Monday 8th February 2010
Chopsticks for salad
Yesterday I made spaghetti with tomato/parmesan sauce for lunch, and I added a simple salad to the mix.
But wait - what are chopsticks, of all things, doing in my bowl? Prepare to have your mind blown.
You see, whatever you think of chopsticks’ utility as carriers of dumplings, stir fry, rice, noodles, or sushi (I find them decent only at handling the first one), allow me to suggest that they are in fact the perfect utensil for eating salad. And as far as I’ve traveled and dined, I have not seen anyone capitalize on this.
Think about it - salad usually consists of mostly flat, folded-in leaves arranged in a heap. The top of that heap is somewhat forkable, though it’s hard to apply pressure without lifting up either no leaves or all of them. Poking flat objects just isn’t optimal.
Enter the chopsticks, with their power to compress leaves and use the friction of the resulting random shape to their advantage. No more awkward pulling of forked-through leaves. No more chasing the last few bits of lettuce around the bowl. Point and pinch, and enjoy.
This seems like a pretty good idea!
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Tuesday 2nd February 2010
Help get “The Peter Serafinowicz Show” DVD to No.1!
All you have to do is go in to your local HMV and put our DVD in the No. 1 spot on their chart shelf.
You don’t even have to buy it!
A cunning new approach to self-promotion!
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Torn apart by Lisa, not noticing it stopped raining, putting baby in the corner and having you at ‘hello’
Sadly not leaving your stupid comments in your pocket
“Let off some steam, Bennett” is probably my favourite line of all time.
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Saturday 30th January 2010
BBC News - Why do people often vote against their own interests?
This rings true for me, and the UK is in danger of following the bad example set by the US.
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Tuesday 26th January 2010
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Tuesday 19th January 2010
Wes Anderson’s stop motion acceptance speech for his NBR award.
He should probably get another award for the best acceptance speech ever.
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Friday 15th January 2010
"You're pricing the poor out of the skies!"
I often hear this in response to arguments that the financial cost of flying should be more aligned to the environmental cost. It doesn’t really make any sense.
It’s a shame that poor people wouldn’t be able to fly to Spain for their holidays, but it’s also a shame that I can’t add an indulgence in lobsters and champagne to my daily routine. The sad fact of the matter is that we are all, to varying degrees, limited in what we can do by financial constraints.
Expensive things are generally expensive for a reason!
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Friday 8th January 2010
Bruce Schneier (via charliepark) (via marco)
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Tuesday 15th December 2009
The enormity of Zimbabwe’s inflation
Amazing. I find it hard to believe anyone is still counting.
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Wednesday 2nd December 2009
A few years ago, Rolling Stone magazine added fuel to the music snobbery fire with its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Anyone casually paging through the list would notice that the bulk of the list was comprised of songs from the 60’s and 70’s, just like the music snobs always say.
I, however, wasn’t content with the casual analysis. So I punched the list into Excel, crunched some numbers, and found an interesting parallel between the decline of rock music quality and, of all things, the decline in US oil discovery and production.
from The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs
I just found this. Note that the oil curve doesn’t quite fit with the music quality one, in fact it implies that rock music quality causes oil production, not the other way round. Work that one out…
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Monday 30th November 2009
Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart. Ever.
It’s a sad indictment of the kind of garbage that Fox News and its ilk peddle that I’m not sure whether or not this is a genuine mistake, or an attempt to push the gullibility of its audience to new levels and convince them that ‘per cent’ actually means ‘out of 193’.
I don’t want to be perceived as unfairly criticising ‘the right’ or anything, and posting this picture looks like a cheap shot, but it raises an ugly point: that people on that side of the political spectrum seem to be living on another planet. Most of this kind of thing happens on the other side of the Atlantic as in this example, but this kind of sensationalist bullshit ‘journalism’ is becoming increasingly apparent in the UK too.
I don’t imagine for a minute that they are stupid enough to believe the things they say, sadly though, a lot of people are.
Unfortunately these are people who have cast aside the shackles of reason, which is a) why they believe the most outlandish arguments, and b) why you cannot change their minds.
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Tuesday 24th November 2009
An excerpt from Jim Corr (of ‘the Corrs’ fame) on the Financial Crisis on his completely batty website.
He’s totally nuts!
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Thursday 5th November 2009
Apple killing Atom support, dreams of netbook hackintoshers in next Snow Leopard release?
I’m not sure what they have to gain from doing this, so I’m going to stick my neck out and suggest that they probably won’t.
Think about it, allowing geeks to use a somewhat crippled version of Mac OS X is a great way of selling Macs.
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Sunday 1st November 2009
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Wednesday 28th October 2009
Deerhunter - Nothing ever happened
This is not particularly new, but I’ve been enjoying Deerhunter’s Microcastle album lately and this song is probably the pick.
Enjoy!
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