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"Kale Chips" Get some large kale leaves and cut out the stem. Slice the leafy bits into bite-sized pieces. Put them in a large container with a lid, drizzle with a small amount of oil. Season (salt, pepper, chilli powder, etc) Shake it, shake, shake, shake it. Line some baking trays with baking paper and cover with a layer of the shredded, oily leaf Put it in the oven at 200c for about 10 minutes - check it often When they're brown-ish, take them out and let them cool down (just a minute or so) Munch away! Edit: I should point out They need to be consumed pretty quickly (a few hours) It's very easy to overdo the olive oil and get soggy leaves Keep an eye on them in the oven, they go from green to brown to burnt VERY quickly Baby kale doesn't work in my opinion. It burnt very quickly and the few bits that didn't just weren't that great.

There's always money in the banana stand

The story goes some kids in the US wanted to find a wild ganja crop so they called the mission "4:20 Louis" (meeting at a statue of Louis Pasteur at 4:20) but after many failed attempts to find the elusive wild ganja the term just became synonymous with smoking and then supposedly popularised by Steve Hager & dead heads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29 Strangest thing happening to me at 4:20/4/20? I'm not sure. It usually passes without me noticing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M6yoeOglNw Badger's star trek script, animated!

Best public one anyway This episode had left me so damn excited for the season.

Yeah. I don't have a huge amount to compare them too but they're definitely on the thicker side.

Got this awhile back as a bhut jolokia but having a look at some pictures online and it looks far more like a regular red habanero. They're definitely quite hot but far less than what I was expecting. http://imgur.com/a/FgtK7 In the first photo, the one on the left is (I'm pretty sure) a choc. hab. I'll throw up some more pictures of ripe fruit later today. They look pretty much exactly the same as the unripe fruit except red. http://i.imgur.com/2MpHfep.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LDUSZ3d.jpg

http://kck.st/ZGyckx There's a bit too much on the page for me to paste here but it's definitely worth checking out, even if they won't ship the seed to Australia.

It's an annoying issue but if you hit the black button it'll send the message.

I completely agree. There are a lot of people who're in bitcoin for the money and using it like a stock and I think that's not wrong but not the right way to go about it. Unfortunately, I think I'm in the minority here :\ MtGox as a service is great however the fact that it is handling the majority of bitcoin <-> 'real' money transactions is worrying. It's a single point of failure, as has been displayed over the last few days. Sellers frenzy at the hint of a drop in value and flood the market with coins and the mtgox trading engine ends up getting nearly an hour of lag in transactions and causes a crazy selling frenzy which forces the price down. It's also speculated that there's some manipulation going on here but it's all unproven and a bit on the conspiracy side of things. In an ideal world, the bitcoins would be spent as bitcoins. However, as that's not overly like yet, if one was to cash out the best way would be distributing it among multiple (unfortunately smaller and slightly less trust worth) exchanges and some person-to-person transactions. Don't keep all your eggs in one basket, etc. So to answer the question in fewer words: Yes it's good but not when it's the only exchange as it creates a point of failure for both the currency and the end user. The only thing they have going for them is their trust and even that's dwindling in light of recent trade lag and such.

The growth was unsustainable and the bitcoin community puts way too much business into mtgox. It's a distributed currency with a single, centralised exchange... I have faith that it will bounce back to the $200 mark again but hopefully not as fast it is did the first time. This crash/price correction obviously isn't a good thing though if it wants to get taken as a serious currency. I don't have anything really invested in it so I'm just along for the ride

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3732468.htm It was even mentioned by Alan Kohler on the ABC finance segment!

