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  How To Cook A Fucking Steak by Balk posted @1:13 PM Go to the goddamn grocery and get steak. Yes, the grocery. A little ammonia is not going to kill you, you pussy. You want to be all fancy and grass-fed and environmentally conscious, go ahead, I don’t give a shit, just get a [...]

floating point from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo. Went for something a bit more relaxed and atmospheric this time… late night edit. Shot in Tokyo on 5D and 5D mk2, same workflow as for the previous videos. Music: R-Gent by Sun Electric from the album “Kitchen” (R&S Records). Selected sequences are available for licensing on the [...]

Handy if you want to get hold of the URL encoded in the bitly link, but the original page has disappeared or redirected. This is for OS X, not sure about other platforms: Open Terminal and type: curl -I http://bit.ly/????? That’s an upper case “i”, replace the ??? with the bit.ly URL Posted via email [...]

I’ve been asked to write an entry for D&AD’s Copy Book. I just found this list of tips in my desk drawer. Avoid alliteration. Always. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. The adverb always follows the verb. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. Remember to never [...]

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The Shocking Media Habits Of 8-18 Year Olds   1/45   TV still rules… Kids’ Media Use By Platform Image: Kaiser Foundation Source: Kaiser Family Foundation     via businessinsider.com Posted via email from mattksi’s posterous

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Although I can’t really stand FourSqaure (or at least the myriad of checkin tweets it generated in my Twitter stream before I dumped all those people who though the world needed to know they’d arrived at the toilet), this map of London ad agencies ranked by number of checkins is quite fun:

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ENGLAND are heading home from the World Cup today after state-of-the-art video technology showed the ball crossing their goal line many, many times. As questions were raised over why the Uruguayan officials had spotted all four German goals, the specially positioned cameras around the Bloemfontein Stadium confirmed that England’s 2010 squad will forever be remembered [...]

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Entertaining rant from the much maligned Comic Sans (a font, in case you didn’t know): Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m [...]

This is a rather neat analogy for complexity theory as applied to business. This version of the video (constricted by the width of this blog) doesn’t do it justice so head over to Cognitive Edge for the original. What completely nailed it for me were the immortal words “Cross that you little bastards and you [...]

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It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers.

This has been around for ages, but is pretty accurate when it comes to projects run in larger organisations encumbered by process.

Internet Trends 2010 by Morgan Stanley Research View more presentations from CM Summit: Marketing in Real Time.

New photosets on flickrcovering some experiments with light, miscellaneous photos taken during May, and photos from our recent holiday.

Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan from Brad Kremer on Vimeo. Japan is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. This is my Japan. This is one of the many reasons why I love Japan. I shot this in many locations around Japan in the summer of 2009. Some of the location [...]

Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.

Inspiring, memorable and entertaining. Prof Barry Nalebuf’s (author of Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small) lecture from Yale Economics class is truly great. It’s focused on innovation, creativity and problem solving. Particular highlights for me are the segments on upside-down food, and the use of the “What Would Donald Trump [...]

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While we humans carry on with our daily lives down here on Earth, perhaps stuck in traffic or reading blogs, or just enjoying a Springtime stroll, a school-bus-sized spacecraft called Cassini continues to gather data and images for us – 1.4 billion kilometers (870 million miles) away. Over the past months, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has [...]

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Onions, leaks, carrots, turnip (no peas of beans), cabbage leaves. Sweat the veg gently in the pressure cooker (used as a pan). Add water to just cover the vegetable, salt and pepper, steam for 10 minutes. Don’t open until all the steam has gone! Blend. If it’s a carrot-oriented soup you can add a little orange [...]

Aluminium oval dish works best, but otherwise oval ovenrware dish. Cut Bramley apples in big thick boat chunks until dish is overfilled with apple. In a mixing bowl 3 heaped table spoons of caster sugar, 3 heaped sifted tablespoons of selfraising flour, 2 eggs (yolks plus whites), 2 packets of vanilla sugar (small packets), good slug of [...]

ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo. ENVISION : Step into the sensory box. Sous ce nom se cache l’expérience immersive offerte par ALCATEL-LUCENT à ses clients lors du dernier Mobile World Congress. Une expérience à base de vidéo mapping conçue par l’agence SUPERBIEN et le département New Media de l’Agence [...]

How much do we really know about why we do what we do?  We are usually quite ready to explain the reasons for our actions in some detail, but on closer examination such explanations often seem to be rationalizations.  So how can we tell which of our explanations to believe?  If we are not willing [...]

Do people have any grounds to complain about the latest changes to the rules of publicness of various elements of a Facebook profile? Or is the only legitimate response “love-it or leave-it?” Lately, Facebook has been pushing a dual strategy of “public-or-nothing” with some profile elements and “public-by-default and good-luck-figuring-out-the-settings” with others.  Some influential industry [...]

Transportation Handoffs – Movement of product that does not add value. Inventory Requirements – Product Requirements Documents (PRD), Story Cards – more material information than the customer needs Completed code, but not checked-in Completed code, but not documented Untested codeCode in staging environment, but not in production environment Code with overwhelming amount of comments /*comments*/ [...]

