Beans and Cornbread
Seeing as how we were talking about cornbread . . .
and we’ve been talking about cornbread for over a year now . . .
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five serve you up some “Beans and Cornbread.”
It makes no difference
What you think about me
But it makes a whole lotta difference
What I think about you
All the Different Doughnuts
At Serious Eats, we care about the big questions. “What’s the difference between Sicilian-style pizza and grandma pizza?” “What’s the difference between a slider and a mini-hamburger?” And, more recently, “What are all the different styles of doughnut?”
Because there are cake and yeasted and crullers and fritters, cider and potato and sour cream, malasadas and beignets and churros—wait, do we count churros? We’ll get to that later.
Come meet all the different doughnuts in this great land.
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At the Shmoocon security conference Friday in Washington D.C., O’Connor plans to present the F-BOMB, or Falling or Ballistically-launched Object that Makes Backdoors.
The night was cool and the tree frogs chirped. Rosy cheeked children the world over dreamed of birthday cake and going to the pool. Angora bunnies piled on top of each other and were the coziest things ever. A man with a hat sat in his window somewhere and played a tune on his saxophone, and I, snug in my pajamas, quietly poured over book after book looking for the word “nipple”.
“Whatever you say about the euro, it’s a great insulator.”
When it becomes feasible for a consumer to print a complex structure like a grandfather clock or an iPhone, the stakes of preventing the dissemination of ideas are raised considerably.
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P is close enough to NP for government work. The difference is pedantic.
— ★ＯＫ★ (@horsedreamer) January 30, 2012
Vatican officials padlocked the bathrooms in response to the depredations of Pope Pius VI (1637-1701).
— Mike Topp (@MikeTopp) January 30, 2012
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Whenever folks who have lived or traveled in Germany gather for a beer, sooner or later one subject is sure to rear its ugly head: what is the deal with those toilets?
People who resemble each other in some physical way tend to be connected as well; for Hadza people, similarity in age, body fat, and handgrip strength increases the likelihood of friendship.
The basic philosophical question, going back to Plato, is “What is x?” What is virtue? What is justice? What is matter? What is time? You can ask that about dark energy — what is it? And it’s a perfectly good question.
These types of distributions, unlike the bell curves we are used to for such quantities as human height, have values that reach far out into the upper reaches of the scale, allowing for both exceedingly common words such as “the” as well as much rarer words like “flother.”
The technique is painless, all indications at the moment are that it is safe, and the effects can last over the long term.
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There is determinism, at differing levels, ranging from “it’s tough to come from a broken home” to “lead poisoning is bad for you” to “what if the universe is a frozen four-dimensional Einsteinian/Parmenidean block of space-time?”
When someone conjures up the image of self-important art house films, this must be exactly what comes to mind.
Tough Guy promotes itself as “the safest most dangerous event in the world!”
The chest bandages had to go on every day, which made it hard for her to take deep breaths, and the sailors began to notice that “Jean” never relieved himself with the rest of the crew, always carried a loaded pistol, and never, ever undressed with the others.
Monogamous marriage reduces the competition, making communities more stable and — in terms of cultural evolution — better able to compete against unstable, non-monogamous communities.
Update:
Demetri Martin once joked that life vests protect you from drowning, bulletproof vests protect you from gunfire — and sweater vests protect you from pretty girls.
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Some of the overcompensated Rs stuck in the dialect; others didn’t.
I am a living male turtleneck. You are an art teacher in winter. You put your whole head through me
Dreams of vintage Lee’s return go sadly unfulfilled, however, as the film is a long-winded, rambling mess.
Herewith, please find proof that my aesthetic intuitions are superior to yours.
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For instance, Iron Lady becomes Total Bitch, Tree of Life becomes Wuh?, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo becomes All the Rape, No Subtitles.
Africa was my second home. I had never been there, though.
The idea of the unified self has had a rough few centuries however.
I know I’m making it sound unhealthy, like the TV is suffocating me but just think of it like I do, as electronic swaddling. That hum is a seductive sotto voce murmur.
As Darwin said: “False views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened”.
