My burgers

Like all of my recipes, this is just rough, no real measurements.

Start with 80/20 hamburger meat (ground chuck), in a large bowl. Sprinkle on copious amounts of garlic powder and onion powder. Like till there’s little drifts of it. Salt appropriately (I’d guess about 1tsp per pound of meat?). 4 or so generous dashes of Worcestershire sauce. One time I added a quater stick of softened butter to it too. It was really really good but I cannot condone this without checking with your doctor.

Mix all of the ingredients together, and form into patties. Now, this is important, the patties need to be 1/3 to 3/4 of an inch thick. Pretty thick. I usually make them about as big around as my palm.

Now, heat. Use a thick bottom pan on Medium to Medium High. Heat till its nice hot. If you didn’t add butter to the meat, you can add just a little to the pan at this point. Add the patties. Don’t crowd the pan, maybe two patties at a time. Too much and you’ll cool the pan off. You should hear a searing sound when you add the patties. If you didn’t take it back off and wait till it gets hotter.

This is the second important part: keep the things moving. Like, flip them every minute or so. You want these to sear right first, like leave them alone for the first 1.5 min. and then you keep flipping them.

When they’ve been on for 6 or so mins, LIGHTLY push on them with the back of the spatula and see if the juices run clear. If you’re mysophobic, check it with a thermometer. Otherwise, if you don’t see blood, they should be fine.

Now, dress them up and eat them!

Essential PHP functions

Wow, these look superbly useful. I don’t know how many times a day I write the whole pre/print_r thing.

jacob:

function pre_r($array)
{
    echo "<pre>" . print_r($array, true) . "</pre>";
}

function die_r($array)
{
    die(pre_r($array);
}

"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."

Tom Cargill

"Never memorize what you can look up in a book."

Einstein

Quantum Levitation

Sexy.

houseofbuttons:

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WebGL: 3D Cars w/ Motion Blur, Reflections, etc. controlled with Javascript →

The web is about to get really interesting.

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I want this.

Twitter's Bootstrap App Framework →

This has got to be one of the best collection of tools for beginning an application I’ve ever used.

Includes:

• Styles for forms, common elements
• Column based layouts
• Navigation
• UI Elements like notifications, pagination, modals, etc.

Bootstrap + CodeIgniter and I can get an app halfway working and somewhat presentable in a day or two.

Notificon :: Client-side favicon notifications. →

This is an awesome use of favicons.

ericbarnes:

Notificon is a BSD licensed javascript class for providing client-side favicon notifications. Instead of requiring a number of favicons be created and served up to the client, you can specify a label and a favicon (default being the current favicon) and it will generate a favicon notification.

Example is available here

(Source: ericbarnes)