Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/chocolate_ice_cream/

This is an ice cream recipe that calls for both heavy cream and eggs.

The credit for this recipe goes to Audrey, who has been making it for her family with great results. My own meager contributions were to include some salt and instant coffee (both intensify the chocolate taste), and vanilla to help deepen the overall flavor of the ice cream. The ice cream is rich, creamy, smooth, and super chocolate-y.

The Life and Death of Jesse James LA Weekly

http://www.laweekly.com/2007-10-11/news/the-life-and-death-of-jesse-james/1" add_date="1278789310

A sad but not uncommon story of an online masquerade, with sock puppets galore.

Janna’s a former reporter who worked out of the Associated Press office in Aspen, Colorado. Her claim to fame was that she conducted a major interview with serial killer Ted Bundy. Audrey and Janna exchange e-mails, stories are told; I suspect some secrets are revealed, or at least hinted at.

Anyway, Janna knows this guy named Jesse, and she thinks he and Audrey would get along. She “introduces” them online, and they hit it off. Jesse is an amazing dude, a volunteer fireman, a cowboy, a tortured poet, a man with a past.

See also: http://pieceofcakey.blogspot.com/2007/03/bringing-truth-back-home.html http://jannastjames.blogspot.com

What the Viacom vs. YouTube Verdict Means for Copyright Law | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/07/what-the-viacom-vs-youtube-verdict-mean...

The case centered on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This federal law, enacted in 1998, was meant to update copyright laws for the 21st century. Within the law, legislators created a way for website producers to escape copyright lawsuits, called a “Safe Harbor” provision. In order to invoke the Safe Harbor, the court ruled, YouTube must remove any material violating copyright laws once it has “specific knowledge” of particular copyrighted videos that the site is helping to distribute. Judge Stanton concluded that it was against the DMCA’s purpose to hold YouTube legally liable for every video uploaded on the website — some 20 hours of video every minute — even if they might have had a general idea that the site was being used to violate copyright laws.

The Problem With Memoirs

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Genzlinger-t.html?_r=4&nl=...

NYT
By NEIL GENZLINGER
January 28, 2011

Memoirs have been disgorged by virtually every­one who has ever had cancer, been anorexic, battled depression, lost weight. By anyone who has ever taught an underprivileged child, adopted an under­privileged child or been an under­privileged child. By anyone who was raised in the ’60s, ’70s or ’80s, not to mention the ’50s, ’40s or ’30s. Owned a dog. Run a marathon. Found religion. Held a job.
hat you had parents and a childhood does not of itself qualify you to write a memoir. This maxim, which was inspired by an unrewarding few hours with “Dis­aster Preparedness,” by Heather Havri­lesky, is really a response to a broader problem, a sort of grade inflation for life experiences. A vast majority of people used to live lives that would draw a C or a D if grades were being passed out — not that they were bad lives, just bland. Now, though, practically all of us have somehow gotten the idea that we are B+ or A material; it’s the “if it happened to me, it must be interesting” fallacy.