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Huh. So the more symmetrical a guy is, the more straight he seems.
The larger point is that mere imagination is not enough, for even those with prodigious gifts must still be able to sort their best from their worst, sifting through the clutter to find what’s actually worthwhile.
If you are offended, maybe you’re taking things a little too personally. But I’m sure there are some people who think, ‘Wow, that girl is an asshole.’
We think of ourselves as citizens when it comes to our rights and privileges, but not our responsibilities. We abdicate our civic responsibilities to the government and expect the government, in effect, to legislate morality.
In one experiment, each participant was seated either inside or outside of a five-by-five-foot cardboard box.
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Translation: I don’t hate the game.
The dog’s name is Angus MacDougall, and he is a very cute three-year-old terrier mix. The image of Jesus can be clearly seen in the fur surrounding his anus.
CONCLUSION: It may someday be possible to use brain technology to learn to play the piano, reduce mental stress, or even master kung fu with little or no conscious effort.
The objects survived in outer space for ages and include some of the first samples ever returned from another planetary body, but after just a few short years on Earth they met the same fate as a set of car keys or a 29-cent postcard.
The mission had been so easy that one of the youths, Natacha, seriously asked herself if she had dreamed it. No, she concluded: “In a dream, it would have been more complicated.”
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Assuming that high-level concepts are represented in different parts of the brain, such excess connections would create an opportunity for linking seemingly unrelated ideas.
Yes, the Terminewter is right. Nothing should take longer than WWII.
The writers not relegated to traffic-whoring duty will still post, just less frequently than many of them are probably used to.
Human evolution may to some extent have been shaped by interactions between genes and friendship choices, said the scientists.
The notion of women’s relative sexual passivity became fundamental to sexual dynamics across the western world. Its effects were ubiquitous — they still are.
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I bet if we had a Promethean category we’d use the fuck out of it.
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“Common sense” is against the dazzle hypothesis but then it is also against the existence of bowerbirds.
In an ideal world, being able to meet lots of different people at college would lead to a diversity of friends; we’d take advantage of the human variety on display. But that’s not what happened.
What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?
When a tree burns, what fraction of its leaves float to another tree still burning enough to ignite it?
I also reset all the comments, it isn’t good for businesswith so many people being negetive!
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In any case, the Fermi paradox raises the likelihood that we are living in a simulation.
In the end, it might be that the only regularity we can count on is the Periodic Table of Meat.
Because e-mail communicators “hear” a statement differently depending on whether they intend to be, say, sarcastic or funny, it can be difficult to appreciate that their electronic audience may not.
I wanted a sort of 3-D that would disappear and make itself invisible and would just allow us to enter space itself.
But as a type designer — meaning, someone who designs fonts — one quibble.
Two dogs were playing with it, and that’s when the dog walkers looked closer and realized it was a human head.
They pray to the god of the vagina. Just according it worship is enough to give them peace of mind.
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The team suggests that galaxies made up entirely of dark matter may be swirling about throughout the universe.
Although he hasn’t yet proved that such disruptions directly cause schizophrenia, Foster believes that if sleep is disrupted this is more likely to push individuals towards mental illness.
We broke up for so long, that he had to stop breaking up with me, go move his car, and then come back to break up with me some more.
After all, though a replicant mayor may be more likely to gouge a supervisor’s eyes out with their thumbs, they have another quality that could be great in an elected official: a four year life span.
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DIRECTIONS: Put ham in water.
Hanging the machine guns on the wall was a bad idea, but the burglary wouldn’t have happened if we’d just covered up the little decorative window over the front door.
You all literally helped save my life. (And the lives of many others.)
Scientists are attempting to replace part of this and other rats’ brains with digital equipment, effectively turning them into cyborgs.
It will say, ‘If you don’t leave your job by this date, we will come and kill you or put a bomb in your house’.
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The book I actually read was more like this: Men supposedly have higher sex drives than women, creating a “male sex deficit,” which means men are always in a state of wanting more of what women supply.
Grindr is an app you can put on your smartphone to find guys to fuck.
Authorities hope the balls — which could deliver serious blows to the head — will be enough to deter defiant roof riders.
