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The best buttermilk pancake recipe we know of is in the August 2009 issue of Cook's Illustrated. They even call it that.

Anne and I, and several other of our friends from yoga, went to salsa lessons last night.

The good news is that many things were easier than when we did swing lessons, since I already had some good habits from that experience.

Still, I really wanted to, I dunno, so some silly backbend as it to prove that while I may be absurdly incompetent as a dancer, I am able to do plenty of other impressive stuff. Somehow I resisted.

So, I'm not sure I buy it just being a 15-minute survey, but NYU is doing a comprehensive survey concerning the election. I think the survey itself was pretty well balanced, though shoehorning my positions into a number was, as always, a bitch.

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Nor have I worked in an office for years. This is why I probably hadn't heard of PowerPoint Karaoke. I would have to have an awful lot to drink beforehand. Still, sounds a hell of a lot more fun than the regular sort.

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The OpenStomp Coyote-1 is now shipping.

It's a clever idea–most guitar pedals are just software these days, why not have one where you can blow new programs onto it when you want. Especially when it's heart is an 8-core processor targeted at the application in question.

The question is, will the community that it needs in order thrive come into existence. Since the software for managing it is currently Windows-only, I don't expect to find out any time soon.

Still, interesting.

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This cartoon does an amusingly spot-on job of showing the tensions that seem to inhere in the software development process.

A tire swing indeed.

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