Rice is one of the world's most important crops. Chicken is one of the world's most consumed meats. (In the US to the tune of 100 pounds per person per year). Naturally, there's an large variety of combinations of the two across the world, so let's try a few! Again, as with all things culinary, this is woefully incomplete, short sighted and missing a bunch of other combinations (plus some of these combinations are seen with different meats! [more inside]
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A search index for the very-NSFW web comic Oglaf. On Mastodon, Esther talks about how she built it. [previousliest]
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"All of us came here because the world is hard, because life is hard. And we come here with our burdens to set them down."
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally accused the Indian government of involvement in the murder of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar this past June. (SLCBC) [more inside]
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Earlier this year we talked about the Me Too Movement hitting the world of Chess. Here is a depressing update. [more inside]
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Ketchup on Shawarma Waiver of Liability
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Light is an online poetry magazine that's been going since 1992. If you often think of poems as stodgy and hard to understand, you might want to give the sparkling light verse produced by their stable of poets a chance -- archives include work by Wendy Cope, frequent higgledy-piggledy (double dactyl) appearances, an "impossible rhymes" compilation including Tom Lehrer, Ogden Nash, and Roy Blount, Jr., and more. Poems reacting to current events, large and small, appear in the magazine's long-running Poems of the Week feature. [more inside]
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So let¡¯s summarize things as they stood at the beginning of this summer. I turned sixty-five, had an estimated ten or fifteen years left to live, two volumes to find, and half of volume two still to read in this grubby edition that I couldn¡¯t stand the sight of. Author Geoff Dyer on his search to find a very particular edition of Virginia Woolf's diaries.
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The Marx Brothers Duck Soup (full movie on the Internet Archive): Groucho portrays the newly installed president of the mythical country of Freedonia. Zeppo is his secretary, while Chico and Harpo are spies for the neighboring country of Sylvania. Here's your Monday Morning free thread!
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The team behind expansions for the hugely popular Terraforming Mars board game has announced that AI art is being used on the project, and this revelation is ruffling the feathers of both fans and industry competitors alike. But what's with all the fuss?
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Red States Quit American Library Association (WaPo gift link) State libraries in Montana, Missouri, and Texas have cut ties with the 150-year-old organization, and Freedom Caucus conservatives in at least ten other states are urging the same.
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Fenced off from feral (introduced) predators, these numbats are thrilling ecologists as they repopulate the Eyre Peninsula. Four juvenile numbats have been spotted at Secret Rocks for the first time, sparking new hope for the region's reintroduction program. (Includes cute photo of three baby numbats.)
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Douglas [Adams] enjoyed being a famous writer, but he loathed the process of becoming one. That entailed writing. He just hated doing it. It was hard work and lonely. He was a man who coped badly on his own; he needed company. Without it, he could fall into a kind of listless vacancy. from The Berkeley Hotel hostage [The Bookseller; ungated]
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