Grandpa’s London Underground map While developing Ångström, the unit converter for the iPhone (check it out!), Alex Babaev and I have come up with the Ångström Style System. ÅSS (hey, why not) is a JSON-driven styling engine for Cocoa with Dropbox-synchronization and shake-to-refresh. Playing with the text caret One of the many things we were obsessing over in Ångström was the text caret animation: This is an animated gif, make sure to download the app and look at the real thing. I wanted the caret to stick out much below and above the text. So I wrote Alex a letter explaining my idea in vague terms. This is the final “stylesheet” for the caret, after hours of tweaking: This fragment is actually about 3% of the whole Ångström’s stylesheet. Dropbox sync and shake-to-refresh The two things that make ÅSS particularly awesome are Dropbox sync and shake-to-refresh. But we wanted to make ÅSS a real pleasure to use (no pun intended), eliminating the need not only to rebuild, but even to restart the app.
Glazed Poppy Seed Bread | poppy seed bread recipe |That Skinny Chick Can Bake Glazed Poppy Seed Bread We have a friend dealing with some major health issues. I can pray, but I can also offer them something tangible. I dropped this glazed poppy seed bread in their mailbox when he and his wife were spending the day at the doctor’s office…hoping something sweet would bring comfort during this tough week. Winging This & That This recipe was submitted to Katie’s former grade school’s cookbook by one of my dearest girlfriends. Ingredients Adapted from my friend, Pam 2 1/4 cups sugar 1 1/8 cups oil 3 eggs 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract 1 1/2 cups milk 1 1/2 tablespoons poppy seeds 3 cups flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons salt Glaze: 2 tablespoons butter, melted 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon almond 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 3/4 cup powdered sugar, sifted. Instructions Preheat oven to 350º. Yield: 2 loaves Total time: 2 hours More Wonderful Quick Breads:
55 Celebrities Whose Real Names Will Surprise You You might not have ever heard of “Maurice Micklewhite,” “Olivia Jane Cockburn” or “Diane Hall” — but you’ve certainly heard of the actors who were born with these names. When the Hollywood system started, people commonly took simplified versions of their names to make them easier for people to say. Doris Day is much simpler than “Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff” and Clayton Holmes Grissom picked “Clay Aiken” when signing up for American Idol — because it was just more memorable. Or if you’re Albert Brooks, there’s no fucking possible way you can use your real name — because…well, you’ll see. Here are 55 people whose real names might surprise you. 1. Real Name: Katy Hudson The singer changed her name to avoid confusion with that other Hudson she shares a name with: Kate Hudson. 2. Real Name: Demetria Guynes Her exes were born as “Walter Willis” and “Christopher Kutcher.” 3. Real Name: Albert Einstein The reason for the name change should be pretty obvious. 4. Real Name: Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra
Banana Bread - The Holistic Manicurist This Banana Bread is perfect when you are in need of a bit of comfort food. It is naturally sweet, wonderfully cakey and filling. I have never had much of a sweet tooth but since cleaning up my diet I have cut out all of the cakes and biscuits that were included in my diet. This made me realise that I did crave sweet things now and again so I have gradually come up with recipes to fill the gap. This was the first recipe I perfected and is still one of my favourites. Ingredients 3 very ripe bananas1 ½ cups spelt flour1 ½ tsp baking powder½ tsp bicarbonate of soda2 tsp cinnamon1 cup dates¾ cup coconut oil3 eggs½ cup honey This mixture can also be used to make cup cakes, I just pour the mixture straight into the bun tin compartments. Method Tips: This Banana Bread is gorgeous when it is still warm and spread with butter. The Beauty Benefits of Banana Bread
30 Fabulous Ways To Tell A Person You Want To Have Sex Whether you’ve known your sex person for 10 minutes or 10 years, it’s always a little bit awkward to bring sex up and get the lube flowing. It’s like, how do you transition from a nice, cozy dinner or a stimulating conversation about architecture to a ribald horizontal romp? Sometimes it’s as easy as sending a text message like “sex” on your way home from work or inviting him over to “watch a movie.” 1. shenanigan My Ex and I used to refer to it as “Stir-fry”, as in “hey honey, do you want to come over tonight for some stir-fry?” 2. gravey727 Ill give myself an erection, get under the covers and then make a ‘tent’ with my hard on. 3. “Hold my dick.” 4. “Are you also not so tired?” 5. My ex and I used “laundry” as our code word for sex. 6. restless2298 “You wanna go get weird?” 7. “You wanna put on the Cisco cd…” 8. “You’re on my “to do” list.” 9. My ex told me once, “Get ready, I Naired my asshole today.” 10. hasitcum2this My GF said to me “I’m gona milk you with my labia!”
The Grits Blog: It's My Blogiversary!! + Mini Pumpkin Pies + Giveaway Hello Grits Blog Readers! I'm Brita from B.Britnell which is mostly a food blog with an occasional random post thrown in there. I'm passionate about cooking good food with local and seasonal ingredients and I'm even more passionate about photographing the experience and sharing it with my readers. I've known Ashley pretty much since the beginning of my blog and I'm SO excited to be sharing a blogiversary with her. So, to celebrate, I have a pie recipe for you today! One of my favorite things to do in the kitchen is make classic foods in mini form. For more delicious recipes, you can follow me on Bloglovin', Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you make these little pies, make sure to tweet/ insta a picture to Ash and me!! One of my favorite things to do in the kitchen is make classic foods in mini form. I added the braided crust on as an after thought and I'm SO glad I did. I happened to have some extra dough left after cutting out all of the pie crusts so I went for it. PS!
