Chocolate Crackle Cookies
From Gastronome, a cool foodies web site, (self described as the gossip of a gaggle of gourmands), comes an excellent recipe for chocolate cookies (the dough is chilling as I write): Chocolate Crackle … Read more
Year: 2003
Priorities
The sheer magnitude of the loss of the cultural artifacts and antiquities during the looting of museums in Iraq is close to incomprehensible. The fact that more attention was paid to saving oil … Read more
Digital Gramophone
From Tom comes word of yet another example of the limitless creativity and cleverness which serve as hallmarks of the human race. To be honest, I’m not 100 percent convinced this isn’t a … Read more
60 Years Ago, Today
LSD was discovered by Dr. Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist. He was an apparently somewhat accident prone person, as he both created LSD by virtue of a mistake in the lab, and also, … Read more
Hello, I’m Johnny Cash
In the midwest in the late 50’s and early 60’s Johnny Cash was one of the musical staples on the radio and in honky-tonk jukeboxes. Though he had not been in my regular … Read more
