May 2010
FrittaTEd →
NAME: _FrittaTEd INGREDIENTS/UTENSILS:
3-4 eggs
3-4 rashers middle bacon
3-4 spring onions
1 medium brown onion
1 clove garlic
1 large carrot
1 tbsp tomato sauce
2 dozen cherry tomatoes …
April 2010
Bullets For My Chicken →
NAME: _Bullets For My Chicken INGREDIENTS/UTENSILS:
100g - 200g chicken or turkey mince
1 tbsp polenta fine
1 tbsp bourghal fine
1 tbsp psyllum husk
1/2 tsp ground coriander seed
1/2 tsp…
Chump Chop Curry →
NAME: _Chump Chop Curry INGREDIENTS/UTENSILS:
4 to 6 lamb chump chops
3 or 4 medium white potatoes
3 or 4 medium brown onions
1 cup chickpeas
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp curry powder (mild or…
Meat To Squeeze You →
“Meat to Please ya!” used to be the little joke of the town butcher when I was a kid. Hey, HE thought it was cool... Back then, the butcher cut steaks and fillets off an animal, in front of you…
Still Over The Prostate Cancer. →
It’s now four years since my PSAs came back beautiful and low. Quick update for people that don’t know it - in mid-late 2005 I had a high blood PSA and went for a biopsy which showed 60% hyperplasic…
March 2010
It's Funny, Is It, Young Cyberpuppy? →
I know something important when I stumble across it. I know something else when I see it - a journalist trying to make themselves sound all cool and trendy by mildly taking the piss out of an…
Riding In Smart Smart Cars With A.I.s →
And while you’re reading about the A.I.s that may one day exist, take a look at what might end up their one Achilles’ Heel - the power source… %) Actually, that article deals with batteries for…
Am I A.I. Or Am I "Real?" →
Great discussion of AI “human rights” here - follow the comments!
Big Boats Give Way To Smaller. So There. →
I don’t think I can support a government which applies laws asymmetrically. They chivvied and harassed the Sea Shepherd people when they were bothering the Japanese fleet, now they need to show the…
Compare. →
Google. Skynet.
Hmmmmm……
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February 2010
Is "Jacking" a good term for "Genetic Hacking?" →
Does anyone else remember only a few years back, when DNA sequencing was carried out across thousands of distributed home PCs running SETI-like batch software? And how it was going to be, like, ten…
We Could Always Eat Johnson, Sir! →
I must be having a fractious day. All sorts of things are irking me today. Such as this article which ends with this paragraph: “Intelligence Only Seen in Great Apes and Humans
In terms of…
Who Cries Over Closed Coal Plants? →
Mark Wilson, I think you’re a fuckwit. What’s so depressing about one of the most polluting power sources known to man being shut down? I also looked for any sign of irony in your termination…
Are We Just A "Kodak Moment?" →
I won’t beat the stupid journo drum of saying “IF this is true” because I am not a scientist. The people in this long article, however, they are scientists, and they should know better than to keep…
Space Time Shaking News. →
I won’t republish it all here, just go read it. It should change your life.
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I haz a clone online! →
Just been and visited my chatbot online again at https://mycybertwin.com/chat/tedaclone. I keep forgetting I have it there, and keep forgetting to send people there. I know this one doesn’t do much…
Eco-Kaboom. →
Q: What do you do if you’re a hacker with a sense of ethics and a burning desire to stop polluting countries who aren’t willing to toe even the Copenhagen line? What if that country was big, armed,…
Props and Applause →
People and businesses I have to give a big tip of the hat to: WA Poultry at 1170 Baldivis Rd for having a huge range of small farm bits and pieces including the watering nipples for my rabbits -…
Quick roundup of the week →
So I’ve given my favourite businesses a big nod in another article, what’s left to talk about? At 2AM Sunday morning we actually had a rain shower that had me outside taking washing down and…
Perth Goes More Local →
Nice to see slow and local food values appearing. Well done Perth peoples!
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November 2009
Rabbitted Off →
I drove almost 50km each way to get these two - only to get overcharged $5 each on them. The address where I picked them up turned out to be Mundijong Rural Supplies, and I was expecting to pay…
Short, Sharp, Suicide →
Love some studies, they point out such interesting factoids. Like this one, reported at Treehugger, where they pin down the number of ways cyclists meet their doom. There appear to be lots of…
Uncharitables →
Some charities - just make me question things… I started donating to a fund that was supposedly taking my $20/mth and using it to provide living condition improvements to some country in Africa….
Schroedinger's Hadron Collider. →
I’ve been collecting links to stories about the theory that Higgs particles are preventing themselves from being formed in the LHC.
The theory basically says that the Higgs boson can’t be…
Failed Prediction - Hey! Hang on! →
Amazingly enough, one of these failed predictions IS true.
“God’s Church Ministry, Fall 2008 According to God’s Church minister Ronald Weinland, the end times are upon us— again. His…
Pseudo Science, Wired Style →
Quick thoughts when reading this article.
