Category: Blog

  • The Chocolate War

    [What’s NõKA worth?](http://www.dallasfood.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=78) The short answer seems to be, “A lot less than you paid for it.” I love chocolate, and I so love a good old-fashioned Internet pile-on.

    P.S. Dad, you’d probably enjoy reading this.

  • Mmm, Eggcorn

    I ran across one today, [by enlarge](http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/09/csrf-sleeping-giant.html) instead of [by and large](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbylarge.html). This ranks right up there with [for all intensive purposes](http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/32/intensive-purposes/).

  • Google Talk

    [Google talk](http://www.google.com/talk/) was released this morning after some [preliminary testing by Slashdot users](http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/23/2316223).

  • Busdriver Samples Bach, Film At 11

    On the offhand chance that this information may prove useful to someone: the flute track from Busdriver’s song “Imaginary Places” on [amazon asin=”B0000A4G7Q”]_Temporary Forever_[/amazon] is from Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 7. Badinerie by Johann Sebastian Bach. The sampled part of this track can be heard as a song sample on [amazon asin=”B0000058I1″]_25 Bach Favorites_[/amazon].

  • Chocolate Sushi

    I’ve always dug the concept of [food that looks like other food](http://www.kookisushi.com/index.htm).

  • Lomo Effects

    [Adactio Photoshop Actions](http://adactio.com/articles/display.php/photoshop_actions/1) is a set of tutorials and downloadable actions for creating various effects in Photoshop, including a Lomo and a painted effect.

    [Lomoize](http://www.redscreen.net/photolog/fun.html) has instructions for creating a Lomo effect in Photoshop using either a downloadable action or the detailed tutorial.