Video: How Peeps are made

Happy Easter, y’all!

Learn how Peeps, a perennial Easter treat, are made. And see the finalists and runners-up in the Washington Post’s 2016 Peeps Show.

My favorite … “Peepilton the Musical!”

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My picks for #sundayread for March 20, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: Syed Balkhi on leveraging free to gain business
• License to Launder: Cash, Cops and the Cartels, series by @MikeSallah7
• Freaknik: Rise and fall of Atlanta’s most infamous street party (via @nic_mclean)
• Flashback: My first garden
• Delving into artist William Wegman and his Weimaraner dogs (RT @18thStreetArts)
• Peanuts Every Sunday: The 1950s Gift Box Set is a collection absolutely worth having
• My philosophy of customer service
• 1964: The Paranoid Style in American Politics, by Richard Hofstadter (via @MormonPress)
• Download 448 Free Art Books from Metropolitan Museum of Art, compiled by @ColinMarshall
• Flashback: Country-western samba for Noah Galloway on Week 2, Dancing with the Stars
• “The Americans'” nuanced examination of Christian belief by @Phil_Christman (RT @moryan)
• For Wealthiest, Private Tax System Saving Them Billions, by @NoamScheiber @PatCohenNYT
• Inside the abortion clinic where no one shames by @Rebecca_Ruiz (RT @newscommander21)
• How to Tell If You’re in a Flannery O’Connor Story, by @lilyelizajane (via @edsbs)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: From every angle
• A Guide to Getting Started on LinkedIn
• The Art of the Brand [Pine Beach PRAM]
• The Art of the Brand [PRAM Beach]

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My picks for #sundayread for March 13, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: We have two more speakers coming for 2016 …
• New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time, by @EmilySinger (via @gsisson64)
• Speaking gigs: Mississippi times three, March 2016
• Guardian report on Chicago PD holding 7,000 at secret interrogation warehouse
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 34 #haiku
• The Haunted Twilight of Richard Simmons, by Andy @MartinoNYDN
• Flashback: Noah Galloway tries cha cha on Week 1 of “Dancing with the Stars”
• Graffiti artist gives voice to Afghan women, by @DebVankin (via @18thStreetArts)
• Y’all Connect: Andrea Weckerle on the challenge of digital antagonists
• The Mass-Market Edition of “To Kill a Mockingbird” is Dead, by @Alex_Shephard
• The Deadpool Moment: The Secret History of Marvel’s Boom Brand, by @abrahamjoseph
• By the time you read this, I’ll be dead, by John Hofsess (via @KipkemboiKoech)
• The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross, by @JustinElliott
• Heartwarming: Bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh by @brainpicker (via @coffeetographer)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Some folks like to get away

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My picks for #sundayread for March 6, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: Ramon De Leon on humanizing brands
• Poor people in the Deep South are on their own, by @ChicoHarlan
• Birmingham’s E.O. Wilson talks with NYT’s @ClaudiaDreifus #bham
• Vote 2016: Alabama primary election results
• Stephen Curry Is the Revolution, by Benjamin Morris @skepticalsports (RT @keithkemp)
• The World’s Most Dedicated All-Natural Perfumer, by @AliceGregory (RT @DeborahMain)
• How to embed Facebook video in blog posts
• Master of street art @RobbieConal chats with @shelikestowatch (RT @18thStreetArts)
• What Women Find in Friends That They May Not Get From Love by @rtraister (RT @marvivilla_b)
• The struggle over music licenses to get beloved TV shows onto DVD, by @tvoti
• Late night lads: Conan O’Brien (23 yrs) / James Corden (1 yr)
• Must-read: The rise of American authoritarianism, by @AmandaTaub (via @warondumb)
• An Unbelievable Story of Rape, by @txtianmiller and @bykenarmstrong (RT @afantz)
• Vonnegut recommends “An ABZ of Love,” by @brainpicker (via @VonnegutLibrary)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Vote 2016: Alabama v. Apathy: Dawn of Super Tuesday
• The Birmingham channel: Primary warmup

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My picks for #sundayread for Feb. 28, 2016:

• 25 Maps That Describe America, compiled by @bekonnell (RT @nvyoung)
• Death on the Highway: Chattanooga’s 3-interstate nightmare (via @MBDinBHAM)
• How Poor Single Moms Survive, by @AlanaSemuels (RT @shrivercenter)
• Oral history of “The Big Bang Theory” as it hits 200 eps, compiled by @mctelevision
• Have authorities covered up match-fixing by 16 Top 50 tennis players? (via @jjrsays)
• “Spotlight,” a personal view, by @MattAtMIT (via @mathewi)
• Y’all Connect: Mitch Canter on the chapter and verse of storytelling
• The Wisdom of the Aged, by @JohnLeland (RT @gsisson64)
• The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield, by @DanEngber (RT @FamilyNature)
• Books: Excerpt from @KathyGandCo’s “Food, Fun and Fabulous”

