The New York Times has an article up about Homaro Cantu (no registered required link!) who prints edible pictures of sushi on a Canon i560 inkjet printer and serves them to customers.
Mr. Cantu has a vision to make technology enhance the dining experience, including making food levitate, edible printouts (in 3d no less), and edible utensils.
Interesting stuff.
The Inauguration You Didn’t See.
And this is the United States of America.
The Comment Spam I’m getting is out of control. I mention the word “poker” in a post Friday, and I’ve had spam sites try to add over 500 comments in the last 48 hours. I’ve tweaked the site a bit, and even before that, I’ve been lucky enough that none of the comment spam has gotten through yet.
It’s quite annoying to have it all sit in the moderation queue though. Rumor is WordPress 1.3 will be out soonish. I’m hoping it has built-in spam comment control, otherwise it’s time to start looking at some plugins.
How annoying.
The New York Times has a decent article up about MythTV, the Broadcast Flag, and Filesharing up. While it’s fairly high level, and some parts are wrong (Bittorrent letting you download a 1 hour show in minutes for example: I’ve downloaded plenty of TV shows and it’s not that fast, trust me) it’s not a bad article.
Even mentions the EFF and how they’re going to fight the Broadcast Flag, which may or may not put a stop to some of the filesharing. I agree with parts – I own Alias, 24, Sports Night, and every season of the Simpsons available on DVD. Purchased them and everything. I don’t mind buying TV I love (though it drives my wife crazy why I buy TV shows on DVD for shows I’ve already seen). But the government regulating even more the TV that comes over the air on what I can record, and how long it stays recorded for I start to have issues. It’s one thing if we’re talking about pay TV, say the Sopranos. But when I miss a week or two of 24, what is the issue if I download it?
If I miss an episode of 24, and I can’t download it, there is a good chance I am done watching for the season. Especially with serial shows like Lost, 24, Alias, and Desperate Housewives. Is it worth it to Big Media to not allow me to download and lose me as a customer for the entire season? I don’t think they always see the forest for the trees.
I’ll be buying a pcHDTV card for my MythTV box prior to July 1st when the Broadcast Flag goes in to effect. Maybe even two since hard drives are cheap now.
So I’m browsing the ‘net mindlessly this afternoon, and decide to take a peek at the Star Tribune’s movie page just to see if any new movies have come out I may be interested in. And what do I see halfway down the page but a story to the movie “Alone in the Dark” that came out this week, and this is what the synopsis said before you even click to read their review:
If you took the 100 worst ideas ever conceived for a science-fiction film, rattled them around in a Lotto tumbler and spilled them out onto the screen at random, you could not produce a more asinine hodgepodge than this.
How many people do you think will even read that review, much less go to that movie? That cracks me up, tell it like it is Star-Trib!
Kento was the big winner last night in our first monthly poker tournament.
It was quite fun, we made a few mistakes here and there, and a few people bet big early to get out more than anything, but I think it’s safe to say a good time was had by all.
Liquor flowed freely, food was consumed, and money exchanged hands. How can it get any better! 🙂
I’ll do a recap of how I did later. For now, all the photo’s from Fri. night are here on my Flickr site.
Know When to Hold ‘Em, Know When to Fold ‘Em, as the great Kenny Rogers sang once.
Tonight starts our first, of monthly, poker tournaments with our little clique of friends. 8 guys, 2 of which whom know how to play Texas Hold ‘Em are gathering together.
Lots of chats and figuring out the rules have taken place. We’ve each been assigned what to bring (food, licquor, beer, snacks, etc).
I’ll grab my camera and see if I can’t add some pics when all is said & done.
Should be a good time.
John Hughes’ seminal teenage movie, The Breakfast Club, turns 20 next month. I stumbled across an article on the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel discussing the film’s anniversary. It briefly covers the movie, and also 5 things you might not know, 5 things that would be different, and 5 reasons why it’s still relevant.
The Breakfast Club still remains my favorite John Hughes movie, but Pretty in Pink has to be a close second. The Breakfast Club introduced us to the actors that become the Brat Pack in the late 80’s, and the view on high school it had in 1985 isn’t too different even 20 years later.
The EFF has launched a new campaign: Endangered Gizmos. As Big Media threatens innovation, reverse engineering, and freedom of invention, the EFF has put up a list of Extinct technology (/wave Replay, DVD-X-Copy), Endangered (HDTV Tuners, Open WiFi hotspots, MP3 players), and products that have been Saved in the court system (from the Betamax which begat VHS which begat DVD to printer cartridges).
Each product carries a link to more information, whether it’s the HDTV Broadcast Flag, information on the court cases that have saved innovation, or the history of the product itself.
This is why the EFF matters. It’s not just the court cases they wage every day, it’s the education they provide, like this, that everyone can understand, not just technophiles.
Go Go EFF!
