Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?

Dawn ,'Sleeper'


Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Barb - Sep 08, 2008 10:07:34 am PDT #7780 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”

I spent the summer in France on a similar program when I was 12. LOVED it.

I went to the High School in Israel program when I was sixteen. Lewis and I often joke about the fact that the Catholic girl went to Israel and the Jewish boy went to the Vatican.


Cashmere - Sep 08, 2008 10:09:11 am PDT #7781 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.

Please to share with the rest of the class, Cash.

1 c. sugar
5 tbsp. flour
1 pt. whipping cream
1 unbaked 9 inch pie shell
Pinch of salt
Cinnamon

Heat whipping cream, but DO NOT BOIL. Add to sugar and flour mixture slowly. Add salt. Pour into pie shell. Sprinkle cinnamon on top. Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes. Then reduce heat to 350 degrees for 30 minutes, or until set.


Barb - Sep 08, 2008 10:15:48 am PDT #7782 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”

::drools at pie recipe::

Cash, do you bring the cream to a scald or just very hot?

And look what just came down the pike: J.K. Rowling wins copyright claim

Rowling and Warner Bros., maker of the Harry Potter films and owner of intellectual property rights to the Potter books and movies, sued Michigan-based RDR Books last year to stop publication of material from the Harry Potter Lexicon Web site. Vander Ark, a former school librarian, runs the site, which is a guide to the seven Potter books and includes detailed descriptions of characters, creatures, spells and potions.

The small publisher was not contesting that the lexicon infringes upon Rowling's copyright but argued that it was a fair use allowable by law for reference books. In his ruling, Patterson noted that reference materials are generally useful to the public but that in this case, Vander Ark went too far.

"While the lexicon, in its current state, is not a fair use of the Harry Potter works, reference works that share the lexicon's purpose of aiding readers of literature generally should be encouraged rather than stifled," he said.

He added that he ruled in Rowling's favor because the "Lexicon appropriates too much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide."

Be interesting to see the ramifications of this.


Dana - Sep 08, 2008 10:16:47 am PDT #7783 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I just posted about that in the fic thread. The WSJ has posted the judge's opinion.

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amych - Sep 08, 2008 10:21:27 am PDT #7784 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Dear Help Service Desk:

"The Link to X doesn't point to Y" isn't really a problem, now is it?


Steph L. - Sep 08, 2008 10:43:15 am PDT #7785 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Pour into pie shell.

Just to clarify -- this is while the shell is still unbaked?


Cashmere - Sep 08, 2008 10:46:25 am PDT #7786 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.

This recipe calls for an unbaked pie shell. Some call for baked.

Barb, heat the cream up but DON'T scald it or let it boil. Most of the cooking is done in the oven.


Trudy Booth - Sep 08, 2008 11:00:12 am PDT #7787 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Hah!

For once my bad bad habit of reading Salon Letters pays off!

Someone just referred to Sarah Palin as "Wolfslayer Barbie".


P.M. Marc - Sep 08, 2008 11:04:20 am PDT #7788 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I've seen Caribou Barbie a lot of places.


Trudy Booth - Sep 08, 2008 11:28:59 am PDT #7789 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Wolfslayer sounds all nice and bloody. She comes with a little plane.