November 2009
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Veggie Thanksgiving Menu 2009
Quorn Turky Roast - Not vegan, but super good. Sage, rosemary, thyme, all your standard seasonings. The baste will probably include some mushrooms and onion too.
Veggie Mushroom Dressing - Again not vegan as it will have some cream of mushroom soup. I may try to veganize this this year by using mushroom broth instead.
Truffle Shallot Mashed Potatoes - Mmm. Vegan and better than crack.
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Someone just tried to jack my phone! Just now! I was walking out of the office looking at a map of where I needed to meet. Someone ran up, tried to pull the phone from my hand, failed, and ran away. No words, or sounds were exchanged. I continued to my destination, a little shaken, but otherwise unphased. Be careful out there!
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Eating animals is making us sick →
In the United States, about 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year, but a whopping 17.8 million pounds are fed to livestock — at least, that is what the industry claims.
The Union of Concerned Scientists estimated that the industry underreported its antibiotic use by at least 40 percent.
The group calculated that 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics were fed to...
“Blue is not natural in our world.”
– Young Richard’s response to Justin From The Future’s suggestion that he dye his hair blue. (via youngrichard)
Push kills your iPhone's battery
Get a lot of mail? Wondering why your battery life sucks? Turn off push email. I went from 4 hours to 2 days.
Let's talk about something incredibly geeky, the...
If you’ve done any work on a highly scaled website the words ALTER and TABLE are probably two of the scariest words you’ve ever encountered. Nothing is worse than locking a really important and heavily used table for some undeterminable amount of time. Seconds turn into days, minutes into lifetimes. Okay that’s an exaggeration, but you get the idea.
There’s two...
