Recipe: Steamed Mussels
10 February 2003, 11:58 AM

I had these last night. Mmmmmmmmm.

1 tablespoon olive oil
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 shallot, chopped
1 can vegetable broth
1/4 cup white wine
1 cup water
1 chicken bouillon cube
1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon butter
1 can coconut milk
1 teaspoon dill weed
a few grinds of fresh black pepper
a pinch of kosher salt
1 pound mussels

In a large pot, saute the garlic and shallot in the olive oil until tender (about 3 minutes). Add next five ingredients and allow to come to a heavy boil. Scrub and debeard the mussels in the meantime and set aside. Add the butter, coconut milk, dill weed, black pepper and salt and allow it to come back up to a boil. Add the mussels and cover. Cook for 6 minutes or until the mussels open up. Discard any unopened mussels. Enjoy!

BUSH SIGNS ORDER AUTHORIZING CYBER-ATTACKS
(AP 7 Feb 2003) "President Bush has signed a secret order allowing the government to proceed with developing guidelines on circumstances under which the U.S. could launch cyber-attacks against foreign computer systems. The directive signals Bush's desire to pursue new forms of potential warfare -- already the Pentagon has moved ahead with development of cyber-weapons that could by used by the military to invade foreign networks and shut down radar, disable electrical facilities and disrupt phone service."

Innovation in the Dead Zone
"Devout Parsis have been leaving their dead to be consumed by the vultures and the elements for centuries. But the vultures are nearly extinct and the elements don't always cooperate. So technology takes a hand ..."

The following was the stupidest commentary I've seen in a long while:

Memory Overload
"As hard drives get bigger and cheaper, we're storing way too much."

The author complains that we're storing way too much information and archiving too much of our lives because we can't immediately consume it all. How narcissistic. Did it ever occur to this idiot that perhaps WE won't be the benificiaries of this archived information about our lives? Hey, here's a novel thought: Maybe FUTURE generations will benefit? Geez.

Man vs machine chess match ends in stalemate
"Gary Kasparov chose to draw the deciding game of his match with the computer program Deep Junior on Friday rather than push for a win and risk defeat."

In pictures: Hajj climax
Some very nice photos from the BBC, along with an explanation of the Hajj itself.

And in news about the aftermath of the Shuttle disaster: Remains of Israeli astronaut go home. *sigh* This is but the first of seven sad homecomings and funerals.

One mini-rant regarding some of the media commentary about Columbia. I'm getting tired of hearing journalists pontificate about how it took a tragedy for us (meaning everyone) to learn the names of the seven astronauts.

SPEAK FOR YOURSELVES and your journalistic guilt at deeming the space program not worth writing about! This individual has been following the space program since she was a kid, and did know the names of those astronauts *before* they died! Hell, I even knew the name of one of them before she ever went up into space the *first* time, years ago! And I'm not the only one out there. Many of my freinds have kept up with the space program, if not in detail, at least more than most journalists and political pundits have.

It just ticks me off that yet again, these types brush aside the existence of people who have long been fans of space exploration. Show me a Star Trek fan and I'll show you someone who knows what the space program is doing right now. How about all those kids following the experiments on board the shuttle? Or the people who wake up early to watch the Shuttle fly overhead as it comes in for a landing? I've got news for you "news" folks. There are people out there who CARE about science and "nerdy" things like the space program, enough so that we don't take them for granted. Perhaps you could learn a thing of two from us!

Ahem.

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