6. Goethe was a talking serpent who lived in Egypt at the start of the eighth century. He had blue eyes, beautiful blue eyes.
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It is a common misconception that Joseph Pujol actually passed intestinal gas as part of his stage performance.
Like most people, I consider myself pretty good at Googling so I invite you to beat my time.
I find the explanation that we were made in stars to be deep, elegant, and beautiful.
Our sources say Apple will announce such a tool on Thursday.
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So let the historians take note: Amanda Hocking does get to Chicago to see the Muppets. And along the way she helps to foment a revolution in global publishing.
And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
When I tried to write, my words sometimes became unmoored from my thoughts, though to be fair, this happens even without the influence of nutmeg.
Near the end, lying with eyes closed, she mimicked holding negatives up to the light and drinking her daily two double shots of tequila. From her bed, she still snapped away.
I think seeing Mia get back into the pool and start swimming laps for the first time since she was paralyzed was one of the most emotional moments many of my fellow critics had on tour.
¡Cuidado! Hay empanadas.
Each empanada is unique in the way that it is shaped and the way that the dough is crimped and folded. I got a bit confused when I tried to differentiate between all of them. Many places offer a helpful empanada key, showing the shapes for each individual one. And now I think that the verdura is actually the caprese: mozz, basil, tomatoes, and olives. It seems that I’m missing more than just the tuna. Hmm. Maybe my español isn’t as foolproof as I thought.
One day, while the kitchen door was open, I spied a counter full of circles of dough and little heaps of filling in their centers. So rest assured, these are all handmade by real Argentines. And fresh!
As my friend Charlie titled his maldita lengua post, My Life in Empanadas.
Enjoy every empanada.
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One example: the word “maintenance” seems like it should only have one “a” in it. It should be “maintenence,” right? But it’s not. So is it our job as reporters and editors to spell it correctly?
‘Corporations are people’? In this little figure of speech, wouldn’t that make Mitt Romney a metaphorical serial killer?
Arizona’s decision to sell off its state capitol to a private real estate company was perhaps the greatest drunken eBay transaction of all time, except in this case there was no booze involved, and the whole arrangement was justified on the grounds of austerity and small government.
So, Notre Dame could ignore discrimination laws on a theology professor, but not a calculus professor.
How many viewers will know, let alone appreciate, that many people once did prefer communism for aesthetic reasons?
DyE, Fantasy — animated by Jérémie Périn
Ah, the beautiful transition from adolescence to young adult.
Tigersushi and Excuse My French are pleased to present the new video for DyE’s new single, Fantasy. Directed by animation wunderkind Jérémie Périn, the video tells the story of a group of highschool kids ready for teenage mischief. They break into the local swimming pool intending a session of innocent nightswimming, in an awkward climate of romance and apprehension. What happens next is for you to discover here.
(via Joel via Joshua Topolsky)
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Yet every 40 years or so, protocol requires that it be washed with alcohol, dried with a chamois cloth, given a steam bath, allowed to air dry, and then weighed against the freshly scrubbed national standards, all transported to France.
It was in 1962 that Timmie Jean Lindsey was offered a solution to a non-existent problem.
After all, nobody respects a gift if everybody has it.
The idea of robots that looked and moved like humans must have seemed far-fetched at the time.
“We don’t know for sure,” he said, “but a very reasonable possibility is that THC may actually interfere with the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.”
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However, after watching Silva’s videos, instead of ending up in tears upon witnessing the destructive evils of war, you’ll wind up totally jazzed that technology is transforming humanity for the better.
Dear New York Times, The clue for 28 down reads “Wack, in hip-hop,” and the answer provided is “ILLIN.” These are not the same things, at all!
This begs the question: As homophobia diminishes and as future societies eventually embrace a post-homophobic culture, how will this transition to equality, dignity, understanding and acceptance affect the expression of sexuality?
One study in Nature this week figures that the Milky Way averages at least 1.6 large planets per star. And that is likely a dramatic underestimate.
If you can only be good at one thing, be good at lying… because if you’re good at lying, you’re good at everything.
