buffoonery: Archive

Mar 1st

Simmering: More Thoughts on Seasoning - The... →

The key is sa shi su se so, which represents, as I understood it: sugar (and mirin), salt, vinegar, soy sauce and miso. This is the order that seasonings are added. (By the way, you typically cook with either soy sauce or miso, one or the other, not both). Why this order? Yamada-san explained that sugar molecules are larger than salt molecules, so if you added salt first, it would penetrate an...

Feb 27th

'My love handles saved my life' | KOMO News →

Feb 26th

Breast implant may have saved woman's life, doctor... →

Feb 26th

Mobile phone radiation and health - Wikipedia, the... →

Educating myself on the subject. The good news is, mobile phone radiation is non-ionizing radiation. It can raise the temperature of skin a fraction of a degree but it cannot harm DNA. Various studies have mixed and inconclusive results. I use a bluetooth headset but keep a phone next to my testicles for like 16 hours a day. http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/fullreport

Feb 26th

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Feb 26th

"The Lucky Country" is a nickname sometimes used... →

In the decades following his book’s publication, Horne became critical of the “lucky country” phrase being used as a term of endearment for Australia. He commented, “I have had to sit through the most appalling rubbish as successive generations misapplied this phrase.”

Feb 26th

Men at Work appeal Down Under plagiarism ruling →

“EMI Music has lodged an appeal against the ruling that the flute riff in Down Under by Oz band Men at Work was plagiarised from Lucky Country kids’ favourite Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.” Really? Right, because when I think of the song ‘Land Down Under’ I always think, ‘what great song, except for that little flute riff they so blatantly ripped off...

Feb 25th

The Minimalist - A Rich Stew That Bows to India... →

Yes, Mark Bitten, that is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Your penchant for simplicity inspires and delights me. (video in lower left corner.)

Feb 25th

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Feb 24th

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Feb 24th

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Feb 21st

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Feb 21st

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Ask me a question. Be nice. http://formspring.me/manuelw

Feb 21st

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twentyseven: Techno Shopping

Feb 21st

“The effective way to use a cliché is to point to it and then do precisely the...”

– Seth’s Blog: How to use clichés

Feb 21st

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Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental ‘heresies’ | Video on TED.com microreactors!

Feb 21st

Feb 20th

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Apollo 11 Moon Rock Returns To Space →

YOUR DOING IT WRONG

Feb 20th

Fastenings: Duct Tape →

Exhaustive list of all known uses of tape (duct and otherwise) on the Apollo space missions.

Feb 19th

Goatcheese.cx →

Never forget.

Feb 19th

Street Fighter 4 Coming to the IPhone and IPod... →

Expectations set appropriately low, since nothing can ever recreate the magic of playing the original Street Fighter 2 on SNES in my basement in middle school.

Feb 18th

Feb 17th

Amazon.com: Organic Buckwheat Pillow →

For years I have used normal foam pillows. I always buy the “extra firm” and they always compress down after a few months. I am going to try a buckwheat hull pillow. I used one in Japan several years ago and it was quite comfortable. This pillow weighs over 11 pounds!

Feb 17th

CWE - 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous... →

The attacker can use a variety of techniques to get the input directly into your server, or use an unwitting victim as the middle man in a technical version of the “why do you keep hitting yourself?” game.

Feb 17th

Whaling protester secretly boards Japanese boat to... →

An anti-whaling activist jumped off a speeding Jet Ski and climbed aboard a Japanese vessel in the frigid Antarctic Ocean on Monday to attempt a citizen’s arrest for the destruction of a protest ship last month.

Feb 16th

IT, Développement et opinions: The tale of an... →

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Feb 16th

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