Yet another reason why Marc Bittman is the man: he’ll be traveling through Spain with Gweneth Paltrow

Filming a new show for PBS with Mario Batali and Spanish actress Claudia Bassols.

[tap tap] Oddly, “meta” posts seem sorta weird for this tumblelog thing, but in the interest of being a good pretend blogger, just FYI - posting will be all but non-existent until October 15 as I’ll be visiting my brother in Florence (Italy! In Europe!). He’s there right now for the semester (ah, college) and even has a blog of his very own.

I’ll be back with lots and lots and lots of photos that I’ll eventually trickle out on my Flickr page.

BLT scented votive candles

Bacon = freedom

It is evidently pleasing to many people to fantasize that when people are trapped by some immobilizing event which deprives them of their usual activities, most will turn to copulation.

—J. Richard Udry, public health official, on the myth of baby “boomlets” that follow blackouts and storms

eBay’s $4 billion lesson in the value of hype

“Just because a company has a huge and growing audience doesn’;t mean it can find a huge revenue source.” Especially when that audience is fickle college students who don’t want to pay for anything and hate ads.

L-epicerie is the first molecular gastronomy store I’ve ever seen

Where to go to get your dehydrated grapefruit powder [via kottke]

Turns out Kanye has a pretty damn good sense of humor

Dear Fortune, please stick to your mission of making boring rich people richer

And stop pontificating about shit you know nothing about. Facebook is not “the closest thing the world has to a next-generation Internet [sic]”

Bring back Times Select! And put [Dick Cavett] in it!

—thousandrobots, on Dick Cavett’s blog at the New York Times

Gawker’s got some good thoughts on blogs at newspapers

People are more interested in the content of articles, be they stories or blog posts, not where in the nav they live.