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where skin porn and food porn collide

where skin porn and food porn collide 03/23/2005 10:09 AM

It's fun to use google and see what it returns when searching for 'sticky buns' as, well, the imagination is a poor substitute for reality. When food and skin porn collide it gets fairly ugly pretty quickly. Sticky buns are likely the source of inspiration for the Finnish bostonkakku which are served like a pie rather than the individual buns. One of the guys at work quipped that it is served this way because you can feed 20 instead of 8 people.

I figured that since I was making dallaspulla that I'd make the inspiration for texaspulla and bostonkakku so that my test subjects would know just what they had been missing all these years. :) The dough is a snap to make even without a mixer and is much easier to work with than the pulla dough. The only drawback is the time spent waiting for the dough to rise. With a four-day weekend approaching where absolutely nothing will be open and we'll likely have crappy weather given that it's a holiday, what could be better than making a pan of sticky buns and eating them instead of chocolate eggs? These are, by far, the best cinnamon rolls I've ever made and my test subjects consumed them in a shark chum feeding frenzy. Two guys even asked me for the recipe.

Sticky Buns, a.k.a. caramel rolls or cinnamon rolls

Makes: 12 sticky buns
Time: ~30 minutes prep, 3 hours for dough rising
Source: Cook's Illustrated

This recipe has four components: the dough that is shaped into buns, the filling that creates the swirl in the shaped buns, the caramel glaze that bakes in the bottom of the baking dish along with the buns, and the pecan topping that garnishes the buns once baked. Although the ingredient list may look long, note that many ingredients are repeated. Leftover sticky buns can be wrapped in foil or plastic wrap and refrigerated for up to 3 days, but they should be warmed through before serving. They reheat quickly in a microwave oven (for 2 buns, about 2 minutes at 50 percent power works well); they can also be put into a 325F/175C-degree oven for about 8 minutes.

Dough

• 3 large eggs at room temperature
• 3/4 cup buttermilk (2 dl piima) at room temperature
• 1/4 cup (.5 dl) granulated sugar 
• 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt 
• 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast  (1 packet sunnuntai dry yeast)
• 4 1/4 cups (10,5 dl) unbleached all-purpose flour, plus additional for dusting work surface
• 6 tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm

1. In bowl of standing mixer, whisk eggs; add buttermilk and whisk to combine.
2. Whisk in sugar, salt, and yeast.
3. Add about 2 cups (5 dl) flour and butter; stir with wooden spoon or rubber spatula until evenly moistened and combined.
4. Add all but about 1/4 cup (1/2 dl) remaining flour and knead with dough hook at low speed 5 minutes.
5. Check consistency of dough (dough should feel soft and moist but should not be wet and sticky; add more flour, if necessary); knead at low speed 5 minutes longer (dough should clear sides of bowl but stick to bottom).
6. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface; knead by hand about 1 minute to ensure that dough is uniform (dough should not stick to work surface during hand kneading; if it does stick, knead in additional flour 1 tablespoon at a time).
7. Lightly spray large bowl or plastic container with nonstick cooking spray. Transfer dough to bowl, spray dough lightly with cooking spray, then cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap.
8. Set in warm, draftfree spot until doubled in volume, 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

Caramel Glaze

• 6 tablespoons or 85g unsalted butter 
• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream 
• 1 pinch table salt 

1. Meanwhile, combine all ingredients for glaze in small saucepan.
2. Cook over medium heat, whisking occasionally, until butter is melted and mixture is thoroughly combined.
3. Pour mixture into nonstick metal 13- by 9-inch (33cm x 23cm) baking dish.
4. Using rubber spatula, spread mixture to cover surface of baking dish.
5. Set baking dish aside.

Cinnamon-Sugar Filling

• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 
• 1 pinch table salt 
• 1 tablespoon or 15g unsalted butter, melted
• Raisins (optional)

1. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in small bowl.
2. Mix with a fork until thoroughly combined, using fingers to break up sugar lumps.
3. Set aside.

