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- Photo from Haiti: how to diagnose malaria and typhoid
- Speak out against secretive copyright treaty: sign the ACTA declaration!
- I Love Paree: new sf story podcast
- Boing Boing Special Feature: Water Power
- An unusual gadget design
- John Hodgman, Neil Gaiman and OK Go's Damian Kulash sing "So Happy Together"
- Photographers' bust-card screened onto a lenscloth
- Powerful and cool ways to use Google Command Line
- New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your "precise, real-time location"
- Kids' book inspired by an old BB post: "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda"
- Rucker's WARE books back in print -- and free to download!!!11!ONE!
- Students create video-chat program for deaf kids
- White House guts bill that would rein in CEO salaries; you can stop them
- Golden Collection of Krazy Kool Klassic Kids' Komics
- Photo of a tuberculosis isolation tent in Haiti
- Manute Bol's legacy: did he invent the phrase 'my bad'?
- Fact-checking the oil spill (or, at least, what politicians have to say about it)
- Odd safety poster
- Thermos advertisement: buy our product or your baby will end up in grave
- iPad dummies for $49
- Restaurant sign depicts catfish eager to cook itself
- Two new paintings by Amy Crehore
- Errol Morris: The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is
- Kindle price drops to $189
- Weirdness behind the scenes of Rebel Without a Cause
- Pork Board takes bite out of Unicorn Meat spoof
- Get Zach Gage's 8-bit iPhone dodger Bit Pilot for free
- Silicon Valley, meet NY publishing
- Secrets of hole-punch clouds
- My love affair with timur (or how to cook a Nepali village feast)
| Photo from Haiti: how to diagnose malaria and typhoid Posted: 22 Jun 2010 09:08 AM PDT  These checklists, scrawled in handwriting on paper pasted to the hospital wall, are used by volunteer doctors and nurses to diagnose and treat patients who come in with symptoms of malaria and typhoid. Both are diseases that we rarely see in the US, but are strikingly common in Haiti. This also taken by my friend Jenny, who recently came back from doing triage work in Port au Prince.
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| Speak out against secretive copyright treaty: sign the ACTA declaration! Posted: 22 Jun 2010 08:44 AM PDT Mike from American University writes in with a request for signatures on a statement on ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. This is a largely secret treaty negotiation that has taken place away from the UN, among rich countries, containing many extreme copyright measures that public interest groups, poor nations, and independent creators have been excluded from participating in: "The statement below was drafted at a meeting of over 90 academics, practitioners and public interest organizations from six continents gathered at American University Washington College of Law, June 16-18, 2010. It has been endorsed by over 200 organizations or individuals in the last 24 hours. The thrust of the statement is that: 'we find that the terms of the publicly released draft of ACTA threaten numerous public interests, including every concern specifically disclaimed by negotiators.' The statement is now open to individual and organizational endorsements. Please send endorsements to: acta.declaration@gmail.com The final statement will be released to the public with endorsements on Wednesday June 23 at 10AM. Endorsements for this release will be accepted until June 23 at 9AM." Full Statement (Thanks, Mike)
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| I Love Paree: new sf story podcast Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:54 AM PDT I've just kicked off a new short story reading on my podcast. I Love Paree is a short story I co-wrote with Michael Skeet, originally published in Asimov's Magazine in December 2000. It's the story of a business consultant living in revolutionary Paris during an anti-corporatist uprising, and what he does after he's conscripted into the Communard Army. I Love Paree, Part 1 (Image: Poor communards, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from moacir's photostream) |
| Boing Boing Special Feature: Water Power Posted: 22 Jun 2010 06:50 AM PDT |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2010 05:57 AM PDT  I have just received this picture from Yixin Industry International Group Limited. I cannot figure out much of the email that it came with, though it does say it is "the best choice of office white collar." I just thought you'd want to see this. I'll put it away now. |
