Yummy Wakame

A highly addictive non-vegetarian game that’ll keep you entertained this weekend:

As seen on ClickNathan - the Secret Blog.

Lebanese is my new favourite food. Seriously. And I’m into food. Wow. Our table was groaning with tappas-style treats. The best stuffed vine leaves Ive ever tasted. I think the artichoke hearts in a tangy garlic soup was my favourite. You cant say you’ve really lived in Chicago until you’ve tried Fattoush. I couldnt believe how inexpensive it was too, even by Pittsburgh standards, but especially for Chicago.

On the way to Fattoush a guy jumped out of a shop when we walked past the door and passionately shouted, “Bonnitas! Bonnitas!” We had a hard time understanding what he was trying to communicate and figured he might just need help. We didn’t have time to stop and help him.

Of course we did the giant frozen margherita thing as it was in preparation for the karaoke bar… I howled and Nykki shouted Hotel California at the crowd. We even applauded ourselves afterwards, and I have to say it was the best applause I’ve ever received.

Herewith are the snaps from our cavortings…

Just arrived… tired but soooo happy. more…

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After weeks of buildup, excitement and just two scratchy hours sleep, I arrived in Chicago early this am to spend the weekend with Nykki (sans the rebel yell). My eyes, ears (not so much the nose) down to the toes have been stuffed full with spoiling and good times already…

Nykki’s apartment is in the heart of downtown Chicago, a highrise with unbelievable views of the city and it’s just 8 blocks away from the Sears Tower. I nervously left my only passport with the security guard at the entrance, and strangely the whole place looks and feels like a hotel and even requires those swiper access cards. Pretty snazz.

Tonight we’ll be dining Lebanese style; after that we’ll probably down tall glasses of deadly eyeball-screaming frozen margheritas till we get thrown out and are forced to stumble home.

I can’t wait to spend a night in China Town (it’ll be my first time). Ooh and tomorrow evening we have something really spectacular planned! I’ll post more soon with piccies!

Dr. Ravi is my doctor, which totally makes me a VIP. Check it out!

The BBC recently ran a competition to redesign their homepage. The winner’s design while not all that visually spectacular is full of great ideas. If you’re interested in this sort of thing check out the winners design, and the runners up.

All the following posts were all found by Pieter - yummywakame link hunter extraordinaire and editor of no less than 301 posts. Adulation and applause welcome in the comments.

Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites

“New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.

And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming “semantic web” championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.”
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Availabot

The ultimate USB gadget! Availabot stands up when your instant messaging buddy is available… and falls over when they go away! More info at availabot.com

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Brighton Wok - The Legend of Ganja Boxing

A Kung Fu movie set in Brighton. Awesome trailer!

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Star Trek vs. Star Wars

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Carlos do Amaral Freire, a Brazilian linguist, easily translates 60 languages, including Chinese, Portuguese and Sanskrit.

Is he a genius? A freak of nature? Surprisingly, Freire probably isn’t much different from your average bilingual. more…

While playing with little boats he’s made from various board games:

Captain: Take us to the Corner of Doom!
First Officer: No, take us to the other Corner of Doom!

So look who I found on the blogosphere today… Weirdly, the very first post starts off, “Well its been more than awhile since I posted in this blog….”

Im hoping new tracks will be posted from time to time ;@)

Tips from marathoner Brandon Seils such as “Get High”, “Pain is your friend” and “Break through the wall“:

For most runners, there’s a wall at the three mile mark. This goes for the most beginner runners up to and probably including the long-time marathoners. The first three miles of any run are the most difficult and painful to get through. After this point, however, it’s easy to “just keep going.” Back when I was training for the Boston Marathon, and would go out for 2+ hours on a 20 mile run, the hardest miles were the first three. It’s also these first three miles that make it difficult for running to become habit. You really have to struggle past this, in order to develop a tolerance for the sport.

in stores now

Reuters: A Dutch design student bored with conventional advertisements has set up a fake online agency offering advertising space for beer, cars and TV stations on prostitutes’ thighs and cleavage.

On his website www.instoresnow.nl, Raoul Balai also proposed painting brand names on zoo animals and floating huge billboards off popular beaches to get vacationers’ attention.

“I was getting sick and tired of advertising everywhere,” Balai told reporters. “But I don’t want to preach, and I thought satire would work better.”

Far from taking his ideas as a joke, an Amsterdam zoo had its lawyer threaten Balai with a defamation suit after his website depicted fish from the zoo bearing the brand name of a frozen fish company.

Prospective customers phoning his fake agency are kept on hold and bombarded with sales pitches until they give up.

Get down with the Picard Song

Via Nathan’s space

… the end of ulcers?

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