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Using and Choosing a Mexican Mortar and Pestle | Rachel Laudan.
I’m Mexican and I’m a cook. This is the first time someone explains what the rationale behind a molcajete’s design is, why the tool evolved like it did and how you should go about acquiring one for yourself.
This is something they DO NOT teach you at any school.
“Children Are Dying”
PN is now considered one of the most important accomplishments in modern medicine—which makes it all the more distressing that unnecessary shortages are reducing its efficacy. “It breaks my heart,” says Dudrick, now a professor emeritus at Yale. “This is because big pharma isn’t making enough money on these components. It’s tragic. I just don’t know how they sleep at night.”
via “Children Are Dying” | People & Politics | Washingtonian.
The IMSS has it bad, but this is worse. This is trickle-down economics for you.
This is what the powers that be in Mexico want.
I Still Lov… wait, what?
You opened it. Good luck. Tonight at midnight your true love will realize they miss you. Something good will happen to you between 1:00 pm and 4:40 pm tomorrow, it could be anywhere. Tonight at midnight they will remember how much they loved you. You will get a shock of a lifetime tomorrow, a good one. If you break the chain you will be cursed with relationship problems for the next 2 years. Karma. If there is someone you loved, or still do, and can’t get them out of your mind, re-post this in another city within the next 5 minutes. It’s amazing how it works. If you truly miss someone, a past love, and can’t seem to get them off your mind….then re-post this titled as ” I Still Love You” Whoever you are missing will surprise you. Don’t break this, for tonight at midnight, your true love will realize they love you and something great will happen to you tomorrow. Karma. You will get the shock of your life.
I will always love you!! ;)
I’m going to report it as spam so that annoying thing known as love leaves me alone. Got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one.
The Junior timeline
Spock Prime reads the newspaper, hijinks ensue. ALTERNATE SUMMARY: Spock Prime is sure this one isn’t his fault.
Via Metafilter.
Abstruse Goose | advanced class
Abstruse Goose | advanced class.
You could prove the universe doesn’t exist when you don’t look at it, but it also proves you’re stupid.
True-Color GIF
As soon as this gets out to people on Tumblr, we can expect GIFs to grow even larger.
Party time
Here's what Pangea looks like mapped with modern political borders.
The annotations for the map are the best.
THE POWER
Is the Windows user ready for apt-get? – Scott Hanselman.
Should come in useful when I have to deal with Windows devices again.
BAN THOSE SCARY CHEMICALS
Why I’m voting for fluoridation in Portland today. |.
As incredible as it might sound for most people outside of the US, there is a sizeable contingent of people in this country who believe this sort of thing is bad for one’s health.
Flickr: here we go again
So in the future, when the revenue coming from paying members is small enough to ignore, and the advertising numbers come in below expectations (as they often do), my fear is that Yahoo will come to an almost inevitable business decision: To kill Flickr.
via The new Flickr: Goodbye customers, hello ads | TechHive.
I’ve been a Flickr user for… a long time (actually, I went to try and find out and it doesn’t tell you anymore) and a paying Flickr Pro member on and off for about 4 years. I joined in when it was riding high on the web 2.0 wave and stayed during the slog that were the years of Yahoo acquisition.
Now… this. They want fifty bucks just for not displaying ads. No other benefit but that. Sure, I like the new website design, and the new mobile app… but the underlying functionality of the site will be much downgraded now, and the mobile app still will not post to Twitter.
Hell, I’ve received mails from Flickr telling me to convert to a free account from my paid Pro account. They want to let go of a sure 25 dollars so they can put ads on my pages; ads that most likely will not pull 25 dollars — much less 50 dollars — in a year of service.
Like Mr. Powazek says, that gamble better pay off, although I’ll hedge my bet and say that in two years time, it won’t have and Flickr will be unceremoniously killed by the suits at Yahoo.
Once again, Flickr is being treated like a fucking database.
Looking good
Bike fashion: Ditch the spandex for new commuter clothes.
Someone in Mexico should sell this stuff down there. They’ll make millions.
Please don’t die.
In the Lower 48, you carry around a sense that the human environment has been molded by people who went before — this battle on this hill and so on. There’s a texture that you, too, are part of, even when it’s bloody or frightening, a texture within which your life can assume some kind of meaning. And that, as Bernard’s theory of tax policy and generations of writers have discovered, can be its own nightmare, but in remote Alaska, the nightmare is: It’s not there.
Break the cycle!
The ad-driven model sucks. It takes the power away from readers because individually you’re worth so little in the financial sense. It rewards bad behavior on the part of reporters.
Ah, the memories.
Revisiting The Shadow and the Flame | jordanmechner.com.
This game gave me my first all-nighter EVER.
Yeah, it’s hard
Complaining about restaurant coffee « jimseven.
We don’t offer any form of coffee at work. How could we? There are two real coffeeshops within half a block and we’re next door to a bakery that is thinking of adding espresso to its menu. We don’t have the infrastructure to support even a simple espresso machine either.
Were we to offer coffee, it would have to be brewed coffee, either french press or chemex, and even then it’s not guaranteed it would even sell. Plus, who would make it? The waitresses won’t want to, and in the kitchen we barely have the time as it is.
Getting coffee right in a coffeeshop is hard. Getting it right in a restaurant is even harder.
Going bolshie
Take yourselves as a case in point. I’m guessing you’re the kind of people who’d prefer to feel needed rather than expendable. Well, that kind of attitude won’t do. Bosses want to keep your wages down, and that would be harder to do if you were given opportunities to make yourselves invaluable and near on irreplaceable. Bosses need to keep their options open in case some of you get ideas about better pay and conditions, or just generally become ‘difficult’ or, dare I say, ‘bolshie’.
via Why So Many Jobs Are Crappy | heteconomist.com.
Apropos to my previous post. The main cook at work is indispensable. He works seven days a week and without him no wok-fired entree gets made. I don’t know how to make those entrees yet and frankly I’m not sure I’ll even be taught how to make them. I’m sure he’s got a few ideas but doesn’t speak up lest he gets to find out what it’s like to work as a mere cook somewhere else.
Linux desktop “progress”
Northfield/Norwood isn’t about changing anything fundamentally with Wayland/Weston, but Moreau doesn’t like the pace of development within Wayland/Weston and it being bottlenecked at times by Kristian’s workload. Moreau is also more focused on just “desktop bling” and effects than low-level graphics subsystem work. Among the desktop effects he wants to bring over from Compiz into a Wayland compositor include the desktop cube, desktop wall, scale, wobbly windows, expo, and Emerald Theme support.
[Phoronix] Wayland/Weston Fork Now Called Northfield/Norwood.
In a couple of years you’ll have to get a new computer to run any sort of Linux desktop environment, while your old computers get Windows installed on them.