This weekend I was lucky to attend ROFLCON III, the third (and reportedly final) version of the internet culture conference at MIT. One of my favorite sessions was “Drunk Vegan Black Metal Scanwiches,” featuring Hannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen, Brian Manowitz from Vegan Black Metal Chef, and Jon Chonko from Scanwiches in a live demo. Although Hannah confessed she [...]

This weekend during PodCamp Boston I took a trip down the red line to Central square and checked out Veggie Galaxy, the new Vegetarian Diner and Vegan Bakery from the folks who run Veggie Planet. The place looks fantastic – hip, modern but retro, clean, and inviting: I love seeing vegan restaurants get the ambiance right, since so many have [...]

Cathy N. Davidson’s new book, Now You See it: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform thw Way We Live, Work, and Learn (see my review on Open Parenthesis), takes one of its core inspirations from an experiment by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, which you may have seen:

Spent last weekend in Montreal – had a great time at DrupalCamp, and visited a number of great restaurants. The Green Panther / La Panther Verte (Yelp) The Green Panther was just down the street from my hotel, near Concordia, at 2153 Mackay Street. I got there close to closing, so they were already starting to wrap up for the [...]

So I’m browsing the Ballard Designs catalog the other day and I stumbled upon these “French Bistro Comfort Mats,” which are described thusly: The fun design is based on a chalkboard menu we saw outside a Paris bistro Since I can’t resist an excuse to try out my French reading comprehension (which was never great and is fading fast), I [...]

Ok, I apologize for the groaner pun. But I’m very happy to learn (via QuarryGirl) that Maoz is expanding in New York, including a new storefront in Times Square. Maoz has been expanding throughout North America, with stores currently in Philadelphia (2), New York (5!), New Jersey (1 now, a 2nd soon), San Francisco (1), Boca Raton (1), and Washington [...]

Looking forward to the opening of two new businesses in the Boston area catering to vegans: Sudo Shoes, due to open this summer this month in Porter Square, and True Bistro, a vegan restaurant coming to Teele Square.

(via Veggie Going Vegan) I was happy to find “The New Four Food Groups” from the PCRM: It’s also available on their site as a full color handout and poster.

I’ve noticed lately that while reading my set of RSS feeds I’m getting lots of ads that I don’t consider well targeted at me as a vegan: I’m reading feeds in a site-specific browser using Fluid, which means in essence I’m reading them in a browser using Google Reader. The ads are clearly powered by Google Ad Sense, but look [...]

Loved this, from a discussion on Making Hay of Dr. Melanie Joy’s new book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: What we eat – what we choose to consider food – is the product of ideology when we aren’t forced by necessity to eat whatever we can get. And this: Our goal isn’t to simply get people [...]