To assemble and bake buns:

1. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface.
2. Gently shape dough into rough rectangle with long side nearest you.
3. Lightly flour dough and roll to 16-inch x 12-inch (40cm x 30cm) rectangle.
4. Brush dough with 1 tablespoon melted butter, leaving 1/2-inch border along top edge; with butter remaining on brush, brush sides of baking dish.
5. Sprinkle filling mixture over dough, leaving 3/4-inch border along top edge; smooth filling in even layer with your hand, then gently press mixture into dough to adhere. Add rasins if you desire.
6. Beginning with long edge nearest you, roll dough into taut cylinder.
7. Firmly pinch seam to seal and roll cylinder seam-side down.
8. Very gently stretch to cylinder of even diameter and 18-inch (45 cm) length; push ends in to create even thickness.
9. Using a serrated knife and gentle sawing motion, slice cylinder in half, then slice each half in half again to create evenly sized quarters.
10. Slice each quarter evenly into thirds, yielding 12 ~1.5 inch (3,75 cm) buns (end pieces may be slightly smaller).
11. Arrange buns cut-side down in prepared baking dish.
12. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and set in warm, draft-free spot until puffy and pressed against one another, about 1 hour.
13. Meanwhile, adjust oven rack to lowest position, place pizza stone (if using) on rack, and heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.
14. Place baking pan on pizza stone; bake until golden brown and center of dough registers about 180F/82C degrees on instant-read thermometer, 25 to 30 minutes.
15. Cool on wire rack 10 minutes; invert onto rimmed baking sheet, large rectangular platter, or cutting board.
16. With rubber spatula, scrape any glaze remaining in baking pan onto buns; let cool while making pecan topping.

Pecan Topping

• 3 tablespoons or 50g unsalted butter 
• 1/4 cup (.5 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
• 1 pinch table salt 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract  or vanilla sugar
• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) pecans or walnuts, toasted in a skillet over medium heat until fragrant and browned, about 5 minutes, then cooled and coarsely chopped

1. Combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt in small saucepan and bring to simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally to thoroughly combine.
2. Off heat, stir in vanilla and pecans until pecans are evenly coated.
3. Using soup spoon, pour heaping tablespoon of nuts and topping over center of each sticky bun.
4. Continue to cool until sticky buns are warm, 15 to 20 minutes.
5. Pull apart or use knife to cut apart sticky buns; serve.

US rules all porn is child porn

US rules all porn is child porn 06/24/2005 04:04 PM
Prove otherwise

What I look like at the moment...

What I look like at the moment... 01/07/2004 04:47 PM

A very recent picture of me trying to look serious. I shall shortly add this to my ongoing visual Brief History of Tom.

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"Moment of Zen "

"Moment of Zen " 06/07/2004 06:54 PM

His Moment in the Sun

His Moment in the Sun 06/19/2004 12:18 PM
An ardent amateur clarinetist, he had long admired the virtuosos of the New York Philharmonic. Then, one night, he took his place among them.

Moment of couture zen

Moment of couture zen 02/05/2005 09:25 PM
Xeni Jardin: The caption for this Reuters photo by Max Rossi reads, "A model presents a creation from Italian fashion academy students for their Spring/Summer 2005 Haute Couture collection, during Rome's Fashion Week." IANAFD (I am not a fashion designer), but I say -- keep studying, guys.

Link to full-size. I'm not sure why, but it sort of reminds me of this NSFW painting by surrealist artist Rene Magritte, Le Viol (The Rape, 1934): Link.

Here's another interesting image from the same collection: Link. (Thanks, Susannah Breslin).

A moment for parents

A moment for parents 12/24/2004 01:06 PM
With some trepidation, I've posted "Now Go To Damn Sleep," doggerel for the worn-out parent. Here's the beginning: My angels, now, it's to your room To dip into sleep's stream And let your parents' life resume. Fast forward to your dream. What's that you say, my angels dear? The day has not run out? Tonight you just must-see ER? And then the title bout? Oh my dears, my little mites, Walt Disney's themed your beds. And if you're good and very quiet I'll tell my day instead. Oh, Mikey, Sal and Ted please hear The story I have to tell...