| John Hodgman, Neil Gaiman and OK Go's Damian Kulash sing "So Happy Together" Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:32 AM PDT But wait, that's not all! John Hodgman is playing a ukulele! All we need is for a unicorn to walk out on stage wearing some steampunk headgear and I'm pretty sure this video would have the BoingBoing demographic in the bag, man. The song starts at about 4 minutes in. Where, you may ask, do such wonderful things happen. Why, St. Paul, Minnesota. Of course. This video was filmed last Friday at WITS, a fabulous Minnesota Public Radio series that features famous writers, fun tunes, laughing and sing-a-longs. Host John Moe was kind enough to invite me to watch this episode in person so, technically, I'm singing on the video as well. I'll have you know that I do a mean "Bah ba bah baaaa baaaaa baaa." Oh, and one final thing, the guy doing the actual verses of the song is Seattle musician John Roderick, whose voice I absolutely loved, both on this song and another one he sang during the show, called "Not Moving to Portland". You can watch WITS online, or listen to the Hodgman/Gaiman/Kulash spectacular when it airs on the radio (both online streaming and otherwise) on August 1. |
| Photographers' bust-card screened onto a lenscloth Posted: 22 Jun 2010 03:25 AM PDT  The UK Amateur Photographer magazine is giving away free lenscloths silk-screened with the Photographers' Bill of Rights with its July issue. UK anti-terror legislation gave the police sweeping powers to harass photographers for shooting in public places, and to compound matters, tabloid-driven hysteria over paedophilia has seen many photographers accused to paedophilia for taking pictures of (for example) public busses and empty playgrounds. UK law enforcement heads and the new government have spoken out against the practice, but it does not seem like word has reached the copper on the street, as there are still numerous accounts of photographers being rousted for taking pictures in public. Photographers' rights campaign spawns lens cloth launch
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| Powerful and cool ways to use Google Command Line Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:32 PM PDT Lifehacker's Adam Pash has five really sweet little tips for getting the most out of Google new Command Line tool, which allows you to manage a wide variety of Google services from the command line. Five Really Handy Google Command Line Tricks |
| New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your "precise, real-time location" Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:28 PM PDT iPhone/iPad users: the new version of iTunes showing up on your computer right about now has new, non-negotiable terms of service. If you install it, you "agree" to allow Apple to collect precise information about your location in real time and use it, sell it, or give it away. Apple promises that its location data is "collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you." Of course, AOL thought that the search data it released was anonymous and didn't personally identify people, either. They were wrong. Privacy Change: Apple Knows Where Your Phone Is And Is Telling People
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| Kids' book inspired by an old BB post: "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda" Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:22 PM PDT  Back in 2005, Tom Angleberger read a post I put up here about Fukiami Kawahata's origami Yoda pattern. The post sparked an idea for a kid's book: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, which Lucas greenlit and Angleberger published with Amulet Books, to stellar reviews. Tom adds: "The book's about a kid who folds his own Origami Yoda and takes it to school to give other kids advice. The kid is clueless, but Origami Yoda speaks with great wisdom. (Yes, believe it or not, Lucasfilm gave us permission for all of this and even allowed Star Wars doodles in the book.)" The Boing Boing post that inspired "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda." (Thanks, Tom!)
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| Rucker's WARE books back in print -- and free to download!!!11!ONE! Posted: 21 Jun 2010 11:19 PM PDT Rudy Rucker's seminal Ware cyberpunk novels (Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware) have been collected in a single volume from Prime Books, with an introduction by William Gibson. To celebrate, Rudy and Prime have released the full text of the book as a free Creative Commons BY-NC-ND download! These are four of my all-time favorite sf novels; to have them back in print is cause for celebration -- a CC release on top of that? HEAVEN. (Insert "zero-day warez" joke here) Download The Ware Tetralogy (PDF) The Ware Tetralogy (RudyRucker.com)
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| Students create video-chat program for deaf kids Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:06 PM PDT  Students at the Rochester Institute of Technology created an open, free video chat program for deaf students to use with their One Laptop Per Child computer: "A paper on OVC's development will be presented to an audience of representatives from all around the world. OVC is also being demonstrated at a conference table throughout the event." Open Video Chat Unveiled at NTID Technology Symposium (Thanks, Stephen!)
