The following popped up under my daily news feeds:

Note from the feedmaster: Alton Brown got his web site redesigned some weeks ago, and there’s no blog section on it, nor mention of any such blog forthcoming. So, no more RSS, because there’s no longer anything for there to be an RSS of. Bye, Alton! — sburke@cpan.org

Which isn’t really surprising, I guess. Brown (he of Good Eats) updated the weblog pretty infrequently, and it’s seen virtually no updates since his ill-fated “what’s in your refrigerator?” contest. (Brown posted a photograph of his own refrigerator’s contents and then asked readers to send in the same. Almost immediately, though, he shut down the contest. Apparently, instead of innocous snapshots of celery and mayo and milk, he received images so disturbing and sick they shook his very faith in humanity.)

The weblog’s gone, but there is mention of an upcoming podcast…