Moment of Cy Twombly zen

Moment of Cy Twombly zen 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Xeni Jardin: From a New York Times article on a retrospective of the artist's work in Houston:

He sat facing the gallery's largest painting, an allegory of Orpheus' trip to the underworld, 13 feet high and a whopping 52 feet long. Painted between 1972 and 1994, it has been called by assorted names, including, "Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor" - a reference to the Roman poet who, like Mr. Twombly, deftly mixed learned allusion and earthy expression.

With evident pleasure, the artist recounted the painting's effect on a young Frenchwoman who visited the gallery some years ago. The lone guard found her standing in front of the vivid whorls, scattered verses and bright splatters of color, totally nude.

"Right here in this room!" Mr. Twombly affirmed. He was delighted, he said. "Wouldn't you be? That's pretty good. No one can top that one. Come on. How many people ?"

His words then evaporated like the mysterious markings that twitter across his works before seemingly lifting off and wafting away.

The guard, Guillermo Leguizamon, recalls gathering his wits and telling the museum visitor, "I can admire your beauty, madam, but if you don't put on your clothes, you'll be more famous than Cy Twombly himself." She dressed and departed, leaving a message in the guest book: "The painting makes me want to run naked."

Li nk (thanks Susannah Breslin!)

Moment of Brian Eno Zen

Moment of Brian Eno Zen 04/01/2005 12:24 PM
Xeni Jardin: "The advantage the popular arts have is that they are not ideologically proud."

Link to the 10-year-old interview from which this was snipped. (via Warren Ellis)

That magic moment

That magic moment 03/26/2005 09:34 AM

Here's a photo James Hong shot at PC Forum. As James describes it:

I HAD to take a picture of this potentially historic moment.. Kim Cameron (Microsoft) and Mitchell Baker (Mozilla) discussing the possibility of cooperating on Open Identity!! Do it guys!! It'll change the world and make the Net feel safe again.

Craig Burton has his own version of the story.....

Doc Searls arranged a meeting yesterday beween Mitchell Baker and Kim Cameron to discuss the possibility  of Mozilla supporting Kim's Open Identity System. Since the meeting was at the PC Forum, and I live in Scottsdale, I was lucky enough to be sitting at the table during the event. It was so cool when Mitchell groked what Kim was proposing.

Of course she didn't make any commitments, but it was obvious that her wheels were turning. I think history was made. Wouldn't it be cool if Firefox supported Kim's Open Identity System, It felt like a real magic moment.

If I were Mozilla, I would jump all over it!

Later: James Hong was also there and took a photo of the moment. He posted the uri in the comments but I thought it should be up front. Thanks James!

And Doc puts it this way (on his IT Garage):

If you're wondering about the power of podcasting, stay tuned for what's happening to bring identity to the suite of Internet services. (for details on the meaning of that phrase, see Craig Burton's Internet Services Model). Back on December 31, Steve Gillmor convened a Gillmor Gang podcast of a conversation about identity. On the 'cast were Craig, Kim Cameron, Dave Winer, Drummond Reed, Marc Canter, Bryan Field-Elliot, Phil Windley and myself. (For more background on the 'cast, see this post here.) There were so many on the 'cast that it became known as The Gaggle.

The conversation continued, to say the least.

So in other words - if you ever wondered whatever happened with FOAFnet and my identity efforts, I've been working the back channels, insider games and politics of the Commons - trying to make sure everyone was talkng to each other.

Our own solution is Sxip Networks - but anyone should be able to use their own solution, and plug into a 'identity backplane' that.....

OOoppps - we're still not ready to announce - yet. Stay tuned till DIDW in May. It'll be big.