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The world has been placed on a heightened security alert following reports that New Age terrorists have harnessed the power of homeopathy for evil. ‘Homeopathic weapons represent a major threat to world peace,’ said President Barack Obama, ‘they might not cause any actual damage but the placebo effect could be quite devastating.’ The H2O-bomb has [...]

Changing approaches to SETI are getting public attention these days, as witness a new article in The Economist that makes reference to the probable cause of the interest, the publication of Paul Davies’ The Eerie Silence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). Sub-titled ‘Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence,’ Davies’ book is making accessible to the general [...]

Passengers face further disruption after flight restrictions were extended until 1300 BST on Sunday as the danger from Icelandic volcanic ash continues. The National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) said forecasts showed the ash cloud progressively covering the whole of the UK after 1900 BST. British Airways has cancelled all long and short-haul flights in [...]

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America went into a frenzy last weekend with the iPad’s release. But even as hundreds of thousands here unwrap their iPads, another future entirely may be unfolding overseas on the cellphone. Forgotten in the American tumult is a global flowering of innovation on the simple cellphone. From Brazil to India to South Korea and even [...]

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…babies suck harder on the pacifiers when they hear sounds that are familiar to them from before birth. Newborns prefer their mother’s voice over anyone else’s (even dad’s). They prefer hearing books they were read while in the womb, compared to new stories. They’re even already favoring one language over another. “Babies prefer the sound [...]

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THERE were times when last Sunday’s great G.O.P. health care implosion threatened to bring the thrill back to reality television. On ABC’s “This Week,” a frothing and filibustering Karl Rove all but lost it in a debate with the Obama strategist David Plouffe. A few hours later, the perennially copper-faced Republican leader John Boehner revved [...]

In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in controlled circumstances, can actively improve knowledge. Unfortunately, facts are expensive, so to save costs and drive up sales, unscrupulous dealers often “cut” the basic contents with cheaper material, such as wild opinion, bullshit, empty hysteria, reheated press releases, advertorial padding and [...]

A long time ago, in a North Atlantic far far away… Earlier this week I was drawn into an enlightening discussion with my colleague Ben Frey about the complicated textual tradition that lies behind George Lucas’s “Star Wars,” which few outside the scholarly community realize is a modern rendition of an old Germanic legend of [...]

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This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post Posted by Chris Clarke on January 24, 2010 This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though [...]

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Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be [...]

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Should our cognitive biases have moral weight? In a classic piece of psychology, Kahneman and Tversky ask people what to do about a fatal disease that 600 people have caught. One group is asked whether they would administer a treatment that would definitely save 200 people’s lives or one with a 33% chance of saving [...]

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OH small child: “cows are not inside, they are outside in fields and lay milk”…brief thoughtful pause “…in a bucket”

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11/15/2104 At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote: Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl’s cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice! At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote: Back from 1936 Berlin; incapacitated FreedomFighter69 [...]

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Butter and sugar in the bottom of a moule a tarte, organised chunks of (eating) apples – coxes, granny smith etc. Cook in the oven at around 170c, and once the apples are nearly cooked, drape short crust pastry on top, back in the oven, and when it’s cooked, let it sit until cold. Serve.

Hard boil eggs, boil potatoes (good Jersey new potatoes for example); slice the tats on kitchen paper so they’re nice and dry, and let them sit so they’re cold. Fry them gently in butter and oil until nice and golden. Add a lot of double cream, salt, pepper and a sprinkle of nutmeg. Let it [...]

Oil, butter, meat, roasting dish, salt & pepper to taste. For pork: smooth french mustard, or, if you can get it, hazelnut and port mustard. The cut should be fillet, with the fat and skin cut off For beef: garlic. The cut should be corner top; pork: fillet, with the fat and skin cut off [...]

Courtesy of Gordon Ramsey. Ingredients: 400g Beef fillet, 400g Flat mushrooms, 4 slices Parma ham, English mustard for brushing meat, 200g puff pastry, 2 Egg yolks, Approx 8 Charlotte/New potatoes, 1 Clove garlic, crushed, 1 Sprig thyme, 2 large baby gem lettuce, Salt and pepper, Olive oil, Mustard vinaigrette (optional). Pre-heat the oven to 200c. Heat some oil in a large pan and quickly fry the seasoned beef all [...]

Needed: good lean beef mince. Loads of finely chopped onions, fried off in oil at a low heat until transparent without being burnt. Put them in a sieve to drain until there’s no liquid (oil, grease or water) left. Mix with the meat, add salt and pepper, bind with milk (not eggs!) added in dashes until [...]

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Automatic tag suggestions or keyword generation for text, using unsupervised semantic analysis. This example uses a fairly short block of text from Wikipedia and is for demonstration purposes supported by a hypothetical, domain-specific white list (containing in this case only two concepts: ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘complex models’. Also demonstrated is the use of ‘tag constants’ [...]

