cooking everything in the Silver Palette Cookbook.

Oof. Pour soul.

(psst, both of your links go to Julie/Julia!)

Oops!

Bigger oops -- it's the Silver Spoon NOT the Silver Palette:

Here it is. I hope.

The splitting of Africa. I want to know two main things: a) what is the line, and b) when will the sea first seep in and not go back.

This is scary and sad - a drug trial goes horribly wrong: [link]

Two men remain critically ill and four others are in a serious condition after suffering a violent reaction while taking part in a clinical drugs trial.

All are still in intensive care in Northwick Park Hospital, north-west London, after falling ill on Monday.

Myfanwy Marshall told BBC News her boyfriend's body was badly swollen and she had been told he could die.

Um, without looking, I'm guessing the line will go through the Great Rift Valley?

When I worked for the School Department, we used to get all the sales conference swag when we went to them, so I acquired a really nice jacket and some nice shirts, but since my little work unit was subsumed into CIT, it's just the occasional T-shirt... and they stopped letting us wear jeans, too.

Long gone are the days when I worked at Lotus, and one of the project managers had the bright idea of code-naming one of the big 123 releases as 'Godiva' which led to some very chocolicious swag indeed.

How many work pens do you have at home?

Mmmm, too many to count. But that is also accidental.

also Bookstore gift certificates? Turkey basters? That's "accidental swag" but swag none the less.

The turkey baster was dirty, I certainly didn't take that home.

I'm guessing the line will go through the Great Rift Valley?

The map they show doesn't go as far south as Kenya, which has a fair bit of Rift Valley in it. But that's just the bit that's sinking first.

The map is kinda vague in labelling and context.

Oh, this is great. The ACLU did a very fun little X-Files cartoon about the NSA spying scandal. [link]

It's even got all the film-noir lighting going.

Oh my on the ACLU cartoon -- gotta love the guy with the shotgun.

Skimmy Mcskimmerson Drive by: (fowarded by Doug Henwood)

New York Times - March 15, 2006

Editors' Note

The cover photograph in The Times Magazine on Sunday rendered colors incorrectly for the jacket, shirt and tie worn by Mark Warner, the former Virginia governor who is a possible candidate for the presidency. The jacket was charcoal, not maroon; the shirt was light blue, not pink; the tie was dark blue with stripes, not maroon.

The Times's policy rules out alteration of photographs that depict actual news scenes and, even in a contrived illustration, requires acknowledgment in a credit. In this case, the film that was used can cause colors to shift, and the processing altered them further; the change escaped notice because of a misunderstanding by the editors.