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Fukuwatashi Senbei knockoff recipe

This weekend, my wife and I decided to replicate Fukuwatashi Senbei cookies, those delightful specialty cookies that you can buy at Minamoto Kitchoan. Here’s the recipe we used: Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups butter, softened 1 1/4 cups white sugar 4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 5 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon [...]
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Serendipity Day at NPR

Last week the entire Digital Media department spent a day working on individual projects of our own design.  Some highlights: My project was to dig into several mashups with the Twitter Search API.  I built a twitter seismograph by mashing up with the highcharts library, as well as a google maps mashup, a simple sentiment [...]
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5 Greatest One-Shot Music Videos of Our Time

We were chatting in the locker room this morning about one-shot music videos, and it occurred to me that this might be an emerging trend in performance art. As it turns out, you can find some great examples going way back. Remember Weezer’s “The Sweater Song”?
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