(ETA: This post duplicates an article at our household’s main food site (EuropeanCuisines.com) and appears here as a replacement for a blog post of 2006.) Corned beef is usually made…

Just so that everybody knows: access information for Chapter One has gone out to all TBM subscribers. The mailing list software is still acting up, so I’ve had to gang-email…

I’m formatting it at the moment, and it’ll be going up shortly. There’ll be two versions to start with — a PDF version (printable) and an HTML (web-friendly) version. After…

This guy does some of the most astonishing trompe l’oeil / spoof-the-eye chalk drawings I’ve ever seen. (I assume he has a web page somewhere, but I didn’t know where…

As someone who frequently indulges in pastimes like the writing of epic fantasy that involve the extinction of humanity (or various other important species), this button strikes something of a…

Or: How Babelfish will not necessarily solve all your translation problems (It’s a menu. But what a menu. Some of the dishes in it sound more like attack moves from…

(Just a quick note: Those of you who’ve been following the Big Meow situation may want to know that there’s a new challenge grant up and running now, courtesy of…

And before I even made it out of bed. In the inbox (because my Google address finally, inevitably I suppose, made it onto somebody’s mailing list): “Compliments and Greetings. Please…

In any given year, between about the 5th and the 17th or March, the stats at EuropeanCuisines.com go through the roof. I try to pay attention to the site, then,…

Makes perfect sense to me: Infants as young as 18 months show altruistic behaviour, suggesting humans have a natural tendency to be helpful, German researchers have discovered…. …Many scientists have…

Video: Kitten and chicken are friends! There should be a book. There should be a development deal for a series. Or a feature. Yeah, that’s the ticket… 🙂

The Housewives’ Tarot. I love the kitchen timer. I love the retro art. And the toaster on the “goodies” tab scared the cat right off the desk when it popped.…

Book jacket double mitten. And a great deal of other strange stuff. Tags: mitten, book, weird, don’t I have some work to do?

Boy, did G. K. Chesterton ever lose this round. Dutch research suggests that eating or drinking cocoa appears to lower blood pressure and even reduce the death risks for older…

My gosh, has this whole business been getting a lot of attention. Well, I should be grateful. First of all, a heads-up for those of you who’ve been following the…

Never open a book with weather. And so much more. My favorite part: 3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. The line of dialogue belongs to…

…and today, it’s not with The Big Meow, but with something else entirely… so don’t expect to hear much from me today (except distant shrieks of “What do you mean…

…and in less than thirty-six hours from the time it was proposed. Wow!! Let me briefly make plain what this means. The various Big Meow challenge grant donors (with all…

Now that he’s stepped out of the shadows on his own, I want to direct the attention of those who’re interested toward Ted Ts’o, who put up the $1000 challenge…

So (for those of you who mailed to ask) here’s the checklist for that appearance on Irish national TV, as per my predictions: (1) (Studio car lateness?) Extreme: never got…

Something has come up which is going to require another day or so to handle before I post about which way this project’s going to go. It’s not a bad…

Dear, dear. The fear of the spread of bird flu has resulted in French rugby fans being urged not to perform one of their most famous traditions when they arrive…

One theme I’ve been hearing lately in emails about the book (which have been in just about every other way complimentary) is, “I hate e-books. Please do a dead-tree version!”…

Just so that people know: I’m aware that this is the Presidents’ Day “long weekend” in the US. So I won’t be posting about the final result of my deliberations…