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Two utilities and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-29

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Here are two nifty utilities. The first is useful when you need a count of the number of words or characters in a text. The other is supposed to be super for developing diagrams.

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3901
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 0
Total 3901

DoD Confirmation List
Latest Coalition Fatality: Dec 26, 2007 – Hurray! It’s holding steady.

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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Some interesting sites; A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-28

  • definr – about
    Definr.com is a fast, free dictionary based on Princeton’s open WordNet 2.0.The website framework is Ruby on Rails. Looking up words in a dictionary is easy, so we do that with MySQL and cache the top 10,000 definitions in memory. (tags: dictionary)
  • The Virtual Memorial Garden
    This is a place where anyone can be remembered. The VMG is growing rapidly, but please be assured that as far as I am able these memorials will always be available somewhere and that there will never be any charge for including information on these pages. (tags: memorial)
  • RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest
    The Risks Digest.Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems
    ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator (tags: risks computers technology)
  • Remember The Milk
    Managing tasks is generally not a fun way to spend your time. We created Remember The Milk so that you no longer have to write your to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand. (tags: online organization)

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3901
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 0
Total 3901

DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Dec 26, 2007

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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Online Portfolios; A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-27

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Online Collaboration Technologies – Robin Good’s Latest – Dec 26 2007


Robin Good’s blog provides lots of tips and information about online collaboration. It is the place to go to keep up with what’s happening in this increasingly important area for business and academia.

2007 12 26 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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Banana Tree Seeds & Plants; Python tutorial links for 2007-12-24

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-23

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Easy, wonderful bread recipe

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I know that lots of people have written about this, but I really like this recipe and when I tell my friends about it they always ask for it. Do I’m putting it here for me and others, if they’d like, to find and reference.

The recipe is easy because there are a few simple steps. It’s wonderful because it produces very tasty bread with a crisp crust and a great crumb.

I follow, with some variations, the recipe at the NY Times on this.
It’s really easy. There is also a video in which Jim Lahey, of Sullivan Street Bakery, demonstrates making the bread. His video recipe is a little different from the printed recipe, and watching it made me make a few changes to the recipe in the Times.

Here’s what I do.

  • Add walnuts, sunflower seeds – a small handful of each crushed in a motar & pestle and then put into the flours
  • 2 cups of organic unbleached white bread flour or 1 3/4 cups of the wbf + 1/4 cup of some other flour or meal, such as spelt flour or flax seed meal, if it is readily available.
  • 1 cup of organic whole wheat bread flour.
  • 1/4 teaspoon yeast
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons salt.
  • Mix the dry ingredients, add 1 5/8 cups water and mix just until it comes together.
  • Cover with plastic, and let sit for 12 – 24 hours.
  • Follow the instructions in the Times recipe and the video for folding, resting for 15 minutes, and shaping into a ball.
  • Put flour, fennel seeds and wheat germ on a towel, wrap dough in the towel (see the video) and then let it sit for 2 hours.
  • Heat the oven according to the Times recipe, but heat it t0 550 with the pot the bread will be cooked in.
  • I don’t worry about the shape of the dough as it’s added to the pot, but I do put parchment paper in the pot just before adding the dough. That’s to insure there’s no sticking on the pot. All we have is Corning Ware and the first time I made the bread it did cook onto the pot.
  • Make sure the lid fits snugly trimming any parchment paper that may keep the lid from sitting tightly on the pot.
  • Bake for 32 minutes at 550.
  • Remove lid and bake for 10 -  15 minutes longer at 475. In most cases 14 minutes works well for me.
  • Take the bread out of the pot and put it in on a rack to cool.

Experiment and enjoy.

Lynn Richardson has experimented with this and suggests that for the floor use  5.5 ounces of organic whole wheat flour and 10 ounces of organic unbleached white bread flour. (February 17, 2008)

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3896
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 1
Total 3897

DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Dec 21, 2007

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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A Rubric for Presentations and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-22

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Permanent Citations with Web Cite and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-21

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  • WebCite
    “WebCite® is an archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. …” (tags: web citation)
  • Pop and Rock Listings – New York Times
    Fron the NY Times no less: “The band’s front man, Oliver Ackermann, is a legitimate pro when it comes to noisemaking: He founded a company that makes custom guitar-effects pedals.” (tags: aptbs)
  • St. Cloud Times | Entertainment
    “The beauty of the band is its blend of pop lyrics of heartbreak and hope, mixed with ’80s influenced guitar destruction.”  (tags: aptbs)
2007 12 21 ernie A Place to Bury Strangers
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A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick has left us with several good reads. I had read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and The Man in the High Castle last year. The former deals with the future, empathy, and how humans handle the situation of very human-like androids and the destruction of wildness. The other puts us in the mind of a person living in San Francisco who has stumbled into an alternate history- with the Axis powers  having won the second world war of the twentieth century.

His works, though seem always to be form the mind of the narrator. This seems to be most evident in A Scanner Darkly where the narrator’s mind splits and is almost destroyed. The book has a poignant Author’s Note at it’s end. The note is more significant after reading the book, but it is worth recording here. It serves as a memorial and a warning.

” This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good time, but hey were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed – run over, maimed, destroyed – but they continued to play anyhow.

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If there was any “sin,” it was that these people wanted to go on having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect. I loved them all.

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the “enemy was their mistake in playing. Let them all play again , in some other way, and let them be happy.”

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3895
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 1
Total 3896

DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Dec 20, 2007

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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