bedeviled mojo slop

Here's a nice summer drink I concocted.

Ingredients:

• Absolut Citron
• Lemonade
• Splash of Triple Sec
• Splash of Cointreau
• Dash of Sweetened Lime Juice

Shake well with a lot of ice so it's real cold. After pouring, drop in a single drop of green food coloring and "Watch drink get mad!!!"

The key is having the drink real cold so that the food coloring creates these green "veins" in the drink that slowly dissipate and take over the entire mixture.

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Simpy

Simpy is a social bookmarking service. With Simpy, you can save, tag and search your own bookmarks and notes or browse and search other users' links and tags. You can be open and share your links with others, or keep them private.

Simpy also helps you find like-minded people, discover new and interesting sites, publish your bookmarks, detect and eliminate link-rot, etc.

The Simpy-Java API is part of the larger SimpyTools project that includes libraries in various programming languages, for using the REST API of simpy.com, but also a FF extension and more.

Changelog.
Download.
Javadocs.

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I present to you, Black Sheep.

An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

You can watch the trailer. Or not. I'm pretty sure I know what went on in the scene where Henry walks in on Angus (wearing no pants, exhaling smoke from a cigarette, with a sheep in the corner) and asks, "What are you doing in here?" Guaranteed most of the theater patrons watching this film will be asking themselves the same question!

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From a delicious-java bug 1718567:

Every api call actually does two requests (via httpclient due to http-auth). You can cut this down by prememptively authenticating.

client.getParams().setAuthenticationPreemptive(true);

Good to know!

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I present to you, Plane Dead.

On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris a mad scientist (Midkiff), on the run by the CIA, is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container. The flesh-eating zombie quickly starts to spread the virus, infecting many of the passengers which now will have to fight for their lives stranded in the air with no way out. (via IMDB)

Now, I love the zombie genre. They're my most favorite movies ... EVAR! Of course I'm going to see Plane Dead when it makes it into the theaters, but, unfortunately I have to call bullshit on the entire movie.

If you watch the trailer, you'll see that the infected scientist is in an ice box and is guarded, presumably by the scientist on the run. The scientist also looks to have a pretty sizable firearm in his possession. Now, in the trailer, at one point it looks like the scientist guarding the zombified scientist gets knocked out by some cargo when the plane hits some turbulent storms. But, frame-by-framing it, we see he doesn't get knocked out. And in the next scene, he's at the ready with the gun, watching the zombie scientist make its way from the ice box, only to attack him moments later.

This is all classic horror movie stupidity. But, are you telling me that this zombie unfroze that quickly to the point where it could attack and infect the scientist with the BFG? Puh-lease.

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I just finished Super Paper Mario. LOVED. THIS. GAME.

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If you've been following the Mack Dawg production, Picture This, you'll know they posted the trailer for Picture This yesterday.

After you watch the ending, you'll know the reason for the title of this post.

Either way, "the man" keeps finding ways to make me not to want it to be summer. Winter can only come soon enough!

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Lenina Chowdhary is not a mail server.

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I'll be in the Chicago area this weekend and part of next week.

Reservations already made at Spring and Alinea. The 24-course tour menu I'm having at Alinea may very well trump the 16-course menu at Jöel Robuchon. Some more information on Alinea and Chef/Owner Grant Achatz.

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Changelog
Updates
Quickstart (for new installations)
Upgrading instructions
Bugs Fixed

If you think it takes a lot to implement a Widget API, think again. At the very least, have a look at the Widget API. It's quite simple. But, still powerful as widgets have access to items like the request, response, context, etc. The widget plugin in blojsom is responsible for sending out a request to widgets for their "junk". The correct widget responds with, "I'm a get get get get you drunk ... get you love drunk off my humps." Or ... something like that. And the rest is history. The templates just need to display that "junk". I like to think of them as mini-plugins. Widgets in blojsom can also be run per-flavor. So, you can have different widgets run for your main page display as opposed to your various feeds. You can access the rendered widget templates en-masse or per-widget.

Oh, and of course there's the new Bean Scripting Framework dispatcher which would allow you to develop templates in your scripting language of choice. I've already used this plugin to develop blojsom templates in JRuby. As far as I'm concerned, the templates thing is pretty much done as far as blojsom is concerned. You can use the 20 some-odd scripting languages in BSF or JSP, Velocity, FreeMarker, WebMacro or Groovy to write templates. That's really 25 ways in which to write templates for blojsom. Yeah ... we're done here.

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Go listen to the new Nine Inch Nails album, Year Zero, online. A full two weeks before release. You may want to catch up on the whole Year Zero album on the NIN Wiki.

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Ingredients:

• Vodka
• 99 Bananas Vodka
• Nutella
• Banana (3 slices per drink)

Coat the banana slices with Nutella and drop in the bottom of the glass. Alternatively, you can swab part of the rim of the glass with Nutella. Mix the vodka and a splash of the 99 Bananas. Pour the vodka. Drink.

Enjoy!

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