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| White House guts bill that would rein in CEO salaries; you can stop them Posted: 21 Jun 2010 09:53 PM PDT Aaron Swartz has the news of how the White House is trying to gut a piece of legislation (passed by the House and the Senate) that would be key to reining in CEO compensation in large corporations: Follow the link below for the whole story and a petition to the White House. Brought to You by the Letter S (Image: on Flickr - Photo Sharing!, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from meesterdickey's photostream)
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| Golden Collection of Krazy Kool Klassic Kids' Komics Posted: 21 Jun 2010 06:07 PM PDT  I'm so happy that lots of old comic book stories that otherwise would have been forgotten are being reprinted in fat, inexpensive anthologies like this one: The Golden Collection of Krazy Kool Klassic Kids' Komics, edited by Craig Yoe. My 7-year-old daughter and I are having a wonderful time reading these funny and deeply weird children's comic book stories from the 1940s and 1950s, featuring art by some of the tops names in the field: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Carl Barks, Walt Kelly, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, and other cartoon giants. At 304 pages, we'll get many nights of entertainment out of this collection. The Golden Collection of Krazy Kool Klassic Kids' Komics |
| Photo of a tuberculosis isolation tent in Haiti Posted: 21 Jun 2010 04:38 PM PDT  Here's another photo taken by my ER nurse friend Jenny last week in Port au Prince. Tuberculosis is airborne and patients need to be in complete isolation, but given limited resources this is the best they can do.
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| Manute Bol's legacy: did he invent the phrase 'my bad'? Posted: 21 Jun 2010 03:18 PM PDT  Manute Bol, a former NBA player and human rights activist from Sudan, died this past Saturday at age 47. Most of us remember him as once being the tallest guy in the NBA (he was 7'7") and for his uncanny ability to block and shoot three-pointers really well (most basketball players of that stature don't shoot three-pointers that often). Bol was known for some things other than basketball, too. Most importantly, he used a majority of his earnings from his basketball career to raise money for Sudanese refugees and youth. He is also the only known NBA player who once killed a lion with a spear. He was once fined $25K for missing two exhibition games because he was busy with peace talks with Sudanese rebel leaders in Washington DC. Some also speculate that he may have invented — or at least popularized — the phrase "my bad." In 2005, a UPenn language blog (found via the Washington Post) concluded that: [a friend] emailed me to say that he heard the phrase was first used by the Sudanese immigrant basketball player Manute Bol, believed to have been a native speaker of Dinka (a very interesting and thoroughly un-Indo-Europeanlike language of the Nilo-Saharan superfamily). Says Arneson, "I first heard the phrase here in the Bay Area when Bol joined the Golden State Warriors in 1988, when several Warriors players started using the phrase." And Ben Zimmer's rummaging in the newspaper files down in the basement of Language Log Plaza produced a couple of early 1989 quotes that confirm this convincingly:Although I am somewhat hesitant to believe that such a widely used phrase could be attributed to the language mishaps of one person, I think it's totally possible and likely that Bol had a huge part to play in its wide use in sports. RIP Manute Bol. Your presence on the court will never be forgotten. (Thanks Matt Flannery for the tip!) |
| Fact-checking the oil spill (or, at least, what politicians have to say about it) Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:37 PM PDT Politifact has dug into the reality behind some of the top political talking points surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Check their Truth-o-Meter for one-glance debunking, or read in-depth detail. (Via Erin Biba) |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2010 01:53 PM PDT  Artist Mitch O'Connell picked up this safety poster at a flea market. I am as confused as he is about the illustration: "The lesson is to mix up drugs in a beaker and drink 'em, right?" |
| Thermos advertisement: buy our product or your baby will end up in grave Posted: 21 Jun 2010 01:53 PM PDT  Companies who use use fear to sell products are the most dangerous insect known. They are born in filth, live on filth and carry filth. |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2010 01:10 PM PDT  What kind of mischief could you concoct with a dummy iPad? Why would you buy an iPad dummy aka 'display model'? Well, honestly we don't know either, but you know you want one! Use it as a serving tray, decoration in your room or prank your friends with it. There are a million and one uses for it!More photos after the jump.
