Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Okonomiyaki Recipe - The hint went unhunt last time!

 

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Okonomiyaki Recipe

Ingredients
- 1 cup of Plain Flour (or Okonomiyaki Flour, if possible)
- 160ml of Water 
- 2 Eggs
- 4 cups of Cabbage, cut into strips
- 2 stalks of Green Onions, thinly sliced diagonally
- 3 strips of Bacon, cut into 6cm pieces

Optional
For Prawn Okonomiyaki:
- 10 Fresh Prawns cut into approx 1cm chunks

For Beef Okonomiyaki:
- 10 Thin Slices of Beef

For Marinara Okonomiyaki:
- 300g of Marinara mix, cut into small chunks

Toppings
- Kewpie Mayonnaise

- Okonomi Sauce (if you don't have the store bought one, you can simply make the sauce by mixing 3 tbsp of ketchup, 1 tbsp of Worcestershire sauce and 1 tsp of Soy Sauce together)
- Katsuobushi (Bonito Flakes)

Preparation:
1.In a large bowl, whisk together the plain flour and water until smooth
 2. Add Eggs, Cabbage, Onions, Shrimp (Beef or Marinara mix) and mix, but don't over mix.
 3. Oil a frying pan and add 3 pieces of bacon. Then, add Okonomiyaki mixture into the frying pan.
4. Using a spatula flatten and form pancakes until around 1.5cm thick and approximately 20cm
5. After about 3 minutes, flip over pancake and cook for another 4-5 minutes.
6. Flip pancake again and cook for another 3 minutes or until firm and well browned.


7. Remove the pancake into a plate and drizzle with Kewpie mayonnaise, okonomi sauce and sprinkle with some Katsuobushi. READY TO SERVE!

 

Epic Pool Basketball Trick Dunks


Monday, May 30, 2011

Best Guitar Tone Ever

Ted Bullpit

Windows Directory Statistics - WinDirStat

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WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows.

Please visit the WinDirStat blog for more up-to-date information about the program.

On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

  • The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
  • The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
  • The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics

 

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Snowmobile Stack

Cardboard Guitar

Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart

Dayne Rathbone - RAW comedy winnner 2011

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Dear Amelia, 

Thanks you for letting me write for an essay for Beat magazine. I usually just like writing songs all the time, but its basically exactly the same but without any music effects.

Continued here: Dayne Rathbone: (sic) | Beat Magazine

 

A Box Made From A Dried Orange Peel

Make: Online | A Box Made From A Dried Orange Peel

Here’s a link to the fantastic British brainy-toys site Grand Illusions that I’ve been hoarding for awhile, hoping to someday reproduce the process and post it as a tutorial. I have tried sun-drying several of the largest orange peels I can find on suitable forms, and have made one functional round box that is quite small and ugly compared to these.

 

Monday, May 23, 2011

Dancing Background Kid Steals Show


Essays on Political Economy

 

THAT WHICH IS SEEN,

 AND

THAT WHICH IS NOT SEEN.


"In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause—it is seen. The others unfold in succession—they are not seen: it is well for us if they are foreseen. Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference—the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen and also of those which it is necessary to foresee. Now this difference is enormous, for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favourable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Hence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil."


A very interesting read.

Essays on Political Economy/That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen - Wikisource

 

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

How Not To Get A Car Out Of A Lake


Squareeater - It made me feel sick!

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How It Works

Squareeater uses a combination of binaural beats and psychostrobic flicker effects to attempt to induce brainwave entrainment in the viewer.

Binaural beats are achieved by putting a tone in one ear of the listener and a slightly different tone in the other. For example, if the left ear is hearing a sine wave tone of 397hz (cycles per second) and the right is hearing 403hz, the brain perceives a pulse of 6hz, the difference in the frequencies.

Under ideal conditions, frequency following response occurs in brainwave functions, meaning the brain starts to function at the same frequency as the binaural stimulus. Different frequencies of stimulus correspond to different brainwave states, for example 4-7hz correspond to theta waves, a brain state associated with deep meditation or early stages of sleep.

squareeater

Monday, May 16, 2011

Saw Fish!

