Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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- Two weeks of travel, Ten iPad lessons – SlashGear – Interesting. File syncing seems like it would be my biggest annoyance. But then again, I tend to use Google Docs for things I need to access from multiple places.
- Bra that grows rice developed in Japan – Telegraph – Pay no attention to my oddly square chest bumps…
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- Panic Blog – An Apple //e, an iPad, and Jed – Whoa. This is super cool. Using an iPad to load cassette tape source into an Apple //e.
- I will be stopping Calvin and Hobbes
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- It's all fun and games until someone loses their knickers – Hahahaha… Having lived with Eileen and experienced her leaving clothes everywhere, this made me smile.
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- So say the Star Trek transporter was invented. Would you use it? – NeoGAF – Totally, 100% yes. Also please put me down for a replicator and for doors in my house that open as I walk through them.
- 169 Best Illusions–A Sampling: Scientific American Slideshows – The one that blew my mind was #5.
- Crafting a Corset Part 1: Getting Started – Ooh. Bex will like this.
- Red families vs. blue families
- Bento – Snoopy cuddles Love
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- Hit-Girl takes on Vader // by magnetgirl (via geekleetist) – Adorable little Hit-Girl. Is that at a Con, I wonder?
- JeffCroft.com: On the Android Flash demo at FlashCamp Seattle – Interesting, and not just because of schadenfreude.
- How to Opt Out of Facebook’s Instant Personalization | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Japanese Cat Café on Snuzzy – When Snook and I retire, we are so going to open a Cat Cafe.
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- “So, what do you do for a living?”: A BA/Product Manager’s guide to surviving cocktail parties – The Snook always teases me with quotes from Office Space, that I “take the specifications from the customers and bring them to the software engineers.” I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS. CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?
- Original Empire Strikes Back Trailer With Harrison Ford… – WHOA. That voiceover is hilarious. I love that they didn’t show the AT-ATs yet. I wonder if it’s because the effects weren’t finished, or because they were supposed to be a big surprise?
- Meowmania – I jumped. Then I laughed.
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- Almost half of women think motherhood not worth cost | Dynamic Business
- Tove Jansson Turns Middle Earth Into A Scandinavian Wonderland [Books] – SNOOK: WE NEED THIS.
- BBC News – A decade on from the ILOVEYOU bug – I remember this. Best Day Ever. We all pissed off to the pub while Snook had to hang back and help fix it.
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Fireball!
Ooh, did anybody in Indiana see the flaming meteorite?
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Cilantro (aka Coriander)
“The Curious Cook – Why Cilantro Tastes Like Soap, for Some.” The really interesting bit for me is towards the end, where they talk about the way brains rewire themselves based on positive associations. I used to HATE cilantro when I lived in the U.S. I have a vivid memory of being in a Mexican restaurant and being served what was probably a very nice fresh salsa, but recoiling because of the “soapiness” of the cilantro therein. But here I am 15 years later and I CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF IT. I am coriander crazy. I really do think that, for me, the change in association came via the Snook’s Thai green curry. It’s such a tasty dish, and I just love when he cooks it for me. It gives me such happy feelings. And I think that’s where the change came.
Just to clarify, in the U.S. people call the seeds coriander and the leaves cilantro. In most other countries, the whole thing is coriander.