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| Restaurant sign depicts catfish eager to cook itself Posted: 21 Jun 2010 01:30 PM PDT  Nicola says: "I saw this in Oakland, California.... Had to stop and take a photo." |
| Two new paintings by Amy Crehore Posted: 21 Jun 2010 01:03 PM PDT |
| Errol Morris: The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:54 PM PDT In his ongoing series of fascinating NYT essays on the "influence and uses of photography," documentary filmmaker Errol Morris interviews David Dunning, co-author of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which says stupid people are too stupid to realize they are stupid. Morris opens his piece with the story of attempted bank robber MacArthur Wheeler, who rubbed lemon juice on his face before entering the bank because he believed it would render him invisible to security cameras. "If Wheeler was too stupid to be a bank robber," writes Morris, "perhaps he was also too stupid to know that he was too stupid to be a bank robber — that is, his stupidity protected him from an awareness of his own stupidity." DAVID DUNNING: Well, my specialty is decision-making. How well do people make the decisions they have to make in life? And I became very interested in judgments about the self, simply because, well, people tend to say things, whether it be in everyday life or in the lab, that just couldn't possibly be true. And I became fascinated with that. Not just that people said these positive things about themselves, but they really, really believed them. Which led to my observation: if you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent.The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) |
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| Weirdness behind the scenes of Rebel Without a Cause Posted: 21 Jun 2010 11:51 AM PDT  Knight and Day, the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz action comedy, opens this Wednesday in empty theaters, another of this summer's sausages ground out by the studios, or so's the buzz. Years of tinkering, a carousel of possible stars (Adam Sandler, Chris Tucker, Gerald Butler), the usual assortment of writers, three directors, three titles - it can't possibly be good. Movies suck, and harder lately, goes the meme, because of the increasing intrusion of suits into the filmmaking process, creating that downward spiral of quality and taste known as Development Hell. Not like the old days, as director Taylor Hackford reminisced last week, when "The Louis B. Mayers or the Harry Cohns of the world were always out there looking for commercial stuff that might sell, whatever it might be, but they also went with their gut on certain other things." Here's a story from the old days.
The project remained in limbo until 1954, when the success of black-and-white juvie movies - and media attention like Newsweek's cover, "Our Vicious Young Hoodlums: Is There Any Hope?" - prompted Warners to dust off the property for some down and dirty profit. They approached B-movie director Nicholas Ray, who had become fascinated with adolescent angst ever since he had caught his 13-year-old son Tony screwing his wife, Gloria Grahame. Ray responded with a treatment for a movie he wanted to call "Blind Run." The studio insisted he use the title of the book: "Rebel without a Cause." Ray wanted the lefty playwright Clifford Odets; the studio insisted on Leon Uris, not yet the writer of Exodus. Uris' treatment "made me vomit," Ray later said. Then came a 164-page draft called "Juvenile Story" by novelist Irving Shulman (Amboy Dukes); in that one, Jim gets shot by police and Plato blows up his house with a grenade. The studio was ready to dump the project. The artistic interference continued beyond the script. The studio wanted Tab Hunter and Debbie Reynolds in the James Dean and Natalie Wood roles; five days into shooting, the studio decided that based on the success of East of Eden, the film would now be in color and the scenes Dean wasn't in would have to be cut. Oh, and Dean would lose the glasses he wears in the black-and-white footage. Ray was forced to scrap his vision of the ending - Plato falls from atop the Planetarium - because it cost too much. After the first screening, Jack Warner told Ray to cut 45 minutes. And then the star died a month before the movie was released. That film turned out all right. (For more rebel hell and a lot of sex, read Live Fast, Die Young, by Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel.) |
