"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful.
Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life.
Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte
The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on.
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
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I PREDICT A DIET!
The cholesterol hypothesis can be likened to a cathedral built on a bog. Rather than admit they made a horrible mistake and let it sink, the builders decided to try and keep the cathedral afloat at all costs. Each time a crack appeared, a new buttress was built. Then further buttresses were built to support the original buttresses.
Although direct contradictions to the cholesterol hypothesis repeatedly appear, nobody dares to say ‘okay, this isn’t working, time to build again from scratch’. That decision has become just too painful, especially [
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A pluot (pronounced /ˈpluː.ɒt/)[1] is a tradename for varieties of interspecific plum or Plumcot developed in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger.[2] In the United States, the fruit is known by most regulatory agencies as an interspecific plum or plumcot.[3] It is a complex crosshybrid of plum and apricot, exhibiting more plum-like traits. The pluot, like the aprium, is derived from plums, apricots and or hybrids called the plumcot.[4]
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Long story short: Most of the world’s beer has between 4% and 6% alcohol by volume (ABV).
Over the past few years beer wars have broken out, with rapid escalation of alcohol content such that little more than 12 months ago, the world’s strongest beer was 27%.
Now the race is on to break through the heretofore-undreamed-of 50% barrier.
Reading this post may cause clifyt to abandon his post and head for the nearest tavern.
Sorry about that.
Why go the high-alcohol route?
Georg Tscheuschner, who brews the potent 43% beer (as [
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With the first Sheffield Food Festival kicking off, The Sheffield Tap being trumpeted everywhere and the Sheffield Theatres back on line it’s an interesting time.
Guardian’s list of top eateries in Sheffield
And then there is the Guardian’s Blog list of the rest and more
Did you know that until the 17th century, carrots were purple?
Me neither.
That's just one of many interesting things about carrots you will learn if you spend some time on the website of the World Carrot Museum.
[via Milena]
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A restaurant owner opines on the importance of the dining experience.
Mr. Marzovilla welcomes young children at his restaurant, even discounts their meals on Sunday evenings, and is not above serving a simple appetizer portion of pasta to please little ones. But he has strong opinions about food, and about the messages parents convey to their offspring through what they eat. Children’s menus aim too low, he argues — they’re a parenting crutch.
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In Borraccia!In Borraccia! is an Italian campaign to reduce the consumption of plastic water bottles. As part of its campaign In Borraccia! is promoting these three Google Maps that promote the use of tap water over bottled water. AltreconomiaThis Google Maps mashup shows restaurants in Italy that serve tap water so you don’t have to pay for expensive bottled water.The map includes quick links
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Hmmm a change is undoubtedly coming but it is about quality and variety and new uses. The gastropub is not enough, for too long pubs have been misogynist retail environments and perhaps cinemas, laundromats, railheads, velo-joints, epicurean houses will be the new ale vendors of choice. Pubs do now remain almost the last vestige of ‘public’ dwell-space. Public as long as you don’t wear a cap and become invisible to the CCTV, can get past the bouncers, not wear colours, jeans or appear in any way undesirable.
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Even though it’s only been open for six months, this refurbished former Edwardian refreshment room has swiftly become a magnet for beer and pub lovers from the city and surrounding areas. The plush but understated makeover has been a triumph. The young barman remembers it before: a shell of rotting timbers, broken windows and graffiti from the Seventies era of football hooligans.
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William Li’s TED2010 presentation, “Can we eat to starve cancer?” was one of my favorites.
William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.
William Li heads the Angiogenesis Foundation, a nonprofit that is re-conceptualizing global disease fighting.
From Li’s talk:
Autopsy studies from people who died in car accidents have shown that about 40 percent of women [
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I am now outside that slice!
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Tim Akimoff.
It could be said that beer was the downfall of the hunter gatherer, the man of the woods, mountains and streams, the man with spear in hand whose need for meat was matched only by his need for shelter. After all, it was likely the propagation and harvest of the materials required to make beer that caused the famous bipedal wanderer to settle in one location. Or, you can think of it like this: Beer changed the world.
Whatever your view of history, that fermented juice of water, barley, hops and yeast certainly played a big role in it.