The only bummer was that Dave Winer wasn't there. His concerns on Microsoft drove us to create this 'bottoms up' effort. Clearly MS will worry about the top-down ramifications of their actions, but 'we're' helping them - from the bottom up.

Maybe Dave can come to DIDW this year?

A moment for the Iraqis

A moment for the Iraqis 06/28/2004 11:55 AM

Daddy Moment

Daddy Moment 03/27/2005 01:00 AM
You only get maybe one of these per child and, like they say, “You never forget�...

Consider This Our Safety Moment

Consider This Our Safety Moment 05/06/2004 07:13 AM
If you're going to have an accident with a nail gun, try not to do it six times.Isidro Mejia, 39, had four nails penetrate his skull -- three went into his brain -- in the April 19 accident, according to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center. Another of the nails lodged...

Monkey of the moment

Monkey of the moment 04/03/2005 07:58 AM
Los Angeles Times Apr 3 2005 11:05AM GMT

The iPod Moment

The iPod Moment 06/04/2004 11:46 PM
“From the moment I saw it, I was stunned,” says Moby of the iPod in Rolling Stone’s current cover story, “50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock & Roll.” The story continues, “By the end of 2003, the iPod has become a cultural phenomenon. Close to 3 million of the devices have now been sold, and they’re expected to soon outsell portable CD players… ‘I never used to see people walking around listening to music on the streets,’ said Moby. ‘Now everywhere I go, I see the iPod’s white headphones.’”[Jun 4]

Senior moment

Senior moment 05/06/2004 05:38 PM
I’m too young to have senior moments like this!

- (void) setDirty: (BOOL) fl {
 flDirty = YES;
 } /*setDirty:*/

Moment of protest-art zen

Moment of protest-art zen 03/13/2003 01:00 PM
"A carnival float shows paper mache figure of German conservative opposition leader Angela Merkel emerging from the buttocks of Uncle Sam during the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in Duesseldorf, March 3, 2003. Merkel has strongly criticized the German government's anti-Iraq war stance and recently visited Washington. The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz and Duesseldorf are the highlight of the German street carnival season. " Link, Discuss, (Thanks, JP!)

What's your lowbrow moment?

What's your lowbrow moment? 07/02/2004 01:42 AM
"I enjoy life most when I have a boner." Lowbrow.com is back after a brief period of downtime. The format is extremely simple -- read one randomly selected Lowbrow Moment, hit reload, read the next one. What's Lowbrow about? It's about hard-earned street wisdom and raunchy sex; it's about drunken violence and heroic feats of masturbation. If your life is particularly Lowbrow, feel free to share, but beware of imitators.

MOMENT OF SILENCE

MOMENT OF SILENCE 06/01/2004 06:37 PM
PBS-1 hour agoIt occupied a certain corner of the mind, yes, but there were other things: An epidemic of obesity, the end of "Friends," Google going public, a fiercely ...

Song of the Moment

Song of the Moment 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
Tim Wilson - Booty Man

Moment of Zero-G zeitgeist

Moment of Zero-G zeitgeist 09/25/2004 01:15 PM
Xeni Jardin: An off-color web cartoon about Zero-G pleasure flights that suggests exactly what you'd expect from an off-color web cartoon about Zero-G pleasure flights.

Link< /a> to cartoon, and Link to related BoingBoing posts on Zero-G Corporation's parabolic joyrides. (Thanks, Rob O)

A moment of sanity

A moment of sanity 06/24/2005 07:55 PM
Dangermouse is out on DVD. You've got to know that there's something essentially right with the world when this is true....

Moment of self-Googling zen

Moment of self-Googling zen 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Xeni Jardin: WTF is this? Shouldn't I be getting royalties? Or at least, like, foot massages from these bare-chested, Flash-animated hunkazoids? I am sooo calling my bare-chested, Fabio lookalike attorneys right now. Link to www.xeni.jp

EU counts down to historic moment

EU counts down to historic moment 04/30/2004 04:52 AM
Ten new countries, most of them ex-communist states, join the EU at midnight - marking the biggest expansion in its history.

