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Archive for August, 2006

Making Chocolate Flapjack

Since it was pretty bad weather this afternoon, we decided to make some flapjack. It’s also Oliver’s birthday party tomorrow so it’ll be nice to have some to put out then (if there’s any left, of course!).
We put some melted chocolate on top because it didn’t appear to have quite enough sugar or calories in [...]

Why Airport Security Is Pointless

Dave Farber just posted an interesting analysis of the current airport anti-terrorism precautions on the Interesting People list.
Based on the claims in the media, it sounds like the idea was to mix H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide, but not the low test kind you get at the pharmacy), H2SO4 (sulfuric acid, of necessity very concentrated for it [...]