Dropsafe

when peeling a banana, i usually end-up with three bits: the skin the fleshy, banana-ey bit the little stubby bit of banana flesh which pulls out / breaks off of one end of the banana; it’s harder than normal, and often has a small thread dangling from it; a sort of interior stalk, i suppose.

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jsolof writes at: [blogs.sun.com] My wife and I have breakfast almost every morning at Panera Bread. We order the same thing every time: chocolate chip muffie (muffin top) and a medium iced tea for her, a nine grain bagel with peanut butter and a medium coffee for me. I get the nine grain bagel, not

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[slate.msn.com] Conflict arises when people believe they are being treated unfairly. And treating people unfairly is the hallmark of the family courts, where judges actually announce that they are not concerned with fairness to parents.

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I find Lancashire Cheese to be vastly amusing. It comes in several varieties: Tasty Creamy Crumbly …but what I have not determined is whether you can also get permuted varieties. Tasty crumbly! Creamy tasty! Crumbly creamy! Tasty, crumbly and creamy! That would be a paragon of cheeses! Or: would it be just like Wensleydale?

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So I arrive home, the house is quiet; outside there is a faint smell of burning as the gentle dusky rain dampens someone’s bonfire, the smoke tinged with what? Burning plastic? I think so. Oh dear, someone’s being environmentally silly, again. I dump my bags in the living room, climb upstairs, and there is a

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[www.apple.com] Connect with music like never before behind the wheel of your BMW 3 Series, and X3 and X5 SAV, Z4 Roadster or MINI. With the installation of an integrated adapter developed by Apple and BMW, you can now control your iPod or iPod mini through the existing audio system and multi-function steering wheel. Mmmmhmmm…

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Go see [www.top500.org] ; I am quite pleased to see a number of grids with which I am familiar (viz: my colleagues built them, designed their network fabric, had me help debug, etc) down in the 300..500 region — as-is the system which my mate Chris runs for VPAC down at number 444. I am

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Everything we know about traffic-calming is wrong [www.boingboing.net] Mind-blowing article about the European and Chinese challenges to the received wisdom on traffic planning and calming, arguing that the separation of peds and cars leads to less-safe streets… HeInventedTheTerm [c2.com] A collection of some of those old <X> presents in front of <AUDIENCE>; <X> makes an

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This one takes a small amount of thinkage, but I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my stool. from www.b3ta.com

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Sheesh – I can’t help but wonder if this drip-by-drip expansion is a good thing, or a bad thing? That it keeps a headline something like “All New-Style iBooks Ever Made Are Recalled” out of the press, is probably a good thing – but I cannot but help wonder if that’s the point. Do you

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The new King of the British bike industry is also the largest production motorcycle in the world – the 2.3ltr Triumph Rocket III. There’s not much point in me reviewing what is comprehensively written-up (or pointed-at) elsewhere [www.motorcycle-blog.com] but I will note that: it is smaller/shorter than I expected most of the chassis, is engine

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In searching for a sample of Chris Langham’s voice ([www.castaway.org.uk] – a tour-de-force of his style) I took a look at the larger website. http://www.castaway.org.uk Castaway can provide any voice you want. We have the widest range of carefully selected professional voice talent. Our traditional voices have got all the awards. Our young voices aren’t

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