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"Devil Comes Back to Georgia" - Mark O'Connor with Charles Daniels, Johnny Cash, Travis Tritt & Marty Stuart. Delightful, though you might want to focus on the music rather than the video.

(via nanaya)

I was going to paint a snotmonster for a besnotted friend, but then realised that they'd just look exactly like this:

Some of the feeds I follow on DW:

andrew_hickey_feed: Andrew Hickey's blog - politics, music, and fiction.

andrew_rilstone_feed: Andrew Rilstone's blog - thoughtful political essays (some of the best I've found on the 'net), religious musings and enthusiasm about folk music.

complicity_blog_feed: Zoe O'Connell's blog - "A blog about Liberty, Equality and the Internet"

doonesbury_arcamax_feed: Syndication of the long-running American political comic strip by Gary Trudeau.

gerv_blog_feed: Gerv is a friend from university days and a Mozilla developer. His tech-y posts are interesting.

got_medieval_feed: A blog about the mediaeval world, with copious pretty/whimsical examples of texts, and snark about the representation of the Middle Ages in the modern world.

guardian_cryptics_feed: Guardian Cryptic Crosswords, daily.

jesus_and_mo_feed: Somewhat gratuitous theism-bashing. Variable quality between crass and insightful.

julian_huppert_twfy_feed: What the MP for Cambridge says in Parliament. I expect that most UK readers will want to follow their own MP rather than my MP. (I can make DW feeds from RSS feeds on request)

kamikaze_cookery_feed: Bunch of crazy and innovative cooks from Edinburgh.

languagelog_feed: Excellent blog written by a set of professional academic linguists. Accessible and light-hearted but informative.

newstechnica_feed: Satirical news site.

not_rocket_science_feed Ed Yong's write-ups of new advances in science. Biology-focussed, and way way way better than any summaries you'll find in the mainstream press. Accessible to non-biologists.

oots_feed: Order of the Stick cartoon strip - RPG-based comic. I recommend reading from the beginning.

phd_comics_feed: Postgraduate satire.

stickerscentralline_feed: Stickers on the Central Line. Far too silly.

textsfromwestminster_feed: Texts From Last Night meets pictures of parliamentarians.

tim_harford_feed: Interesting economics blog by Tim Harford, whom I mainly know as the presenter of Radio 4's More or Less and the author of The Undercover Economist.

uk_polling_report_feed: All the polls on UK politics, with helpful non-sensationalist commentaries. It's nice to get summaries with "this is probably just statistical noise" rather than the headlines the newspapers put on polls.

vintagecookbooktrial_feed: Recipes from dated cookery books, cooked, photographed, and commented on.

xkcd_feed: You all follow XKCD anyway, I know.

I've been going on about sourdough for a bit. I've been using this method, with starter got from kht.

I find this less time-consuming than traditional bread-making - the flexibility of being able to leave the dough for almost-arbitrary periods means I can knead it and bake it whenever I have a spare few minutes rather than when the protocol demands. It produces a tasty bread, rather more flavourful than bread made with yeast alone.

Notes: One rising seems to work, though I'm still experimenting with that. I often make the bread now in silicone loaf tins, which work well; putting too much dough in tins inhibits the rising as it collapses under its own weight, so making shallower loaves is often easier. Covering with clingfilm stops drying well, but also inhibits rising if the film is in contact with the dough. The bread goes very well with home-pickled eggs.

If anyone (who's going to see me soon) wants some starter, let me know.

(This post follows andrewducker's plea to Just Post More Stuff. Now it's your turn!)

I am cross, partly at myself. It seems that many of the pizza companies, supermarkets, charities depositing plastic bags, and the like through my letterbox in defiance of the "No junk mail, no free newspapers" sticker were not employing annoying casual deliverers but were instead using the Royal Mail, whose employees are under strict orders to ignore such signs. They have an opt-out procedure, which is somewhat tedious. Basically, you email them, they email you a form, you print it, sign it, send it back. After two years, they start sending you junk again without giving you a reminder.

I'd like to know if they'll respect forms sent in by people that haven't sent emails requesting forms explicitly. I've put the form here, if you'd be willing to try this and let me know if it works! (it's Freepost)

The email you're certifying that you've read and understood is the tedious:( Small print )

I'd also be interested if anyone has any ideas how to make this process more streamlined. Ideally the sort of enter-your-address-and-click-OK thing that the MPS has would be nice.