Upstaging Penllawen. BBQ braised beef brisket with homemade gnudi.
Wylie Agency Publisher's Two Year Amazon Deal
The minute Amazon’s Kindle store was announced, this became inevitable. The Wylie Agency, publishers of books by Salman Rushdie amongst others, has signed a two-year deal with Amazon to ensure their eBooks are only available via the Kindle store.
This was supposed to be the age of technology simplifying our lives, not the age of constant choices between being locked out of various content options. Wankers.
My current favourite pastime is looking at a stock ticker and deciding which company is secretly carrying out cybernetic or bio-genetic research that will lead to the downfall of humanity. Current top pick is “Genzyme”.
Learn the word, damnit.
Dear everyone associated with video games. This is a small infomercial.
This, right here, is a reticule:
This one is a reticle:
LEARN THE DIFFERENCE.
Looking like a cross between a wombat and a parrot, the incredibly endangered Kakapo must be one of the world’s most ludicrous creatures.
It’s awesome.
The US Military's 26-page Brownie Recipe
This is where your taxes are going, America.
Shortening shall be a refined, hydrogenated vegetable oil or combination of refined vegetable oils which are in common use by the baking industry. Coconut and palm kernel oils may be used only in the coating. The shortening shall have a stability of not less than 100 hours as determined by the Active Oxygen Method (AOM) in Method Cd 12-57 of the
4MIL-C-44072C Commercial Fats and Oils chapter in the Official and Tentative Methods of the American Oil Chemists Society.
The entire city of Helsinki, made out of motherboards. Via www.gizmodo.com
Most Excellent Government
Be Excellent to Each Other …
And party on, dudes!
Courtesy of http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=413885#p413885
Airport 'Bomb Joker' Found Guilty
Paul Chambers, the chap who tweeted
“Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week… otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!”
has been found guilty of breaching an obscure legislation relating to ‘menacing communication’, fined £1000 and given a criminal record. Utterly ludicrous. Link courtesy of the excellent JackOfKent blog.
Really? This is the state of politics in the UK?
