Monthly Archives: October 2007

A meal in 30 minutes

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I’m more of an eater than a cooker. When i saw a post in esquire about cooking four courses in 26 minutes, I knew I had to give it a shot.

After all, my fiance will be coming home at 9:30 pm from class tonight and what better thing to do than cook her a meal? From appetizer to dessert, this meal has it all:

  • Sherry grapes
  • Scallops with Boursin and radish spread
  • Bourbon and Brown-Sugar Salmon
  • Peanut Butter Cookies

Gourmet Meal in Half an Hour

Update: I’m happy to report that the Sherry grapes and Bourbon and Brown-Sugar Salmon are now part of my repertoire!

Christmas is just around the corner

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Engadget has the scoop on Samsung’s new 40″ 1080p LCD TV panel. The kicker (as you can see above) is that it’s a lazer .39-inches thick (probably still sounds razer thin in centimeters). And Al Gore would be happy–it uses less that 90 watts of power.

If this is for 2008, what can we expect in the future, my dreams have already come true!

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In the year 2000 (by 1910)

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I love checking out Paleo-future. In it, it takes a look back into the future that never was. In today’s posting, the website shows some French prints for the year 2000. From 1910, its amazing how widely off some of the projects were (like flying fireman) but also how close some of the basic themes are to modern day technology (cars of war).

French Prints Show the Year 2000 (1910)

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Slick deal – uranium ore

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My cousin sent me a link to amazon.comwhere Image SI Inc.is selling some uranium ore.

Worried? Don’t be, according to the posting:

We are always in compliance with Section 13 from part 40 of the NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules and regulations and Postal Service regulations specified in 49 CFR 173.421 for activity limits of low level radioactive materials. Item will be shipped in accordance with Postal Service activity limits specified in Publication 52.

Whew, that really solves everything. If only Doc from back to the future were alive, he wouldn’t have to steal it from terrorists.

Permutations on the 4 Cs

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Lauren Sherman identifies the top diamonds of the world. While we typically use the four Cs (carat, clarity, color, and cut) serve as a guidline, its the specific combination of those four that differentiates one diamond from another.

For example, Sotherby’s and other auction houses have been heavily marketing pink diamonds to young women in Hong Kong and China.

World’s Ultimate Jewels – Forbes.com

Bravo! bravia

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Sony Bravia does not disappoint with its third, and latest, advert. With a tagline of “color like.no.other” their commercials have been rich with color and full of creativity. I first heard of their commercial from a friend in advertising who, at the time, was working out of San Francisco. They had closed down a street and dropped thousands of bouncing balls down the steep hills of SF.

The final product can be seen here. Coincidentally, this is also how I discovered Jose Gonzalez.

The second ad, “paint” lived up all expectations. I can’t imagine how many tons of paint they had to go through to pull it off.

This latest one lives up to my expectations. Taking over New York, artists painstakingly created a stop motion commercial. Revel in the quality of their work and check out their newest ad “Play-Doh“.

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Neon Bible

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Arcade Fire recently launched www.BeonlineB.com (an anagram for Neon Bible). Once the animation loads, visitors see a Butler’s and two large hands. By clicking and dragging the hands and face, visitors can interact and manipulate the scene.

Definitely worth 3 minutes out of your day.

Creativity-online applauds Núfilms for turning what would’ve been a bland promotional site into an interactive music video.

Visual display of the internet

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This is pretty cool. Chris Harrison has created maps of the Internet visualizing world connection density, and city-to-city connections.

Chris has taken data from the dimes project and has created a set of visualizations that display how cities across the globe are interconnected (by router configuration).

What is immediately apparent is the density in North American, Europe, and Japan.