Flotsam & Jetsam

If you’ve ever posted to CraigsList, or responded to a post, you know that CL protects posters by assigning an anonymous email forwarding address to you which expires after X days.  Wouldn’t it be cool if you could have the same type of thing for your phone?  Well, the folks at http://www.numbr.com/ have done just that.  The [...]

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Billionaires Bacon (aka Praline Bacon) Brown Sugar Chopped Pecans Cayenne pepper (if you wish) Pre-heat oven to 350 Mix the ingredients in a bowl. Dredge the bacon through the mixture Put the sugar covered bacon on a baking rack on top of a baking sheet in the oven. Flip bacon after 10 minutes or so (when [...]

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I love bacon.  Who doesn’t?  Recently I’ve been playing around with making candy when, of course, the idea of bacon candy came up.  After a little searching, I came across a couple of interesting sounding recipes.  When I have some extra time I’m gonna try and make some of these: Bacon Brittle #1 MAKES ABOUT [...]

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Sam Mason, the former pastry chef at WD-50 has a new restuarant: TailorNYC (http://www.tailornyc.com/) at 525 Broome St in NYC which features a Chocolate tasting menu – which uses “molecular gastronomy” techiques to pair chocolate with items you wouldn’t normally think to pair together.  Sounds like a worthwhile place to try out.

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This app has come in so handy it’s not funny.  I love taking photographs when I travel, but hate waiting around forever until the gaggle of tourists hanging out in front of my shot leave.  No more.  http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/ Tourist Remover helps eliminate people, cars and misc moving objects from your photo.  Using 3 to 10 [...]

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Ever need to make some quick edits to a photo, but don’t have easy access to photo software?  Check out http://www.picnik.com/  they have a free online photo editing system that works pretty well.  Granted, it’s not as fast, or powerful as some of the dedicated apps out there, but it does the quick and easy stuff [...]

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If you’ve ever tried to access a wi-fi hotspot using your laptop while traveling, and can never quite get a strong enough signal, check out this cool piece of kit: http://hfield.com/wifire.htm It’s a compact range-extending device that triples the range of your internal adaptor.  I’ve tried using a variety of antenna’s in the past, but [...]

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When only a high tech gift will do.  Give your next presentation some zing! http://www.wickedlasers.com/

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Over the past couple of years, companies have come up with lots of different uses for DNA.  National Geographic has their project mapping human migration and various geneaology sites will help track ancestors.  DNA 11 wants to help turn your DNA in art.  You send in a swab of cheek and DNA will send you a [...]

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Translated from latin: “That which nourishes me destroys me” Saw this quote earlier and thought it made a lot of sense.

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Somebody sent me this link for lamps made out of old crankshafts: http://www.campbelllevydesigns.com/index.html Some of the lamps they have are pretty cool, if only for the rarity of the crankshaft.  I wonder how many restorers out there are gnashing their teeth that the part they need was being made into a lamp.  I wonder if [...]

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I’ll admit it, I love my custom made suits, shoes and shirts.  It harkens back to an older time when everyone’s clothes were custom made and just fit right.  Off the rack clothes just don’t feel the same after you’ve worn custom made clothing.  For those of you who can’t make a yearly pilgrimage to Hong [...]

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As someone who has recently been attracted to the art of curing and smoking his own meat, I found this quote spot on: “Who, under any circumstances, is not rendered almost helpless by the tantalizing sound of bacon sizzling slowly in a skillet, by the taunting backwoods aroma that permeates the air, by the luscious [...]

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I was writing a bunch of emails today and realized that spell check wasn’t working correctly.  After a little investigation, I found out that Microsoft Office 2007 doesn’t play nice with Outlook Express 6 – it installs english dictionaries that are not compatible and leave you with only the French one.  Read about it here: [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I posted about the Plymouth to Bakul race that happens every year around X-mas.  There must be a trend going on ’cause today I heard about 2 more similar races, the Rickshaw Run (http://rickshawrun.theadventurists.com/) and the Mongol Rally (http://mongolrally.theadventurists.com/), both put on by http://www.theadventurists.com/ Now I’m torn.  £570 for a [...]

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