Gummy Bears Stop Motion

Weightlifting Stack

Clever and stupid at the same time!


A cure for cancer

 

Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.

Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.

 

This drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.

Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice

 

The 20 Funniest Moments In Michael Scott History

Michael Scott's reign as the Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin officially ends this Thursday, so we decided it was time to look back on some of his greatest comedic achievements over the over the last 7 seasons. Sure it's a tough pill to swallow, but Michael Scott will no doubt go out on top and we all know how much the show will probably suck without him... that's what she said.

 

Michael Scott's reign as the Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin officially ends this Thursday, so we decided it was time to look back on some of his greatest comedic achievements over the over the last 7 seasons. Sure it's a tough pill to swallow, but Michael Scott will no doubt go out on top and we all know how much the show will probably suck without him... that's what she said.

The 20 Funniest Moments In Michael Scott History

 

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Maggot Head

8-Year-Old Banjo Master


Kleva Sharp - fact or fiction 2. The real sharpening edition.

Seems that a lot of people are after sharp knives and the Kleva sharp won't help you out in that department. Here are some videos of how to do it properly. If you seriously want sharp knives, buy a stone and learn how to do it the right way.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Man Eats Live Scorpions

Make a $20 Ozone Generator

Make a $20 ozone generator.

Need some cheap ozone? Here's an experimental ozone generator based on readily available parts that you can build cheaply to clean up the air in your surroundings or get rid of strong odours. I think the latter will appeal to the people who grow exotic herbs in their homes, or live in damp climates where mould is a problem.

This project generally works well, but it's output depends on the components used. It's also very much a bare-bones experimental device so you build it entirely at your own risk.

Vintage Bloopers

Monday, May 09, 2011

Never ending yawn

BBC Bloopers

Dance of the Giant Continents:

In Geology, Rodinia is used to refer to a 'supercontinent' that formed and broke up in the Neoproterozoic

About 1.2 billion years ago, fragments of continental crust, pushed together by plate tectonic motion, began to assemble a giant continent.  Geologists affectionately use the term “Rodinia,” a Russian word meaning “homeland,” for this giant continent of so long ago.

Though the exact size and configuration of Rodinia are not known, rocks of ancestral North America, often called “Laurentia,”  very likely formed the core of the giant continent.   

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Artist’s conception of the supercontinent Rodinia as it began to fragment 750 million years ago.  The future North America lies in the center of the surrounding lands. The breakup of this giant continent was the beginning of Pacific Northwest geologic history. Original painting by Tomo Narashima.

 

Stuff I want - The Teacup Edition

 

Double-Lined Glass Steeping Cup, IsabellaCatalog.com

Stopping a really heavy plane - Boeing 747-8 brake test.

Friday, May 06, 2011

Four Legged Duck

Oz and James Drink to Britain

BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Oz and James Drink to Britain, Episode 1

 

Oz Clarke and James May travel through Britain and Ireland to discover the amazing array of drinks on offer for the delectation of a wine ponce and an incorrigible scruffbag. They start their journey on top of the magnificent and enigmatic White Cliffs and travel north to Yorkshire in a 1982 Rolls Royce Corniche.

Their first pint of the trip is in the Tan Hill Inn in Yorkshire, where James discovers, to his dismay, that Oz knows as much about British beer as he does about wine. Their journey then takes them to the centuries-old Fawcett Maltings in Castleford, and Thornbridge Brewery, a successful micro-brewery in Derbyshire, where they discover exactly what goes into a pint of beer.

 

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Final Meal Requests

Final Meal Requests from Death Row Prisoners in Texas
Below is an array of food like full stops as chosen by prisoners in Death Row. Follow the links to each prisoner for further information. I am no way responsible for how you use this information. The empirical summary of what you eat before execution still surprises me in that it seems to say so much and so little at the same time about our perception of the prisoner

Final Meal Requests from Death Row Prisoners in Texas « Zeitgesit Orchestrator

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