The history of saffron in three parts on 3QD. Interesting.
Garlic Scapes, Swiss Chard and Baby Beets
Elin Strikes a Classic Pose
Mr. Crochet Man works on the subway.
The End of Claybourne details how the awesome radio drama of that name would have ended.
Chicken fried bacon. Seriously, this bacon thing the web is going through needs to stop. It peaked with the bacon bra and can reach no higher pinnacle.
(Rated: +3, Good) Skybreaker written by Kenneth Oppel and produced by Full Cast Audio. My mini review is below the fold …
Salchipapas: fried hot dogs, french fries and stuff. Wtf?
Sir Little Bastard, Wherein Lord Whimsy links to wikipedia's list of notable cats.
(Rated: +2, Fair) Airborn written by Kenneth Oppel and produced by Full Cast Audio. It took some time to warm up to the art form of a full cast reading, but eventually I embraced it wholeheartedly. My mini review is below the fold.
Pitchcar Mini
Westlaw has an alternative text-based site: http://text.westlaw.com. Convenient for w3m! #
« only exact matching record unhas net field »
—Newspeak in bbdb error messages.
JG Ballard radio dramas from CBC's Vanishing Point
Emacs and gnus dotfiles exchange elisp like e. coli exchange DNA. They're promisculisp! #
Post gnus, I see that web fora are just slow newsgroups with animated avatars and less elegant interfaces. #
Gnus has 677 keybindings. Wtf? #
« Imagine a fearsomely comprehensive disclaimer of liability. Now fear, comprehensively. »
—From lisppaste
Fiddleheads at Little Lad's today. Yum. #
[Scene opens in the hallway of my office, near the water fountain.]
Narrator: It was a time when men were men, (read on...)
SensibleUnits, according to which my current weight is equivalent to that of 15 domestic house cats or 4.5 microwave ovens.
Hey, That's My Fish!
(Rated: +4, Great) Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, the BBC’s audio drama adaptation, directed by Dirk Maggs. With Maggs directing it, how could it go wrong? It doesn’t. As one might expect, the production is essentially perfect, from the music, to the effects, to the adaptation itself. The acting, in particular, is superb. I couldn’t really imagine Gently sounding any other way: a sort of less edgy Dr. Xander Crowe. It had been long enough since I read the book that the story seemed fresh to me. Indeed, I had forgotten that Adams, the “radical atheist”, had included his interest in biodiversity in the story. Like the Hitchhiker’s Guide productions, this is an audio drama must.
Elscreen is a step up from using registers to recall window placement in emacs (via anarchaia.org)
Modernista! is a website without all that stupid website stuff.
Shoe String Theatre
Stilted