Whether consumed from a tall can, a frosty mug or a pint glass, gulped by sailors or sipped at baseball games, men and beer have a long history together. Let’s start with that history and then move into how modern man can more fully enjoy this ancient brew. article foreshortened, click for more » A Beginner’s Guide to Craft Beer →
A week ago, the annual World Pizza Championships (website is only kind of in English) were held in Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy. Along with taste tests, speed trials and an event called “The Longest Dough Stretch,” there are freestyle pizza throwing competitions. Below, we’ve collected a handful of videos from this year’s competition, in which pizza is thrown between legs, behind backs, juggled and spun in time to music. Italy’s Lanza Luca took top honors, a repeat win from last year. Careful, stare at these too long and you’ll start to get veeerrrry sleeeeeeeepy…
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Moonshine is no longer confined to just Appalachia anymore. Hipsters and foodies around the U.S. are starting to acquire a taste for it, which is giving rise to a whole new industry of microdistillers. Anna Sale reports.
The modern moonshine movement | Marketplace From American Public Media.
“If Requiem for a Species is shocking at an existential level, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals hits you at the level of lunch. It’s no less gruelling for that. Among the in-your-face statements that pepper the text: “When we eat factory farmed meat we live literally on tortured meat..and put it into the mouths of our children”. The author is especially appalled by the wastefulness of modern food systems. It takes up to twenty-six calories fed to an animal to produce just one calorie of edible flesh – and yet animal protein costs less today than at any time [
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The size of food portions and plates in more than four dozen depictions of the Last Supper — painted over the past 1,000 years — have gradually gotten bigger and bigger, according to a Cornell study published in The International Journal of Obesity (April, online March 23), a peer-reviewed publication.
Cornell Chronicle: Largest Last Supper: It keeps gettin’ bigger.
So the Standard has noticed that their world has adopted the (perhaps) Tumblr-inspired photogenic fairy-cake. Sheffield has too. Let’s face it if we are never hungry and our only way of being together is around latte and pastry they have had to find other reasons for people to buy the things. Saturday’s Guardian article HERE talked of the perils of complexity and combining but let’s be honest with each other, sat-down consuming is where we are told to be and we could just eat less or talk and walk. Disclaimer: Your writer has just checked his BMI which stands [
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packets of 'fresh' hotdogs
Face it, you’ve got to be some kind of green saint to use only permanent tableware all the time. Every once in a while, at a small art opening or knitting circle you’ve got to have disposable dishes. For those times, when you still want your table to look great, there are some perfectly beautiful options available. But in that rare case when you’re having a get together for your entire family tree, or Christmas party at work, and you need hundreds of disposable dishes, sexy can be just a little too expensive. Luckily, going cheap doesn’t mean letting [
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Loopt continues to ramp up its focus on location-based deals. The pioneer of the mobile social network is launching a new app called LooptCard, which lets mobile consumers tap into offers, coupons and discounts by checking-in to spots. Today, Loopt is partnering with deals site Mobile Spinach to offer users deals and coupons for local merchants via the Loopt App.
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Eating baked rhubarb could help fight cancer, new research has shown.
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University found baking British garden rhubarb for 20 minutes boosted its levels of anti-cancerous chemicals.
BBC News – Baked South Yorkshire rhubarb may help cancer treatment.
The highest job in Wales is being advertised for someone with a head for heights and the occasional sleepover.
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Tonight, searching for a book review, I went to Amazon and all over the suggested purchases (‘more items to consider’) section with Arctic Monkey CDs, navigation, cycling, swimming, climbing and explornography books (that I expect to see there) was loads of egg-poacher thingies. I love poached-eggs and take great care over them and have even tried the ramekin and cling-film technique recently – but how does Amazon know this and what algorithm tells them these things?
I think we should be told.
TIPTOP!
The author's rules of thumb for those who can't be bothered to read his articles or books.
1. Don't buy anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
2. Avoid products with ingredients that cannot be found in an ordinary pantry.
3. Don't buy anything that lists sugar in its first three ingredients.
4. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay away from the middle.
5. If it came from a plant, buy it. If it was made in a plant, pass it by.
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“Blundering interventions into family life, like lunchbox inspections, undermine this special bond. Suddenly, even from an early age, children are told that parents are not the best people to protect their interests; apparently that job should fall to the state instead. When a child is given a letter to take home from school for having brought in the wrong food – or even sent home themselves in disgrace – that child is being told that mum and dad are an embarrassing failure. Schools, which should be concentrating on providing a stimulating education, are forced into battle with parents [
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This pretentious place [LINK], never before visited, is so off ‘the list’. Took 4 minutes to choose a sandwich after a fifty-mile ride only to be told at exactly four PM that ‘we don’t do food after four PM’.
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Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"
Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile.
Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit
"Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
heavy words thrown lightly
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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