Benjamin Melançon of the Agaric Design Collective talks with Mike Anello about RDF in Drupal. Benjamin participated in the RDF in Drupal 7 code sprint in Ireland in May.

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If you've been out at cultural events in Orlando in 2009, there's a good chance you'll see a man looking down at his sketchbook with his watercolors out. He's Thomas Thorspecken, and he's drawing and painting the scene around him. Check his blog in a few days and see the results.

Shameless Links:

• Thomas' Blog, Analog Artist Digital World
• 23rd International Sketch Crawl Orlando
• More to come...
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

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We're back together for another news-based DrupalEasy podcast covering some of the latest Drupal-related (and sometimes not-so-related) happenings in the Drupal community. Join Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and myself (Mike Anello) as we discuss Opera Unite, the next version of Drupal and CCK, an upcoming Drupal-powered intranet package. As always, we also make our Picks of the Week and Site of the Week.

• Hand-made food
• It was all grown locally
• Community
• Deliciousness
• Someone made a video about it!

When Life Gives You Lemons, Preserve Them! from OrganicNation on Vimeo.

From Organic Nation.tv – A Quick Tutorial On How To Preserve Lemons (Video):

We caught up with blogger/foodie/activist Rachel Weidinger, who also happens to be an expert preserver, at her Homegrown Village booth at MakerFaire 2009 in San Mateo, California. She showed us how to preserve fresh lemons with salt so they will last a year and taste delicious added to omelets, hummus, salads and pasta:

Special thanks to Homegrown.org and FarmAid for putting on this great event! You can fiind more tips from Rachel on her blog AKitchenOfHerOwn.com or follow her on Twitter @Rachelannyes.

-Dorothee

Matt Butcher, author of Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery from Packt Publishing talks with Mike about the book and numerous topics regarding Drupal, JavaScript, and jQuery.

Emma Jane Hogbin and Konstantin Kaefer recently finished the book titled Front End Drupal. Emma reveals a little about the book, shares stories about knitting, conferences, and the open source scene.

I saw this on the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals site - you can get in the lottery for several festivals and have guaranteed tour dates in September if you apply through CAFF's Touring Lottery.

This post was actually written as a draft back in February, but it seemed silly to blog about the 2010 festival circuit before the 2009 festival had started.

http://www.fringefestivals.com/touring.html

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The fine folks at Icebar Orlando (dot com) invited us to do our podcast from their "Fire Lounge" - who are we to turn down an invite from Orlando's coolest bar (bad pun, I can't help myself)? We had a great discussion about the number of content types on Drupal sites, our (equal) love for designers, and a bunch of other Drupal news from the last 2 weeks.

See all of the Fringe Crush Videos at p-sha(dot)com! Who are you Fringe crushing and who's crushing you?!

Robyn Kelly from The Well of Horniness
Rating: MATURE | Genre: Comedy
Brown Venue ? 60 minutes (Discounts: )
MAIN TICKETING PAGE $10 (plus $8 Fringe Button)
Five actresses bring nearly 40 characters to life in this high-camp lesbian murder mystery told in the cliff-hanging style of an old-time radio soap opera.
5/15 FRI 5:30PM
5/16 SAT 3:05PM
5/18 MON 7:25PM
5/20 WED 6:00PM
5/22 FRI 11:40PM

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Tisse Mallon from Untold Stories

Rating: Mature Audience | Genre: Dance, spoken word
Yellow Venue ? 60 minutes (Discounts: )
MAIN TICKETING PAGE $8 (plus $8 Fringe Button)
Untold Stories uses contemporary dance and spoken word to address often unexamined emotional challenges of the human experience, including issues related to self-esteem, control, fear and loss.
5/14 THU 6:30PM
5/17 SUN 11:50PM
5/20 WED 9:20PM
5/21 THU 7:40PM
5/24 SUN 9:20PM
In the video she says 11:20 but the last show is 9:20!!

See all of the Fringe Crush Videos at p-sha(dot)com! Who are you Fringe crushing and who's crushing you?!

Tim Turner from A Day to Remember
Rating: GENERAL AUDIENCE | Genre: Comedy, Improv, Musical, Storytelling
Blue Venue ? 45 minutes (Discounts: Fringe Artists and Volunteers, Groups of 10 or More, Seniors, Students)
MAIN TICKETING PAGE $7 (plus $8 Fringe Button)

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See all of the Fringe Crush Videos at p-sha(dot)com! Who are you Fringe crushing and who's crushing you?!

Chase Padget from The Executives
Rating: MATURE | Genre: Balls out Sketch C
Green Venue ? 60 minutes (Discounts: fringe artists, Universal and Disney Employees.)
MAIN TICKETING PAGE $7 (plus $8 Fringe Button)
After a wildly successful show at last years Orlando Fringe, The Executives are back with FREE KITTENS!, a hilarious, ALL NEW original sketch comedy show.
5/15 FRI 9:45PM
5/16 SAT 8:40PM

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See all of the Fringe Crush Videos at p-sha(dot)com! Who are you Fringe crushing and who's crushing you?!