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The Australian economist, Joshua Gans, recently described a problem central to the current financial turmoil. How could he persuade his young son not to wet his pants? Informing economics through toileting

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Sweat down onion, garlic (and celery if you choose, though not essential) and one red pepper with salt, pepper, olive oil and a bay leaf; when they’re all soft, add lentils and cover with water – bring to boil and simmer for about 30-40 minutes making sure you keep topping up with water as required. [...]

2 eggs 18oz mascarpone cheese 3oz sugar 18oz sponge finger biscuits 1/2 pint strong black coffee 3-4 tablespoons of your tipple of choice (coffee liquer etc) 2-4 tablespoons of cocoa Separate yolks and whites of the eggs. Beat egg yolks and sugar until light. Beat i cheese, mixing until smooth.Whisk egg whites until stiff, but [...]

Needed: Shoulder or cheap leg of lamb (~4.5 lbs) Onions Chicken stock (2 cubes) Bread crumbs Cheddar cheese Roast the joint, and allow to cool. Put the joint in a casserole dish (you may need to saw the bone), add  in one onion (quartered), one carrot (quartered), one bayleaf, plus enough chicken stock to cover [...]

Need Lots of onions, sliced Salt, pepper, milk, nutmeg Croutons Fry off until translucent; take the soup dish you will serve in, 3/4 fill with milk, enough times for the number of servings you want, and put in saucepan. Boil the milk, remove from heat allow to cool for 15 minutes and then put the [...]

You need a big le creuset cocotte Oil Best pure pork sausage 2 Chorizo sausages per pack or ordinary sausages Curly cabbage (choux de milan / savoy cabbage) Brown off the sausages (seals them). Warm some oil in the bottom of the dish, add a layer of cabbage leaves (washed, but not dried, gives a [...]

For a small rice pudding: 1 pint / 1/2 litre of milk 4 tablespoons / 3.5 oz / about 100 grams of rice (not pudding rice, or Uncle Ben’s type ready to cook in 10 minutes rice) 1oz / 60 grams sugar 15 grams vanilla sugar Boil milk, remove soon as boiling, add the rice [...]

Another dead easy one: Chicken breasts Petit pois Double cream Rice Gently fry off the chicken breasts in a frying pan with butter and a bit of oil. Once cooked, take out the chicken breasts and put to one side, leaving the butter and oil they were cooked in in the pan. Pour in the [...]

Needed: Supermaket Carbonara sauce Bacon Pasta Cut up the bacon, and put in a frying pan with some olive oil. Fry the bacon until it’s nicely cooked (as you like it), then add in the carbonara sauce and stir until hot. Cook the pasts, mix together.

Needed: Double cream Granulated sugar Cover the bottom of the bowl with sugar to a depth of about 5mm. Fill the bowl with double cream, and whisk the cream until it can form hold it’s shape, but will slowly collapse. Don’t mix any more, or you’ll get butter. Best bet is to use an electric [...]

This is too easy: Tinned pears (with juice) Vanilla ice cream Dark chocolate, either 55% or 70% depending on your tastes Melt the chocolate in a bain marie, put in a jug on the table, people help themselves to pears, ice cream and chocolate

100g biscuits 50g melted butter 250ml cream 250g mascarpone 125g caster sugar 500g white chocolate 250g cream cheese Passion fruits This needs a fairly deep cake tin. Make a standard cheesecake base in the dish. Put the chocolate in a bain marie to melt. Whisk everything else (except the chocolate) together while the chocolate is [...]

1.5 lbs lean beef mince 2 onions, chopped 1.5 – 2 tins peeled tomatoes (chop them up) 2 table spoons Branston pickle (not the finely diced sandwich stuff) Brown off the mince with plenty of olive oil making sure it doesn’t stick to the pan (a heavy le creuset type number); mix everything else in; [...]

Courgettes, peppers (red, yellow and green), aubergine, onions, cherry tomatoes, asparagus, olive oil, garlic, chile oil, cashew nuts, mushrooms, échalotes, roasting tray, grill pan Cut the aubergines in to slices, layer them in a collander, salting them both sides as you go (this draws out the bitter liquid) and put to one side. Slice the [...]

You’ll need non-waxy, not too floury smallish (fist sized at most) potatoes, milk, double cream, garlic, salt, pepper, cheddar cheese (if you fancy it). A proper gratin dish (ceramic, oval, about 2 inches deep and a foot long – not a small shallow oval dish), and a mandolin to slice the potatoes (or a sharp [...]

This one needs the real gratin dish referred to in the gratin post – though any ceramic dish that’s about 2 inches deep will do the job. This isn’t really a quiche – the egg-milk-cream mixture is there to fill in the gaps between the filling. Inredients wise you’ll need a lots of eggs, milk, [...]

250g Chocolate (Menier Patissier), 52% cocoa (i.e. not too strong) 50g butter 2 heaped tea spoon full of icing sugar 1 shot of cointreau (circa 3-4 tbl spoons) 4 eggs Get a bowl of the right size for the mousse – large enough to accommodate the chocolate and the egg whites Melt chocolate with the [...]