Dry Rub For Beef
3/4 Cup packed brown sugar 1/2 Cup paprika 2 1/2 Tablespoons coarse salt 2 1/2 Tablespoons ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 Tablespoon onion powder Mix all of the ingredients together. … Read more
Short Stories
Here’s a link to an eclectic set of short stories: Textism The featured image (which may only be displayed on the index pages, depending on your settings) was randomly selected. It is an … Read more
Electronic Voices from the Twin Towers
This compelling story was too much for me to read at one sitting. The NYTimes is to be commended for writing such a difficult, yet ultimately necessary, both for the historical record and … Read more
Know Anyone Like This?
Hmm, so creative folks are often moody and exhibit behaviours reminiscent of a manic/depressive … this is news? STANFORD RESEARCHERS ESTABLISH LINK BETWEEN CREATIVE GENIUS AND MENTAL ILLNESS (January 2015 update: old link, … Read more
In the River!?
What a shame. Over 100 paintings and other stolen art objects, worth over 1 billion dollars, were destroyed in France by a mother seeking to protect her son, who had stolen the paintings, … Read more
Play an Accordion; Don’t goto Jail
This is a funny (in retrospect) story of what happened to a hapless hacker, who, as he prepared to fly to the US from Canada, ended up “fitting the profile.” Read how after … Read more
Packet Sniffing Yields Images
Hah! As if there weren’t already too many things I want to do and don’t have time for. Here’s another interesting hack: packetsniff your ethernet, and reassemble the packets that are part of … Read more