Burned spoon, pack of bicarbonate of soda, pop bottle with a silver foil lid. A lovely slim little knife was there too, but I had already picked it up before I snapped the picture. I didn't need to call in CSI: Rome to know what had been going on. Drugs! No surprise, really; down on the wasteland...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.1 This week: 88.9
Tuesday 13 February: Bread news seems to have usurped food news as the “diet” continues on its dull and, for the time being ineffectual, way. Last week I did a no-knead sourdough, and it was a brick. Literally. More or less completely failed to rise. I...

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You know how it is when you’re idly procrastinating. You click here, you click there, you click way over on the other side -- and before you know it you’ve landed in a place too boggling to imagine. That’s how it was when I flashed from a del.icio.us popular link to investigate Jack Bauer’s gear....

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At first I couldn't remember why I had ordered David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence. Then it slowly came back to me: the reviews had been pretty good. And the film did not disappoint, not one bit. After the long opening sequence, setting up the two psychopaths, Cronenberg’s efforts to depict a...

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Ok, so they ignored my request to investigate the cost of using [subsidized water to grow biofuel feedstocks] http://www.ecorazzi.com/?p=1152, but I’m not bitter. The good folks over at Environmental Economics do a splendid bit of stiletto-work on who’s funding whom. Author Tim Haab says:

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