Anna McCambridge is the Visual Fringe Producer

See all of the Fringe Crush Videos at p-sha(dot)com! Who are you Fringe crushing and who's crushing you?!

Jeff Jones from WELCOME TO HELL
Rating: GENERAL AUDIENCE | Genre: Comedy
Brown Venue ? 50 minutes (Discounts: )
MAIN TICKETING PAGE $10 (plus $8 Fringe Button)
5/14 THU 8:10PM
5/16 SAT 11:50PM
5/17 SUN 4:45PM
5/18 MON 10:45PM
5/21 THU 6:00PM
5/23 SAT 3:20PM
5/24 SUN 3:20PM

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See all of the Fringe Crush Videos at p-sha(dot)com! Who are you Fringe crushing and who's crushing you?!

Tony Robinette one of Fringes great volunteers!

See all of the Fringe Crush Videos at p-sha(dot)com! Who are you Fringe crushing and who's crushing you?!

Rob Ward from The Bong Show with Pepe
Rob Ward & Superfriends — Orlando, FL
Rating: MATURE | Genre: Interactive Talk S
Brown Venue ? 45 minutes (Discounts: Fringe Artists and Volunteers)
MAIN TICKETING PAGE $8 (plus $8 Fringe Button)
Pepe's back with an all new show! This time, he's gathered a panel of Fringe Celebrities to join him for a Pepe-fied audience interactive talk show.
5/16 SAT 4:45PM

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See all of the Fringe Crush Videos at p-sha(dot)com! Who are you Fringe crushing and who's crushing you?!

Christian Damon from Door No. Three — Orlando, FL
Rating: MATURE | Genre: Sketch Comedy
Brown Venue ? 55 minutes (Discounts: )
MAIN TICKETING PAGE $7 (plus $8 Fringe Button)
Vulgar! Offensive! Crass! Indecent! Naughty! Improper! Janine Klein! Bad Mannered! In your face! Outlandish! 5 comedians in one of the sketchiest sketch shows to ever sketch.
5/15 FRI 10:30PM
5/17 SUN 1:25PM
5/19 TUE 6:40PM

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See all of the Fringe Crush Videos at p-sha(dot)com!
Who are you Fringe crushing and who's crushing you?!

Eric Pender from The Karate Guy
Rating: MATURE | Genre: Comedy
Pink Venue ? 60 minutes (Discounts: $2 off for anyone wearing a karate gi and obi)
MAIN TICKETING PAGE $9 (plus $8 Fringe Button)
25 years after the karate championship, Daniel-san still lives with Mom. Can Miyagi save him from being a douche? Outrageous 80s parody from the artists behind 2008s hit JEDI HANDBOOK.

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In 2008, Chris Jones put together a charity project which collects unused computers, installs free software, and trains a needy family or organization in the care and use. Caring Compy will soon have non-profit status, and we couldn't be more proud of our Florida Creatives membership.

Shameless Links:

• Caring Compy Blog
• Caring Compy on Twitter
• Chris Jones on Twitter
• Chris Jones' Portfolio
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

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Length: 2:09

Wanderlust
Pink Venue
5/16 SAT 7:25PM, 5/17 SUN 12:00PM, 5/18 MON 7:40PM, 5/19 TUE 11:00PM, 5/21 THU 9:20PM, 5/23 SAT 2:35PM, 5/24 SUN 9:10PM

Martin Dockery's performance was likened to "the first time you saw TJ Dawe" by the Orlando Sentinel. I tend to agree with the reviewer. Go and see this comical one-man show.

Michael Marinaccio and Eric Pinder give us a fun look at 80's teen movie parody "The Karate Guy". Pink Venue at the 2009 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival. http://orlandofringe.org/node/307

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Length: 1:20

Cary From The Cock
Red Venue
5/14 THU 11:50PM, 5/15 FRI 9:20PM, 5/16 SAT 7:50PM, 5/17 SUN 6:10PM, 5/19 TUE 7:55PM, 5/22 FRI 8:10PM, 5/23 SAT 9:30PM

New York's Cary Curran talks about her life as a Fag Hag, sings, dances, and even becomes a hot dog for the sake of showbusiness.

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Accolades and Graces
Silver Venue
5/16 SAT 2:40PM, 5/17 SUN 4:20PM, 5/18 MON 8:55PM, 5/19 TUE 8:55PM, 5/22 FRI 8:10PM, 5/23 SAT 2:10PM

Yow Dance and some Fringe veteran dancers, with a little help from some live musicians, bring a different kind of dance show to the 2009 Orlando Fringe.

What is a day in the life of an angel like? Ben Schave and Caitlin Riley answer that question in their funny and endearing silent show. Green Venue at the 2009 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival.

