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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
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HISTORY: the 1995 “Cyberporn” debacle in TIME Magazine, and the echoes of it today
I was dimly aware of this event – from 1992-96 I was splitting my time between work, commuting to-and-from-work, a then-relationship, and attempting to popularise encryption, in roughly that order of priority – but I do remember seeing the “Cyberporn” cover story on TIME magazine and thinking that it was (a) likely ill-informed, and (b)
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NEWS: “Only in Japan”? (Thread)
First, as they’re trying to saw their way in, the group’s representative just opens a door and is like, dude just use the door pic.twitter.com/rsDtUNixRW — Spoon & Tamago (@Johnny_suputama) October 16, 2020
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“Ancient street food shop uncovered at Pompeii” #PompeiiFriedChicken #AddYourJokeHere
Awesome news: chicken is a universal street food: https://news.sky.com/story/ancient-street-food-shop-uncovered-at-pompeii-12173343