Googlecooking!
Jason Kottke wrote in to say that Meg's mother has invented Googlecooking: "shortly before supper time I look around for some combination of foods I've got on hand and which seem like they might go together. Then I 'google' them [...] and browse through the results until I find a recipe that appeals to me." Meg writes: "I've always wanted a database of all my cookbooks so I could do just this. It never occurred to me to use Google instead."... [Google Weblog]
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Who am I?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer New Year 1945

Who am I?  They often tell me
I stepped from my cell's confinement
calmly, cheerfully, firmly,
like a Squire from his country house.
Who am I?  They often tell me
I used to speak to my warders
freely and friendly and clearly
as though it were mine to command.
Who am I?  They also tell me
I bore the days of misfortune
equably, smilingly, proudly,
like one accustomed to win.
Am I then really that which other men tell of?
Or am I only what I myself know of myself?
Restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage,
struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat,
yearning for colours, for flowers, for the voices of birds,
thirsting for words of kindness, for neighbourliness,
tossing in expectation of great events,
powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance,
weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making,
faint, and ready to say farewell to it all.
Who am I? This or the Other?
Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?
Or is something within me still like a beaten army
fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?
Who am I?  They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!

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William Penn
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
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