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» SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Vegan Iron Chef streamed live!

Can’t make it to Vegan Iron Chef? Then watch it live on Ustream, starting this Sunday at 5 p.m. The event is sold out so even if you do live in Portland, you’ll be sharing the cheap seats with the rest of us. Vegan Iron Chef serves as yet another reminder of how much I hate Portland. And by “hate” of course I mean “am seethingly jealous of.” Come on, San Francisco, are we really going to take this lying down? I demand satisfaction, Portland. Pistols, at dawn.

» Live video feed of BP oil spill now available

Do you love science, ecological disasters, and rubbernecking at car crashes? Well do I have a special treat for you. BP had been refusing to release video footage of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill/leak/-ocalypse, making it nearly impossible for scientists to evaluate the extent of the ongoing damage. So Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said, “This is a whole heap of bullshit,”* and demanded a live video feed of the gushing oil be made available online to everyone, immediately.

Less than four hours later, BP responded, and promised to make the webcam available within 24 hours. The result is now live on house.gov and Ustream.

The spill cam is for independent scientists and the general public to hold BP accountable. We already know that BP undercounted the rate of oil flow by 20 times from their original estimate, thanks to the limited video footage that they reluctantly released. With the current estimate at 4 million gallons each day, that’s an Exxon-Valdez-size spill every three days still pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. 

*dramatization