This is the recipe for vegephobes, for the folks (like me?) that do not otherwise care for Brussels sprouts. We are participating in the Food Basket CSA this winter and this was in our first basket. I’m not a fan of Brussels sprouts but I’d also never had them fresh before. So we decided to […]
15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee at The Oatmeal — I love this design. (tagged: coffee design visualization ) Fox News Fact-Checks Sarah Palin’s Coin Conspiracy Theory (VIDEO) short version: "Sarah Palin is too crazy even for the crazy network." Personally I'd like it if "In God We Trust" came off the money all together […]
October 2009 browser stats: Firefox finally passes IE6 at Ars Technica — possibly the worst, most mis-leading graph of all time but if those numbers are accurate, at least the conclusions are great news (tagged: IE Firefox stats ) Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Way’s Center? at Scientific […]
Following up on the September post (“advise me: enhancing storage“)–we went ahead and put a shiny new 1 TB Western Digital hard drive 1 into Malkovich, effectively quadrupling the storage (re this particular problem) and paving the way for a lot more life out of this ol’ iMac. The idea for this particular upgrade owes some […]
If you didn’t hear, I went ahead and did “the dumb thing” and enrolled myself 1 in NaNoWriMo 2009. For the uninitiated, “NaNoWriMo” is “National Novel Writing Month” – the challenge is to write a novel (defined as 50,000 words or more, for the sake of the event) between midnight November 1 and 11:59pm November […]
OS X Java a peppermint lumberjack zombie philia “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku poems, I […]
Scrivener NaNoWriMo 2009 Trial Against my better judgment, I'm going to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. And I'm using the special trial version of Scrivener to do it. (tagged: Scrivener writing NaNoWriMo todo ) Seven questions that keep physicists up at night at New Scientist (via B²) (tagged: science physics todo ) Left vs Right […]
Since moving into our new home, we’ve been trying to sort out our home audio situation. We listen to a lot of music 1 around here. Though we were feeling cramped, one of the nice things about our condo’s small footprint was the fact that that the music could be heard throughout the house without […]
Cool Stuff: Zombie Wedding Cake Awesome. A.: Ben is right, this needs to be the cake at our 2nd wedding. (tagged: via:kheiligh zombie ambulothanatophobia food ) Steak House or Gay Bar? Fun for 5 minutes worth of laughter. (tagged: humor ) Flickr Adds People Tagging. And It’s Better Than Facebook’s. About damn time. (tagged: flickr […]
Rashomon at rogerebert.com (via DF) (tagged: film cinema culture Rashomon Kurosawa essay ) Observations: Evolution details revealed through 21-year E. coli experiment via /. — E. coli evolution FTW! (tagged: evolution news ) Wall Street Smarts Another one via DF (at NYTimes.com): “Did you ever hear the word ‘derivatives’?” he said. “Do you think our […]