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- RP hotels the most friendly, survey finds (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)Philippine hotels are recognized as the friendliest and most relaxing among other countries outside the United States, a survey for the international hotel industry has revealed.Hilton Hotels to buy UK, European Hilton hotels (Reuters via Yahoo! News)Hilton Hotels Corp. on Thursday said it would buy its British namesake' |
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- mad.frog asks: "Given the recent revelations of the Bush administration spying on US citizens without warrants -- and their promise to continue doing so -- it's clearly high time for me to switch to encrypted email, after years of being too lazy to bother. The real question is how I can get all (or at least some) of my email contacts to switch as well; clearly, encryption does me no good if the recipient can't decode it. |
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- ? ???? ? 31 ??????? 2005 ???? ?? |
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- Kung Pao-er Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment — Since my last post on the elusive perfect home-cooked Kung Pao chicken, I have pursued this grail a half-dozen more times, and I believe I have achieved my goal, or as close as I expect to get in this lifetime. I started working from a recipe I found here -- the photo looked somewhat right, and the ingredient set was close to my preference for a simple chicken, scallion and peanut dish. I tried out a variety of modifications, including the use of hoisin sauce instead of sugar for the sweetening, but in the end found the simpler white-sugar approach, combined with a switch from light to dark soy sauce, did the trick. |
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- Rental of BFone services of BSNL reduced from Rs. 250/- to Rs. 180/- per monthBSNL has decided to reduce the monthly rental of it's landline service (Bfone) from Rs.250/- to Rs.180/- on the eve of new year. |
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- This is an old request and wasn't on the original list of recipes people wanted. I am posting it because my nieces and I included some rather alcoholic cherries in some of the chocolates we made (we also created some rather nice chili chocolates, but alas, they have gone the way of all good things) and the other night I was faced with hints about how to make the cherries from the chocolates. I am sure I have told innumerable people this recipe, but here it is again.Get some scrummy fruit. It should be perfect flavour-wise but looks don't matter; |
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- Dieting can be hard, but it can also be worth while. Why not try a course, such as the South Beach diet, Dr Atkins diet, or Weight Watchers diet. Diet pills, Slim fast, herbalife and a low carb diet can help if you do not feel like going on a course. But there are many more advantages to going on a course than just sitting at home. For one, you have the support of others in the same situation. |
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- satellite dish actuator - here are some great resources on this: satellite dish actuator |
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- NicerGuy writes "The BBC reports that documents from 1975, recently released by the National Archives, detail in part the UK's plan in the event of nuclear strikes during the Cold War. An audio download of the prepared radio broadcast is available. Several other topics are covered." From the article: "Further documents released this week reveal that two pandas in London Zoo sparked fears a diplomatic rift could flare up between Britain and China in the 1970s. |
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- Interesting... I only intended this to be a 3 part post. But I just noticed that part 3 was constrained. That's an indication that I have built another fine bug which I will hunt down and smash with a mallet! |
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- ProStores is offering a Free Trial Store for novices or experts.When eBay throws its name behind a product or service you better believe it's going to be good. They have tons of money and access to the highest-quality programming. |
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- With the Toronto Blue Jays acquiring Troy Glaus and Lyle Overbay, they now have enough corner infielders to defense a pentagon. Corey Koskie is one of the most likely corner infielders to be traded. It’s been thought that the Tigers need to improve third base and get a left handed bat. Koskie [... |
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- Ads (*.wmv) for the Isuzu Gemini. Shot without special effects. |
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- Chemistry Comes Alive has sample videos of chemistry experiments, some violent and some not. |
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- Who knew Jack Abramoff owned a restaurant? Well with the power-lobbyist-cum-felon's latest problems, Signatures, his Capitol Hill eatery, is looking for a new name. And you can help! I hope the Mefi community can offer many thoughtful suggestions. (via) |
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- How not to get children to go to sleep. In fact, when asked by police how many times he bit the children, he couldn't say for sure, adding that he "bit the s--t out of them," |
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- What I heard about Iraq in 2005. Eliot Weinberger provides an updated companion piece to his earlier list (previously discussed on MeFi). |
