This is a lovely, light, tasty unusual cake that’s great with tea. Sometime I’m going to try making it substituting honey for part of the sugar… I think that would be even more tasty. The recipe is based on one from Epicurious, with a few changes.
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Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem has apparently died at age 84.

You most likely know Lem from Solaris (hate the new cover!)… he has a long history of writing literary, intellectual science fiction and strange conflict with the US science fiction community (and particularly Philip K. Dick).
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Robert Anton Wilson, o-author of "new">The Illuminatus! Trilogy, former editor for Playboy, lecturer, philosopher, maybe-mystic, model advocate, Korzybski-quoter…

Maybe Logic brought a bit of a tear to my eye. I’ve been fond of Robert Anton Wilson for many years; I haven’t seen much material from him in the last few years. His “Historical Illuminatus! Chronicles” seems to have put several publishers out of business, and I despair of ever seeing the final book. I’ve wondered what’s been up with him… he’s getting older (he’s 74 years old now); his wife Arlen passed away in 1999. I’ve often lovingly and respectfully referred to him as a “dumpy old crackpot”. He’s looking older, crackpot-ier, but less dumpy. He’s also spending most of his time in a wheelchair.
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Isaac Hayes Quits ‘South Park’

A few months back, South Park ran a very funny episode skewering the Church of Scientology - ending with it daring them to sue. Isaac Hayes, the voice of Chef, happens to be a Scientologist. We were wondering at the time how he’d react to the episode… unfortunately, he seems to have decided to leave the show as a result. His statement is that he’s leaving because of the show’s disrespectful attitude toward religions; the South Park guys counter by pointing out that Hayes only had this reaction after they mocked Scientology… the latest in a long line of religious satire.

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There was some speculation when the MacBook Pro was announced that it might support IEEE 802.11a wireless networking in addition to the traditional 802.11b/g networking. 802.11a provides the same speeds as 802.11g, but in a different chunk of frequency spectrum. This is very helpful when you’re around other devices that may be trying to use the same frequencies as 802.11b/g (which is pretty common).

Since then, I haven’t seen any confirmation or denial of it working… so I tested it with an 802.11a access point I’m selling on eBay, and it does indeed work well. I wonder if Apple will update the Airport Express or Airport Extreme base stations to support 802.11a. I’m guessing not; I don’t really expect an update from them until they decide to support 802.11n. I wonder what they’ll call it… Airport Ultra?