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eftychia at 01:49pm on 2003-05-19
eftychia at 01:49pm on 2003-05-19- A fascinating read, even for a vegetarian goy: The Feast of Delights. "In an effort to keep the mesorah [tradition of particular species being considered kosher] for other species going, my chavrusa, Rabbi Dr. Ari Zivotofsky, and Dr. Ari Greenspan, longtime friends and shochtim, arranged a 'halachic dinner.' During this dinner, all kinds of unusual species were served, along with lectures explaining why they are kosher, and a 150-page book of source material for each participant. The dinner thereby publicized and maintained the mesorah for these creatures. As preparation for this, the two Aris had spent twenty years interviewing elderly shochtim and asking them which species they remember slaughtering in Europe, Africa, and Yemen." (Many of y'all will have seen this on a mailing list last year, but a recent discussion reminded me of it.)
- High Levels of Toxic Rocket Fuel Found in Lettuce (California) "Sworn depositions and other courtroom documents show that the giant aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin -- a major user of perchlorate responsible for widespread contamination of Southern California water supplies -- knew as early as 1997 that vegetables stored high concentrations of the chemical, but said nothing to the EPA or state health officials."
- A harrowing flight: Soyuz 5's Flaming Return (Flight Journal, June 2002, a story from 1969 but only recently told.)
- A tiger covered in pigs. Uh, not much more to say than that; it's a tiger, with pigs on it. Really. Cute.
- The Bartleby.com edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918) "The Bartleby.com edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings -- many in color -- from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.
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baratron
says of
The Periodic
Table of Desserts, A Scientific and Rigorous approach to
patisserie, "Amusing and geeky - but the chemist in me goes
all teeth-gnashy. If you have no idea what the difference between
a Group and a Period is, you'll love it, if you do, you'll love
it for as long as you can keep your inner chemist suppressed."
Closeups
of the table.
(Interestingly, that's exactly why I want someone who remembers
more of the chemistry they've learned to help me with the
"periodic table of periodic tables" that Fred suggested I put
together.) Maybe this one should go on my fridge next to the
Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad.
- On occasion, I've used the term "backhoe error" to describe one of many potential causes for a network outage (and one of the possible events one must take into account when designing a network). For anyone still confused about the meaning of that term, here's an example.
- I don't think I've already posted this ... Another professional wrestler got elected to public office (Mainichi Daily News, Japan) "The Great Sasuke announced that he would continue to wear his mask during prefectural assembly meetings to prevent revealing his true identity." Another photo
- ukelele recently
reviewed a whole bunch of cheeses
- "The original warblogger", Julius Ceaser, governor of Gaul,
chronicles his time there
in Bloggus Caesari.
"I'm heading up to Geneva. One of the Gaul tribes is planning on cutting through Roman territory, in an attempt to go and fight some other tribe. I'm the governor of Gaul now, so I have to stop them... I'm caught a little off guard -- there's only one legion up there, so I'm trying to raise some more at the same time.
Well, it looks like I might be away more than I'd like, so I decided to set up this blog. My friends in Rome can keep track of what I'm up to amongst the barbarians.."
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Backhoe
In the New New Days of cable and fiber lines, we now have the term 'backhoe fade'.
This most often happens when the Lowest Bidder gets the construction contract.
-m
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Wow. That was absolutely riveting to read. Thanks for the link!
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Excellent set of links! I especially liked the halachic feast and also in the previous one, the trek top 10. Keep it up!