It’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. Shanah Tovah to all my Jewish readers, especially The Redhead!
What better way to commemorate the holiday on this rather earthy blog (see definitions 3 and 4 of the word) than to show you this week’s Shabot 6000 comic?
Like me, it’s so very wrong and so very funny! Don’t show this to your rabbi. Trust me on this one.
…now someone’s posted a recipe for deep-fried Oreos. They’re basically Oreo cookies dunked in pancake batter and then deep-fried.
I don’t even want to know the fat and carb counts for these puppies.
We could probably harness the rotational energy from Dr. Atkins’ grave to power an entire city.
[found via del.icio.us]
…on your engagement!
Graig’s entries:
Emma’s entry: Engaged
(Yes, it’s been known nearly a week, but I seem to be falling behind on my GTABloggers gossip.)
What separates the blog Cooking for Engineers from any other collection of
recipes I’ve ever seen is the unique way in which the recipes are
presented. Consider this basic recipe for one of my favourite desserts, tiramisu. You get the standard “do this, then do this” instructions, but you also get this chart:
Update (Friday, Sept 10 13:26 EDT): Added a couple of links to Colby Cosh and Ace of Spades HQ.
A question that’s been bouncing around the more political areas of the
blogosphere is “were those memos that 60 Minutes showed about Bush
receiving special treatment during his service faked or not?”.
It seems that the proportional spacing of the type (in which skinnier
letters like “i” get let space than wide letters like “m” or “w”,
common in the era of today’s computers and printers, but rare in the
days of the typewriter) and the superscripted “th” in the word “187th”
suggest that the memos weren’t typed on a typewriter in 1973, but in
Microsoft Word in 2004 and then photocopied repeatedly to produce the
effect of age.
Here’s a graphic that morphs the purported 1973 memo and a version created in Word. It is eerily similar.
As much as I disagree with the Bush Camp in general, I disagree with
cheesy tactics like this (if these memos turn out to be forgeries) even
more. There’s enough truth to nail the Bush administration without
having to resort to “noble lies” in the Straussian (Leo, not Gideon) tradition. Even my rather-quite-to-the-right-of-me friend David Janes, a Bushie, will
readily admit that he considers Bush a dud on most issues; he only agrees with the war footing.
coming from the right-wing side of the blogosphere. Most of the “blogs
as journalism” reports tend to come from the left-leaning sectors.
More on this “man bites dog” stuff at Ace of Spades HQ.
David points to this funny comic on the whole forgery kerfuffle:
The kode-fu.com email address isn’t working properly, so if you’re trying to email me, use the accordionguy address at gmail.
…this Hellraiser-inspired lunchbox appeared on today’s Photoshop Phriday on SomethingAwful.com:
