Real Time Farms

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Described as a “Wikipedia for food”, Real Time Farms is the result of husband-and-wife team Cara and Karl Roasen’s effort to bring more transparency the source of food in the U.S. While the site has yet to reach its full potential, the groundwork has been laid to create a crowd-sourced database for locavore eating.

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

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1. John Baldessari Narrated by Tom Waits, this cleverly edited video breaks down John Baldessari’s life in a mere six minutes for a brief history lesson on the artist dubbed a “surrealist for the digital age”. With over 200 solo shows and a handful of significant awards comprising his portofolio, the LACMA-commissioned video is a short rundown of how Baldessari became the 6’7 badass who …

Ice Cream Lock

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We first wrote about Ben and Jerry’s Euphori-Lock in 2005, but it’s reached a fever pitch on the Web this week. Meant to keep your valuable pints of ice cream safe while you’re away, the combination lock slips right onto the ice cream casing with a messege to potential thieves, “I’m terribly sorry, but there is no ‘u’ in ‘my pint’”.