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BBC News – Norway goat cheese fire closes tunnel
There’s a fondue joke in here somewhere… About 27 tonnes of caramelised brown goat cheese – a delicacy known as Brunost – caught light as it was being driven through the Brattli Tunnel at Tysfjord, northern Norway, last week. The fire raged for five days and smouldering toxic gases were slowing the recovery operation, officials…
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The more I use them, the more I think the B&W MM-1 Speakers were a really good purchase
MM-1 – Best PC & Laptop Speaker – Bowers & Wilkins | B&W Speakers. Excellent sound, discreet, and enough punch to fill a sizeable room. Each about the size of a coffee can.
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North/South Food — Eating across the North/South divide # Feeding 2 people on £20 / week Food Blog
As sure as day follows night, if the subject of food is mentioned at all, it will inevitably touch on the debate between processed and cooked from fresh food in the UK today. And unless you know everyone in the discussion well and get side tracked into swapping recipes or discussing one’s favourite deli, someone…
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Defeating AES without a PhD – SpiderLabs Anterior
When I tell a developer that I broke their cryptosystem, there’s usually a pregnant pause in the conversation where they take it in, like a young child being shown a magic trick. As the initial wonder passes, though, they are not usually elated. “I thought AES was safe. What should I use instead?” Sorry, but…
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“…a Baptist minister who lives with same-sex attraction…” #evangelical #lgbt #wtf
You can’t make this shit up: Evangelical Alliance general director Steve Clifford Steve Chalke is a friend of mine. We go back many years. I am convinced that when the history of the Church in the UK is written, Steve’s contribution over the last 25 years will be recognised as profoundly significant. So with this…
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Snowboarding in the streets of Paris: http://on.fb.me/VF4vOs
s’no joke – from a friend in Monmartre: http://on.fb.me/VF4vOs
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Re: State v. Internet #observer @aaronsw
[…] What has happened, in fact, is that governments which since 9/11 have presided over the morphing of their democracies into national security states have realised that the internet represents a truly radical challenge to their authority, and they are absolutely determined to control it. They don’t declare this as their intention, of course, but…
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Is/was it only a Sun Microsystems thing to refer to zip/cable ties as ‘rat tails’
The question is in the subject line. I still do…
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TSA to pull backscatter perv scanners from US airports • The Register /ht Scott Elam # good, but not as good as it could be
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that it is pulling all full-body scanners based on backscatter X-ray technology from US airports. In a terse statement issued on Thursday, the agency said it had terminated its contract with Rapiscan, the maker of the controversial scanners, because the company was unable to deliver devices incorporating…
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Major Scaled #2 : REM – “Recovering My Religion” on Vimeo # epic, weird, wrong
This is so wrong. What’s worse is that I can sing it perfectly after the first verse because I know what’s coming, which means my brain understands the major key transposition in a way that I cannot consciously explain. Major Scaled #2 : REM – “Recovering My Religion” from major scaled on Vimeo.
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Hearts full of youth, hearts fill of truth, six parts gin…
…to one part vermouth. Take a jam-jar – there are many Chez Muffett Wash/wipe and ensure the lid is odour-free Add 60ml Chase Williams Apple Gin Add 10ml Noilly Prat Seal Pop into the deep-freeze compartment. Make a few. Do the same. Put some glasses in there too. Prefabricated martinis. You can probably work out…
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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Is Osama bin Laden’s Last Victory Over America | | Rolling Stone
But as Gibney points out, al-Qatani gave that information up to the FBI, in legit, torture-free interrogations, before he was whisked away to Gitmo for 49 days of torture that included such insanities as forcing him to urinate on himself (by force-feeding him liquids while in restraints), making him watch a puppet show of him…