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Bread

June 28th 2007

Tesco’s Finest Bakery Products should actually be relabelled “Tescos Most Crunchy Crusty Products: WARNING WARNING: May cut the roof of your mouth when eatting”. Certianly this applies to their Tescos Finest Baggettes Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus [...]

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Turning plastics back into oil

June 28th 2007

I very much doubt that it is energy efficient, as microwaves eat electricity, but if solar or wind power could be used to drive this device which turns plastics back into lliquid hydrocarbon mixes (aka. oil, petrol, fuels) then maybe we can avoid the situation which was detailed in Alien where oil was being trucked [...]

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Perfect brisket

June 27th 2007

After all my late night rantings about food I’ve spent a little time looking up briskets. I think my problems included not cooking for long enough and not brining before hand. Also – not using big enough pieces of brisket. Take a look at this tastey Instructable Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked [...]

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Another song to make you cry

June 26th 2007

Robert Wyatt singing “shipbuilding” written by elvis costello. Possibly Related Posts: Sex and the music Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet Scrapping CDs, because if you don’t your margins will go down Music V’s the Office Using search to pick songs

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Another great headline

June 26th 2007

Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru Desert is almost as good as FBI Fight Zombie Hoards of last week. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Pie!

June 26th 2007

There’s agreat article in the Boston.com food section about the film Waitress and the pie’s it features. I lvoe some of the names from “I Don’t Want Earl’s Baby Pie (a quiche with brie and smoked ham)” to “I Hate My Husband Pie (“bittersweet chocolate and don’t sweeten it”)” they are brilliant. Possibly Related Posts: [...]

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Pie!

June 26th 2007

There’s agreat article in the Boston.com food section about the film Waitress and the pie’s it features. I lvoe some of the names from “I Don’t Want Earl’s Baby Pie (a quiche with brie and smoked ham)” to “I Hate My Husband Pie (“bittersweet chocolate and don’t sweeten it”)” they are brilliant. Possibly Related Posts: [...]

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At night I think of food

June 26th 2007

When I can’t sleep, such as tonight, I lie awake andmy thoughts turn to food. I’ve no idea why, but I seem to drift towards imagined dishes when I can’t get my brain to slow down. I think of little parcels of white fish, steamed with pickled sushi ginger and garlic, or short beef ribs [...]

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Coffee

June 25th 2007

I remember my first ventures into the wonderful world of coffee, almost 20 years ago.  My dad has a caffieter (a “coffee press” if you will) and from it’s heavy jug-like glass body would come dark black poison which I quickly became accustomed to.  He has a set of very elegant dark green hexagonal coffee [...]

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A healthy attitude to animals

June 24th 2007

After reading one of Jeromy Clarkson’s rants about Daily Mail readers refusing to admit where their food comes from, I ran across “from day old to dinner” over at twwly.com which is a great short photoset that documents a frist “season” of chickens. I also like their tag-line – “Food for thought: If you couldn’t [...]

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I need to write more good, speak nice English too.

June 23rd 2007

after starting my second Jeromy Clarkson book it occurs to me that his newspaper column and books are basically just the rants he has in his head written down.  I need to write more clearly.   I might even start a new catagory called Rants just incase I feel the need to get some down on [...]

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Emmaus

June 21st 2007

Having watched Grand Designs (thanks to lovefilm – my first batch arrived today) – I ran across Emmaus which seems to be doing some wonderful work. I love the photos too – they are master pieces. Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn 10 minutes of INC causes revelation Insomnia + UNIX tools = [...]

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Nest Beer

June 21st 2007

You’ve got to love the phrase “the wise owl brews magical beer!” Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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Tate using flickr

June 19th 2007

This is great to see – the Tate’s website for the How We Are exebihion, using Flickr to backend it’s photos – meaning you can see the EXIF data on how the photo was taken fro some of them. Fabouls use of technology (and some shiny photos too). Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing [...]

