Month: April 2004

Read the following sentences in a Larry Flynt voice and I think you’ll agree they fit perfectly:

“Ah! At last we have the mighty Chewbacca.”

“I will not give up my favorite decoration. I like Captain Solo where he is.”

“This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: fearless and inventive.”

“There will be no bargain, young Jedi. I shall enjoy watching you die.”

I love Larry Flynt.

more cute japanese characters- because you don’t own enough knick knacks yet!
Web link of note: Aranzi Aronzo
(At http://www.aranziaronzo.com/)

I need a catapult for my home office. Or something.
Web link of note: Eccentric Genius
(At http://www.eccentricgenius.ca/)

Blondstrosity

Usage:

“I can never decide whether Jessica Simpson is a naïve boob goddess or a grotesque blondstrocity.”

Chemical supply house for the special effects industry! I was taken here by my friends and the place is deceptively quiet. They sell fake blood, pyrotechnics stuff, mask construction materials, it’s great.
Web link of note: Tri-Ess Sciences
(At http://www.tri-esssciences.com/specialeffects.htm)

Were you stupid and recorded a movie sideways with your new digital camera?

Now you want to show it, but you don’t want to have to bend your neck sideways, or turn your monitor/TV on its side?

Don’t be shy; we all have done that. Once.

You need SimpleRotate, a plugin for iMovie.

A steal at $1.50 ! 安い！
Web link of note: SimpleRotate
(At http://www.imovieplugins.com/plugs/simplerot.html)

Directed the short in which Bill Gates gets assassinated.

He also had an interesting article about [over]regulation of film production,
with regards to Lara Roxx / the HIV scare in the porn industry.
Web link of note: Brian Flemming
(At http://www.slumdance.com/blogs/brian_flemming/)

Salty, sweet, bitter, sour… umami (うま味).

There is a fifth taste. Its name means something like “deliciousness.”

It was isolated and named by Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda in 1907, Glutamic acid, or glutamate.
Glutamate doesn’t “work” by itself, so it’s most commonly added as MSG.

If you add vodka to tomatoes, the alcohol acts as a solvent, releasing the naturally-occurring umami in the tomatoes.

Guess what… the flavor industry already knows this, even if you didn’t. They have been adding MSSG and other umami agents into processed foods for years. They could make garbage taste good if they wanted. Now that’s power.

Links:

• Article about the Umami Café in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., run by Jonathan Pratt
• Society for Research on Umami Taste also has a English version…. see also their Links section.
• International glutamate information service in English, German, and Spanish… tells the history of MSG and has references to scientific papers
• There is also a woman who is a blog/orkut/friendster celebrity who identifies with the word umami. Hapa power!

Pictures of models with backstory personal ads written in. Awesome!
Web link of note: Supermodel Personals
(At http://supermodelpersonals.blogspot.com/)

originally started as a summary of all the news the San Francisco Chronicle DOESN’T print, but now it’s a much more well-rounded news source in its own right.
Web link of note: Beyond Chron
(At http://beyondchron.org/)