The Core

How Singapore is preparing its citizens for the age of AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0YGutWSB3UF

Food for thought ...

While working to polish some details around my sites I came across a favicon generator I really like. It lets you craft your icons platform by platform, with a good preview, and compresses them well.

https://realfavicongenerator.net

https://realfavicongenerator.net/favicon_checker

Recommended!

The world has lost a great one.

May he rest in peace and rise in glory.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59793726

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/26/south-africas-archbishop-desmond-tutu-dies-aged-90-2

I backed a Kickstarter project a few months ago, a laptop desk that folds several ways. I took a chance and ordered two, with home and travel in mind.

They arrived today and I'm pleased.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1595826595/iswift-pi-the-paper-thin-laptop-desk-for-bed-and-office/

Time will tell if they prove durable but I'm delighted with the form factor(s).

Shared by Edward Lewis on Facebook:

https://simon.html5.org/html-elements

Very useful!

A fellow needs to send me money from his location in Nigeria and it's proving to be harder than expected. He couldn't even send it in the form of an Amazon gift card.

That sounds like the beginning of a 419 scam, but it's a real situation.

He's a chaplain in the Nigeria Navy, and needs to pay me for copy editing services on his doctoral dissertation.

I've started the work in faith that the $$$ will sort out somehow!

I've had a significant editing job hit my inbox, a doctoral dissertation about 25,000 words.

I had never before used the read-aloud feature in Microsoft Word, as I don't usually use Word, but with this document I'm finding it really useful.

It's a computer voice, but hearing the words as well as reading them revealed some details to polish that escaped notice when simply reading.

Recommended!

This thread is inspired by RC's Armageddon Flatbread recipe:

http://th3core.com/talk/water-coolerextra/rc's-armageddon-flatbread/msg66366/

I thought it might be useful to create a thread for recipes that make use of staple supplies that many of us have stocked up on.

I'll start with one of my grandmother's recipes.

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SCOTCH OATCAKES

Fun for kids to make!

3 cups rolled oats
3 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups shortening
1/4 - 1/2 cup water

Mix dry ingredients; cut in shortening until crumbly. Add water and mix well to make a stiff dough. Roll dough flat, cut into squares or shapes, place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 F until golden; 15-18 minutes.

Yummy!