How Sushi Ate the World. An interesting article in The Observer’s Food Monthly about traditional Japanese sushi and its worldwide expansion.
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If you have visited this site in the last 48 hours or so, you will have noticed that I have redesigned, yet again. I’ve gone through four or five themes over the last year, but I think this is the first one I’m happy with. The last one wasn’t too bad, but was full of spaghetti code and not good for a beginning tinkerer like me. This theme, called plaintxtBlog and written by Scott Wallick, is aesthetically pleasing, but simple enough that I can add bits here and there without too much trouble. I’m using the FAlbum plugin to display my Flickr pics in the sidebar and to create the album pages, and the del.icio.us linkrolls to integrate my recent bookmarks. I’ll be adding more functionality gradually, so check back.
Another homemade katamari, this one crotcheted and featuring an internal magnet.
As I’m sure you’ve read elsewhere by now, Malcolm Gladwell has a blog.
And now, pigs … in … space! Update: It turns out these pictures are stills from a new Russian mockumentary about the Soviet Union’s mission to put a man on the moon, called First on the Moon and directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko. More stills here. KinoKultura has two reviews.
The Tour of California is an eight-day, 700-mile bicycle race through, you guessed it, California. It started on February 19, and concludes on Sunday, February 26. Sponsored by Amgen, and hoping to raise awareness and funds for cancer cures and treatments, this is the first year of the Tour. The route map indicates that stages 4 and 5 will go through the San Luis Obispo area, so hopefully my parents will get some decent pictures. The Tour site offers an rss play-by-play feed, and Cycling News has updates, photographs, and other route information. There are also already a ton of pics up on Flickr, including big sets from frenquency, bigempty, mnorri, and visceralpleasures. You can also check out all photos tagged with “Tour of California.”
Tema Stauffer has a gallery of New Orleans photographs up at The Morning News.
The wit and wisdom of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Includes this gem, said to a blind woman with a guide dog: “Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?”
This is why I went to law school instead of studying, say, quantum computing.
A gallery of LEGO-videogame mashups, including Katamari Blockacy.