Google to publishers: Some butter for your bread

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Google print rankles publishers

Google print rankles publishers 06/05/2005 11:48 PM

Google continues to draw criticism this week. A group of academic publishers publicly criticized the search giant for alleged copyright problems to be encountered in its massive library digitization project .

(via Educause )

Google Library: Peril for Publishers?

Google Library: Peril for Publishers? 06/17/2005 07:22 PM

Google Ad Program Gives Web Publishers
Their Share

Google Ad Program Gives Web Publishers
Their Share 06/18/2004 07:05 PM
The search giant unveils a program that shares ad revenue with Web sites incorporating its search box, as well as an experimental site-search feature that tailors results to site categories.

Google Offers Search to Small Publishers

Google Offers Search to Small Publishers 06/21/2004 01:17 AM
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New Google WebSearch Program Pays
Publishers For Searches

New Google WebSearch Program Pays
Publishers For Searches 06/18/2004 03:59 PM
Source: SearchDay - Google has released two new services allowing site owners to install web search capabilities on their own sites, including one that pays....

German Publishers Plan Challenge to
Google Print

German Publishers Plan Challenge to
Google Print 06/05/2005 10:45 PM
A 6,000-member association of booksellers and publishers are reacting to Google's plans to start digitizing books in the world.

Publishers Weekly - The Amazoning of
Google? Search Firm Looks for Book
Content

Publishers Weekly - The Amazoning of
Google? Search Firm Looks for Book
Content 10/29/2003 09:10 AM
"The Amazoning of Google? Search Firm Goes the Other Way; Looks for Book Content" .. Google interested in creating a book database .. Google May Jump In On Book Text Search

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I can't believe it's not butter (dog)

I can't believe it's not butter (dog) 06/05/2004 01:00 AM
Fringe (and I do mean fringe) smut from Fleshbot:

People are still asking us for more information on those alleged Japanese "butter dog" videos mentioned in an article we posted yesterday, but all we've been able to come up with by way of related material is a gallery of two Aibo-like creatures going at it, a single CGI image which is more cutsey-sexy than icky-sexy ... and a Japanese page with ordering information for the apparently-much-sought-after butterdog sex toy (which looks more like a pig to us, but whatever). We really promise to stop looking now, though. So stop asking.

"48 Japanese Sex Lages" (toy dog smut gallery @ shibuya.cool.ne.jp)
"Butterdog" (CGI art [second row, second image] by Heaven4D @ babu.com, via Sensible Erection)
Butterdog Sex Toy (info and photo @ toyjoker.co.jp)

Lin k

"Green Butter"

"Green Butter" 03/27/2005 04:50 AM

Bullets of Butter

Bullets of Butter 02/05/2005 09:44 PM

« Runebergintortut / Runeberg cakes »

February 5th is Runebergin P�iv� and every year little bullet cakes topped with jam and rings of icing start appearing a few weeks after the Christmas holidays are over to commemorate the the national poet [who wrote in Swedish] J.L. Runeberg [Lovely website. Requires Flash]. I had never tried the cakes because I'm not particularly fond of cavity inducing sweets and Jarkko had warned me off of them. On a whim I bought a package of them at the grocery one evening and tried one for the hell of it and found it to be not too horribly sweet and rather tasty in spite of the handicap of being mass produced and subsequently a bit on the dry side.

So, I consulted my copy of Kotiruoka and was intrigued by the use of bread and cookie crumbs in the recipe. I looked at other recipes for the cakes and found them suspect by comparison due to many of them using margarine instead of butter. Unless you have serious dietary requirements which bar you from enjoying butter occasionally, any recipe for a confection that calls for synthetic fats [exception for pie crust and pastry dough] should be held suspect since they are not the same as butter and, given I'm a chemist, I consider them to be far worse for you than butter when used in moderation. Many of the recipes also omitted the gingerbread cookie and bread crumbs or tried to tart up the recipe with various other ingredients. The Kotiruoka recipes are decidedly not fancy, very traditional and trustworthy recipes. Considering just how far off the English versions are from the original Finnish recipes, it's a pity there isn't an English translation for the bible of Finnish cooking. I made four different variations, including the original and had a few willing victims taste them and pick the one they liked the best.

The Problem: Runeberg cakes are a traditional confection for Runberg's Day on 5 February in Finland. They are generally regarded to be either too dry or too sweet when rum or liqueurs are added to moisten them.

