American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Mmmmm

Reading food blogs tends to make me hungry, some even inspire me in the kitchen. Of course this is all dependent on how detailed they are. Is the writer just talking about what a great cook they are and making you jealous of all the good stuff they have to eat or are they [...]

One More Time, With Feeling

WeFeelFine is a project I learned about at the Beautiful/Decay: Vis/Ed event last week.
To learn more about Jonathan Harris, the mind behind WeFeelFine you can watch a video of him talking about this project and his new project, Universe on CoolHunting. Anyway…
WeFeelFine is a project that… Well, actually, they have a really good description of [...]

Shameless Self-Promotion

Writing for AmericanMadness has been good for me. It has allowed me the opportunity to hone my writing style (I was going to say “skills” there, but we all know I don’t actually edit or learn from my common mistakes. Josh has tried breaking me of using dashes, ellipses and semicolons when a period is [...]

10 x 10

So, 10 x 10 is a pretty interesting website/blog.
Basically they trawl the web and find the most popular and newest news content represented by a single word and image. It is all then displayed in a 10 x 10 grid of thumbnailed images. When you click on one of the images the top head lines [...]

Food Stamp Challenge

Some folks out there may have been aware that last week was the Congressional Food Stamp Challenge where congress men & women ate for a week on a food stamp budget (in NY that is $28 a week). You can read about some of their experiences here.
Think you could do it? What would you eat? [...]

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