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And All Was Right With the World

9-Year-Old Food Blogger Banned From Taking Photos Of School Lunch, Internet Outrage Saves The Day

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 11:47 am, June 15th, 2012

Remember Martha Payne, the nine-year-old food activist? This April she began documenting her school lunches on her blog Never Seconds. The reviews consisted of a photo of her lunch, a “food-o-meter” rating, a health rating, how much the meal cost, how many mouthfuls it took for her to eat it, and how many pieces of hair had slipped into her meal that day (yuck!). It didn’t take long for her blog to gain a following — especially after celebrity chef Jaime Oliver directed his fans to her blog — and she soon received hefty press coverage praising her shedding light on the deplorable nutritional value of the school lunches she documented. Anticipating a press storm brewing in the future, one of our readers predicted “that her school will somehow find a way to (attempt to) shut her blog down for not allowing photographs from inside the school or some other trumped up charge.”  Well, it turns out they were right.

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Clever Girl

Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver Helps 9-Year-Old Girl Become Famous Food Blogger

by Jill Pantozzi | 12:01 pm, May 24th, 2012

Nine-year-old Martha Payne was on her way to having a successful food blog. In April, she began not just documenting her school lunches on Never Seconds, but rating them on how healthy they were, how good they were, and how much they cost. On May 9 she wrote, “When I got up this morning Dad told me my blog had 25,000 hits so I thought I’d better not forget to count my mouthfuls!” But then things got really crazy. The next day the hits jumped to 105,000! And it’s all thanks to Food Revolution’s Jamie Oliver.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The Triumphant, Geeky Return of the Scrunchie

by Jamie Frevele | 4:57 pm, January 30th, 2012

This is just one use for a printed out 3D Hilbert curve. And what better than to resurrect hair accessories of the ’80s and ’90s by making them geek-friendly? (via Boing Boing)

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