Barefoot Contessa and Make-A-Wish: What's off-limits when it comes to charity wish-granting?

Celebrity chef Ina Garten, the "Barefoot Contessa," finally�agreed this week�to meet with Enzo Pereda, a 6-year-old leukemia patient whom she'd twice rebuffed after he requested an audience through the Make-a-Wish Foundation. A spokesman for the Foundation said it had already shifted focus to the boy's second-choice wish: to swim with dolphins. Surely a cancer-stricken child can't wish for�anything. What's off-limits in the world of charity wish-granting?

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Slate's Android app is here!

Slate is proud to present our new, free mobile app for Android phones. The app?which devoted Android fans have been clamoring for ever since we launched our iPad and iPhone apps?lets readers keep up with Slate's analysis and commentary no matter where they go. (And even if they eschew Apple mobile devices.)

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Bridal Terrors

A lot of brides like to give their bakers a photo of their dream wedding cake, in the hopes that they might, in fact, get a cake that looks at least vaguely similar.

However, as you long-time readers know, this can be a lot like asking Francois the painting ferret* to whip you up a quick Mona Lisa. Some of the colors might be right, but in the end it's probably gonna be covered in fur and little poo nuggets. (The painting, that is, not the cake.) (We hope.)

For example:

Amanda C. asked for this, only in white and with a C:

And, in the baker's defense...

...that is most definitely a C.


Jei gave this picture to the head "chef" at a "luxury" beach "resort":

And she got...this:

I can't decide which is classier: the oozing cake or those water bottles.

Do you think the bride had to spring for those? [chortle]

Candice F. wanted this mushroom cake:

And her baker's interpretation?

Aw, those Alaska bakers: such fun guys.

Joanne and Elena wanted this stunner for their wedding:

And, to be fair, what they got did leave them stunned:

I would ask what happened to the flowers, but those squiggles have left me speechless.

And finally, Christie D. wanted her cake to look just like this, only with silver ribbon:

Pretty simple, right?

Well, here's an interesting factoid: did you know that "silver ribbon" can be translated as "duct tape"* in some bakeries? It's true. Here's proof:

That's "35 years of experience" right there.

So I'd hate to see what only two decades' worth would look like.

Thanks to brides Amanda C., Jei, Candice F., Joanne & Elena C., and Christie D. for making me feel better about my $80 Publix wedding cake.


*Note: Not actual duct tape. Duct tape is prettier.

*Update from john: Loyal Wrecky Henchperson Shannon S. sent in this helpful illustration:

Quick! Somebody give me a clever ferret pun!
(I love my job)

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Reds Beat Brewers on Ramon Hernandez Walk-off 3-Run Homer on Opening Day

Download Video: MP4 WebM Ogg HTML5 Video Player by VideoJS   Ramon Hernandez is your Opening Day hero. The Reds' catcher drilled a John Axford pitch the opposite way for walk-off 3-run homer. Not a bad start to the season. The Yankees and the Braves won, too, but we'll have more on those games tomorrow. [...]

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Will Lyles and Patrick Peterson: Another Drop in the NCAA?s Pool of Depravity

Though it is, theoretically, spring, college football?s disquieting winter continues unabated. The investigative media dropped another alleged street agent bomb yesterday with Van Malone, a former Texas A&M assistant, telling ESPN?s Kelly Naqi that Will Lyles alerted him by telephone he had to ?beat? another school's offer of $80,000 to sign star cornerback Patrick Peterson [...]

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Entry-level alts dress up like Muppets to go to a final LCD Soundsystem show

Photos by Andrew St Clair via http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/03/lcd_soundsystem_42.html

LCD Soundsystem is 'milking' their final week as a buzzband, playing tons of shows and making 'mad bank' off people who want to be a part of the last LCD Soundsystem experience ever (until they reunite in 2 years to headline Coachella). Anyways, they make these 'fun videos' where they rip off Jim Henson's Muppets [link], so these alts probably thought they would get invited on stage to be a part of the finale if they dressed up as Muppets. There is a Kermit, a Cookie Monster, and a Swedish Chef, but unfortunately James Murphy was probably too busy 'becoming the Brett Favre of indie rock' 2 even notice them....
Is James Murphy a post-humble egomaniac who only cares abt being altfamous?
Is he upset that their last album 'didnt go mainstream enough'?
Should he start writing commercial jingles, like Joey Gladstone on Full House?

'I can't quit u...' -Jimmy Murphy

Are yall getting tired of LCD Soundsystem?
Are they 'overexposed' or is it worth it 4 them 2 go away 4evr?
Is James Murphy still 'the Brett Favre of indie rock'?
Is it a bad financial decision 4 him to quit this buzzband?

XX BONUS SAD AZN XX

James Murphy
turning his back on us... the backing band
But I'll show him...
I'm more than just a synth AZN
I'll become more than LCD Sounsystem ever was...
<3 Nancy Whang <3

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At my current startup, we recently confronted an interesting challenge: How do you grow a two-sided marketplace without frustrating early users…

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Obama's Libya speech: How the president's grand talk about American interests conflicts with his military strategy.

Immediately after President Obama spoke Monday night about the American mission in Libya, NBC aired a tribute to George Herbert Walker Bush. It was fitting, since Obama's speech had been a kind of tribute, too. Though the sweeping claims for American action at times made Obama sound like the more recent Bush president, the central message was the one associated with his father: prudence.

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