Department of Angels
Green Venue
5/14 THU 9:20PM, 5/16 SAT 5:30PM, 5/17 SUN 10:30PM, 5/20 WED 7:40PM, 5/21 THU 11:00PM, 5/23 SAT, 10:15PM, 5/24 SUN 5:00PM

J Bradley will be hosting a Poetry SMACKDOWN on both Saturday nights of Fringe - with celebrity judges, and lots of... Insanity.

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Adreinne gives us the skinny on what's good at the 2009 Fringe. Namely, hot dogs.

Logan tells all in this Fringe Crush video...

Sister Mary Ignatious Explains it All to You
Yellow Venue
5/14 THU 11:30PM, 5/16 SAT 5:00PM, 5/18 MON 6:00PM, 5/20 WED 7:40PM, 5/22 FRI 10:00PM, 5/23 SAT 1:40PM, 5/24 SUN 7:40PM

Lacy from the Orlando Community Hooping Initiative (CHI) tells us about her plans for a Hula-Hooping meetup at Blue Jacket Park in Baldwin Park every Thursday from 6-8PM.

According to the flyer, poi spinners, jugglers, drummers, musicians, circus artists and other skill toy technicians are welcome.

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About 30 game cards are now floating around the festival... I know that's a very small number, considering there are tens of thousands of people that will shuttle through Loch Haven Park in the next 2 weeks, but it's a start.

Their mission was to pick mushrooms together.

Anna's achievement of "Loving up on a Bald Person".

Sharing Photos
Theresa, Kids' Fringe Producer, brought up a good point - if it says "photo", or if I choose to use a photo as my proof, what do I do with it?

I say just post it wherever you normally do. If you use Flickr, that's my #1 recommendation. MySpace and Facebook are fine too. Some of you may have Picasa, Photobucket, Twitpic or other photo-sharing sites.

Wherever you put your photos, if you DON'T want them re-posted here, please say so.

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Viual Fringe has already sold 12 pieces! Congrats to all the artists who were so awesome that someone bought their work so fast! There are 156 pieces in Visual Fringe this year, so take some time to check out all the unjuried art at the 2009 festival.

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2009 Featured Teams:

Miami Dolphins
Jacksonville Jags
Tampa Bay Bucs
New York Giants
Minnestoa Vikings
Pittsburgh Steelers
Indianapolis Colts
Cleveland Browns
New England Patriots
Chicago Bears

Join Mike, Ryan (Andrew is out this week) and special guest Damien McKenna from Bonnier Corporation for a podcast about this week's Drupal news. Some of the things we talked about this week include Panels 3, Documentation, Motorcycle Maintenance, as well as our Picks of the Week.

2009 featured Teams

Miami Dolphins
Jacksonville Jags
Tampa Bay Bucs
New York Giants
Minnestoa Vikings
Pittsburgh Steelers
Indianapolis Colts
Cleveland Browns
New England Patriots

If you don’t see your team here and want to, E-mail sotg@thestudentofthegame.com

Join Andrew, Ryan, Mike, and special guest Derek Gallo from NFi Studios for a podcast recorded live at BarCamp Orlando. Listen as Derek gets grilled on NFi's choice of Drupal as the content management system for the recently re-launched SEMA.org. The discussion also talks about BarCamps, future Drupal implementations, and some pretty darn cool picks of the week.

• VH1 "Hello? Heroin!"
• Star Banger vs. Shiny Guy
• The Space Ship and Setting Expectations
• Phones
• "This sucks less" is greater than "We've figured it all out"
• Putting out fires
• Bacteria, Poop or Cats?
• Cat Phones and Ego Phones
• ITMFA License Plate
• NEW-PUP-PY! and other 3 syllable chants
• Anonymous Josh on Celebrity Scooby Doo
• Bang-Bang!
• Mystery Train
• Goat Cheese, Garbage Dreams and Animal Welfare
• Experimental Film is Cliché
• Lessons in Shameless Self-Promotion for Jonas Elrod
• More notes coming soon...

• Gina's Twitter
• Ryan's Twitter
• Myla's Twitter
• Gina Riggio
• The PFA Manifesto, RetroLowFi.com
• Florida Creatives
• The PFA MySpace Page
• PFA Frappr
• Get us on iTunes
• Hosting and bandwidth provided by Cervo Systems
• Liberatr.net

We all know Radio Rickshaw, and follow closely their coverage of the Fringe. John and Dan's official "Fringe Season" has begun, and here are some of their offerings:

Orlando Fringe Festival Preview 2009
This is an episode from the Fringe Preview on April 13th, recorded live with dozens of performers.

Episode 85: John’s Playhouse
This is an episode with Ryan Price (that's me) as a special guest, talking about Blogging Fringe's plan for this year.

Episode 78: Wayburn and Cory’s Bromance
A few episodes back, they had Wayburn Sassy on as a guest.

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