| Pork Board takes bite out of Unicorn Meat spoof Posted: 21 Jun 2010 11:52 AM PDT  The National Pork Board has threatened ThinkGeek with legal action over its Canned Unicorn Meat spoof product. You have been marketing a product called "Radiant Farms Canned Unicorn Meat" using the slogan "Unicorn - the new white meat." ... National Pork Board is the owner of THE OTHER WHITE MEAT® in the United States and elsewhere around the world, and owns the following federal trademark registrations.Excellent source of sparkles. The legal rationale in these situations is often that you can't let someone so much as whisper your trademark in vain lest it be genericized or otherwise diluted; thereby implying that the threat is empty, and just to demonstrate active defense of the mark should a 'real' case ever arise. But I'm sure someone got paid for writing that 12-page letter. OFFICIALLY OUR BEST-EVER CEASE AND DESIST [ThinkGeek via @laughingsuid] |
| Get Zach Gage's 8-bit iPhone dodger Bit Pilot for free Posted: 21 Jun 2010 11:30 AM PDT NYC artist Zach Gage should already be a familiar name both for his accidentally-controversial art/game Lose/Lose (the Space Invaders-alike that deleted a file from your hard drive on every successful kill) and, more recently, Sonic Wire Sculptor -- Amit Pitaru's generative sound app which Gage helped bring to the iPhone. As I mentioned in the writeup of the latter, Gage has been quietly released a steady stream of stylishly low-bit apps for the iPhone, among them block-puzzler Unify, audio toy synthPond and Bit Pilot, an 8-bit asteroid dodger with sound design by chiptune artist Sabrepulse. If you've been waiting for a good excuse to experience what Gage is all about, your chance has now arrived, as Bit Pilot's been set as a free download for today only -- grab it on iTunes here for one of the best tastes of his signature game design aesthetic before the deadline ends. Bit Pilot [Zach Gage, iTunes link] |
| Silicon Valley, meet NY publishing Posted: 21 Jun 2010 11:30 AM PDT My latest Publishers Weekly column is "New York, Meet Silicon Valley," about the things that Silicon Valley can teach NYC publishing (cheap experimentation and celebrating failure as the fastest way to learn) and what it can't deliver (working DRM): This marks a key difference between New York publishing and Silicon Valley. Unlike New York publishing, Silicon Valley's products remain experimental long after they reach the marketplace. Google can change its search layout in seconds flat, try it out on a million searchers, crunch the data, revise the experiment and do it again, a hundred times a day if they wish. And bad ideas can be just as interesting as good ideas, because when it doesn't cost anything to find out how bad an idea is, you can afford to be pleasantly and enormously surprised when it turns out that, say, people really do want to play Pac-Man on their search-results page.With a Little Help: New York, Meet Silicon Valley |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:57 AM PDT  Alan Sealls photo What causes the bizarre "hole-punch" clouds like the one seen above? The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has just published a scientific paper addressing this wonder of nature. During certain conditions, flying airplanes can sometimes "seed" clouds, resulting in brief and highly-localized snow or rain falls. According to the NCAR, air is rapidly cooled behind the propellers of prop planes or as the wings of jets cut through the clouds. Water droplets in the cloud freeze and then fall to Earth, leaving the telltale hole in the cloud. From the National Science Foundation: Precipitation from planes may be particularly common in regions such as the Pacific Northwest and western Europe because of the frequent occurrence of cloud layers with supercooled droplets, Heymsfield says..."Mysterious Clouds Produced When Aircraft Inadvertently Cause Rain or Snow" |
| My love affair with timur (or how to cook a Nepali village feast) Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:28 AM PDT
Photos by Adam Lam The first time I fell in love with timur was in a tiny cavelike kitchen in Kathmandu Valley. A little girl named Srijana put a tiny black peppercorn-like object in my palm. "Smell this, sister," she said. "I used this to make the achar." It had a confident, flirty aroma — black pepper with a gentle seductive burst of blood orange. To compliment the dinner that her aunties cooked at the orphanage, Srijana had crushed several pods of timur and put it the achar, a salsa-like sauce of stewed tomatoes, ginger, garlic, and onions sizzled in walnut oil, ground to perfection in a black iron bowl.