A) Since that’s obviously NOT happening, (i.e. an area the size of the state of TX is NOT under intense farming just to feed the dogs and cats of the…
October 2009
Third World Goat →
An interesting price comparison: Dave says goat at his local Price Choppers in the USA, cost $2.79 per lb. Applying currency conversion rates as of about now, and converting that to kilos, that…
SCOTD: 0001 →
Spooky Coincidence Of The Day: Was mainly thinking of two things today. One: Absolute mosquito plague here in South Yunderup. Being right beside the Murray river (The WA one) and there being tidal…
How To Be Facebook: Be An Asshole. →
The now chewed-to-death Facebook revamp of the timeline has been done to death, mostly by journal and magazine writers who’ve basically said “most people say they just don’t like it!” and leave it…
The Course Of Water →
Bottled Water - It’s a No No No No No! Okay Treehugger? No matter how you try and put lipstick on a pig, you still wouldn’t take it on a date! The point is that water costs shitloads of energy…
Are You THE ONE, I Asked In A Hushed Voice →
I’m amazed by this sort of story. It illustrates what I find most wrong with religious zeal. See, for that one boy, in that one situation, the almighty saved a piece of chalk. For roughly 2…
How I Got A Free Coolroom That Runs For Free →
You wanted a way to keep some of your food in a coolroom to preserve it better and save energy? But can’t afford a coolroom and want one for practically free and practically free of running costs?…
How To Save Hundreds A Year On Refrigeration. →
If you’re like me, you care about your carbon and pollution footprint. And you find articles like this one I found, which deals with using your freezer to do more, a Godsend. One little-known…
We Have Been Warned, Will We? →
Okay. So there’s this thing we call an economy, right? And the damn thing all collapses on itself and - well, it’s still happening as we speak. But what the hell is it all about, really? And why?
A Cup Of Water, Bunch Of Coral, And A Few Mistakes →
It’s not just bad maths, it’s terrible maths. It’s how to make a genuinely important message seem suss and slightly wacky.
I’m talking about the report that this story is about. I picked up the…
OHMandurah →
OHMandurah: “That’s one striking looking.. ummm - is that a bloke or a chick?” “Geez, hard to tell. Must be one of them African athletes.”
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Some Very Good News - So Why Isn't There Any Good... →
WTF is *really* going on with global warming/weather? It just doesn’t add up anymore. I think it’s kind of important for us to find out the real, whole, complete story.
When we’re being told…
Email Is Dead? Long Live Email Then, Cos I Still... →
A very much beat up and overdone topic these days is the death of email. Oh really? Tell some smart-ass spammer that. Tell my collaborators and colleagues and friends. Really. Of course, there…
Gadgetocalypse →
You know what really causes global warming? This does. This is that face of consumerism gone mad, the one that makes product managers rub their hands in glee, their factories burn through…
E-paper - Not Soft Enough? →
Much as I have always thought that one day I’d be reading my news and books and stuff on a handheld device, I agree with Brian in his article - e-book readers are a waste of good research time. I…
Fords to Ploughshares →
Sustainable food for the billions. It’s an aim, isn’t it? I don’t know, it seems to me that perhaps it isn’t. We in the Western world are busy “raising living standards” to bring the rest of the…
Where's The Liter Meter? →
What would it take to really get you to save water? Maybe it could be something as simple as a waterproof note taped to the shower wall, but I’m betting that everyone would be a lot more sparing of…
September 2009
When Is It Unethical? →
Was Swine Flu released rather than just happening? Maybe it’s just me, but I get a tad restless in the brain when I see news like this article on USN. The article is all gee-whiz-gosh-wow about…
Skin Me A Surrogate →
This article describes the search for a perfect skin for a robot. And it’s true, many times over we humans have proven ourselves to be biased against all sorts of things, and odd skin is one of…
You Want To Stick A Chip Where? →
So - remember when I said Augmented people will be here sooner than expected? Here’s another step closer: Scientists have developed a chip that implants in the eye and feeds signals to the optic…
How To Get Hidden →
I said in my last post that i feel it’s important to use each social medium for what it’s meant for,. and to use crossposting to get your material seen as widely as possible. I also said that it’s…
S*cial St*ff →
Have you been noticing the shift in social media and networking? I’ve watched as (90’s) the personal web page flourished and was replaced with blogs and content management system backed sites. I…
Who'll Think Of The Space Junk? →
When the amount of crap in orbit becomes enough of a problem that DARPA wants to find a solution, you begin to realise what pigs we really are. You also begin to realise that we’re probably not…
Syberious Stuffe →
It’s just occurred to me, so it must have occurred to other people around the world already - are we ready for a real cyberwar? This article on RISKS Digest (Networks and Nationalization With…
Bastard Marketing Inc #2723 →
“Releases regular bursts, keeping your home insect-free the natural way“…
The quote above is from a TV ad I just heard. it may not be word perfect.
‘Scuse me if I admit to…