Proud Parent Moment

Proud Parent Moment 05/26/2004 01:09 AM

Mr. Man made the baseball all-star team! Not only that, the all-stars coach told us that Brent has gotten a reputation in the league as "the home run king." Congratulations, Brent!

Getting in on Google: The moment of
truth

Getting in on Google: The moment of
truth 08/19/2004 05:02 PM
AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Aug 19 2004 9:54PM GMT

Mars & The Teachable Moment

Mars & The Teachable Moment 05/10/2004 01:01 PM

Boston's Biotech Moment

Boston's Biotech Moment 12/14/2003 05:41 AM
Boston Globe Dec 14 2003 5:10AM ET

Moment of random Flickr zen

Moment of random Flickr zen 04/08/2005 12:54 AM
Xeni Jardin: I stumbled accross this photo just now on Flickr when I was logging in to retrieve a message, and loved what I saw.
Link

Best Alton Brown moment ever

Best Alton Brown moment ever 06/02/2004 03:17 PM

The fact that 'Dr' Phil has the number 1 cookbook on Amazon.com makes me want to end it all.
posted by Alton Brown, 7:38 PM

Death: The Decisive Moment

Death: The Decisive Moment 08/05/2004 05:44 PM

« Henri Cartier-Bresson behind his Leica. »

I heard the news that Henri Cartier-Bresson died while we were in Prague. His style was distinctive and his aloof intimacy with those he captured on film are a precious record of the passage of life where he happened to chance upon it. Documentary photography has always produced the most interesting photos because they tell a story and he wasn't just a photographer, he was a brilliant storyteller. The Guardian has a story about his life and Magnum has a retrospective in photos. May he rest in peace and his immortality be assured in his photographic stories for generations to come.

I'm worn out from 4 days in Prague where it was warm and mobbed by tourists and tourist traps. Note to self: next time, visit in the winter when it will still be warmer than Helsinki and have far fewer tourists. It was good to see the familiar Finnish landscape below the wing as we were landing, but I want to know why Finns seem to have this rather odd habit of applauding the piot upon touchdown since the pilot can't hear them and, well, I'd prefer no encores. Judging by the sea of lost baggage at Vantaa, it's good we didn't return yesterday when there was a baggage handlers 1-day strike. I'll have the photos developed and will write more detail on Prague in a few days.

A Welcome Moment of Political Civility

A Welcome Moment of Political Civility 06/15/2004 12:29 AM

Just watched the unveiling earlier today of the White House portraits of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The former and current presidents spoke with grace and good will, a rare moment of civility in a time of harsh, ugly partisanship. My favorite moment in Bush's speech was this:

"The years have done a lot to clarify the strengths of this man. As a candidate for any office, whether it be the state attorney general or the President, Bill Clinton showed incredible energy and great personal appeal. As chief executive, he showed a deep and far-ranging knowledge of public policy, a great compassion for people in need, and the forward-looking spirit the Americans like in a President. Bill Clinton could always see a better day ahead -- and Americans knew he was working hard to bring that day closer."

And from Clinton:

"Most of the people I've known in this busines -- Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals -- were good people, honest people, and they did what they thought was right. And I hope that I'll live long enough to see American politics return to vigorous debates where we argue who's right and wrong, not who's good and bad. My experience is that most of the people I've known in this work are good people who love their country desperately."

