April 2009
33 posts
1 tag
“Grad school is more challenging than anything you will have done in undergrad....”
– Wise words. Tweeted to me by Michelle Gill today.
“The important question is will swine flu reduce the price of bacon due to...”
– @iamdanw
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The Dying Soldier (Trad.) — Tenebrae
O...
How the OAuth Security Battle Was Won, Open Web... →
@ryancarson recommended this really good article on the security hole in OAuth and how it was fixed.
“Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever...”
– Shakespeare, Othello.
“Never trust a woman whose name is a palindrome.”
– 12minds
So that would be Hannah, Anna, Eve, Ada, Pip… any others?
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2009 Chairman's Tasting
University of Bath Wine Society, 01 May 2009
Dom Perignon 2000 (Champagne)
Blain-Gagnard Criots Batard Montrachet Grand Cru 1997 (White burgundy) Louis Latour Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru “les Demoiselles” 1996 (White Burgundy) Louis Latour Chambertin Grand Cru Cuvee Heritiers Chambertin 1999 (red Burgundy) Chateau Angelus 2003 P (Bordeaux, Premier grand cru classé B)
Bruno...
My day of FAIL. Published on AudioBoo, a spoken...
WatchBBC News:
The test involved a 7.5 tonne lorry being driven at high speed at a special security wall - and coming off the loser.
The tests are run by a secret team of government scientists and ministers want cities around the UK to do more to protect themselves from suicide bomber tactics.
Daniel Sandford explains how the security wall works - and watches the result of the...
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”
– Harlan Ellison (via @bobbyllew)
The American Spectator : The New Humanism →
Sam Wollaston on last night's TV: Horse People... →
The Shipping Forecast
“Love sounds th’alarm,
and fear is a flying!
When beauty’s the...”
– Acis — Acis & Galatea
Tenebrae — Canon
The accuracy and clarity...
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Crucifixion / Judas [David Murray, 1988 / Ishmael...
She walks in beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair’d the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens...
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Messiah live from Westminster Abbey →
Stop what you are doing right now. Tune into BBC Radio 3. Pour yourself a glass of wine, and enjoy the wonder of a live performance of Handel’s Messiah beamed to you from Westminster Abbey. Total bliss!
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A little thing called Holy Week
Today is Maundy Thursday not Easter Thursday.
Tomorrow is Good Friday not Easter Friday.
This is followed by Holy Saturday not Easter Saturday.
Only then can you have Easter Sunday and Monday. Simple.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Into My Arms
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well....”
– Mr. Darcy, Pride & Prejudice (via soy, sharpless & lightchoices)
somethingofadreamer: “That could be me talking.”
You’re in good company. It sounds just like me as well.
“A couple of weeks ago my son called me from home, interrupting an important...”
– Bill Thompson — Dreamers of the Network World.
12minds:
stewardesses:
vagrancy: Yann Tiersen;...
March 2009
40 posts
How to drink like a Frenchman
Rob on drinking in Paris:
Oh, and speaking of wine, they really do serve it in tiny measures. 125ml was the standard, I think, which to the girlfriend was sacrilege given that at home she has what could be called a goblet to drink out of. It does force you to drink slower, I guess.
Living with a Frenchman for almost a year now I’ve learnt one simple lesson: “Drink four times as...
