Science, Mad. And some movies.
something cool I found on the internets
A complete guide to the Greek Pantheon.
The site is pretty well organized- check out this Family Tree of all the Greek deities!Neuticles: the revolutionary testicular implant procedure for pets… allowing your pet to retain his natural look and self esteem.
Web link of note: Neuticles
(At http://www.neuticles.com)
Very cool- a single paragraph of a McD’s give-away is translated into 34 languages, and you take this quiz to guess which ones are which languages.
I did okay… I should memorize the distinguishing characteristics of the various Slavic languages though.These songs are nearly identical – someone make a mashup of them for me so I know I’m not the only one who sees this!
They’re the SAME SONG dude
all the 1980’s retro crap my poor brain can stand!
Web link of note: X Entertainment
(At http://x-entertainment.com/)
This is the guy who designed the “Army Ants” figures! what a trip!
Web link of note: Richard Marcej’s Portfolio
(At http://www.baboonbooks.com/portfolio/portfolio.html)
Japanese recipes in Japanese and general tips in English
See especially:
Web link of note: Bob & Angie
(At http://www.bob-an.com/)
I just bought some ginko nuts from Nijiya, a Japanese grocery store.
Ginko nuts (銀杏 = ぎんなん = “ginnan“) are a fall crop which I have seen in fall recipes for rice, etc. Should be good for Zen vegetarian cooking experiments!Preparing ginko nuts:
The cooked nuts taste sort of halfway between a chestnut and a starchy corn kernel- very good! I had them over rice with some sliced myoga (茗荷 = みょうが), a kind of oniony thing with a gingery taste to it. A very flavorful snack with no fat or sugar or salt!
From Gingkoes Are Living Fossils by Marianne C. Ophardt:
Jack Hampton, Washington State University Master Gardener, was a nut and fruit enthusiast who passed away in 1999. He was a local expert on nuts.
… Hampton offers these tips on harvesting Ginkgo nuts, “Gather the ripe fruits using rubber gloves. Squeeze out the seeds in a bucket of water, wash them thoroughly, and then dry them. The result will look like a large unsplit pistachio nut. They are not ready to eat at this point. To prepare them for eating, first crack them with a pair of pliers. Then boil them for about ten minutes. The inner skin (called a pellicle) will fall off leaving a light yellow kernel. It’s this kernel which you eat. It tastes something like sweet corn. You may keep these nuts in your refrigerator in plastic bags for a short time, but they are highly perishable.” Hampton noted that the “Chinese have long eaten these white nuts on special occasions, such as weddings and holidays.” He also cautioned that those new to eating Ginkgo nuts observe caution with this new food. Eat it only in small quantities until you have determined that you have no allergies to the nuts.
Traditionally, in the phreakers’ culture, any device thought to be connected to the phone line is called “box” and is named after a color since the first “Blue Box” invented by Captain Crunch, the father of the phreak scene. Since all colors were quickly used for this purpose, other fancyful names were also used to name boxes.
Web link of note: Definitive guide to Phreak Boxes
(At http://www.aboutphone.info/lib/phreak/boxes-2.html)
Will you be ready when FBI agents break down your door in the middle of the night to administer the annual Patriotism Pop Quiz? Avoid the embarrassment of permanent, extralegal incarceration. Buy Citizen You! now and memorize before it’s too late! This is the only citizenship manual chosen by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft as mandatory reading under an obscure provision of the USA PATRIOT Act.
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