Moment of sex tech patent zen

Moment of sex tech patent zen 12/30/2004 04:48 PM
Xeni Jardin: US Patent Office - US 6,751,348 B2 - Automated detection of pornographic images. Or is it, "automatic detection of erogenous zones"? Link (spotted also on Fleshbot)

A funny moment at ETech

A funny moment at ETech 02/11/2004 09:50 PM
I'm sitting behind Cory Doctorow at ETech listening to some guy drone on and on about Web Services. It's the end of the day and it's a very boring presentation. So I browse my home page, and see a newswire story about the CIA website posting asking for help finding Weapons of Mass Destruction. I browse the CIA site, and sure enough, it is there. I check the url on Technorati, to see who has blogged it. To my surprise, it doesn't look like anyone has. It seems like an appropriate post for ETech, since as well as being an amusing act of desperation, it is an innovative public use of technology by the CIA, so I stick something on my linklog, The Midnight Blog, about it. Then it occurs to me that Cory might be amused, but I don't want to interrupt him from his notetaking, so I send him something via the form on boingboing. About two minutes later, I see him open up the CIA site on his laptop, chuckle, then open up Blogger. Sure enough, 3 minutes later the link is up on boingboing. I'm sure it will be through the blogosphere by the morning, with all kinds of intelligent commentary that I was too tired to add. The tools and the velocity of information flow available today are amazing, even if the purposes they are put to aren't always that important....

random LJ image of the moment.

random LJ image of the moment. 04/12/2004 07:22 PM
Recent images posted to Live Journal (probably NSFW at any given moment) sounds like an uninteresting feed from a community: it's just a constant stream of images uploaded to LJ. But the truth is that it's fascinating to watch, to see the whole community summarized into a dozen images of the moment. [more inside]

Moment of space-burka zen

Moment of space-burka zen 02/07/2005 02:07 AM
Xeni Jardin: A Cylon assuming female human form wears a disguise from the fall-winter 05/06 collection by Cortana during the Pasarela Gaudí fashion show in Barcelona. Son muy pero muy jaitón, la gente del planeta Cylon.
Link (Thanks, Vann Hall).

Moment of pirated Chinese DVD zen

Moment of pirated Chinese DVD zen 12/24/2004 12:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: Image: the cover of a pirated "Kill Bill" DVD in China with the headline "HERE COMES THE BRINE." BoingBoing reader Jon Rahoi says:

I'm living in mainland China for a couple of months. The dearth of English TV and the terrible quality of Chinese shows made me set out, on my very first day, to a local DVD store.

They're on every street. These people must listen to and watch a fair number of movies and CDs. But since the average wage here is, very roughly, US$150 a month, and the average DVD costs about US$15 back home, how can they afford it? Do they get a continental discount?

I walked in and got right to the discount rack. Dozens of American and foreign movies were on sale for 6RMB, about 75¢! The full-price ones ranged from 12-18RMB ($1.50 - $2.25.) Obviously, these are copies, fakes, pirate booty. But how good are they? For the sake of journalistic thoroughness, I bought 35 of them.

(...) The DVD cases are works of pirate art. They are all made in the same style from hard glossy cardboard. Cheaply made, but professionally graphically designed. They're so uniform, you can tell they almost all come from one maker. What makes them art, though, are the mistakes: made by a genius dyslexican who flunked the TOEFL. English literacy here is almost zero. A Chinese person picking up a movie to buy would not read the title, the quotes, the description, or the credits if they were in English. But any American movie case has to have English, right?

Here's a report on Jon's blog, Lin k, and here's another entry on the in-theater experience -- "To The Chinaplex": Lin k

BoingBoing reader Charles Lin adds,

I lived in China for a short while, and the pirated DVD's tend to have OCR errors. How they got "brine" from "bride" is a horrid mistake, but especially when it comes to recognizing movie blurbs and the blocks of credits on the back, most of the errors don't appear to be typing transcription errors, but OCR errors from a scanner. Much of the box art doesn't look like the American version because it's scanned in from foreign posters for the movies, which often are of a slightly different design.

Ellison's defining moment

Ellison's defining moment 07/11/2004 11:49 AM
“Capping his company’s four-week trial against the Justice Department, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s masterful testimony on Thursday convincingly laid out the legal case for why Oracle should be allowed to be a cold-hearted acquirer.”

Dell and HP have a green moment

Dell and HP have a green moment 07/14/2004 06:54 AM
Free recycling, while stocks last
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