Acapulco70 - Por Yael Farache poppy seed lemon cake A whopping eight years ago, I joined a friend and her family for an afternoon at the then newly-opened Neue Galerie, which seriously, you should check out some time when you’re in my city. (Look at me, playing tourist guide!) The early 20th century German and Austrian art is fantastic but even more wonderful is the Cafe Sabarsky within which models itself after a turn-of-the-century Viennese cafe. But really, I don’t want to talk about the Kadinskys or the Kavalierspitz today, I want to talk about this cake. I wasn’t even the one who ordered it. I have spent nearly a decade yammering about this cake to everyone who had the misfortune to tune in. I did not Google it. Too many egg whites to use up? One year ago: Squash and Chickpea Moroccan StewTwo years ago: Lemon BarsThree years ago: World Peace Cookies Poppy Seed Lemon Cake Adapted, barely, from Kurt Gutenbrunner via Food & Wine As excited as I was about finally finding this recipe as I set about baking it I was consumed with doubt.
Blue is in Fashion this Year After having already posted a not-that-fashion related post a few days ago [here] and since non-fashion posts are always such a big success on fashion blogs [irony] I decided to go extreme this time [irony]. With a... botanical post. And since floral prints are always an evergreen in fashion, so you know this could be some real life inspiration [ahem...]. Ho già pubblicato qualche giorno fa [questo] post non proprio a tema moda. E visto che sui fashion blog i post non-fashion vanno che è una meraviglia [ironia] mi sono detta ma perché non avventurarmi in qualcosa di davvero estremo? Photos: BlueisinFashionthisYear.com P.S.
chocolate swirl buns A few years ago, I conquered one of what has to be one of the seven wonders of my culinary world, chocolate babka. Babka, if you’re new to it, poor you, is a brioche-like sweet yeast cake, usually rolled thin and spiraled around a filling of chocolate, cinnamon, sweet cheese or fruit, and is often studded with streusel. And I know that most people save their gushing prose for lemon meringue pie, 8 inches high, or brownies with swirls of peanut butter, candied bacon and candy bars inside, I know that most people hadn’t heard of babka before it became a punch line, but Alex and I fondly remembering the grocery store chocolate babkas — with endless spirals slicked with bittersweet chocolate — of our childhood and I couldn’t rest until I cracked the code at home. But it still has its limitations. I found the solution to this crisis — are you allowed to call the irregular appearance of homemade chocolate babka in your life a crisis? Yield: 12 muffin-sized buns Set buns on cooling rack.
How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Using Science | Underwire In the event of a zombie apocalypse it will probably help to have: a baseball bat, a gun, a chainsaw and a plethora of blunt objects. Also, it helps to possess a strong grasp of neuroscience. The quick, handy guide above (not to be confused with the one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) shows many of the neurological problems zombies have and how the non-undead can exploit those weaknesses. Believe it or not, the guide to surviving the zombie apocalypse is actually derived from real neuroscience. Based on that map of the zombie brain, Voytek and a fellow neuroscientist Timothy Verstynen established that the walking dead suffered from a condition they called Consciousness Deficit Hypoactivity Disorder. Yeah, zombies. “When Tim and I were working on our neuroscience Ph.D.s at Berkeley we discovered a mutual love for the zombie genre,” Voytek said in an e-mail to Wired.com. Want to know more about surviving the undead apocalypse with science?
Dream a Little Bigger Craft & DIY Blog - Dream a Little Bigger Craft Blog - Granny Squares Step by Step! When I was still pretty small, my Mimmie taught me how to crochet. She was constantly knocking out afghan after afghan if she wasn’t quilting and I watched them constantly being made. Being a nosy kind of a kid I wanted to watch what she was doing up close and personal. She wound up busting out a hook and some variegated yarn (it was red, blue and yellow) and showing me how to chain. So I guess I have been into crochet off and on since I was about 7 or so. I wanted to work on a project that used granny squares and I’ll be sharing that tomorrow, but today i thought I would show you the basics of making a granny square. Be warned, however… My grandmother taught me and she taught herself and some of the methods may not be text book, but they do work. Chain in between 5 or 10 times (depending on how large or small you want the hole in the center of the square to be). After you’ve made your circle, chain three. Then make two double crochets by going through the inside of the hole. Chain three.
Marketplace from American Public Media: Business, The Economy, Personal Finance, Wall Street and World News t w o b e e: [Receita] Cookies maravilhosos de chocolate. Hoje apresento para vocês os melhores cookies de chocolate da face da Terra! Eles são crocantes nas bordas e têm o centro levemente macio. São muito muito cheirosos e cativam todos por onde quer que passe. Não costumo gostar tanto de cookies de chocolate, pois acho muito enjoativo. Para fazer essas belezuras, vocês vão precisar de: 125g de manteiga ou margarina;175g de açúcar;1 ovo;½ col. de chá de essência de baunilha;125g de farinha de trigo;35g de cacau ou chocolate em pó (achocolatado em pó não, tá? Então vamos lá... para fazer os cookies é bem fácil. Adicione a farinha, o bicarbonato e o chocolate em pó peneiradinhos. É importante que a massa dos cookies fique uniforme. Forre uma assadeira com papel manteiga (ou unte com margarina e farinha), faça bolinhas com a massa (eu uso duas colheres de sobremesa. Asse em forno pré aquecido, a 180ºC durante aproximadamente 10-12 minutos, ou até que o cheiro deles esteja maravilhoso.