The Goal: To make a traditional Runeberg cake that is not quite so dry without resorting to adding liqueurs for moisture.

The Solution: Part of the dryness problem stems from the fact that most people rely on bakeries to provide the cakes and, especially if they are purchased in the grocery, they dry out fairly quickly in the winter air if not sealed well. The combination of bread crumbs and gingerbread cookie crumbs also soak up much of the available moisture. I went back to the classic recipe in Kotiruoka and found that it calls for jam topping before and after baking which most of the other recipes and the bakeries don't do. The jam supplies a bit of extra moisture during baking. I also added a bit of fruit juice to complement the jam of choice and to add a bit more moisture without making them soggy.

Runebergintortut - Runeberg Cakes

Makes: 12 regular or 8 large bullet-shaped cakes
Preparation time: approximately 1 hour
Special Equipment: Runeberg forms or straight-edged muffin pan [ dimensions: 5.7cm/2.3in wide and 5.5cm/2in deep ]
Source: Kotiruoka, pg. 411

Ingredients

• 150g | 1.5 sticks butter
• 1.5 dl | 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 dl | 1/2 cup ground or finely chopped almonds
• 1.5 dl | 3/4 cup wheat flour
• 1.5 dl | 3/4 cup bread crumbs [korppujauhetta] (optional: substitute 1/4 cup gingerbread cookie crumbs)
• 1 tl | 1 tsp. baking powder
• .5 dl | 1/4 cup cream
• 2 Tsp. orange juice (optional)

Decoration

• raspberry jam or marmalade
• 1 dl | 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
• about 1/2 Tsp. water

Apple-walnut variation

Substitute full fruit apple jam [chunky] in place of the raspberry, apple juice for the orange juice and use finely chopped walnuts instead of almonds.

1. Mix dry ingredients [ flour, bread crumbs, gingerbread crumbs (if used), baking powder ] together and set aside. Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well. Add cream and dry ingredients. Stir vigorously until smooth and thick. Fold in nuts.
2. Pour the batter into muffin cups or greased popover/straight-edged baking pans. Fill the cups 2/3 full [about 1/3 cup]. Press floured fingers into the batter to create a divot in the top and fill with raspberry or apple jam.
3. Bake in an oven pre-heated to 395F/200C for about 15 minutes. Remove the forms/remove from the pan and decorate the cakes when cool. Add more raspberry jam to the top of the cake. Mix the confectioner's sugar with water until it becomes a thick paste. Pour or pipe the icing into rings around the jam.
4. If gingerbread crumbs are used in the batter, you can spice it up with 1 tsp. of cinnamon and 1/2 tsp. of cloves.

The classic shape of the cakes are squat and bullet-like from the straight-edged forms [5.7cm/2.3in wide and 5.5cm/2in deep] but those less fussy about how they look may use a muffin pan with paper cups, bake-proof ceramic coffee cups/small souffle cups or even small tomato paste cans [they're smooth] with the bottom removed. Finding these special forms locally in the country where they are traditional at this time of year is surprisingly difficult. I did eventually find them at Stockmann for 2.50 euro/ea. Apparently few bother with making their own or making them with the forms. Outside of Finland/the Nordic region, the closest ready-made pan is the Nordic Ware Crown Muffin Pan. The advantage the forms have over the muffin/popover pan is that they lift off of the cakes instead of having to tease them out of the muffin pan, 6 at a time, without mangling them. If using the muffin pan, allow extra time to cool since they are a bit more fragile when they are warm.

Creaming the butter and sugar together and then adding in the eggs is, perhaps, the most important step in this recipe. I reluctantly purchased one of those Braun hand held mixers last year and have rarely used my standing mixer since. It's perfect for this job as the purpose of creaming the butter and sugar together is to get a bit of air into the mixture. The original recipe doesn't state how much of the gingerbread cookie crumbs to use but I found a 1:3 ratio of cookie to bread crumbs to be the best. After adding in the dry ingredients you will have a thick, porridge-like batter that won't ooze out from beneath the cake forms. Add the fruit juice last.

