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The best idea for cake lovers, ever.  Check out the original post here: Chocolate Cake in 5 minutes

Now then, the ingredients:

• 4 Tablespoons cake flour
• 4 Tablespoons sugar
• 2 Tablespoons cocoa
• 1 Egg
• 3 Tablespoons milk
• 3 Tablespoons oil
• 1 Mug

And the directions:

1. Mix flour, sugar and cocoa.
2. Spoon in 1 egg
3. Pour in milk and oil, and mix well
4. Put in microwave for 3 minutes on maximum power (1000watt)
5. Wait until it stops rising and sets in the mug
6. Tip contents out of mug onto saucer and enjoy!

How awesome does that sound?  I think I’m gonna do some experimenting and tweaking of this recipe this weekend and will post any tasty results (we’ll pretend failures didn’t happen).

For those wondering, here are approximate nutrition facts (different oils, eggs, flours, milks, etc will cause slight variations… this is an average):

850 calories
50g fat
80g carb
20g protein

Someone else had this to say in the comments of that post regarding nutrition:

For anyone who is wondering here are the nutrition facts (I’m a nutrition minor so I was compelled after making this to figure it out) They are for if you use Canola Oil and if you use Skim Milk.

776 calories
48.9g fat
80.4g carb
17g protein

The exact breakdown is as follows:
flour: (.25 cup or 4 tbsp): 114 cal, 0.3g fat, 23.8g carb, 3.2g protein
sugar: (4 tbsp): 186 cal, 0g fat, 48 g carb, 0g protein
egg: 1 large: 74 cal, 5g fat, .4g carbs, 6.3g protein
cocoa powder: (2 tbsp): 25cal, 1.5g fat, 5.9g carb, 2.1g protein
canola oil: (3 tbsp): 360 cal, 42 fat, 0 carb, 0 protein
milk, skim (3 tbsp or .1875 cup): 17 cal, .1g fat, 2.3g carb, 1.6g protein

So now you know… don’t make this and eat the whole thing if you’re on a diet.

These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 07/17/08 … please enjoy:

John Wiley Price: "I don't even know what blog means" | Grits for Breakfast

As far as an elected official in 2007 declaring he doesn't know what the word "blog" means - Good God! I don't know where to begin.

'Shawshank' in a Minute | Radar Online

The Shawshank Redemption in one minute… rapped. It's awesome, trust me on this!

S.F. officials locked out of computer network | San Francisco Chronicle

A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.

Zombie Garden Gnome | Gizmodo

Design Toscano wants you to "expect the extraordinary from your home and garden," and that includes the walking dead. Take this 13-lb. resin undead garden zombie, for example.

Obama bloats Vista by 11MB | The Register

We're very much obliged today to readers Hawkeye and Duncan Lilly for providing evidence that the Beast of Redmond's Vista is not the lean, mean fighting machine it really should be. Check out this "important" update warning for size.

Come back for more links tomorrow!!

If I was one to not read articles all the way through, it would appear that Pope Benedict was apologizing for all of the MobileMe issues.  The article starts:

Apple this morning sent an e-mail apologizing to customers of its MobileMe service who experienced a tough few days. And to soothe ruffled feelings, Apple said it would extend their MobileMe subscription by a month.

Which seems normal, except for the fact that the accompanying picture was this:

According to the caption:

Photo: Pope Benedict XVI apologized for a speech about Islam. Credit: Pier Paolo Cito / Associated Press

Which, you know, makes total sense.  Islam, MobileMe… that’s pretty much the same thing, right?  And hey, as long as it’s a picture of someone apologizing, it fits the article, right?  Schmucks.

So you can see the article before it eventually gets changed, check it out:

That there is some Grade A Choice 100% Pure fail.

WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” is now available… read here.  I’ve had nothing but goodness from the betas and release candidate, so great job to those who worked on this release!!

Here’s a quick look at the changes between v2.5 and 2.6:

• Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
• Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
• Bulk management of plugins.
• A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
• Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
• Plugin update notification bubble.
• Customizable default avatars.
• You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
• Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
• Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
• You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
• Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
• Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
• You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
• A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
• Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
• Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.

Awesome!  I’ve already updated and all looks good!