Software Sucks Because Users Demand It To.

If You Have A Block Of Ballistics Gelatin And A High-speed Camera, Pretty Soon Somebody Gets A Gun!

Three Things About Water Affect Almost All Of Cooking. First Are The Hydrogen Bonds, Which Is Why It Has An Incredibly High Boiling Point. Another Is That It's A Polar Molecule, So That It Dissolves A Lot Of Things, And There Are Things That Won't Mix With It. And Then There's How Much Energy It Takes To Heat Water.

The Best Value For Money In Cooking Equipment, In My Mind, Is First A Digital Scale And Digital Thermometer. They're Both About $20. They Help You Cook So Much More Accurately That They're Both Enormously Valuable.

The Reason Societies With Democratic Governments Are Better Places To Live In Than Their Alternatives Isn't Because Of Some Goodness Intrinsic To Democracy, But Because Its Hopeless Inefficiency Helps Blunt The Basic Potential For Evil.

If You Take A Scotch Whiskey And Distill Out The Alcohol, What Is Left Has An Amazing Taste To It And Can Be Used As A Flavoring For A Dessert.