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FOOD: Making Porridge from scratch…
From groats to soak: 150g in 300ml it looks like the proper ratio is 6-to-1 by mass, so for every 100g of ground groats, soak in 600ml of water. Inspiration:
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WOW: COVID-19 bill started a 180-day countdown for UFO disclosures
COVID-19 bill started a 180-day countdown for UFO disclosures by intechnology
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INTERESTING: A story of “fake news” propagation, and how a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots… #TerryPratchett @terryandrob
hello friends! let me take you on a journey. a journey about how i unknowingly, and very much unintentionally, released a fake terry pratchett quote into the wilderness of the internet, where it’s been roaming free for nearly 3 years. https://vrabia.tumblr.com/post/180186839716/hello-friends-let-me-take-you-on-a-journey-a The author is honest about owning up, but the relevant Twitter search suggests that…
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NEWS: Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-5547543 – and previously
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SPOOKS: Notorious KGB Asset and MI-6 Insider George Blake Dies in Moscow
Blake, as an MI-6 insider, operated for years undetected, providing to the KGB identities of more than 400 individuals – staff officers and assets of the Western Services, resulting in many of the individuals being executed by the Soviets. One piece of information which he shared with the KGB was a list of MI-6 targets…
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FOOD QUESTION: People who make #Kimchi: is Gochugaru particularly special, or can I just blitz my own dried chillies to make something reasonable? Specifically…
I am looking at this recipe (amongst others) and it calls for: 1/4 cup gochugaru (coarse Korean red pepper powder) …and some investigation on Amazon shows a wide variety of supplies, up to and including $EXPLOITATIVELY_STUPID prices: …yes, that’s £202 per kg / $124 per lb. But I have a bunch of nice, dried chillies.…
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FOOD: “What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020” by @rachel_handler
Not my favourite pasta, but… https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html
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Cute hardware hack: using ultrasonic distance sensors on a stepper motor to create an object detector
This is the sort of thing to which I aspire: https://www.hackster.io/harisz/ultrasonic-sweep-for-objects-with-serial-communication-969866