I don’t recall offhand whether I’ve previously discussed my family’s proclivity for “Heart Attack” foods—foods cooked with large quantities of butter and cream. Tonight’s post is my contribution of the moment, which is not exactly a new discovery, but which is nonetheless both delicious and unhealthy while at the same time feeling quite wholesome:

I’ve been [...]

People seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Chris was hear last week; someone else may be visiting soon, and Andrew speaks of a possible visit in “late winter,” and a friend from TASP just contacted me via Facebook, of all things (which, for the record, I use not at all). It’s all quite [...]

Partiallyclips is back on its game. For a while there, it was blowing conch shells.

partiallyclips: Sheep Farmer · 2006-08-28

Apparently Kitchener stitch may be related to a historical British person, a “Lord Kitchener of Khartoum,” a British officer who supposedly promoted Red Cross knitting (i.e., knitting socks and sweaters for soldiers) in WWII, including promoting a sock pattern with a seamless grafted toe named after him.

Of course, this sort of thing is so quaint [...]

Quick to stress the independence of the study, indeed. Thanks, Tea Council.

BBC NEWS | Health | Tea ‘healthier’ drink than water

I’ve been advocating this idea (for the iPod) for years, mostly because I like the idea of having a large dance party in which everyone’s doing their little iPod shadow dance to the same beat but those without earphones can’t hear anything at all.

Lost Remote TV Blog

I have not always had a good relationship with Fox—consider their mishandling of Firefly, Fastlane, and other fine programming that fell victim to Nick’s Law. However, they know how to start a season early, and it looks like Prison Break may well survive the transition from being about a prison break to being about the [...]