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Filmaker Robert Rodriguez shows you how to make “Puerco Pibil (aka Cochinita pibil)“. A fine Mexican dish. As the man says, learn to cook because “Not knowing how to cook is like not knowing how to fuck”. (special thanks to Vincent van den Heuvel for transcoding this video) The recipe: For reference, the recipe for Puerco Pibil given here is: 5T whole annato seeds 2t whole cumin seeds1T peppercorns8 whole allspice seeds1/2t whole cloves Grind the above in a spice mill/coffee grinder. 2 habanero chiles, stems and seeds removed, chopped 1/2 cup orange juice1/2 cup white vinegar2T salt8 cloves garlic […]

Now here’s an idea: why not find the next US president the “Idols” way? Yeah just let them sweat before a jury (you) and tell you why they should be elected the next president 🙂 The American Idols of Politics.. Check out: www.youprez.com and all the YouPrez entries so far.

666 Say you want to call the devil. What number do you dial? Yup, you guessed it right: 666-6666. And even the devil has to pay his telecom bills: some Arab guy payed $2,75 million to get the devil’s number. Oh, yeah: off course it’s a mobile number and you’ll have to dial +974 first because the owner lives in Qatar. Hmm… Oil & the devil they sure make a good combination.

Now here is a very interesting documentary for you: It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert? Copyright © 2006 Sony Pictures Classics Check out the trailers: Trailer 1Long version Anyone who knows me, knows I’m into conspiracy theories. Well, I believe there are already alternatives to oil out there. Like […]

iDon’t Halleluja! Someone had the balls to stand up against the total conformity and iTatorship of the Apple iPod!. Don’t be a follower! Be a trendsetter! Yeah! I have four words for you: I LOVE THIS COMPANY… Yeah!!! Ahum. Seriously now. Although I feel a lot for the message that iDon’t.com sends out – basically: there is more than the iPod – it is off course not to be taken serious because SanDisk is behind it. That’s right: the company from the memory cards for your, uhm, MP3 player or camera. Allrighty. So they now enter the MP3 player market […]

Bad weather I have been sick for four days now: and it sucks. I haven’t had a bad cold (or influenza) like this in at least 2 years. So I am not used to being sick any more. It started last Thursday: after a few hours at work I started to feel my throat. The next day (Friday) I din’t even feel like getting out of bed, but I did anyway. At the end of the day I was glad I could go home and start my weekend. Well, when I woke up Saturday morning I knew I was sick […]

Ayaan Hirsi Magan Say someone comes to your country to ask for political asylum. In order to get it there a few criteria provided by law that you need to meet. These criteria are pretty straightforward and leave no room for discussion. Among them: your real name, real date of birth, the country you come from is on a list of countries that are known to violate human rights and you should apply for political asylum in the first country in which you arrived when you fled your own country. These are the rules and they are pretty simple, right? […]

Score: 1:0 While I was in Rome, Italy stuck with all the crappy Italian TV without any decent news, I missed the news of Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs scoring a home run against Apple Corps, the Beatles’ record company. Since I wrote about it earlier and I hate it when people do not follow up on stuff, I just had to write about it – even though it’s old news by now. The battle was over the question whether iPods and iTunes will still be allowed to carry an Apple logo. Justice Anthony Mann ruled that the computer company used […]

This is really funny! Even the BBC goofs up big time. They mistook a cabdriver for an IT-expert. Live, on TV. The look on the guys face when they mention his (wrong) name: priceless (for everything else: Mastercard). Check out the whole story: A computer expert has described his astonishment at seeing the BBC’s 24-hour news channel interview a taxi driver – in the mistaken belief it was him. Guy Kewney – a white, bearded technology expert – was astonished to see himself appear on screen as a black man with an apparent French accent. He was even more shocked […]

Out of control. That is the only way I can describe the efforts of Bush to get information about ‘terrorists’ by spying on his own citizens. No matter how he tries to defend it, he is just taking everything one step to far. The worst thing is that he really believes he has the authority to step over every boundary there is. His latest venture: letting the NSA try to get their hands on all the phonebills from the major telco’s. USA Today reported last Thursday that the NSA was building a database with the help of three major U.S. […]