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The voice and the idol
• Video: The Power of Digital Storytelling [Pine Belt Entrepreneurs]

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My picks for #sundayread for Feb. 21, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: Shelly Kramer on better content marketing
• Medical emergencies in flight, compiled by @PJSkerrett (RT @nighealthwatch)
• Excerpt: Getting stuffed: A tale of love & taxidermy, by David Sedaris /RT @kickpointinc
• Enjoyed reading @Ramit Sethi’s “I Will Teach You to Be Rich.” Aff. link: http://amzn.to/1Lyc8xR
• Race, murder and the law in 1957 Georgia, by Mary Claire Kelly (RT @georgetalbot)
• The Last Dying Cat, by Gregory Martin
• Dispatches from the world of social media
• Jury Duty: A Lawyer’s Journey, by Keith Lee @associatesmind
• Death by Coconut: A Food Obsession Gone Too Far, by Nina Martyris (RT @AfrikaReads)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Storytelling in depth: Nothing to it but to do it
• How Esperanto is finding new life online, by @SamAugustDean (h/t @BooksLIVESA)
• Unpregnant: The silent, secret grief of miscarriage, by @AlexEKimball
• Dead Father’s Daughter, by @RodNordland (via @TishaSrivastav)
• How People Learn to Become Resilient, by @mkonnikova (via @DigantKapoor)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: It used to be mad love

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My picks for #sundayread for Feb. 14, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: Our next two speakers of 2016 are …
• When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist, by Deborah Copaken @dcopaken (RT @KimhCross)
• Inside the most northern permanent inhabited station, by @yowflier
• Vote 2016: Get ready for Alabama primaries on 3/1 [Register by Monday deadline.]
• “Deadpool” 1st of 28 superhero movies in next 5 years, compiled by @AdamChitwood
• Ralph Nader’s Tort Museum, by @davidshapiro_6 (via @LSSOnt)
• Y’all Connect: Jen Barnett on branding case studies
• When doctors prescribe books to heal the mind, by Leah Price (h/t @glenbinger)
• How Hot Chicken Really Happened, by @R_LMartin
• Speaking gigs: Pine Belt Entrepreneurs, February 2016
• Interview with “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” creator Michael Schur, by @SJPalumbo (via @Emm7E)
• Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory, by Dennis @Overbye
• The Management Myth, by Matthew Stewart (RT @WhiteAndreetto)
• Writer’s embrace of nature’s overwhelming power, by @AmandaFortini (RT @kickpointinc)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Twirls and kicks

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My picks for #sundayread for Feb. 7, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: Ike Pigott on sizing up blog posts
• What moving from polls to data science means for democracy by Jill Lepore (RT @COdendahl)
• Who Should Pay for the Arts in America? By Andy Horwitz @amhnyc (RT @DaveMehling)
• The state of the blogosphere: Constant flux
• Google Research Dir. Peter Norvig on Being Wrong, by @kathrynschulz (RT @IBLearning)
• The Most Misread Poem in America, by David Orr
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – New books from speakers: The real you, plus zombies
• What Is Disruptive Innovation? (RT @hapeeg)
• Freedom from Fries: Can fast food be good for you? By @specterm (RT @kickpointinc)
• Flashback: What’s your biggest fear in blogging?
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know on Making “Mork & Mindy,” by @CharlieJane Anders
• What Went Wrong in Flint, by @AnnaBarryJester (RT @RobSSF)
• Meet the attorney suing Uber, Lyft, GrubHub, by @TraceyLien (via @LSSOnt)
• Great Artists Write, by @PaulJun_ (RT @karine_andree)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Valley of the doll

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My picks for #sundayread for Jan. 31, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: Our first three speakers of 2016 are …
• White man pathology: Fandom of Sanders, Trump, by @StephenMarche (via @europabridge1)
• Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves, by @TeddyWayne1999 (RT @melaniesiow)
• Gulf kingpins make millions off red snapper w/o fishing, by @BenHRaines (via @MBDinBHAM)
• Now reading “Exploring Calvin and Hobbes,” thanks to @jenbarnett. Aff. link: http://amzn.to/1SqiZzn http://pic.twitter.com/triyMWfTFU
• “This Is What They Did For Fun”: The Story of a Modern-Day Lynching, by @AlbertSamaha
• Who Owns Molecular Biology? By @YardenKatz (RT @kickpointinc)
• The Secret of Immigrant Genius, by @Eric_Weiner (via @garimasharma)
• The Art of the Brand [AAF Mississippi Gulf Coast]
• Lynda Barry’s Illustrated Syllabus from Her UW Class Making Comics, by @AyunHalliday
• Oral History: 30 Years Ago, Mr. Snuffleupagus Shocked “Sesame Street” (RT @MereCummings)
• America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead, by Kevin Drum @kdrum (via @newscommander21)
• The Serial Swatter, by Jason Fagone @jfagone
• How to Escape Your News Bubble, by Mandy Zibart @mzibart (via @giannagruen)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A light dusting of fun

