http://pong.tamu.edu/wp Shandean peregrinations through the multiverse. Y'know, stuff. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:26:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some non-traditional stuffing recipes: Spam Stuffing Sourdough Stuffing with Apples and Bacon Green Tex-Mex Stuffing Dirty Rice Stuffing Cajun Corn Bread Stuffing Artichoke, Sausage and Parmesan Cheese Stuffing Shrimp and Cornbread Stuffing Rye and Apple Stuffing Black Bean Stuffing Pineapple Stuffing Vegan Pumpkin Bread Stuffing Vegetarian Quinoa Stuffing Pear Hazelnut Stuffing Zucchini Barley Bulgur Stuffing Wild Rice and Mushroom Stuffing Italian Sausage and Grape Stuffing Sauerkraut and ... http://pong.tamu.edu/wp/?p=319 A just discovered gem on Google Books is The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes.  The volumes are: The Opening Battles Two Years of Grim War The Decisive Battles The Cavalry Forts and Artillery The Navies Prisons and Hospitals Soldier Life/Secret Service Poetry and Eloquence of Blue and Gray Armies and Leaders This set should have any civil ... http://pong.tamu.edu/wp/?p=318 Chris Floyd minces no words in a piece on the New Gulag. Punitive incarceration has been turned into a lucrative resource for private profit (and public corruption), and a political tool by which ambitious poltroons in both major parties establish their "toughness," their fitness for power in an aggressive empire. The ... http://pong.tamu.edu/wp/?p=317 The BOTD - with the title of the month - is Frank Peel's The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists and Plugdrawers (1888, 354 pp.). In the preface he writes of tracking down the still-living participants in these movements, with most having reached the age of expecting the next knock on ... http://pong.tamu.edu/wp/?p=316 Carlton Hayes' British Social Politics (1913, 580 pp.) is a collection of documents detailing the fate of the social legislation attempted by the liberals when they were swept into power in Great Britain in 1905, a situation not unlike the present situation in a land west of England.  The aristocracy ... http://pong.tamu.edu/wp/?p=314 In my continuing search for pretty pictures in Google Books, I've thus far encountered three books containing spiffy art from some very old skools: Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists (1903) Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery (1919) Mexican and Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems and History (1904) I've extracted the images from each of ... http://pong.tamu.edu/wp/?p=313 On NPR this A.M. I heard the results of a study showing that babies tend to cry in a manner that mimics the sound patterns of the native language of their parents.  The study, published in the Journal That Publishes Such Things, involved recording the newborn howls of 100 French ... http://pong.tamu.edu/wp/?p=312 The White House recently released the names on their visitor logs.  When the usual pack of frothing-at-the-mouth boneheads combed the list in a fine-toothed sort of way to detect the sort of hidden ideological crimes that can temporarily substitute for that little blue pill, they found such names as Michael ... http://pong.tamu.edu/wp/?p=311 The Canuck tells me it's the 48th anniversary of the biggest man-made thing to ever go boom.  A bit about a mostly forgotten bit of insanity known as Tsar Bomba: ... The Tsar Bomba detonated at 11:32 on October 30, 1961 over the Mityushikha Bay nuclear testing range (Sukhoy Nos Zone C), ... http://pong.tamu.edu/wp/?p=310 AbeBooks, one of my pushers, has an interesting seasonal bit about the Top Ten Ghostwritten Books.  A more interesting feature would be one listing all the writers who wrote pr0n at one time or another for the nefarious purpose of feeding, clothing and sheltering themselves. http://pong.tamu.edu/wp/?p=309