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- We won the f*ing lottery! Ingredients: TiVo of last week's lottery run, trusting friend, friends looking to capitalize on the relationship between the two and a lottery ticket for this week's lottery to seal the deal. (Um, yes, via) WARNING: Contains video, profanity, Milli Vanilli |
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- Strange Fruit Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin' in the southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees... |
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- Plans were drawn up in the 1930s to invade Canada... really. While the idea has been a rampant joke in modern times as the US finds itself in hot water with its neighbor, it has been done before, albeit with laughable results. |
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- The new Yahoo! Mail service, which features a "new interface more like that of a desktop e-mail application...[plus] e-mail caching; message preview; |
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- Steve Martin has a posse. He's only made one post so far but Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) is blogging for the Huffington Post. |
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- "Newbies" have become a rare breed and other interesting conclusions from the Pew Internet & American Life Project's very readable (if PDF) report on 'net usage demographics, published 10/5. [ty biri] |
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- Jeremy Hermanns' flight on Alaska Air #536 was out of the ordinary, to say the least. A baggage handler ran into the plane before takeoff and didn't bother to report it. So when the plane reached altitude, its cabin suddenly depressurized, and was forced back to Sea-Tac Airport. Jeremy, who has experience as a pilot, posted about what happened on his blog. Rather than offer an apology, Alaska Air employees have taken to bashing him from company IP addresses. |
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- 100 things we didn't know this time last year. We seem to have an overload of year-end lists, but this one from the BBC was rather entertaining (if UK-centric). Feel free to add anything that you didn't know a year ago in your corner of the world. |
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- 10 Worst Americans? Hot on the heels of BBC's list of the 10 worst Britons of the past 1000 years, people are calling for nominations for the 10 worst Americans. (a nice? change from all the "best" |
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- War of The Hell. World of Sand. Hell of Sand. Cat Sledging. Java Friday. |
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- "Video Game Development - Learn to write C# the fun way." is a series of 11 1-hour long msdn webcasts starting jan16th, needs registration (c# express is free, 430mb iso here) |
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- BBC Open News Archive Eighty iconic news reports available in a variety of formats. Here is the full directory. For another example of the cool things Auntie as been offering lately, see the downloadable mp3 commentary for the Christmas episode of Doctor Who. |
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- "[E]ven though you couldn't predict exactly what animals would look like if you started evolution over on earth, or it happened on another planet -- with a given gravity and density of their tissues, the same basic patterns of their design would evolve again." A new study models all forms of locomotion -- swimming, walking, flying by muscle or flying by 747 -- in one physics theory, and stultifies Stephen Jay Gould's conjectures about the "contingency" |
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- A Disturbance in the Blogosphere: Publishing the UK/US/Uzbekistan Torture Memo. Braving arrest, bloggers have broken the UK?s law of silence with the truth about torture. Bloggers are mass publishing the leaked UK/US/Uzbekistan Torture Memos. |
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- What would Tübingen look like if you traveled through it at the speed of light? |
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- ladybird beetles behaving badly. When they have consumed all the resources they devour the competition. sigh. |
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- Now BSNL follows the hutch and airtel plans too! Now, this is great BSNL introduces new life time validity SIM Excel Anant only for Rs.949/- under pre-paid Cellular ServiceURL : http://bsnl. |
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- *Jazz at Lincoln Center* presents *Jazz Talk: Jazz in a Hip-Hop Generation* A lively discussion of the cultural connections (and disconnects) between jazz and hip-hop Wednesday, February 1st, 2006, 7pm Tickets: $15.50 |
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- Add two numbers together with undo ability |
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- If you don't mind sending your IntGold to EMO via AnyGoldNow, EMO has a free account debit card (with a monthly fee of $5), once you've verified your account information. |
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eTronics (Dec 31 2005 04:27 GMT) - Price: $84.99; Rating: 4 |
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Amazon (Dec 31 2005 04:27 GMT) - Price: $89.95; Rating: 3. |
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- Price: $96.95; Rating: 4 |
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Cooking.com (Dec 31 2005 04:27 GMT) - Price: $99.95; Rating: 4. |
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- Price: $109.96; Rating: 4 |
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- and get a pic of it so we know ya aint full of shit!! |
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