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The one thing filmmaker Robert Kenner ('Food, Inc.') will never eat again

Long answer short: strawberries.

His full answer to Jane Black's question, in a Q&A published in last Sunday's Washington Post : "But if there's one thing, it would have to be strawberries sprayed with pesticides. We saw people in the field with hazmat suits. The fact that there are people that have to wear those to grow food is really incredible."

Fence Fabric

That's different.

From the website:

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Fence Fabric

Add privacy while giving an ordinary fence a facelift.

Fence Fabric gives an unsightly chain link or vinyl fence a whole new look — or use it as a privacy screen between your yard and the next-door neighbor’s.

Quick and easy to hang — adds instant curb appeal in just minutes!

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Ivy,

Morning Glory,

Stone or Brick.

40" x 94": $109.

67" x 94": $179.

'Procrastination is our substitute for immortality, we behave as if we have no shortage of time' — Benjamin Kunkel

It's from his debut novel (above).

Worth reading if only for that sentence: the rest is lagniappe.

Bone Folder

Shows you how out of the loop I am, that I'd never even heard of this device until reading about in this week's edition of Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools, edited by Elon Schoenholz.

Clifford Peterson reviewed it there as follows:

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Bone Folder — Paper Scoring and Folding

A classic bone folder is made of real bone, not plastic or Teflon, and resembles a fat, blunt-edged tongue depressor, rounded at one end and pointed at the other. With it, I can turn a digital print, piece of cardstock or watercolor paper into a professional-looking note or greeting card.

Pulling the pointed end alongside a straight edge and across the paper produces a subtle score that facilitates a perfect fold. Next, I fold the card very gently by hand along the score, and then stroke one of the short, straight sides of the bone folder along the score to flatten the rounded fold to a sharp crease.

When sending a letter that I want to look good, I make two quick strokes of the folder along preliminary hand folds to create folded edges that are sharp and square. Bone folders also can be used to burnish paper as it is glued to cardstock, album or scrapbook pages. They produce accurate and sharp folds and creases on origami papers as well as facilitate sculpting, architectural modeling or bookbinding with paper.

I recommend rubbing your bone folder with olive oil from time to time to avoid flaking or brittleness. Folders made of real bone are best, unless you wish to use a Teflon folder to avoid the slight luster sometimes created by the friction of a real bone folder.

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Here's a look at a bone folder in use.

$7.49.

'Objective Suspense' — by Colin Gee

Back story here.

Electronic Beer Can Opener Keychain

A party

 

in

your

pocket.

$9.99.

OneRiot — 'Find the pulse of the web'

Take your own first.

That's what we always say is the first thing to do upon arriving at a Code Blue.

But I digress.

Long story (by Randall Stross in his "Digital Domain" column in this past Sunday's New York Times Business section) short: "Tobias Peggs, general manager at OneRiot, said his company could process, check and index a link within 37 seconds."

Can your search engine do that?

'Cause Google sure can't, according to Stross's piece.

Big Pen

13 inches of ball point goodness.

Subway,

you win this round.

$5.91.