| Carl Welser: There's Spam, and then there's spam
Spam is the name created for a SPiced hAM product developed by the Hormel Co. in Austin, Minn. Canned Spam first hit the market in 1937. For all the jokes about Spam, it still seems to play a role in the kitchen. People continue writing new recipes for putting Spam on the table in agreeable ways. .
Architecture, cooking, spam
For a town often associated with shopping centers and generic chain eateries, the blogosphere in Framingham has an interesting emphasis on architecture and history. One of the best sites is the Planning Livable Communities blog (pedestrianfriendly.com), which, while based in Framingham, is more about architecture, planning, development, and open space issue s writ large. A recent post, for example, had an interesting take on the new Institute of Contemporary Art building on the South Boston waterfront, which has been the subject of effusive praise bordering on hype since it opened late last year. "Right now the major drawback to the new ICA is its surroundings," the blogger wrote. "There's no urban streetscape or feel at all, and no urge at all to go by foot anywhere but back to your car.
This week's letters and blogs in full
Every week we get more (and longer) letters and blog pingbacks than we have space to print. Fortunately, we have the web, with lots more space. So click through to read the letters and pingbacks we chose from... BROADBAND WOES The report today, 12 January, was very interesting. However it does seem to miss a brand new phenomenon of "Faulty Tie Pairs" These seem to be a wonderful invention which is now limiting those, like myself, to sit in a strange limbo not being able to have any form of broadband, nor any idea on when I am likely to receive it as both the provider (Sky) and BT both seem not to deal with this issue, nor seemingly care when it is solved. This followed a 4 month process of trying to leave a provider, which was only sorted after I contacted Otelo for intervention. So yes, the activation time is a big issue, but having a system in place where buck passing didn’t take place would be much more acceptable.
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