Here's one of those meme thingies. I stole it and g-d willing I'll never do one of these again. Mostly I'm doing it to brag about the only aspect of my life in which I have an adventurous demeanor. The ones I've eaten are in bold. The ones I've personally prepared are italicized (and counting preparation as the hardest part of preparing the ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO8YmV-Wolg
I was happy to find this tune.

This works a treat.

http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howtos/ht/silverdip.htm

If it were to come down to it, I could be bought off with just a lifetime supply of cheap sushi-house kara-age and nice bourbon, and a place to enjoy it. Add an (effectively) endless stack of good science-fiction, some classics, a few puzzles and it'd be my own heaven. But don't tell anyone, I'd lose my bargaining position.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dna20-2008jul20,0,1506170,full.storyRead more... )

I find it hard to believe that I've never seen a shot like this in a movie.
(It only applies to advertising material not the movies themselves.)

http://www.avclub.com/content/hater/the_mpaa_thinks_youre_stupid

Sourced from this interesting site:

the fourth wall

Finally saw Dark Knight. It was even more breathtaking than I expected; of course, you don't need me to tell you to go see it. Spoilers ahead ( Read more... )

I only ever knew about the Enigma and Colossus stuff. This is another technological battle from WWII - the writing is rather poor even for wikipedia, which is mostly sourced from Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 (OoP everywhere; $44 here as a textbook, £8 as a "brilliant bestseller" over there) which I have of course not ( Read more... )

The future is fucking awesome!

Courtesy boingboing: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035729/Britain-alert-deadly-new-knife-exploding-tip-freezes-victims-organs.html

Environmental and animal-welfare concerns about over-fishing aside it seems that tuna is in fact dangerous to eat ( Read more... )