Inside Insides is a blog where MRI technologist Andy Ellison uses a research MRI on food.
A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.
Author Archives: Mark Twain, probably
The secret life of ciabatta
The Guardian in 1999:
July 1982. Israel invades Lebanon, Britain declares an end to hostilities in the Falklands, and, at a mill in Adria, a town near Venice, a small band of dedicated flour experts talk dough. One of their number, Arnaldo Cavallari, a miller in his late forties, is especially excited. For years, Rome could only look on, horrified, as large-scale baguette imports from France threatened to monopolise the lucrative sandwich market in Italy. It was time to hit back with an equally commercially viable product. After weeks spent testing new dough mixes and bake-times, refining and adapting existing regional loaves and using his own mineral- and gluten-rich flour, Cavallari came up with Italy’s very own dedicated snack bread. He called it Ciabatta Polesano. It was hailed as the bread that saved Italy, and rocked the sandwich world.
Really cool piece, lots of great history. I found it through a citation on the Wikipedia article for ciabatta.
This is a promo for Ron Paul, “The High Tide,” from 2008 that I only just found now. According to the copy, it was created by a “small group of dedicated grassroots artists,” so it was apparently not an official campaign ad.
It features CG Ron Paul.
Look at that shit. That is some fucking CG Ron Paul.
My favorite part is at 0:41 when doves fly underwater past CG Ron Paul.
I don’t have a punchline or bit of snark to end this post. There is nothing I can do that can top simply repeating that doves fly underwater past CG Ron Paul.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Google’s Authorship Fail: How Truman Capote Was Credited As A NYT Writer 28 Years After His Death
Google’s Authorship Fail: How Truman Capote Was Credited As A NYT Writer 28 Years After His Death
Matt McGee on Search Engine Land:
If you happened to do certain abortion-related searches in the past few days, you might’ve been surprised to see the late Truman Capote getting Google+ Authorship credit for an article from The New York Times.
What makes it odd, of course, is that Capote died in 1984. He wrote numerous classics that showed up on the Times bestseller list but, as far as I know, he never actually wrote for the Times itself — and he certainly didn’t write an article that was first published in 2010.
I know firsthand that processing language is really dang difficult, so I have a ton of sympathy for Google for messing up the attribution of the article. But still, this is a pretty big yikes no matter which way you slice it.
Check the comments for some others who have had articles misattributed.
Coming at you today is the utterly delightful “Lalalututa” by sweez & Meine Meinung.
I love the heck out of just about every single harmony in this thing. Every last one of them.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
The Embedded Dangers of Untested Stem Cell Cosmetics
The Embedded Dangers of Untested Stem Cell Cosmetics
Ferris Jabr, Scientific American:
When cosmetic surgeon Allan Wu first heard the woman’s complaint, he wondered if she was imagining things or making it up. A resident of Los Angeles in her late sixties, she explained that she could not open her right eye without considerable pain and that every time she forced it open, she heard a strange click—a sharp sound, like a tiny castanet snapping shut. After examining her in person at The Morrow Institute in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Wu could see that something was wrong: Her eyelid drooped stubbornly, and the area around her eye was somewhat swollen. Six and a half hours of surgery later, he and his colleagues had dug out small chunks of bone from the woman’s eyelid and tissue surrounding her eye, which was scratched but largely intact. The clicks she heard were the bone fragments grinding against one another.
Turns out she had an unapproved stem cell treatment. This is some serious William Gibson shit — sounds like something that would happen in the darkened alleyways of Chiba City.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is absolute genius.
Converting the walking motion into forward movement? This will totally revolutionize the way we use our legs to go places.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Tagged J. R. R. Tolkien, video games, yes this is real
Kansas City Homes for Hackers renting room with Google Fiber access
Kansas City Homes for Hackers renting room with Google Fiber access
Klint Finley on Wired:
Google Fiber — the search giant’s brand-new, ultra-high-speed internet service — is only available in Kansas City, and even there, it only runs to homes, so there’s no trying the thing out during a Kansas City hotel stay. But if you really want a taste of those 800 Mbps speeds — that’s about 100 times faster than your average internet connection — there’s another option. You can rent a room at the hacker house.
The Homes for Hackers house is a four-bedroom Kansas City abode where a group of entrepreneurs have bedded down to incubate their tech startups on an honest-to-goodness Google Fiber connection. But only three of those bedrooms are taken. The fourth one is available for rent at a price of $49 via the online vacation rental site Airbnb.
Pretty silly, but in a way I’m kind of impressed by the idea.
Let’s talk about how Assassin’s Creed 3 depicts the American Revolution
Let’s talk about how Assassin’s Creed 3 depicts the American Revolution
Nice post on Nightmare Mode:
We thought it might be interesting to compare how the American Revolution was taught to an American vs a Canadian in light of Assassin’s Creed 3 (made by a Canadian studio!) So we got two NM contributors to examine what the game depicts.
There aren’t too many places that would post a lengthy conversation between two guys about the teaching of history and how that affects history’s portrayal in video games. Nightmare Mode is one of them. Check it out.