Back in San Francisco, I reconnect with timur by the giant stoves in a church kitchen in the Castro district. Every week, a group of Bay Area-based Nepalis and their American friends gather here to cook food for the homeless. Srijana lives in a home started by the same guy who runs this soup kitchen, so their recipes are essentially the same. This is the only other place in the world where I can relive the flavors in Srijana's achar. Curry Without Worry is a unique soup kitchen. Its meals are premised not just on filling empty stomachs but on the Nepali village tradition of spreading love through food. "We're all going to die one day, and when we do, we will take nothing with us," says Kushal Basnyat, one of its board members. "So why don't we share everything?" The program is in its third year, and every week, it manages to feed about 200 people. I'm standing on my tiptoes over giant burners with a steel paddle in my hand, clumsily stirring a giant pot of beans simmering in oil, ginger, and garlic. Next to me, Shrawan Nepali, the founder, dumps a giant spoonful of turmeric into a pot of sizzling onions and the aroma of exotic spices infiltrate the kitchen air. Cooking for hundreds isn't easy, but it comes naturally to this former restaurant operator from Kathmandu — until a few years ago, he used to run a Nepali eatery on Lombard Street. In the center island, a tall engineer-turned-retiree chef named Charles is making several dozen balls of puri dough using whole wheat flour, self-rising flour, and lots of salt. I come here half expecting that they might want to keep their recipes hidden, but the folks at Curry Without Worry are not secretive at all. In fact, volunteer Catherine Lyons tells me, they're planning to distribute starter kits with ingredients and recipes so that anyone can start a Nepali soup kitchen.The Curry Without Worry team really takes the time to make sure their food is extra special. Instead of the simple but delicious Nepali staple meal, dal baht — lentils and rice — they serve quanti — a nine-bean soup indigenous to the Newari ethnic group. It's a celebratory food usually reserved for the day of the full moon in the middle of monsoon season, but here in San Francisco the homeless get to eat it every week. To top it off, they sprinkle the quanti with ajwain, a celebratory spice traditionally offered to women in labor for extra energy. They make several special slices of puri on an ungreased pan for one of their regular customers, a homeless man named Howard, who can't have too much oil due to health problems. The turmeric, coriander, cumin, and ajwain are in plastic bags from the Indian supermarket in Berkeley; the timur is in a jar and was brought straight back from Nepal. Most of the veggies — boxes full of cauliflower, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, red, green, and yellow peppers — are donated via the Food Bank. Bowlfuls of ginger and garlic are dumped in generous portions into every dish. This kitchen smells amazing. Satisfied with the way the meal is progressing, Shrawan picks up his madal drum and starts tapping a rhythm and belts out a windy tune. "What is he singing?" I whisper to Kushal. "Whatever he feels like," Kushal responds as he picks up another madal and joins him. Catherine makes some chia — Nepali milk tea with black pepper and cardamom — and distributes it among the dozen or so people who have showed up to help cook. The kitchen has turned into a mini Himalayan festival, and my mind's eye wanders back into the dusty windy roads of Kathmandu Valley.
Three hours after the cooking festivities started, Shrawan lugs the giant pots off of the stove. Dinner is ready.
RECIPESHere's what you need to make a giant Nepali feast for your friends. Note: The recipes are based on notes I jotted down while cooking with the team at Curry Without Worry. The most important thing to remember is that practice makes perfect. So stock up, experiment, and see how yours turns out! Achar 1 cup oil 5 lbs tomatoes 5 lbs onions ½ lbs ginger 1.5oz dried chili peppers spices: fenugreek, turmeric, salt, pepper, timur Cook the onions and fenugreek in oil and let simmer for 10 minutes. Add turmeric and some water. Add tomatoes, timur, and chili peppers 20 minutes later. Stir consistently, adding spices to taste and water for consistency. Tarkardi 1 cup oil 6 lbs cabbage 5 lbs cauliflower 5 lbs bell peppers 4 lbs tomatoes 2.5 lbs onions ¼ lbs garlic ¼ lbs ginger spices & herbs: coriander, turmeric, cumin, cumin seed, cilantro Cook the onions and cumin seed in heated oil in a giant pot. Add coriander, turmeric, and cumin. Add salt and water. Let simmer for 20 minutes. Dump all the chopped veggies in and cover, stirring occasionally for consistency, until soft. (If you're using potatoes, cook those first until they're halfway cooked.) Remove from heat and add cilantro. Quanti 1 cup vegetable oil 15 lbs sprouted beans (9 varieties) 2.5 lbs onions ¼ lbs garlic ¼ lbs ginger 0.5oz dried chili peppers spices: turmeric, cumin, coriander ajwain seed Cook the onions in oil in a giant pot. Add beans one pound at a time and stir, adding garlic, ginger, and spices. Sprinkle ajwain and stir. |
It starts with Software, where rebel robots bring immortality to their human creator by eating his brain. Software won the first Philip K. Dick Award. 
The current financial regulation bill -- in a provision passed by both the House and Senate -- would change that by allowing shareholders with 5% of the stock to come together and propose additional names for the ballot. But the White House is trying to gut this proposal at the last minute, and they've done it in an incredibly sneaky way -- they removed the letter s from the end of the word shareholders. 
Amazon just announced a big price drop on the 
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