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Over the last couple years, VES courses have led Gilmore to experiment with alternatives to standard 35mm black-and-white photography, working in color and with large-format cameras. The results include spectacular close-ups of flowers and brilliantly colored vegetables, purple cabbage and an onion peel, colored in a radiant yet muted fashion...
Scientists at the Pentagon's COMBAT FEEDING PROGRAM in Natick, Mass., say the chip could also carry "nutraceuticals." Those are pharmaceutically enhanced foods to better performance, improve autoimmune responses or cut combat-related stress. Now, if only they could make them in sour-cream-and-onion flavor...
...Best Journalism-School Description of the Convention by a Seemingly Weary Al Franken, Who I Really Hope Doesn't Mind If I Quote Him: "It's not an onion...
...really? Spy's rarefied, Manhattan-centric humor wouldn't be likely to find a mass audience online, but the cheap, egalitarian Web has long been a haven for wisenheimers: the cutting commentary of Suck www.suck.com) the deadpan fake-newspaper Onion www.theonion.com and the esoteric wit of McSweeney's www.mcsweeneys.net) More recently, old media have tried to get Blair Witch-y with sites like Time Warner's Entertaindom www.entertaindom.com) whose flashy but lame Hollywood spoofs prove the rule that online humor is funny in inverse proportion to its budget. And even in the Web's grownup days of corporate sites...
From the satirical newspaper the Onion: "Long-awaited baby boomer die-off to begin soon, experts say. Before long, tens of millions of members of this irritating generation will achieve what such boomer icons as Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Timothy Leary and John Kennedy already have: death. Before long, we will live in a glorious new world in which no one will ever again have to endure tales of Joan Baez's performance at Woodstock...[T]he ravages of age will take its toll on boomer self-indulgence, and the curtain will at long last fall on what is regarded...