This is the first time I've seen Rupert Murdoch make a bad business mistake

He thinks he is big enough to do without Google: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/6559694/Rupert-Murdoch-to-remove-News-Corps-content-from-Google-in-months.html

Racism and violence (followed up from my last post)

My friends who have followed this blog for a while may have noticed the connection between my analysis of consciously foolish PC-speak in my last entry and the fierce attacks I repeatedly made on Marvel Comics' X-Men features - especially last March (http://fpb.livejournal.com/380876.html).( Read more... )

A recipe for stuffed aubergines

Just invented, and it does not have a name yet. First person who successfully duplicates it - and likes it - can have it dedicated to them.

For two persons:
One large aubergine (eggplant)
some stale bread
two raw eggs
half a cup of rice
Double concentrated tomato
Ginger, star aniseed, feugreek, paprika or chilli powder, salt

Cook the rice. Take the fresh aubergine, scoop out the flesh, and place it in a blender together with the bread, rice, eggs, salt and spices. Blend it into a paste. Smear the inside of the scooped aubergines with double concentrated tomato, and place the paste over it into them. Bake in a fairly hot oven for some forty minutes.
EDITED IN: I forgot the fenugreek! There is also some fenugreek among the spices. Anyway, where spices/herbs are concerned you can experiment.