Daily Archives: January 7, 2012

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NFL Wild Card Games Open Thread

Today is a day when some of us football fans are bitter and sour (bite me, Mark Sanchez*), some of us are gloating, and others are still biting their nails as we watch our teams make their final effort to earn a playoff spot. Check out our NFL Wild Card Preview article to find out all the games and Wizard Ross’s predictions of how things will play out. Here’s the low down for today:

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A Beginner’s Guide to Food Photography

Food photography is a pretty insidious hobby. It starts off innocently enough – you’ve just made a beautiful fruit salad with ingredients you received from friends, and you want to send them a photo of the finished product. Or you’ve just purchased a bounty of fresh vegetables at the farmer’s market and you want a photograph to remind you what gorgeous vegetables look like when everything in the winter produce aisle is dull and limp. Or maybe you are thinking about starting to take pictures of food. Where do you start? Continue reading

NFL Wild Card Preview


It’s playoff time. Sadly, this year the first round looks pretty bland with very little chance at any upsets (although the Seahawks proved that anything can happen in the playoffs). None of the games are true rivalry games and some of these teams are so devastated by injuries they are starting guys who were sitting on the couch drinking beer 3 months ago, so let’s dive right in to round 1 of the NFL playoffs: Continue reading