Fort Minor is a solo project from Linkin Park frontman Mike Shinoda. It’s a project that was truly personal to Shinoda as he did a relatively large portion of the work on the project by assisting with producing, mixing, sequencing, programming as well as playing almost every musical instrument on the album. The album also was executively produced by none other than Jay Z who had worked previously with Linkin Park on their collaborative Collision Course MTV show/album. The album also features many guest spots by many rising artists such as Common, John Legend, Styles of Beyond, Holly Brook and others.For any fans of Shinoda’s prior work; some may be disappointed to realize that his solo effort is more of a hip-hop effort as opposed to some of Linkin Park’s rap/metal efforts from before. With that being said though, Fort Minor deserves praise in the hip-hop world as a legitimate act that should be recognized by any performer in that environment due to the strong lyrics and music mixed on their album.

The Rising Tied, the much-anticipated debut of Shinoda’s Fort Minor, will be released by Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros. and will be out by the new year with 2 hit singles already playing, ‘petrified’ and ‘remember the name’. Be sure to check out their official website at http://www.fortminor.com/

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I thought we’d place this article in the food department since it does technically deal with food. While surfing the net I’ve come across many different gadgets that deal with food that help to make our lives much more easier. Some have been important and others are downright weird. Here’s the first volume in a series of simply lazy boobnewb food gadgets to help make our lives less lazy one step at a time.

-I’ve seen electric toothbrushes but why not electric forks? This little twirling spaghetti fork spins for you and helps to twirl your spaghetti so that you can eat it in a lazier fashion. All you need is two AAA batteries an you’re all set with this little puppy.

-I love soft drinks so this little device certainly helps myself and I. It’s a sprout that attaches to the top of a 2L soft drink bottle and can be used for watering purposes in your home garden. Since most of us on this site don’t garden ; we’ll consider it a very large straw for us to drink our favorite beverage with. Cheers.

-When I was younger, I used to have a small, nice little lunch bag where I would place my sandwich, juice and granola bar inside. These days I use the trusty designer sandwich container to make myself be the coolest kid kid in the cafeteria. With this little sandwich container I can enjoy my lunch and look cool eating it at the same time.

-Sometimes i’m so lazy that I can’t give myself the will-power to go downstairs to my bar and fix myself up a drink. This is why I’ve decided to go and get my very own portable bar for the lazy bar owner out there. Now I can sit at the comfort of my armchair surfing the web and making myself a drink all within 5 feet of each other.

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In part #3 ,we take a look at some lesser known regional foods which are gaining popularity within restaurant and fast food culture.

Indian Food

Unlike many other countries, Indian food is more of a combination of different foods as opposed to one single dish. Whereas other places serve pizza or burgers as their main foods, Indian food is better as a combination of 3 separate foods. Usually these meals consist of some type of starch, a main dish, and vegetables.

Chicken is a huge specialty in Indian restaurants since Indians consider cows sacred and can’t eat any beef products and Muslims don’t eat any pork products either.Tandoori Chicken is one of the favorite ways of making chicken in India. Tandoori Chicken is made by marinating chicken with special spices and grilling/baking it on a special clay oven.A lot of Indian foods can be eaten with your hands as well compared to other cultures where eating with your hands is less exceptable. The other really noticeable thing about Indian food is that it’s loaded up with different kinds of spices.These spices include ginger, black mustard, chili pepper,coriander and others.Other cultures like the Chinese are known for their sauces and Indian food is known for it’s wide varieties of spices used in their food. This is both delightful and hurtful as the food may taste good at first but later cause digestive problems to the person that just consumed the food. This is why ‘Paan’ can often be served with meals as the dark-green leaf of the betel-pepper plant is an astringent and is believed to help in clearing the system.Indian food also involves Chutney which is a sweet-and-spicy condiment, originally from eastern India. Curry is also used and refer to almost any spiced, sauce-based dishes cooked in various south and southeast Asian styles.Samosas are also very popular appetizers. It generally consists of a fried triangular / pyramid shaped pastry shell with potato, onion and pea stuffing, but other stuffings like minced meat are also used.Here are some well known Indian foods:

Tandoori Chicken

Chicken Tikka

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This month we bring to you James Blunt, British singer extraordinaire, whose debut album, Back To Bedlam, and single releases — especially number one hit “You’re Beautiful” — brought him to fame in 2005. Blunt’s style is a mix between jazz, soul and rock music. Many critics of compared his ability to that of an early Elton John which is quite the compliment for the young Blunt. James can play various instruments including the piano, organ and the guitar. Before becoming a musician, James attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was a commissioned officer in the British Army.He soon earned the rank of captain and later went to Kosovo as part of a NATO peacekeeping mission. His debut album didn’t initially do well until it was placed in an italian commercial for Vodafone and started to climb the charts in Italy. Coincidentally, it was his third single, ‘you’re beautiful’ that made him a breakout star. The song debuted at #12 in the UK and raised all the way to the #1 position, six weeks after its debut.

The song also allowed his debut album to peak to the #1 position by unseating the record-breaking album X&Y by Coldplay. The song crossed over to the USA in the summer of 2005 and became a top 5 single with radio stations even though it hadn’t officially been released for radioplay yet by Blunt’s recording company. Blunt has since made appearances for Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Saturday Night Live. His debut album is in stores nationwide right now so check him out.

Some biography information is courtesy of http://www.wikipedia.org/

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Steven Wright is an American actor, writer, and stand-up comedian. He is best known for his quick witted one-liners and has also appeared as himself in several television shows and movies including half baked and mad about you. In 2005, Comedy Central named Steven one of the top 25 stand up comedians of all time. To honour Steven this month, we salute him with one of his own one liners just for you.

“If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.”

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