Posts by Martin Brown
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Hard News: A handful of battling billionaires, in reply to Shaun Lott,
Chump change for Bezos. And not much more expensive to maintain than a super yacht or say, a sports team.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Bart Janssen,
The English tabloids have done this illegally, and are going through due process of law now.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Paul Campbell,
The "s" on the end of hhtps stands for "secure". Thing is, it's not. Nothing is, currently. Which is kind of the point. My facebook says "https". And it patentl;y isn't. By FISA warrent.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Chris Waugh,
My understanding is it something the majors do for their own pockets and only applies to the recording, ie. the songwriters don't get paid.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Microplanes! Brilliant.
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Commercial Circulon is great, hard anodised, solid as - I have one huge pan and a smaller one. Jan's Dad ( ex-panel beater ) picked up the big pan one day and was so impressed by the quality of the build and the rivets we had to find one for him.
Global knives, check. Have a forged GF 2 which feels superb - Globals have sand in the handles for balance, shake and you can hear it. Knives are great, you can never have too many.
Would like to get some Ittala pots and pans - they're the shit. Scandinavian, simple, bulletproof - Hackman they're called in the states. Bloody dear though.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
http://www.mtcookalpinesalmon.com/farm.aspx
This is the only NZ farmed Salmon to eat - none of the rubbish additives, the fish swim in swift-moving currents, the meat is paler and with hardly any striation because they're fit little buggers. Good enough for the Japanese royal family so I'm told.