Panic Handbook

Vegetarian Chili

2016-06-06T08:18:00.000-04:00

This recipe is an enhancement of the "Country Chili" recipe on a package of "Bob's Red Mill" texturized vegetable protein (TVP). While this recipe was surprisingly good, the TVP tasting and feeling as good or better than chili recipes with beef and turkey, it didn't have enough vegetables. As it was, "Bob's" recipe would have served more than ten people which it claimed. The hardest part about

Propagation

2012-04-25T10:13:00.000-04:00

Though the stalk of wheat Which bears the most seed The farthest bends, In the end, It must loose its fruit So that others may take root.

Costner's Technology Needs Individual Initiative

2010-06-10T11:48:00.004-04:00

Since fifteen years ago, in the devastating wake of the Exxon Valdez environmental disaster, actor Kevin Costner has invested money— his own— into the development of a filter (actually a centrifuge) which can separate spilled crude oil from water... about 99

Protecting Windows from Bomb Blasts

2009-01-05T07:12:00.001-05:00

Earlier today (Monday, January 5, 2009) a BBC reporter from the Gaza related the plight of residents there. 'The bombs,' he explained, 'blow out our windows if you keep them closed.' But it's winter there now, he went on, and so having the windows open lets the cold in. This is quite a conundrum: Leave your windows open and it's difficult to keep warm. But keep your windows closed and a

Excellent Potato (and Spinach) Soup

2008-11-21T06:56:00.007-05:00

This is now my favorite soup. It's easy and cheap to make, takes about an hour, and doesn't need exotic ingredients which would require extra shopping. Like just about all of my favorite recipes, it doesn't require many utensils, so clean-up isn't a big deal. As given,

Website Optimization: The Mind Behind the Mouse

2008-10-13T17:32:00.006-04:00

One of the more effective ways to increase traffic to your website is a high ranking in web search results. Top page ranking from Google or Yahoo and others has become such a sought-after commodity, that it has spawned a minor science and a niche industry known as search engine optimization (SEO), also known as website optimization. These expressions refer to code, terms, and other elements

Hummus, a Food of Many Faces

2008-06-18T04:53:00.009-04:00

Spell it "hummus", "humus", "hommos", "hoummos", or "humous", in several languages of the Middle East from which the word comes, it means "chick peas" or, another English term for the same legume, "garbanzo beans". Transliterating words of Middle Eastern origin into English is seldom a smooth or straightforward process. Despite these vexations of spelling, and after a mere few hundred years,

Amish Friendship Bread Recipe

2007-10-10T10:48:00.002-04:00

This isn't a bread, per se, but much more like a moist, sweet cake. You certainly wouldn't make a sandwich from this "bread". General Guidelines Do not refrigerate your mix. Below room-temperatures will retard yeastbifocals stage of life, the size of the type on a page begins to become a concern. Though we can't make the characters on the eye chart at your doctor's office bigger, the characters displayed by your internet browser are largely

Death and Redemption by Poetry

2007-01-02T13:41:00.000-05:00

it's comforting to see in a world drenched in wizardry that humans still affront and offend. for despite all the IT, the Backspace and Delete key, the mouth's still beginning and end. (Uh-oh....) when writing a poem our thoughtwords can roam to find where they finally align. and there make a home where we don't really know 'em, but at least now they sort of rhyme. (Yea!) we just need a new rule

Removing an Address Book from Thunderbird

2006-12-13T07:32:00.000-05:00

Thoroughly use and test a couple dozen email programs and you'll find few better than Thunderbird. Maybe one will have an editor you like better. Maybe another is geekier, in the sense that you can navigate everywhere without touching the mouse. There may well be an email client that allows you to easily send automated emails or to

Voting by Mail: Problems and How to Avoid Them

2006-10-29T10:41:00.000-05:00

This information has been provided by Black Box Voting. See some of the work done by Black Box Voting in the new HBO special, "Hacking Democracy" which premieres Nov. 2nd and runs most of the month of November. Black Box Voting is supported entirely by citizen donations, which are tax-deductible. To donate: www.blackboxvoting.org/donate.html WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR WITH MAIL-IN VOTING

Modifying Thunderbird's Reply Header

2006-10-11T14:43:00.003-04:00

Mozilla Thunderbird is an email program which is feature rich, user friendly, and free. Brought to you by the Mozilla Foundation, it's an open source product that runs on Linux, Windows, and