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My picks for #sundayread for Jan. 24, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: James Spann on new tricks from a seasoned broadcaster
• The Internet’s Dark Ages, by @AdrienneLaF (via @jasondcooper)
• Bhutan: the price of paradise, by @RositaBoland (via @Alisonejcurtis)
• Flashback: Books: Excerpt from Thomas Spencer’s “Five-Star Trails: Birmingham”
• Do We Even Need Museum Wall Labels? By Ann Landi (RT @18thStreetArts)
• Lost at sea: How Salvador Alvarenga lasted 438 days, by @FranklinBlog (RT @kickpointinc)
• Flashback: Better event marketing: the basics
• What was it like to be a Nintendo game play counselor? By @AnnieZaleski
• Win a Date with Angelyne, by Phil Warren
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Stalking the storytellers
• Rachel Bloom’s Twisted Comedy, by @SusanDominus
• Drone Papers, series on US military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia
• The New Attack on Hispanic Voting Rights, by @JimRutenberg (RT @repjohnlewis)
• A Thousand Contacts Yet No One to Call – Why? By Jenny Xavier @neirehs

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

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Video: CBS News report on President Obama after the Charleston shooting, drawing from King’s eulogy of the girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing.

Today, we remember Martin Luther King Jr. and his impact on America then and now.

Video: WIAT-42 report from Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2015.

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My picks for #sundayread for Jan. 17, 2016:

• Blogging fear: Deadlines
• How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name, by @jnd1er and @asktog
• College sports exploit unpaid black athletes; could force change. By Donald Yee. /RT @SMTuffy
• Y’all Connect: Syed Balkhi on managing time for blogging
• Artist @MaggiesgDunlap’s Obsession w/ Serial Killers by @badgirlpripri (via @18thStreetArts)
• How Geoff Marcy’s Sexual Harassment Went on for Decades, by @Azeen (via @virginiahughes)
• Flashback: The $1 billion question: Can UAB afford to keep Watts as president?
• Best Poverty Journalism in 2015, by @rebeccavallas and @traceylross (RT @shrivercenter)
• The Bed-Rest Hoax: The case against a venerable pregnancy treatment, by @AlexKleeman
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – A template for storytelling
• For 30 Years, “Real Genius” is Geek Solidarity Film Nerds Deserve, by @use_theforce_em
• The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare, by @NathanielRich (via @Project_JUST)
• How Magic City, an Atlanta strip club, runs the music industry, by @DevinFriedman
• 40 Million Steps: A Run Around the World, by @RachelSwaby (via @RWtish)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A city of spectators

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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Jan. 10, 2016:

• Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 37
• Ferguson to Baltimore: Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation by Richard Rothstein
• The Land That the Internet Era Forgot, by @WRalphEubanks
• No need for repetition in writing
• At Work, Be Your Own Best Advocate, by Deborah M. Kolb (RT @cmansfield27)
• How to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors, by @MichaelEllsberg: (3 parts)
• Y’all Connect: Mitch Canter on helpful tools for bloggers
• The Selfish Side of Gratitude, by @B_Ehrenreich (RT @McMcgregory)
• @JasonGenova: The Saga of a YouTube Bodybuilding Broscience Celebrity by @kyletalking
• Flashback: Excerpt from Marie Sutton’s “The A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham”
• The bald Norwegians who write hit US songs, by @NathanielRich (via @AfrikaReads)
• The New Intolerance of Student Activism, by @Conor64 Friedersdorf
• The Asteroid Hunters, by @JoshDean66 (RT @kickpointinc)
• I Quit Drinking 5 Years Ago and I’ve Been Insufferable Ever Since, by @JohnDeVore

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Flying high in the new year

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My picks for #sundayread for Jan. 3, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: Jason Falls on measuring everything
• Inside 50-year-quest to build mechanical heart by @JoaquinPalomino (RT @kickpointinc)
• My husband the warlord: excerpt from memoir of Joseph Kony’s wife (RT @AfrikaReads)
• A collection of weird things I accomplished in 2015
• A Right to Privilege, by Rémy Ngamije @remythequill  (RT @mandyjwatson)
• Paranoia Made Me a Better Computer User, by @AdamClarkEstes
• Y’all Connect: Ike Pigott on thoughtful customer service
• The Lonely Death of George Bell, by N.R. Kleinfield (RT @FamilyNature)
• DIY: Art from the Indonesian Archipelago, by @alex_rhizomatic (via @18thStreetArts)
• The 2015 index to Birmingham Blogging Academy posts
• On Grantland and Sports Media, by @ClayTravis
• Hundreds of police officers lose licenses over sex misconduct (RT @Jay_Reeves)
• Do you have turnoffs you feel bad for having? Men / Women (RT @ramit)
• What I learned not drinking for 2 years, by @AndyMBoyle (via @MBDinBHAM)

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• Happy 2016!

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Happy New Year! To change, progress and steps forward …