http://bitcoin.org/may15.html

Ripped off how? When exchanging? buying with bitcoins? selling for bitcoins? During the exchange process it can be a bit daunting putting your faith into an exchange in the hopes that it will send you the $ in exchange for your non-chargeback-able coins but that's mostly because all of the sites that are doing AUD bank deposits are quite new. During the buying/selling of products/services for bitcoins it's largely the customer who's at risk of being ripped off which is why some bigger, more reputable places need to start removing some of that stigma. It's far more unlikely that a company that's existed (and been operational) for several years will take the bitcoins and run but some of the newer bitcoin only places that are popping up may do just that :\ I personally haven't done any business with bitinnovate so I can't recommend them - plus their commission is a bit on the high side. Weexchange on the other hand, I've spoken to their AU director on IRC (#bitcoin-aus) for a few days and he seems like a good guy, he's been around in the bitcoin world for quite awhile too. For them though, you will need to an ID verification (anti-money laundering laws) but as of now the only fee they have is a flat $2.50 for withdrawal to Au banks. Automated payment modules would be the way to go but I can agree that they are a fair bit of effort to get going especially if you use osCommerce like I think you do. To do it manually: Open a wallet account on a website like blockchain.info OR (and this is the better option imo) download the bitcoin-qt client from bitcoin.org (This is where it gets tricky as I've never really used osCommerce myself) you need to tell them to use the cash payment option with an order note of "bitcoin" and then either email them or make a note on their order that they can see with a bitcoin address which you generate from the client/web wallet and their bitcoin total (order.total * bitcoin.current_rate) Once that address's balance receives the amount specified, set their order paid and ship out their order Alternatively, you could get them to email you their orders (I want 1 a, 2 c, 5 d, etc) and then follow on from the 2nd half of step 2. As for how the transfers take place, the process is pretty simple: They will copy the address you gave them Open their wallet Click "Send coins" Paste in the address you gave them Enter the amount of coins required Hit send From there, the transaction is pushed into the bitcoin network and almost instantly you will see the funds in the wallet. From there, you need to wait for a few confirmations by the network before the funds become become usable. This confirmations will take between a few minutes and a few hours depending upon the transaction fee (or lack thereof) and the current size of the network (more miners = faster blocks). I'm skipping a lot of stuff in that explanation but that's the, very basic, gist of it. Let me know if you need me to clear anything up.

To answer your first question of where to spend it: Check out https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade for a pretty large list of places that will accept it. There aren't many in Australia, yet, but it's only recently starting to gain adoption, and even then it's still only in mostly tech-savvy areas. Someone has to be the first though, right? The withdrawing into 'actual' cash from Bitcoin is still away off being perfect but sites like weexchange, bitinnovate, and even person-to-person exchanges like #bitcoin-otc and localbitcoins are definitely making headway. It'd obviously be better if you spent it or convinced suppliers/local business/etc to accept it and keep it flowing that way but most of these exchanges don't hold onto the coins for too long either before they're resold onto others who will, more often than not, use them I'd wager that if you started accepting bitcoins (and most importantly advertised that fact) your business would increase quite a bit. That said... the laws in regards to bitcoins is a very grey area. No one's really sure how or if you need to pay taxes on them, what their actual 'value' is due to fluctuations and a whole heap of other things. I'd highly suggest looking into it. I'm in no way an expert but I do know my way around it, always about if you want some info.

This is the biggest issue right now - Instability. Even going up (at such a fast rate) is a big issue as it's causing people to hoard, waiting for it to go up so they don't pay more (in coins) than they have to :\ That said, implementing bitcoin as a purchasing option is a cake walk. You can use services like bitpay and such or just hook directly into a local (or remote) wallet and `getnewaddress [some identifier for an account, hash of the email or something]` and then mark it as paid when address.balance >= order.totalbtc. No fees, no chargeback fraud, no middlemen hassle and nice and anonymous* ;) *I will admit it's not 100% anonymous (it's very easy to link addresses to wallets) but there are ways to remove the link between you and your wallets/accounts

http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-couple-indoor-gardening-prompted-pot-raid-182449463.html

Sooo... exactly nothing has changed. I think I may be missing the joke.

Wonder why no one's setup a botanical-bay, an eBay for plants. Million dollar idea, anyone?