Still Tasty?

Going off on a food tangent, a blogger younger and more famous than I points us to StillTasty.com, where you can find information about whether one should eat left-overs or food bought and left uncooked for a reasonably long period.
Lacking, however, is an entry for Vegemite, which would be of great salience: I have run [...]

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In defense of reasoned vegetarianism

Matt’s post on why Melbourne Cup winners don’t feature in the deli at Woolworths is not quite the celebration of abstemiousness I would like it to be. For it is not vegetarianism with which he seems to have become comfortable so much as ideologues holding positions without explicable justification. Read that way, it is a [...]

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So this is why we shouldn’t trust Wikipedia

So, being the politophile that I am, today I had cause to check an obscure rule regarding the rules governing the Australian Parliament Question Time. As is now my habit, I went straight to Wikipedia to have a look at the [...]

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Become a Better Singer Instantly!

Most people sound like better singers inside their own heads than they do to others. This is mostly because the perception of a voice sounding rich has a lot to do with the presence of high harmonics above the fundamental frequency of the note – pretty much the same reason why a banjo sounds different [...]

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Two Messiaen Trivia

First, via The Beat, it transpires that Matt Groening drew wryly from the title of the Turangalîla-Symphonie when naming Futurama’s (Turanga) Leela. Minus one point from Berian for having been insufficiently attentive to spot that himself.
Perhaps more seriously, the Fredösphere recently excerpted transcripts from the Nixon administration:
– On May 18, 1972, Nixon talks to Henry [...]

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Who’s among us?

File this under: things the Internet should have brought to my attention before now. The website whos.amung.us (Get it? Hang on, ‘amung’ isn’t a word, so it mustn’t be a pun after all.) offers a little widget (in the form of two lines of html; javascript required) one embeds in a website to shows where [...]

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The Puritan and The Profligate

Via Sullivan, Keljeck (nice blog template) posts the full transcript of an interview between John Lofton and Allen Ginsberg, as printed in a 1990 issue of Harper’s Bazaar (though itself apparently a reprint!):
LOFTON: When you say you suppose this could have applied to you, does this mean you don’t know if you are mad?
GINSBERG: Well, [...]

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Things learned during an economic crisis

Ah, McSweeney’s:
This brings us to the housing crisis, for which you and you alone, Pamela, are responsible. When you choose a Chance card and Rich Uncle Pennybags orders you to pay taxes on your houses, then, damn it, Pamela, you pay taxes. Instead, you decide you’re not going to pay, because you only have $7 [...]

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Things are getting worse

Luke’s recent LHC post has goaded me into making sure other important events do not pass without appropriate comment.

The talk about town is all of the US government’s proposal to nationalise (or ‘go all European on,’ as I predict it will soon be derided) the parcels of extremely bad debt owned by important financial companies; [...]

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And now for something less intelligent …

Mimas is one of Saturn’s many moons.It might have a sinister past:

And while we’re pointing out similarities, here’s a few more from totallylookslike.com:

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