Wednesday, January 26, 2005
- This comes two days too late, but Cardiff University [UK] researchers believe Monday, January 24th
iswas the official Worst Day of the Year:The formula for the day of misery reads 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA; where W is weather, D is debt - minus the money (d) due on January's pay day - and T is the time since Christmas. Q is the period since the failure to quit a bad habit, M stands for general motivational levels and NA is the need to take action and do something about it.
- Winter weather always puts me in a cooking mood, and I've found a simply delightul collection of English recipes at Old Scrote's. He's posted a host of classics like Toad-in-the-Hole, Steak-and-Kidney Pudding Without the Kidney, and Bangers and Mash (I used to order these loverly onion-gravied creatures at the Vermont Pub and Brewery in Burlington - with a pint of good stout, and sides of coarse mustard and apple chutney. Absolutely heavenly - let no one tell you English food is boring!) Scrote's also got a recipe for Goan Egg Curry (more precisely, a vindaloo) I'd love to try...perhaps this weekend.
- Eggsbaconchipsandbeans follows Russell Davies' search for the perfect British trencher of...you guessed it, eggs and bacon and chips and beans. [via Burnin' All Illusions]
- Ken Nordine's Word Jazz, with archived shows. Salon.com's interview with Ken, a May 1977 article by Jeff Lind in Illinois Entertainer, and an interview on ProSoundWeb.
- James Lileks' new opus, Interior Desecrations, is up. If you like the website, you'll love the book.
- Gapers Block has noticed something interesting about old episodes of M*A*S*H (which we watch obsessively, as well):
After watching hundreds of episodes of the television show "M*A*S*H" hundreds of times, Dave [Elfving] started to notice something: Though not a single main character hails from Chicago, the city is mentioned repeatedly throughout the series. Not just passing mentions, but entire scripts and monologues are devoted to Chicago.
Listen to GP's audio compilation [streaming or .mov download] of Chicago in Korea. Plus: Tony Coppoletta's CTA Stuff page, including audiofiles of the Voice of the L. (the "L" train, not me, silly.) - No Milk points us to a great photo of O'Hare's funky underground concourse; having seen it in person, I can say it's almost worth the traffic and price of airfare alone.
- On an unrelated note, fantastic food photos at Moonmilk [via Boing Boing]
- An intriguing article exploring the psychological roots of Abu Ghraib: "You Can't Be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel," by Philip Zimbardo, researcher of the infamous 1970's Stanford Prison Experiment [Edge.com]
- Paper of the Day: "The Rabbit in Drag: Camp and Gender Construction in the American Cartoon" (Journal of Popular Culture) [via Boing Boing]
- Quote of the Day: "The Internet is often mistaken for the world's greatest bathroom wall, in that anyone can scrawl just about anything they care to upon it with little or no regard given to being factual, fair, or evenhanded." [Snopes.com]
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