from her Little Hokum Rag

Yum: "What we like here are the the herbs – a good variety (Thai basil, rice paddy herb, teensy-weensy watercress, mint leaves and a parsley-like green) and generously sized pile – the richness-sans-sweetness that the bean sauce adds to the soup (super-sweet hoisin is more common in Saigon and around), the full-on heat of the dried chili flakes (reminiscent of Thai guayteow nam, for us), and the sour punch of the green papaya which, eaten together with the chewy noodles, makes for a crunchy/soft, steaming-hot/cool, texture-temperature contrast tour de force."

"the term for all Queenslanders. It is said they spend their time putting the bends into bananas."

"This mapplet," we read, "shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion. Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press 'Nuke It!'" … via BldgBlog

from bighappyfunhouse (found photos. free pie.) and watch out for the one on the right…

45+ minutes of Google Tech Talk by Dominik Grolimund

probably worth reading, and tracking as this realm elaborates

another county heard from

(be sure to read the UPDATES at the end of the posting)

what is one to make of this and its look-alike cousins? where's the Hitch? why am I just a bit leery? what about (cough cough) copyright?

“A true WVHD is a heavenly creation that begins with a wiener on a bun. Add mustard, a chili-like sauce and top it off with coleslaw and chopped onions. Different parts of West Virginia have variations on the theme but the common elements are sweet, creamy coleslaw and chili. Anything else is just not a true WVHD!” (see http://www.wvhotdogs.com/ for more)

an exemplary unpacking of Significance in one of my favorite literary works

from Effect Measure, on the joys of Hacking (in the original sense of the word, as self-education)

do more like this…

"…retail outlets where quality, used and surplus building materials are sold at a fraction of normal prices. Proceeds from ReStores help local affiliates fund the construction of Habitat houses within the community"

probably THE most important Resource in my own long-term development, and the paper backfiles are shelved in the barn. Hope this presentation will give the riches within a whole new lease on life

"…an open source visualization program for exploring high-dimensional data. It provides highly dynamic and interactive graphics such as tours, as well as familiar graphics such as the scatterplot, barchart and parallel coordinates plots"

from Le blog de Messager

a test of the MP3 possibilities in Delicious, this one by P.T. Foo & his Jolly Band of Nigeria …OMG it works it works!

DON'T miss the story via the NYTimes link!

via Shorpy. Who's ridin' bitch?

from Swapatorium2, truly spectral

what a wonderful tale and memoir

from MAKE: Blog, and pretty clear even for those as electronically underendowed as I am…

from MAKE: Blog, and gives a pretty good rundown on starting points for the hardware. A technology I think I need to understand better…

from Wondermark and I'll remind you that Hatikva is I'm A Little Teapot (Ionian) in another mode (the Dorian, I think, but perhaps Aeolian would also work since the tune has no seventh degree)… See, "informing people against their will since 1943"

Pride and Prejudice reduced

for finding birds of a feather… I searched for occurrences of one of MY tags [argybargy] and found a few others who use the same, and was able to explore their tagging idiosyncrasies further, and so round and round we go…