Mmmm….Bacon….

Mmmmm…..chocolate…. Heh. I’ve had this brand of chocolate (Vosges). It was waaaay to expensive. But this, I may actually fork out the $6.00 for, because what have you lived for in life, if you have turned your back on the ability to taste “Mo’s Bacon Bar”? (Via Accidental Hedonist)

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Evening at Wagah.

Pakistan is a Muslim nation that split off from India in 1947. Wagah is a border crossing, in fact the only road crossing the border, between the two nations. Wearing ceremonial clothing that seems to mock the former British colonial rule than anything else, representatives perform a host of ridiculous postures and walks as the

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Dagnabbit!

A 2003 SF movie, Primer, explores what might happen in a quantum universe if a time travel machine were invented. AAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!! This is exactly what happens when you don’t write the novel when you first think of it. I’ve been pondering this since 2001! And, to add insult to injury, it looks like exactly the

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Robert Jordan Dead.

Robert Jordan,* writer of the Wheel of Time series, died yesterday of a heart disease (cardiac amyloidosis). Until about book eight or so, I would reread the entire series — all over again — before tackling the next book, but, with each book approaching 1000 pages (at a minimum), I wore out. I had to

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Passport Update

The Department of Homeland Security will begin enforcing a law starting October 1st that anyone who wishes to leave the U.S. must have a passport. Am I missing something, or is this new? And how many people on the “no fly” list — or people who have names like people on the “no fly” list

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