Anthony Burgess‘s recipe: “Hangman’s Blood”, [...] : “Into a pint glass, doubles of the following are poured: gin, whisky, rum, port and brandy. A small bottle of stout is added and the whole topped up with champagne… It tastes very smooth, induces a somewhat metaphysical elation, and rarely leaves a hangover. So… who’s up first?
@hodgman was in Battlestar Galactica for a cameo recently, and he was brilliant. He was on The Daily Show, and was brilliant. And to my total joy, he was on one of my favourite podcasts, This American Life. Guess what? He was brilliant. Each TAL is a themed set of vignettes of interesting people living [...]
Other possible titles for this entry include: “Wikiplodia” and “The Wasteland Survival Guide”. I’ve been thiking about something Xaosseed mentioned, which was that we are effectively in the classic Cyberpunk economic crash. Katsue recently remarked that five years ago, if he had been told that there would be sword fights on the streets of Dublin [...]
I am in Crete at a conference. It’s been… dramatic. In the interim, here is a fun video from John Stewart. The joys of the ability of people to erase their memories of everything they said.