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• Paging Mr. Mustard One of the primary reasons we headed to Chicago last week - aside from friends, family, and Millennium Park - was a couple of food items we last found there. Mister Mustard Hot Mustard Paula’s No Oil Cilantro & Lime Salad Dressing Grocery store after grocery store. No luck. Thankfully, the Mister Mustard is available at Amazon.
• Where are the Good Minnesota Business Blogs? I asked twitter about good MN business blogs and Mike Keliher mentioned the new Twin Cities Business Magazine site, while it’s not wholly a blog, there’s an editor’s blog and a very short list of local business blogs, including Graeme Thickins’ blog. I’m not confident in getting the whole story from a single source, so
• Making Jonathan Coulton Videos - Minnesota’s Winter Pasttime A 10th Grade class in Sobriety High down the street in Edina made a video for Jonathan Coulton’s ‘Mandelbrot Set’. Aside from being a brilliant project, making videos for JC is a an excellent way to get through Minnesota winters. I should know.
• Welcome to St. Anthony Village, You Have Now Left Minneapolis Let’s say you bought the house we’re selling in St. Anthony Village. If you did, you wouldn’t be a Minneapolitan - you’d be a Villager. St. Anthony Village is it’s own 3-square mile city - St. Anthony, MN to be specific. Yes, NE is in address and the post office will deliver to a 2701
• Katie Couric Steals Bloggers Pen “They pulled me out of the auditorium and told me that they’d become aware of the fact that I had a blog, they said, ‘We don’t want you to participate.’” Wow. Big Media just keeps giving us reasons to ignore them. UPDATE: and, according to this New York Times article on the event, we are ignoring them