The internet cookbook

Here are a couple of recipes. Each is worthwhile on it’s own, but together hobo wine and a cream pie turd are a meal fit for a king. A hat tip to the always awesome Anarchaia.

Fruits and Nuts

Some things never change. Slate quotes Orwell:
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist in England.”
One of the magnetic poles must be in Berkeley.

YBOAR

Is George Bush actually the antichrist? A lot of people say he is. For instance, someone snagged the valuable domain name bushisantichrist.com and built a website to prove via numerology that Bush is indeed the antichrist. But think about it. The antichrist is bound to be pretty sly. Maybe we’re being set up to think [...]

Elements of style

I want to illustrate a point of journalistic style, using a contemporary bit of news. The point of style concerns the attribution of political party membership. Here is the correct style for reports concerning a Democrat.
A former aide to James E. McGreevey said today that he had three-way sexual trysts with the former governor [...]

Bruce Schneier’s abs are NP-hard.

If you are into cryptography and computer security, you know Bruce Schneier as the author of Applied Cryptography. In that case, you might find this hilarious. Otherwise, maybe not.

Nature abhors a vacuum

I, for one, do not believe this is a common practice in Poland.