Cooking With Richard

A thing of beauty …

Not only is he our national treasure, but turns out he’s an avid netizen too.

VideoJug: Stephen Fry: The Internet

(from this weeks B3ta newsletter)

Skip to the second part of this video (or watch all of it — it’s quite fun) to see Lee Krasnow demonstrate an amazing puzzle box.

More here

Also these appeal to my mathematical nature:

Shame that they cost $400. Actually with the state of the dollar these days, that’s not really very much money.

(Previously, Katamari in real life)

These are quite cool, but can we eat them?

Funny video about what happens in men’s toilets. A lot of this stuff is true …

Click here to watch the video …

What’s very interesting about this short film from my point of view is that it was made entirely in Sims 2 (a computer game). The technique is called Machinima. Most films will be made this way in 10-20 years time, assuming the copyright cartel don’t have their way and destroy the internet and copying.

This is freaky …

Wikipedia has a page explaining how magic sand is made. 日本語で。

Update: Arcade games in … food:

(from http://eatpes.com/game_over.html)

A few odds and ends to clear up tonight.

First off, I made Bread and Butter Pudding for the first time ever, and it came out absolutely superb. The recipe is from Mary Berry. Could have perhaps done with 10-20% more milk+egg mixture to make it looser.

Tim Hunkin is an inventor, genius and writer. He wrote a series of cartoons entitled Almost Everything There Is To Know for the Observer during the 1980s. It lives up to its name. This is what it has to say about snails (click to get a super-sized version):

Circulus, in video:

Long long ago, in a land far away about 10 years ago I used to work with an extremely talented chap called Charlie Muirhead. He was young, good looking etc etc and therefore had lots of talentless blonde female friends. One day two of them called me up about some pointless waste of the web shopping site which they had got their rich daddies to buy for them. They wanted me to fix it for them the day before it was going to launch, and that’s a long story in itself. Well, fuck me if Trinny and Susannah didn’t become a lot richer and more famous than me soon after.
To add insult to injury, I can’t even go into to kitchen without seeing their talentless ugly faces:

I’m somewhat dubious about this video of cornstarch apparently being stimulated by high frequency waves. Anyhow, that doesn’t stop me from posting it here:

And here is someone building a motor by hand from just some copper wire, a magnet, some paperclips and a power supply: