News You Can Bruise for 2008 November 21

Put up some boring pictures from QCon. I'll get some better pictures once I get out and start doing things. I couldn't get my usual webpage export to work on the laptop so I just stuck the photos on Flickr.

This is a delicious garlicky recipe I reverse-engineered from Supper, an awesome Italian restaurant in the East Village.

• 1 can cannelini beans
• 1/2 head garlic, minced
• olive oil
• red pepper flakes
• salt

Mash it all together. Spread on bread. That's it. It's excellent. I never really cooked with cannelini beans before but I think they're a better all-purpose bean than kidney beans.

Awesome random recipe generator, via Kevan. I wish I'd thought of that, but my random recipe generators were too well-structured and not dadaist enough, and that made them impossible to implement. Even looking at these recipes I think "well, you really need to stir-fry something in some liquid, which means we need to know which ingredients are liquid..." and it stops being fun.