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The Omnivore’s Hundred

2 November 2008, 12:25

Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
Bold all the items you.ve eaten.
Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (or eating again)
Optional extra: Post a comment http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

To make the filling out of this form and generating the HTML for it a bit easier, reddywhp has played around with some PHP. Go to http://reddywhip.org/lj/foods/ and fill it out there. After filling it out, you will be given the code to copy and paste into your blog.

Livejournal users, remember to use your LJ-Cuts!

Venison
Nettle tea
Huevos rancheros
Steak tartare
Crocodile
Black pudding
Cheese fondue
Carp
Borscht
Baba ghanoush

Calamari

Pho

PB&J sandwich

Aloo gobi

Hot dog from a street cart

Epoisses

Black truffle

Fruit wine made from something other than grapes

Steamed pork buns

Pistachio ice cream

Heirloom tomatoes

Fresh wild berries

Foie gras

Rice and beans

Brawn, or head cheese

Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper

Dulce de leche

Oysters

Baklava

Bagna cauda

Wasabi peas

Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl

Salted lassi

Sauerkraut

~~Root beer float~~

~~Cognac with a fat cigar~~

Clotted cream tea

Vodka jelly

Gumbo

Oxtail

Curried goat

Whole insects

Phaal

Goat’s milk

Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more

Fugu

Chicken tikka masala

Eel

~~Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut~~

Sea urchin

Prickly pear

Umeboshi

Abalone

Paneer

~~McDonald’s Big Mac Meal~~

Spaetzle

Dirty gin martini

Beer above 8% ABV

Poutine

Carob chips

~~S’mores~~

Sweetbreads

Kaolin

Currywurst

Durian

Frog’s Legs

Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake

Haggis

Fried plantain

Chitterlings or andouillette

Gazpacho

Caviar and blini

Louche absinthe

Gjetost or brunost

~~Roadkill~~

Baijiu

~~Hostess Fruit Pie~~

Snail

Lapsang souchong

Bellini

Tom yum

~~Eggs Benedict~~

Pocky

Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant

Kobe beef

Hare

Goulash

Flowers

Horse

Criollo chocolate

~~Spam~~

Soft shell crab

Rose harissa

Catfish

Mole poblano

Bagel and lox

Lobster Thermidor

Polenta

Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee

Snake

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Textpattern - again

8 October 2008, 06:08

So, I have been doing some design work lately. I just got asked to design a new site that is using Wordpress. It has been a while since I had to look at other CMS’s or Blogging packages.

Having done a few, four to be exact, sites with Textpattern … I really do like it and as someone said, “it is what we feel comfortable using” … Here, here.

^{To the carver of letters in stone}

A few links to Textpattern resources; Utter Plush, Wilshire One, Threshold State, Iaian7, and The Bombsite. These sites all have links to more resources, so give Textpattern a test drive if you need this sort of software to run your website.

And not to forget, though not much about Textpattern, the inventor of Textpattern himself … Dean Allen, writing it like it is.

Tag … You’re it!

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OH Canada Day ... Eh!!!

1 July 2008, 20:41

1st July 2008 and Canada is 141 years old and our $ is better than the Greenback. So here is to the best place in the world to live, even if we have to deal with provincial bickering. The sun is setting and soon the fireworks begin.

^{Emily & me … showing our patriotism}

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Word of the Day

29 June 2008, 06:37

Nescient (adjective)

Pronunciation: [‘ne-shent, ‘ne-si-yênt]

Definition: (1) Ignorant, lacking knowledge; (2) agnostic, believing that man is incapable of understanding the nature of the universe.

Usage: “Nescient” has few relatives. The noun from it is “nescience” while “nesciently” is the adverb. It has a cousin, “nescious,” with the same meaning, which is related to “nice” (see Etymology). It is distantly related to nescio “a claim of ignorance, of not knowning,” from the Latin word nescio “I don’t know.” This word is a useful noun for our times: “US courtrooms today resound with the nescios of corporate executives squirming on the witness stand.”

Suggested Usage: Occasionally you may wish to speak your mind without wanting it to be understood. “I think your comment reflects a profound nescience of the problem, Slobodan,” might even get you a nod of gratitude from the target of your insult. Places do exist, by the way, where nescience is not at all out of place, “Mr. Chips’s heart tightened ever so slightly before yet another sea of nescient freshman faces in the auditorium.”

Etymology: Today’s word is a borrowing from Latin “nesciens,” the present participle of nescire “to be ignorant,” derived from ne- “not” + scire “to know.” The Latin word belonged to a family that included “nescius,” borrowed into English as nescious (see Usage). In Old French, the same word was reduced to “nise” and was borrowed into Old English as “nice,” meaning “foolish, silly,” a meaning that inexplicably migrated to what it is today.

–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com

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IE8 & Version Targeting

31 January 2008, 21:06

It all began, well I read it there first, on A List Apart – No.#251 …

The following is from the Zeldman himself … Jeffrey Zeldman said on January 23rd, 2008 at 7:02 am:

No less an authority than PPK will be writing about the consequences for DOM scripting in an upcoming issue of A List Apart.

The onus should be on the people who are doing things the ‘wrong’ way to take that extra step

But many won’t; for them, IE7 behavior makes sense as a default (since they did at least test in IE7).

I co-founded and for several key years led the group that got standards in our browsers and persuaded designers to learn to use them.

I publish the magazine that has long championed standards-based development.

I wrote the book that created standards-based design as a category, shaking up publishing as well as web development.

I’m well aware that it will be a better world when every developer creates semantic, accessible websites. I’ve written and published and lectured all over to try to bring about that outcome.

I also know that we’re not there yet.

And sites “breaking” (suddenly no longer displaying or behaving correctly with the introduction of a new browser) won’t magically get us there. Whether Microsoft follows through on version targeting or not is irrelevant to the goal of educating web developers about standards. A “broken” site won’t lead masses of developers to become educated about standards. That argument – that the default should be to break the site – doesn’t hold up, because it assumes that developers will do the right thing.

Many just won’t.

This doesn’t mean we stop putting educational materials out there. It doesn’t mean we stop trying to persuade our colleagues that standards and accessibility are in their interest.

It means we don’t ignore the fact of widespread developer ignorance of standards-based design.

It means, if the default Microsoft proposes helps mitigate the negative effects of widespread developer ignorance of standards-based design, we at least consider the possibility that Microsoft may know more about standards-unaware developers than we do, and they may have a point.

Developers who want the default behavior to be latest can opt in via “edge.”

The scenario Microsoft seems to have had in mind is more probable than the one Jeremy Keith raises. That a developer will want IE8 to behave like Firefox, Opera, and Safari where generated content is concerned, but won’t know to write the meta element that IE8 requires to behave like IE8, is far less likely than the scenario of the standards-ignorant developer not knowing or caring about any of this, and being shocked when his site goes blooey in IE8.

Statistically alone, it makes more sense to protect the ignorant (and their clients) from themselves and to ask the educated to do a little extra than to expect the ignorant, who already don’t do enough, to magically gain knowledge and skill and do more.

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