My new favorite website is Atlas Obscura.  Cargo Cults.  Ghost Towns. Stuff from Sax and Max.
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I  made a film for 24hourtoons – a laid back little contest where you submit a film within 24 hours of the topic being posted. 

But dig the cinematic opening for the upcoming game.  It’s amaaaaazing.
The Beatles: Rock Band

I almost fell for this one, and I wasn’t born yesterday. Thanks to ole Thunderbird for watching my back. What’s the word?
Phishing is particularly dangerous because 1) it is possible to fake a return email address and 2)it is possible to use misleading links.

I haven’t a clue how it’s done, but steps can be taken to make a maligned email appear to come from a legit sender, like pictured here.

Secondly, you can make a link go to a false address by changing the href tag .  Like this:  http://www.yahoo.com if you click on that link you’ll see it does not go where it would appear that it should.   Or just look down below in the status bar when rolling over said link.

If you look at the status bar before clicking, be sure to take a good look, too.  Domain names are always the last thing before the first single slash:
For example:  a url says:  http://www.google.com  — that’s google.  http://maps.google.com — still google, pointing to the subdomain maps.  Subdomains go to the left.  But http://www.google.com.seezen.net is not google, it’s seezen.net, with a subdomain called “com” and a sub-subdomain “google”.  So the ruse is to use a legit sounding subdomain in your evil webaddress to throw off the scent.  You wouldn’t click on http://www.iamavirus.com, but you might fall for http://www.google.com.iamavirus.com, which is basically what the one I got today does.

The final ingredient for a phish scam is to cause some false alarm, for example, a fake message from ebay saying that your account has been hacked.  However, that kind of thing has already been widely written about to the point that it would raise an automatic red flag.  This message is particularly insidious because it lacks that kind of drama and goes instead for a nagging “gotta get that done” kind of message.

Lifehacker – Use Caps Lock for Hand-Friendly Text Navigation – Ubergeek

Actually, it’s Uebergeek. Ü is shorthand for ue.  The monks came up with that.  So if you don’t have a ü key, you should type ue. 

which brings me to this link.  It’s a little hack that allows you to hold down the caps lock and use the right hand keys like arrow keys and then some.  Neato Toledo.

Indian flatbread.  It’s quicker than bread, but more involved labor-wise.  But absolutely worth it.  I can scarcely imagine having curry without it.

The basic ingredients are flour (whole wheat if possible), yogurt (or water in a pinch) a little salt and a bit of oil (optional).  I measure everything by the yogurt.  That is to say, one cup of yogurt yield 6 or 8 breads, or enough for 2 bread lovin’ curry eaters.  You add scant amounts of salt and oil, you add enough flour to make a kneadable thickness.  Then you knead.  If you have time, let it sit for an hour.  Or don’t.  Make into balls, no larger than ping pong balls.  Roll out thin — not flour torilla thin, but thinner than a fluffy pancake.

In a hot pan or skillet, ungreased, they do about a minute on each side.  After the first flip, you can push around down on it with a clean dishtowel, to get it to puff up.  Sometimes you flip too early then you can do this on a third flip.  Being the dude I am, I don’t always have a pile of clean dishtowel to put in direct contact with my food, so I opt for a large spoon.  On YT, you can find an indian lady deftly doing it this way.  But really, the towel approach is much more forgiving. 

This link is for my Mommy, who missed it the first time round. 

I enjoy making curry, although in my own little way.  That is to say, I don’t really measure anything, and the ingredients are seldom the same, save onions and curry powder.

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BIRDY NAM NAM – THE PARACHUTE ENDING – CLIP OFFICIEL

I find this pretty damn cool.  I don’t love the music, but twinned with the visual it is very fitting.  Apparently done completely in Flash (!) you can’t deny the the strong influence from Fantastic Planet.  I also see a little bit of 1 2 3 4 5 … 11 12 from Sesame Street in once brief sequence, but maybe that’s just me.

I had my yummy curry again today.  I make it about once a week.  The chapatis are what really make it over the top.  The two together are so good, I can’t stop eating it.  Seriously, last time I nearly finished the entire thing in one sitting and almost died of a burst tummy.

Anyway, a new “open source” recipe site, supposedly easier to find what you want thanks to community oversight.

Nibbledish

Created and rated by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world. Nibbledish is your gastronomic hub where every visit will bring inspiration and a rumbling belly…

Grand.   On a side note, I hate the term “foodie”.  We already have a term, thanks: gourmet.  Having a sophisticated –and sometimes pretentious– interest in food and dining merits a fitting name, not one that sounds like it was coined by a retarded child.

Cal State Fullerton’s Spring Fundraiser animation: Tuffy in Just Peanuts a Day