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"Spring panzanella, a cold salad of bread, asparagus and peas. And you could do worse than digging around in the 101 Cookbooks archive—Heidi makes a lot of unique dishes that are delicious...." [
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"I use a silicone keyboard cover like one of these. The keys on my PowerBook, which is more than three years old and has pretty much never been turned off, look brand new. Added bonus: no crumbs and crap in the keyboard, either...." [
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"Have you already exhausted the non-chemical, non-bacterial possibilities? For example, you could try the Zip-It, which is pretty amazing (although make sure you steel yourself before looking at what it pulls out of the drain—I nearly barfed the..." [
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2 months ago
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"What have you changed in your life in the month since you last asked basically the same question? Have you taken any of the advice in that thread?" [
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2 months ago
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"Try "Search Inside" the book on Amazon. I searched for "quinoa" and the recipe appears on page 84. I would link directly to the page but I don't think Amazon's URLs allow for that...." [
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3 months ago
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"The second font is FF Scala. I had no trouble running it through WhattheFont after making it greyscale and pumping up the contrast." [
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3 months ago
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"I've been looking for the same thing for a long time and I don't believe it exists. Boy would I love to be out-Googled.
The closest thing I've found is Organic Valley Shelf-Stable Half and Half, but it still needs to be refrigerated once it's..." [
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3 months ago
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"jeff-o-matic, Apple's "How to Reset iPod" page isn't exactly buried; it's the first hit on Google for "iPod Reset" and the same document appears in the iPod Help (in iTunes) for the same search...." [
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3 months ago
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"This would be very, very simple to do with a PHP include, if your server supports PHP. Basically, you make a little text file (just like an HTML file) that includes the snippet of graphic/link/text, and you put an "include" tag on all your..." [
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4 months ago
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"People think I'm weird for this, but I always run a digital timer when I make tea. 3 minutes, 30 seconds? Lousy tea. 4 minutes, 30 seconds? Lousy tea. 4 minutes exactly? Completely sublime tea drinking experience...." [
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4 months ago
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"Because in a professional publication environment, linked files are assets that are used by many people in a team; the master copy of the asset is important and you don't "clone" things into your page layout document and forget about the..." [
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4 months ago
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"Not entirely what you're asking for, but Simenon's Inspector Maigret books were my favorite thing to read in French class for the reasons you mentioned--there's something about the straightforward action, crisp descriptions, and simple interrogations..." [
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5 months ago
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"Apple isn't known for enabling features on existing hardware when they have just announced new hardware that does the same thing.
Not necessarily true: After the two-finger scrolling feature was added to new PowerBooks a few years ago, it was made..." [
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6 months ago
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"Oh, sorry, you said you can already do the forms, you just want to make *reports*. You can easily do that part by building a connection to a simple Access database. The connection can be as simple as a linked table set up via the GUI or as complex as..." [
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6 months ago
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"You probably want to set the possibly-blank-field to be a sliding field. (Instructions are for FileMaker 9 but I'm sure I used this as far back as 4.)" [
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7 months ago
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"I've never really understood the "pomegranates are SO messy" thing. Maybe I just lucked upon the ideal method.
I cut the pomegranate in half (you can cut a bit in and then guide your knife carefully to cut the "pith" and avoid..." [
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7 months ago
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"Meatbomb, with all due respect, you don't get to call for "intellectual vigour" while decrying "hand waving" and "empty dramatic bullshit" after opening a thread with the white supremacy card.
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"I know you've said you visited it, but while the Temperley website has no music information, it does have contact information for PR types in both the US and the UK--no direct link since it's Flash. Call up the nearest office. The rather put-upon..." [
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"And to redeem myself: you might find something useful in a document called Bend Word to Your Will, which has tips on how to turn off all the "smart" features in Word that always get in the way--I bet some kind of "helpful"..." [
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"Could it be that you're not pressing it enough?
I press my tofu really well--slice it thinly and put a layer on some paper towels. Then another paper towel, another layer of tofu, etc. I put a cutting board on top and then put two big cans of..." [
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"Shift the bigoted thoughts to something benign. If the irritating person is wearing a pink shirt, try to get angry at Pink Shirters. It will feel sort of ridiculous but it can derail that train of thought and keep it from getting worse; it forces you..." [
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"I'm just too old to understand how any of this is even worth giving thought to.
Really, it's just a game
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"You can use the Telemarketer Counterscript, which adds more of an element of fun & interaction to Leon's suggestion of making the telemarketer less efficient.
Personally I think it's a little mean--it means that the individual wage-slave will..." [
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"Here's a bit more of an explanation:
Having been called a "sfacim" by my uncles and other relatives more than a few times in my life, I believe your reference might require more elaboration. In its original form, "sfacim" is..." [
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"I bookmarked What Should/Shall I Read Next a few weeks ago after it made the blog rounds. Worth a look." [
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"I worked for a small quick printer a decade ago. They weren't in any way environmentally savvy and weren't "hip" at all. But nevertheless we often recommended local paper, recycled paper, soy inks, etc, to plenty of customers.
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"As a former NYU student I can tell you for future reference that the easiest way to identify a shoot is to find a truck with a permit on the dash that's visible through the windshield. It'll tell you the name of the film. If it's a small shoot it..." [
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"I would die trying to use OS X with only 256mb of RAM.
My folks have a 400mhz g3 iMac that's maxed out on RAM--I want to say a gig, but I'm not sure what the max is--and it can play xvid type videos in VLC no problem if you don't really do..." [
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"The other side of this argument is- unless you're very serious about your cooking, you only need three knives: a paring knife, a 5" trimmer/vegetable knife, and an 8" chef's knife.
I'd add a single serrated bread knife to that list. But..." [
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