The Magician of Meat
What Mark wanted to know was whether Pat LaFrieda could create the world’s most expensive hamburger meat. Restaurants typically pay around $2.25 a pound for ground beef; Mark was keen to fashion something bordering on ridiculous, something that would go for as much as $11.99 a pound. And so on a Friday [...]
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Give Me Something To Read
Need something to read? Enjoy these selections from among the most frequently bookmarked articles on Instapaper.
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Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
Even the Bingers confess that, when it comes to the simple task of taking a search term and returning relevant results, Google is still miles ahead. But they also [...]
Phil Mushnick's Dangerous Game: Work for Murdoch, Blast TV Schlock | The New York Observer
"I have been involved in meetings where people have said, 'Mushnick will kill us on that,' but that fact has not really influenced whatever decision was being made," said a sports executive. "I'm not sure he hasn't lost some of his [...]
Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief
Blanchard wasn’t listening. He was noting the motion sensors in the corner, the type of screws on the case, the large windows nearby. To hear Blanchard tell it, he has a savantlike ability to assess security flaws, like a criminal Rain Man who involuntarily [...]
debian_asterisk_freepbx_script [Core Networks]
The script has been updated with the latest Asterisk versions (1.4) and now has some basic error checking for when the script is interrupted. There should be no need for manual workarounds with the new script. If it is interrupted, simply restart the script and it should recover.
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Placehold.it – Quick and simple image placeholders
Welcome to placehold.it
A quick and simple image placeholder service.
How does it work? Just put your image size after our URL and you'll get a placeholder.
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Simulating: Emptinesses
Here’s how it goes: you walk in to the tune of various medievalish songs and sights, or things like boobs and bodices and [...]
Countdown to 'Lost': What do Richard Alpert and The Joker have in common? No, it isn't eyeliner…
Tonight, Lost fans get an episode that’s been a looooong time coming. At last: Richard Alpert’s backstory. I have so many questions that I doubt a single episode can answer all of them. But a few? I’m hopeful. Will [...]
Khalid’s Blog » Blog Archive » Increasing the size of Xen Disk Image
Increasing the size of Xen Disk Image
One can easily increase the size of the disk image used by xen. Following steps should be followed.
dd if=/dev/zero of=imagename bs=1 count=1 seek=4G conv=notrunc
e2fsck -f -y imagename
resize2fs imagename
Where “seek=4G” will resize the image to 4 Gigabytes. One [...]
MoviePeg™ — the no-hand iPhone stand for movies and more
Forget awkwardly propping up your iPhone with your bag or that complicated tripod contraption. Add MoviePeg to your iPhone, adjust the angle and like magic you’ll be in relaxed viewing heaven. And it’s not just for movies; use it in the kitchen when following recipes, with [...]
The pathetic history of Dan Hibiki | GamesRadar
Not only did Dan stop being a secret character in the second Alpha – he was right there in the friggin’ intro, exploding into gamers’ hearts and minds in a way none of the other characters could. This was also where Dan’s appearance came together more cohesively, creating [...]
Amazon.com: The Dark Fields (9781582342733): Alan Glynn: Books
Bordering on techno-thriller territory, this slick, suspenseful debut imagines a new breed of "smart drug" that produces some deadly side effects. After complaining about life in desperate times to his drug dealer/ex-brother-in-law Vernon, divorced Manhattan copywriter Eddie Spinola is tempted by the glittering promise of MDT-48, an illegal, [...]
Best of the Past: Trainer Tells All – What I Have Learned About Health and Fitness
The best performance enhancing thing I know of….is a cup of coffee 30min before a workout/playing sports.
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x_DontTreadOnMe_x – TPB
+1 WTF
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Restaurante Crema Canela
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La Liga Preview: Barcelona – Valencia – Goal.com
Arguably the most anticipated game of the weekend, Barca will try to recover from their recent mini-slump against los Che…
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La Vinya del Senyor, Plaça Santa Maria 5, Barcelona. Bars & pubs – Time Out Barcelona
Though many pull up a chair simply to appreciate the [...]
MailArchiva
Companies, educational institutions, NGO's and government agencies around the world rely on MailArchiva to archive millions of their emails for long term storage. MailArchiva is the email archiving, email discovery and email compliance solution of choice for over seven thousand businesses worldwide.
In many jurisdictions around the world, the law requires that company emails are kept [...]
Firing the $70 billion man – Mar. 10, 2010
Gundlach's mind combines that feverish quality with a near-total recall of endless minutiae. But somehow, when it comes to investing, he's able to process huge quantities of details and extract a big-picture message. The result has been superb performance: His flagship $12 billion TCW Total Return Bond [...]
Barcelona Tours, Sightseeing Excursions and Guided Tours in Barcelona – Barcelona City Tours
We offer some of the best sightseeing and guided tours in Barcelona and Catalonia. We also airport transfers, guide services and hotel accommodation.
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Some tips to (re)install grub on an HP ProLiant server « Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell
Yesterday I needed to fix [...]
How Pandora Avoided the Junkyard, and Found Success – NYTimes.com
Had Pandora died, it would have joined myriad music start-ups in the tech company graveyard, like SpiralFrog and the original Napster. Instead, with a successful iPhone app fueling interest, Pandora is attracting attention from investment bankers who think it could go public, the pinnacle of success [...]
Automated TV Show Organization
I used to use utorrent's RSS feature to automatically download shows via this guide (see "How do I use the RSS feed in my client ?"). This allowed me to automatically have shows downloaded into appropriate folders, which are monitored by XMBC which scrapes thetvdb.com to add the shows to its own [...]
What's the Best Way to (and Why Should I) Create a Home Inventory?
Taking a home inventory isn't really hard, it's just time consuming. It's also extremely important; a good inventory will speed up the insurance claims process and ensure your insurance takes care of everything you lost. (You do, of course, need the insurance.)
Many tools [...]