City Data looks like useful summary information for all sorts of US cities. Here’s the page for Ohio’s Bigger Cities (over 6000 residents) and Cleveland in particular. Lots of neat demographic, climate, economic, etc., information.
Amazon has taken the brilliantly evil “using porn to defeat captcha” idea and put it to good use in their experimental Amazon Mechanical Turk. (The name comes from 18th Century chess automaton hoax, where the chess-playing “robot” actually consisted of a chess master dwarf moving the levers, as this page explains).
The Amazon system [...]
Here’s the apple crisp recipe we’re using right now. The apples are given a little bit of “pie filling” treatment:
1/2 stick butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup rolled oats
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 apples, peeled and cubed
1 lemon, juiced
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 cup water
Pre-heat oven to 375F.
Cream butter [...]