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Unsuggestions

June 19th 2007

i love my librarything.com account, but the unSuggester really did make me laugh out looud this morning. It came up with… If you like Critique of pure reason by Immanuel Kant, the you’ll hate Confessions of a shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella If you like Thud! by Terry Pratchett, the you’ll hate Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger [...]

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What should i watch?

June 18th 2007

I’ve just signed up for lovefilm.couk (3 months free! rockin). Now – what should I watch? Please elave your recommendations… Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Hurray For High Gas Prices!

June 18th 2007

Always refreshing to hear an American with the exact oposite views to most – the freakonomics blog points out that the low prices for fuel in the US are responcible for many bad things. Whilst I was in NYC there was outrage that fuel had hit $3 a gallon (£1.50 for 5 litres) and people [...]

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About me

June 18th 2007

Little bit of time to kill, and was reading About Tom Reynolds, noticing how many things we seem to agree on. As a result I’m lifting it wholesale, and rewording it for me. >I’ve lived in London my whole life, mainly in the North and East. # I briefly lived in London and didn’t like [...]

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Medical bags at dawn

June 18th 2007

I drop into Dr Drippen’s blog ever once in a while, and along with the fabulously readable Random Reality, its always another interesting view on the Health Service. Now I’m no speller (I’m virtually illiterate and I never spell check the blog because I frankly cannot be fussed), but the commenting on here is decending [...]

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YouTube is full of shit

June 17th 2007

I get very little fun from youtube. Nothing compared to streaming radio, msn, plain old html and css, and email. As has been noted numerous times in the last few weeks, the bandwidth available is being chewed up very quickly by the new breed of applications that are media intensive. I propose people stop wasitng [...]

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Heatherwick Studio

June 16th 2007

For so many reasons, not of which I can easily put into words at 1:48am, I love Heatherwick Studio nd the work of Thomas Heatherwick. It reminds me of the crazy brainstorming sessions I used to end up participating in when I worked for a small landscapers, and over the course of lunch, the aftertoon [...]

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DRM stripping

June 15th 2007

I’ve just used a wonderful thing called FairUse4WM to strip the drm protection off some files I legally bought, and then couldn’t play on other devices but my work laptop. Fabulous. Have these bastards never considered people owning iPods (and other music devices)??? Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter [...]

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Why won’t it stop raining?

June 15th 2007

Dear The Weather, I understand that you are currently paying England a lot of attention, but I must come to the conclusion that you are under the misaprehension that it is february. I may be wrong, but currently I think it is June and thus PISSING DOWN WITH RAIN FOR FOUR DAYS CONSTANTLY is unacceptable [...]

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Best ever headline….

June 14th 2007

“FBI tries to fight zombie hordes” Can’t beat it. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum

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Moby loves animals the wrong way?

June 12th 2007

I think the Eminem fans might have been allowed to edit the wikipedia moby page, because at the moment, half way down it says… “He also released a porno DVD, called Player. Here he displayed his belief in beastialty.” Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin [...]

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Bison steak

June 12th 2007

Ok – the next of my exotic meats. Its been a while since I cracked into this box set of flesh from around the globe from osgrow.com, what with holidays and things, it must be nearly a month i guess. So, this afternoon I lifted a shrink wrapped packet of bison steaks out of the [...]

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Chinese dumplings

June 5th 2007

Last night I had a play to try and make Chinese style dumplings, because I’ve had some really good ones in the last few weeks, both steamed and fried. I popped down to China town at lunchtime and stocked up on loads of things (big bottles of soy and chilli, jars of minced ginger and [...]

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Champagne overdrafts are for twunts

June 4th 2007

“We’ve all seen pictures of footballers, singers and soap stars stumbling out of “exclusive” clubs and into waiting taxis, label-clad and dripping with jewellery, illuminated by popping flashbulbs. But what of those who try to follow the same lifestyle, but without the funds? ” Mostly I would say, they are behaving like dickheads. Possibly Related [...]

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

June 1st 2007

Who wants to go to Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival next year? Possibly Related Posts: Sex and the music Simple way to share iTunes over the Internet Scrapping CDs, because if you don’t your margins will go down Music V’s the Office Using search to pick songs

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