October 2011
1 post
tahini almond salad dressing recipe
By popular demand, I’ve decided to post my favorite salad dressing recipe, until this point a personal trade secret. I experimented over the last year or so to arrive at this mix, and the inspiration came from a number of various delicious dressings they have at http://casadeluz.org, probably my favorite restaurant in the world. There’s still a lot that could be done to spice it up,...
January 2011
1 post
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python readline and tab-delimited excel text data
Answer: use reader = open(source,’rU’) instead of the normal reader = open(source,’r’) to enable universal newline support. http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#open
Yesterday I had all kinds of trouble reading tab-delimited text I had used excel to clean up and reformat. I scoured the internet, and had no luck for a long time either googling this problem or...
October 2010
1 post
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iphone alarm one hour early (daylight savings?...
This morning my iphone alarm for the first time went off an hour early. Pissed, I reset it in the clock app for the right time, thinking it was a one-off strange event, but nope, it didn’t go off at the right time at all and I slept in a couple hours more than I intended.
Some sleuthing online proved it to be an ios 4 bug that lots of new zealanders started having trouble with almost a...
April 2010
3 posts
waldorf schools
I was just reading bits of a book about Waldorf education I found lying around. I agree with them almost completely about what’s wrong with education, but not quite with how they set about to fix it. Why the complete focus on creation limited to self-expression and exclusion of creation of things of use and purpose? Writing software, for instance, that helps you organize your friends, or...
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March 2010
2 posts
Towards completely understanding human biology
Human genome at ten: Life is complicated
The above links to an awesome brief overview in Nature News of where we stand in reaching for that goal.
I like Davidson’s (of Caltech) summary best:
Biology is entering a period where the science can be underlaid by explanatory and predictive principles, rather than little bits of causality swimming in a sea of phenomenology.
Davidson has been...
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another potential (non-quackery) anti-aging...
I’ve been reading up on biology recently—molecular biology as it relates to cancer and aging, in particular. I haven’t shared much about it, because I was busy getting myself up to speed for quite a while. Today I came across an interesting aging article published a few months ago that I guess didn’t quite make it up to the mainstream press, so I thought I should share.
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Purple Margarita Recipe
Through a combination of trickery, detective work, months of research and hours of enjoyable experimentation, I present
Baby Acapulco’s Purple Margaritas
8 oz tequila 4 oz everclear ** 1 oz blue curacao 5 oz creme de cassis 3 oz lime **
+ Half a bag of ice per batch. Makes about 6 drinks I’d say.
** For a stronger batch (the last couple we had), make it 6 oz everclear and 4 oz...
December 2008
2 posts
“For most of human history, people have lived in small tribes where everything...”
– Thomas W. Malone, director of the M.I.T. Center for Collective Intelligence
You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? - NYTimes.com
Still trying to figure out what I think of this.
November 2008
3 posts
Watchrahmin:
peterwknox:
somethingchanged:
Fifty People, One Question: New York on Vimeo. I barely ever watch entire videos but this one had me oddly enthralled. Via Ginny Branch
Watch it in HD here. I liked it.
July 2008
2 posts
Favthumbs →
joelaz:
Browse your del.icio.us bookmarks visually with thumbnail images. Slick.
June 2008
2 posts
Watchfight to the death
rahmin:
(via digitalsnacker)
March 2008
0 posts
QQ: What is the fastest "0 to global" brand?
soxiam: pile: dihard: Basically, what brand (company, product, person, any entity that holds a brand identity) do you think gained awareness the fastest. Reblog your answer, if you’re so inclined. TBC Monday (taking a snowboard trip to Stowe this weekend). I’d have to guess some kind of cigarette. Marlboro maybe? I’m going to go with either a car company or a gun company (whoever is behind...
February 2008
3 posts
Watchjakeandamir:Jake’s Computer
$2 barrels of oil
dihard: The cost to produce one barrel of oil in Iraq is about $1. In Saudi Arabia it’s $2. Remember that oil is currently traded on the NYMEX at $99.63 per barrel. So where does that margin go? Through a variety of mechanisms like taxes, royalties, production shares, the governments of oil producing countries get between 45-90% of the profits. For example, the Nigerian government made $2M an...
December 2007
2 posts
“Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is...”
– Goodbye to All That
“I think it’s wrong only one company makes the game Monopoly.”
– Fake Steven Wright (Twitter)