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    Image of Drunken Economist Drunken Economist
    11/16/09

    In reply to Foreigners Seduce, Reject Twitterati
    ..and now she's on Vivek Wadhwa's camel:

    (Sarah Lacey spews Pro-India Anti-China piece while on Wadhwa's Camel)
    [mindtaker.blogspot.com]

    .. and writing fluffy Pro India PR tripe, probably copy/pasting straight from Vivek's lappy. Dunno, the writing in that TechCrunch article seems too.. intelligent for her style. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto
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    11/07/09

    In reply to Foreigners Seduce, Reject Twitterati
    If you wanna party you better bring your own wine coolers, sonny, because I ain't buying this for you. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Foreigners Seduce, Reject Twitterati
    What precious Sarah Lacy does NOT say is, they start at five in the FUCKING MORNING, when decent people are just going to bed. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto
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    10/15/09

    In reply to Crap Day for Diablo Cody is Awesome Day for Twitterati
    What's lazy is, not linking to the article you're talking about, Benjy
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    10/14/09

    In reply to Crap Day for Diablo Cody is Awesome Day for Twitterati
    Get in line for Erika Christensen if you want , but an audit follows the dinner
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    10/14/09

    @adiam7: For a dinner with Erika Christensen, I would gladly sit still for a large amount of Scientology-related mumbo-jumbo.
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    10/15/09

    @skahammer: She's a tad on the frumpy side, the Scientology thing is the ultimate deal killer -- up there with membership in the Aryan Nations -- and I would rather cook because I take food very seriously. Summa summarum: Thanks but no thanks.
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    10/15/09

    @i'm a bottle: I respect your opinion, of course...but that's your "ultimate deal killer"?

    We surely have different standards. Which is fine.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Crap Day for Diablo Cody is Awesome Day for Twitterati
    Ben. I would think looking at tweets to find something worth mentioning is actually a full-time job.
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    09/22/09

    In reply to Yes, Justin Timberlake Is Actually This Dumb
    Martha is Nyarlathotep? Wow, it's Cthulhu Day on Gawker...or is it Cthulhu Day every day, and we're just now finding out?
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    09/22/09

    @raincoaster: The existence of monsters is always endorsed by Gawker Media. In fact, many monsters exist solely for the benefit of Gawker's editorial staff. Cthulhu had better attack Montauk if he wants his own post, though.
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    09/22/09

    In reply to Yes, Justin Timberlake Is Actually This Dumb
    the link to AA got me.
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    Image of NigelAstydameia NigelAstydameia
    09/22/09

    In reply to Yes, Justin Timberlake Is Actually This Dumb
    The best part of Martha's interview with Serena was when Martha taunted, "I'm going to take this fucking ball and shove it down your fucking throat--a delicious rum ball from my new book of favorite holiday recipes!" Serena forced a smile, but after the show took a spatula to Martha's head.
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    09/22/09

    @NigelAstydameia: I almost spit up my food from this. Thanks.
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    Image of vampirebris vampirebris
    09/22/09

    In reply to Yes, Justin Timberlake Is Actually This Dumb
    but salt does lower the boiling point of water, right? So if the boiling point is lower it will boil more quickly than if no salt was added, no?
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    09/22/09

    @vampirebris: No, salt raises the boiling point.
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    09/22/09

    @sarrible: huh. just goes to show you I'm no Tommy Flay in in the kitchen.
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    09/22/09

    @vampirebris: No, the opposite. Adding a solute to a solvent will raise the boiling point. You put salt in the water to make the boiling point higher, not lower.

    So the water is hotter, which will cook some things faster. But it will take longer to boil; it will not reach a boil faster. It will have to get to a temperature hotter than 100 degrees C.

    Boiling-point elevation describes the phenomenon that the boiling point of a liquid (a solvent) will be higher when another compound is added, meaning that a solution has a higher boiling point than a pure solvent. This happens whenever a non-volatile solute, such as a salt, is added to a pure solvent, such as water. The boiling point can be measured accurately using an ebullioscope.

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    [www.chem.purdue.edu]
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    Image of Ron Draper Ron Draper
    09/22/09

    @vampirebris: Also, if you want to know how to cook, do not ask a man who is a jack of all trades, master of none.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    09/22/09

    @booge: I knew there was a reason when I was a kid working in the kitchen of a falling-down tavern that I added salt to the water when I was cooking pasta. I knew it wasn't just taste and no working cook would try to slow things down.
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    Image of booge booge
    09/22/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: Oh, it's completely a method, not madness. But everyone has their quirks that they jump at: some people pick at typos, or metathesis ("foilage"), or straighten picture frames. I don't like shit like this.

    Don't get me started on losing our littlest toes or wisdom teeth to natural selection/evolution.
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