This David Eyre’s Pancakes recipe is ripped whole from the pages of Kids Are Natural Cooks, a cookbook I remember fondly from my childhood. Despite the fact that my name is clearly written in ink on the inside front cover, the cookbook itself is lodged firmly in the hands of my mother. Well, it’s Christmas time, so I shaln’t steal it back. But I will transcribe the recipe. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. ...

The Google/Amazon convergence continues, as Google adds book search (original) to its repertoire. It’s a step. It looks like only short excerpts of each book are stored, but Google implies full text search. There’s more interesting discussion of this, including the revenue model, over on Metafilter.

If the Gospels mashup didn’t quite satisfy your yen for Christian gaming, allow me to recommend the RPGnet thread dedicated to statting up Jesus (original). I must be in a mood this week or something.

This is the big week for Chronicle of Riddick news. Apple has a big fat Quicktime trailer, which I hear also ran in front of Return of the King, and the official site has a semi-nifty Flash animation. Despite the fact that it all looks like a Warhammer 40K knockoff, I’m still drooling. Pitcher Blacker (original) looks like the go-to site for news about the movies.

Nice little interview with David Twohy, regarding whom I am a staunch fanboy. It’s mostly about Below with a little news about the upcoming three-movie Chronicles of Riddick. (Vin Diesel was here.)

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the government may not hold Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant (original). Padilla is an American citizen. This will wind up going to the Supreme Court, I imagine.

Saith Dor: “Yeah, maybe Al Queda had a training camp in Iraq somewhere, at some point. There are militia training camps in Idaho. Does that mean that the US government sponsored the Oklahoma City bombing?”

Nobody ever blogs about good customer support. So I sent my Powerbook into Apple to be fixed on Thursday. On Saturday, I checked the repair info page, and the issue was marked as closed. This was somewhat worrisome; I had visions of my poor little laptop lost in Apple’s vast cavernous shipping bays, never to be seen again. So I called customer service. Turned out they’d fixed it the same day it got there, and dropped it back into the mail. I got it back Monday. Three business day turnaround! Go, Apple.

Supernifty site full of 1890s Boston photographs. Already used some for the entrance pages.

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