Grease the pan and forms well and pour about 1/3 cup of batter into each form. Press the batter into the form with a moist spatula and smooth the top and edges since the batter retains much of the shape after baking and it will look ragged if not smoothed out before. Place a small blob of jam on top of the batter in each cup. The directions in the original recipe call for using floured fingers to make a depression for the jam, but I didn't find that this worked very well and used a wet spoon with some success or just shoved the spoon with jam into the batter without bothering to make a divot first. I found the latter to work better since the jam didn't bubble up quite as much during baking. Once they're done baking and have cooled, decorate and eat. The cakes do travel well if packed properly and I will note that the square clear plastic boxes that some of the butter cookies are sold in [in Finland] will hold 9 cakes perfectly.

My attentive assistant and discriminating taste-tester seemed to prefer the cakes where I used the gingerbread cookie crumbs from the original recipe version although claimed that the batch I made without gingerbread but with added orange peel and orange juice tasted 'more like the Fazer' version of the cakes. I subjected 8 test subjects at work to a blind tasting with 4 samples; 3 of mine and one from a Fazer control. Again, the gingerbread cookie crumb variety was popular as was the apple variation. Interestingly, several picked the Fazer control which may be due to baseline normal for this annual traditional cake as they liked the variations very much as well. The apple variety could also be good to make all year as it's not so closely associated with Runeberg's day.

we've no money for butter...

we've no money for butter... 05/11/2004 05:57 PM
The Red Hat Society With an inspired purchase of a red fedora and a reading of the poem Warning by Jenny Joseph, one woman created what is fast becoming a movement around the world for women over fifty.

Chocolate cake and butter

Chocolate cake and butter 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
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Cannabis butter is a legal spread

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It's peanut butter math time

It's peanut butter math time 06/16/2004 03:06 PM
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Teen caught masturbating with butter in
store

Teen caught masturbating with butter in
store 03/25/2005 11:31 AM
Teen caught masturbating with butter in store Nebraska teen, caught masturbating in a grocery store and charged by police, is now a spokesperson for Imperial Margarine

How to Make Bread

How to Make Bread 03/15/2003 05:16 PM
Bread may be the staff of life, but few spend time making it. This is a shame, as bread is not that hard to make, and a simple hand-made loaf can provide pleasures beyond those of machine-made or store-bought break. This article describes how to make bread using a recipe passed from father to son.

Meat. Bread. Dog.

Meat. Bread. Dog. 10/29/2003 12:12 AM
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bread hours

bread hours 03/15/2003 05:14 PM
http://www.Breadhours.org A group of over 300 residents and merchants in California’s Bay Area has established a local currency called BREAD (a rough acronym for Bay Area Regional Exchange and Development), based on hours of work valued at $12 an hour. Through the BREAD network, which now has over $20,000 worth of currency in circulation, members can pay for dinner, carpentry, childcare, tutoring, clerical assistance or organic produce. Tired of traditional activism, founder Miyoko Sakashita wanted to create a positive local economy and “stop our resources from supporting global corporations that are not accountable to people and the environment.” Check it out at Breadhours.org

Wow! All the crusts of bread I can eat!

Wow! All the crusts of bread I can eat! 12/24/2004 12:21 PM
How much money do first-time novelists make? Author and upcoming first-time novelist Justine Larbalestier is constantly asked by aspiring writers what first-time novelists should expect in advance payment for their beloved texts. So she asked some of her author friends what they got for their first novels. The responses ranged in time from 1962 to 2004. What didn't change in all that time was the basic amount: Not much. Quoth Larbalestier: "The life of a novelist is, financially speaking, a mug's game. Enter at your own peril."

Stale Wonder Bread?

Stale Wonder Bread? 08/30/2004 02:08 PM
Rancid revenues and restatements leave the bread and Twinkies maker on the verge of bankruptcy.

Swedish woodlands butter-footgear shock
horror

Swedish woodlands butter-footgear shock
horror 11/10/2003 11:23 PM
Swedish hikers discovered 70 pairs of shoes in the woods, each pair filled with butter. No word on whether it was the very best butter.

A provincial spokesman says the buttered footwear ranges from sneakers to boots. There are even butter-filled high heels and tap shoes. Each contains about a pound of butter.

The province spokesman says they'd like to catch the person who did it and make them clean it up. He says it's going to create quite a mess when the butter starts to spoil.

Link (via JWZ)

Update: Erik sez, "It's an art project by German/Swedish photographer Boris Duhm who put the shoes on this mountain and filmed it and he will be showing it at an exhibition in Sweden in January. He forgot to tell the locals.

