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Ajax, Reviews, Privacy, publicresoruce.org, Digital Future of the US, A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-31

Monday, December 31st, 2007

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  • The Denver Post - Best of 2007: Top CDs
    “You miss those early days of Jesus and Mary Chain, don’t you? And My Bloody Valentine? Yes. Indulge in your inner shoegazer. Buy this record. See the band’s show at the Larimer Lounge on March 7. And relive what made the late ’80s so luxurious.” (tags: aptbs)
  • Bart McPherson Weblog » Blog Archive » “Best of” 2007
    Number 25 on this list of 25 from Cleveland OH (tags: aptbs)
  • .: chromewaves.net v7.0
    “their self-titled debut is a cyborg sort of record with drum machines and industrially-effected guitars giving it a mechanical quality, live they’re a straight power trio and that makes the precision … that much more impressive.” Review Toronto 12/29/07 (tags: aptbs)

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-30

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3901
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 0
Total 3901

DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Dec 26, 2007

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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Two utilities and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-29

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

First,  A Place to Bury Strangers links:

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Here are two nifty utilities. The first is useful when you need a count of the number of words or characters in a text. The other is supposed to be super for developing diagrams.

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3901
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 0
Total 3901

DoD Confirmation List
Latest Coalition Fatality: Dec 26, 2007 - Hurray! It’s holding steady.

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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Some interesting sites; A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-28

Friday, December 28th, 2007

  • definr - about
    Definr.com is a fast, free dictionary based on Princeton’s open WordNet 2.0.The website framework is Ruby on Rails. Looking up words in a dictionary is easy, so we do that with MySQL and cache the top 10,000 definitions in memory. (tags: dictionary)
  • The Virtual Memorial Garden
    This is a place where anyone can be remembered. The VMG is growing rapidly, but please be assured that as far as I am able these memorials will always be available somewhere and that there will never be any charge for including information on these pages. (tags: memorial)
  • RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest
    The Risks Digest.Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems
    ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator (tags: risks computers technology)
  • Remember The Milk
    Managing tasks is generally not a fun way to spend your time. We created Remember The Milk so that you no longer have to write your to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand. (tags: online organization)

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3901
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 0
Total 3901

DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Dec 26, 2007

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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Online Portfolios; A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-27

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

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Online Collaboration Technologies - Robin Good’s Latest - Dec 26 2007

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007


Robin Good’s blog provides lots of tips and information about online collaboration. It is the place to go to keep up with what’s happening in this increasingly important area for business and academia.

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Banana Tree Seeds & Plants; Python tutorial links for 2007-12-24

Monday, December 24th, 2007

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-23

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

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Easy, wonderful bread recipe

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

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I know that lots of people have written about this, but I really like this recipe and when I tell my friends about ti they always ask for it. Do I’m putting it here for me and others, if they’d like, to find and reference.

The recipe is easy because there are a few simple steps. It’s wonderful because it produces very tasty bread with a crisp crust and a great crumb.

I follow, with some variations, the recipe at the NY Times on this.
It’s really easy. There is also a video in which Jim Lahey, of Sullivan Street Bakery, demonstrates making the bread. His video recipe is a little different from the printed recipe, and watching it made me make a few changes to the recipe in the Times.

Here’s what I do.

  • Add sesame seeds, sunflower seeds - a small handful to the flours.
  • 2 cups of organic unbleached white bread flour or 1 3/4 cups of the wbf + 1/4 cup of some other flour or meal, such as spelt flour or flax seed meal, if it is readily available.
  • 1 cup of organic whole wheat bread flour.
  • 1/4 teaspoon yeast
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons salt.
  • Mix the dry ingredients, add 1 5/8 cups water and mix just until it comes together.
  • Cover with plastic, and let sit for 12 - 24 hours.
  • Follow the instructions in the Times recipe and the video for folding, resting for 15 minutes, and shaping into a ball.
  • Put flour and wheat germ on a towel, wrap dough in the towel (see the video) and then let it sit for 2 hours.
  • Heat the oven according to the Times recipe, but heat it t0 500 with the pot the bread will be cooked in.
  • I don’t worry about the shape of the dough as it’s added to the pot, but I do put parchment paper in the pot just before adding the dough. That’s to insure there’s no sticking on the pot. All we have is Corning Ware and the first time I made the bread it did cook onto the pot.
  • Make sure the lid fits snugly trimming any parchment paper that may keep the lid from sitting tightly on the pot.
  • Bake for 30 minutes at 500.
  • Remove lid and bake for 10 - 20 minutes longer at 475.
  • Take the bread out of the pot and put it in on a rack to cool.

Experiment and enjoy.

Lynn Richardson has experimented with this and suggests that for the floor use  5.5 ounces of organic whole wheat flour and 10 ounces of organic unbleached white bread flour. (February 17, 2008)

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3896
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 1
Total 3897

DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Dec 21, 2007

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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A Rubric for Presentations and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-22

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

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