Lore Sjoberg answers that question at Wired with an imaginary thread of commentary to remark the release of a new edition of a cookbook (4th edition perhaps?) Posted: 2:12 a.m. by Herodotus I just have to laugh at the recipe for Beef Wellington. In Wellington’s day, ovens didn’t have temperature settings! And pate de foie…
June, 2008
-
-
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently published the results of its survey of 36,000 people regarding their religious views. Unfortunately, the report doesn’t break out what percentage of respondents were atheists but rather lumps them into the 16.1 percent of Americans who didn’t express any religious affiliation. Of those who do call…
-
A clever Etsy seller has crafted a real life Mooncloth bag. Its a bit pricey at $180, but then its got 16 slots. What did you expect?
-
Gallery is a free, open source photo sharing web application which is a bit like saying a Ferrari Enzo is just another car. Gallery 2 pretty much lets the user set up a photo gallery from as simple as a couple pages of photos to as complex as dozen of albums and sub-albums, with dynamic…
-
Jungle Disk recently announced its 2.0 release. If you’re looking for a secure, online data backup system, this is hands down the best consumer-level one. It is also the best for price/reliability, since it uses Amazon’s S3 storage which is 10 cents/gigabyte for data uploads and 15 cents/gigabyte/month for storage. There are cheaper options out…
-
Web Worker Daily is the latest to report that Yahoo! is going to increase domain renewal costs to $34.95/year effective July 1. Can you blame them? They need to raise revenue somewhere. If I were Jerry Yang, I’d start charging $20/Yahoo! search. That should bring in revenue, and give the DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter generator…
-
That was my favorite one-liner from George Carlin, who died over the weekend. And it turns out the answer is yes, there is a synonym for synonym … poecilonym, which is defined as “a word that means the same thing as another.”
-
Ever wonder what sort of MMO World of Warcraft toons might play? World of Workcraft has the answer. WeGame.com – WoW Videos
-
One of my favorite blogs, The Booberry Alarm Clock, reminds us that once upon a time (i.e, the 1970s) there were actually TV ads for Ball Buster, the game for the whole family! The back story on this is that this game was a product of Mego, the action figure company that at that point…
-
Pro Cycling Manager 2008 is a cycling sim for the PC and PSP. I’m curious whether there’s an EPO plugin.