Oh, Apple, Inc. America hates you 'cuz you're beautiful (it's all that plastic surgery!). Seattlest mostly just hates you because you won't let us tinker with your products. You're even getting charged with monopoly, along with AT&T, and Seattlest couldn't have been more smug when we heard about that news. more ›

Blog called DallasFood is making big, brown waves with a ten-part (ten part!!) series about a small, Plano, Tex., chocolate-maker called NoKa. Point being, for starters, that NoKa's not a chocolate-maker per se but a chocolatier who purchases commercially packaged chocolate bars from a third party and uses them to make, or confect, a chocolate couverture. In installments of Dickensian intensity, DallasFood ferrets out the source of NoKa's chocolate: Bonnat, a respected firm based in the French Alps that actually processes beans from chocolate plantations in Africa, Asia and South America. more ›