushing open doors to Internet innovation that are likely to remain closed for years to come in much of the United States.

The speed advantage allows the Japanese to watch broadcast-quality, full-screen television over the Internet, an experience that mocks the grainy, wallet-size images Americans endure...

Why? Better, newer copper wire, among other things.

Not-so-private Idaho: The Idaho Statesman is all over Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), with constant updates.

The editorial board has moved in three days from Sen. Craig owes Idahoans an explanation to Craig has only himself to blame for political mess to Craig must resign.

E&P, Joe Strupp: 'Idaho Statesman' Editor and Reporter Defend Craig Probe

The Craig arrest and guilty plea were revealed Monday night by Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, which received a tip about the arrest, according to a reporter. Popkey said he wished he had broken that piece of the story. "That was my first thought - how did they get it and not us?" Popkey said. "I understand, but it was a little deflating to see all that work and have somebody else break the story."

Still, both Popkey and Gowler contend it was the right decision to hold off until the arrest was made public, and then report their findings. "When we heard about the guilty plea for a similar incident, it changed everything," Popkey said. "That was the corroboration that we didn’t have before."

WaPo, Howard Kurtz: For Idaho Paper And Reporter, Craig Story Posed a Moral Dilemma

Warning: May be more than you want to know: Is tapping your foot really code for public sex? at Slate. It's a very slow news week if you're not deep into back-to-school stories, so the media field trip into men's public toilets is hard to avoid.

The biggest annoyance in women's public toilets is wet seats, so women everywhere are boggled.

This "explainer" from Slate is probably the fastest way to get up to speed and get out quickly.

Later: Craig can't survive this. Via the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman Review' s Huckleberries Online blog, Tap Three Times: Larry Craig Parody by Doug Clark, to the tune of Knock Three Times by Tony Orlando and Dawn. And now it's on YouTube, over a montage of images of the Senator -- that thumbnail at right is one of them, and points to it. (Doug Clark is a S-R columnist.)

Heads up: The Patriots play the N.Y. Giants tonight at 7:30, in case you'd gotten used to Friday night preseason games. It's on Fox cable, Ch. 5 and 64, and WBCN 104.1 FM.

This is the last of four preseason games. The season that counts opens Sunday, Sept. 9 at 1 p.m. when the Pats play the Jets in New York on CBS.

Fact checking:

Andrew Greeley:

A church 'scandal' that isn't: Now, as the poor battered Catholic Church tries to recover from a bushel basket of scandals, it must cope with the Mother Teresa scandal. Someone has found the poor woman's private letters in which she confessed how weak her faith and love seemed. Spread around the world by Time magazine, the letters are taken as evidence that she was not the saint we all thought she was... -- Chicago Sun-Times, August 29, 2007

Time Magazine:

Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith: The book (Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light by Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk) is hardly the work of some antireligious investigative reporter who Dumpster-dived for Teresa's correspondence. Kolodiejchuk, a senior Missionaries of Charity member, is her postulator, responsible for petitioning for her sainthood and collecting the supporting materials. (Thus far she has been beatified; the next step is canonization.) The letters in the book were gathered as part of that process.
-- Time Magazine, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007

The Time story is interesting.

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Comments

Posted by: - i don't believe you, senator on August 30, 2007 11:39 AM

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Posted by: Sheila on August 30, 2007 11:46 PM