February 2010
33 posts
“The variety on the menus is astonishing: no single meal is repeated over the 32...”
– Care to guess what fancy restaurant this refers to?
It’s actually a Parisian public school where school lunches are a treasured and sacred part of school life. While in the U.S. we have to deal with ever evaporating budgets and “ketchup is a vegetable” approaches to feeding our kids, the French...
RT @bldgblog: Tomorrow’s seminar, on the history of weather control and military climate technologies, is starting to fray—because of ba …
“If you had a twelve-inch Johnson, would you cut it in half?” #vegaschat
“I am now going to ask you a favor which sounds quite crazy, and which I should...”
– Franz Kafka wrote exactly the sort of love letters you’d expect. (via ewilcox)
GAHHHH/ (via meaghano)
From Me To You: Adventures in Cooking~ →
kevin:
I found this post by Salt & Fat on The Wonders of Fresh Ricotta last week and was immediately excited. I had no idea it was this easy and inexpensive to make ricotta at home and the out come was wonderfully billowy, soft, subtle delicious cheese.
Ingredients:
1 quart whole milk 1/2 cup of heavy cream 1/4 tsp kosher salt 1-2 tablespoons of lemon juice (about half a lemon, make sure...
RT @towerbridge: I am opening for the SB Will, which is passing downstream.
“It’s preppy, yes, but it’s definitely not Republican.”
– New York Magazine on the aesthetic of Andy Spade, founder of Kate Spade, Jack Spade and Spade & Partners in NYC (via putthison)
RT @cjerrells: Earworm for the week: 1 stanza from Magnetic Fields’ “The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side”, starting “So you share se …
RT @BrentSpiner: A big happy birthday to Levar Burton! My brother the brother!!! Send him some love.
RT @greatneb: No ice for my martini. Bloody outrageous. #firstworldproblems
Roast Rump of Lamb, Dauphinoise Potatoes, Peas and a Minted Jus - £12 /via @WoolpackBar NOM NOM NOM NOM
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by... →
jobbi’s review: “About as awesome as everyone says it is.” Fourth Estate (2001), Edition: New edition, Paperback, 656 pages
We love xkcd →
Shared by Paresh
0:30 is the best bit
geek all-star remake of the comic on the Discovery Channel ad
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by... →
RT @warrenellis: CAPTAIN SHUDDERFIN M.E.: CORONER, CRIMEFIGHTER, LOVER, SHARK
“Hi, William B. Davis! You are just as menacing as ever, and twice as leathery.”
– “Caprica”: Lifestyles of the Rich and Cybernetic - The Incomparable
RT @se1: RT @Zerochamp: Stringer Bell from The Wire is being filmed on Blackfriars Bridge. Exciting
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RT @EasyEarTraining: Just Reduced! Our popular RelativePitch #iPhone app is now 25% off in #iTunes store! Download today! http://tinyur …
The Mobile System →
I tend to alter the way in which I start my day, every year or so. The details of it.
I still get out to the pub for at least an hour at the start of my day (for two reasons: one, I have a…
RT @JakesAlterEgo: @nataliemorales Spearhead a Cheers reunion.