Dylan "like mouldy old bread"

Dylan "like mouldy old bread" 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
A few British schoolchildren were recently asked to share their thoughts on a few classic rock songs from Zepplin, Hendrix, Nirvana, et. al. with predictably amusing results: "I don't like it. It's worse than football. My dad watches football all the time and I have to leave the room. My dad went to watch football in Australia." (Cream, Sunshine Of Your Love) "This isn't singing, it's just screaming." (Led Zeppelin,...

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RIP, Twinkies, Wonder Bread, Ho-Hos,
RingDings...

RIP, Twinkies, Wonder Bread, Ho-Hos,
RingDings... 09/23/2004 01:09 PM
Xeni Jardin: Interstate Bakeries files Chapter 11. And with it, an era of American pop gastronomy may meet its end. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the carb; For in that sleep of death what Twinkies may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal Ho-Ho, must give us pause; there's the respect that makes creme-filled treats of so long life.

Link to Business Week article. But Newsday wins the best hed award: Twinkies Maker Out of Dough. (Thanks, Jim OConnor)

Update: Reader Kate says, "I read your post on the bankruptcy of the Interstate Bakeries, alluding to the fact that Twinkies have now met their end. But Chapter 11 bankruptcy is not about ending a company or specific product lines, but rather re-organizing a companies debts (Link to explanation). Although its possible that twinkies, ho-ho's and hostess pies may be gone in the near future, it is just as likely that they will remain. So in short, reports of Twinkies death have been greatly exaggerated."

Staci Kramer agrees. "It's not RIP quite yet. The company is reorganizing -- not liquidating -- and, according to the same Business Week article mentioned in your post, 'Interstate spokeswoman Maya Pogoda says the outfit plans to continue operating the rest of its bakeries and distribution centers.' I just don't want to write off Twinkies and other delicacies like orange Hostess cup cakes and Devil Dogs too soon. It would tilt the time-space contiuum."

Martha's Bread And Chocolate

Martha's Bread And Chocolate 07/19/2004 03:18 PM

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Bread Sales Down, Pork Rinds Up 30%

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Woman Gets Bread and Water for Neglect
(AP)

Woman Gets Bread and Water for Neglect
(AP) 06/08/2004 03:34 PM
AP - A woman convicted of starving her two horses was sentenced to 30 days in jail — the first three days on bread and water.

Sliced Bread (AGSSH build)

Sliced Bread (AGSSH build) 01/12/2004 01:53 AM
Documentation is going up

12-Year-Old Boy Accused Of Threatening
Allergic Teacher With Peanut Butter
Cookies

12-Year-Old Boy Accused Of Threatening
Allergic Teacher With Peanut Butter
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ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of
shoes filled with butter in woods

ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of
shoes filled with butter in woods 11/11/2003 07:06 AM
Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of shoes filled with butter in woods .. well, okay, actually it WAS butter

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Thief Gets Bread Stick Instead of Dough
(Reuters)

Thief Gets Bread Stick Instead of Dough
(Reuters) 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
Reuters - A German baker thwarted an armed robber by bombarding him with bread rolls and cakes, a police spokesman near the small western town of Wetzlar said on Friday.

Gates: Why SharePoint's the Best Thing
Since Sliced Bread

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Italy police bust mafia bread racket
(Reuters)

Italy police bust mafia bread racket
(Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
Reuters - Naples police say they have broken up a mob protection racket focused on local bakeries and flour makers.

Warm Bread - Bush's grim poll numbers.
By William Saletan

Warm Bread - Bush's grim poll numbers.
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Warm Bread - Bush's grim poll numbers. By William Saletan

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The Ekip, a pita-bread-shaped,
stubby-winged, wheel-less, unmanned ship

The Ekip, a pita-bread-shaped,
stubby-winged, wheel-less, unmanned ship 12/21/2003 06:15 AM
Flying Saucer May Yet Take Flight

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More U.S. Publishers to try for
subscriptions

More U.S. Publishers to try for
subscriptions 03/30/2005 05:12 PM
Internet versions of publications try for subscriptions.

Publishers Dueling for No. 1

Publishers Dueling for No. 1 07/19/2004 11:12 AM
Serial acquirers Reed Elsevier and Thomson are in a race to buy... everything.

Will publishers perish?

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PSP Launch Powered by Publishers

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