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Sushi Wars

Globe and Mail food columnist Joanne Kates (registration required) spares a few inches after review the new Jolly Miller.

Sushi wars: If the Ontario government proceeds with its wacky plan to ban the use of fresh raw fish, sushi will go the way of the dodo in the province.

How much frozen fish do sushi chefs use now? Hiro Sushi uses about 20 per cent frozen fish (surf clam, butterfish and eel). All his other ingredients (tuna, snapper, mackerel, squid, octopus, sea urchin etc.) come in fresh.

Were they to be frozen, the sushi would have the texture of porridge.

Hiro (along with Michael Stadtlander and other chef luminaries) is organizing a petition to fight this law. You will soon be able to get information at http://www.nofrozensushi.com.

previous related posts started here : Sushi Insanity; "The Battle for Toro" One and Two; and The End of Sushi or Sayonara Sashimi

Towards tag-based bookmark management in web browsers?

Tom Coate @ plasticbag.org has some neat ideas about a next gen way to slice and dice Bookmarks and make them more usable / flexable. I wonder if Mozilla (xml?) bookmark format might be amenable to be hacked, extended and redisplayed?

Alan Cox on writing better software

Via Ping Wales. Lots of good ideas:

Execute-only code; Firewalling by default; Languages; Validation tools; Type safety; Tainting; Rule verification; Good interfaces; Defensive interfaces; Mathematical models; Scripted debugging; Brute force testers; Root cause analysis; Document trails; Rigorous reviews; Statistics

TV Via DSL - Waiting for cheap set-top boxes

dslreports.com

As Time Warner Cable begins to push into their phone business, Cincinnati Bell says they're getting closer to pushing back into the television business. Jack Cassidy, president and CEO of Cincinnati Bell, says the only thing that has kept his company from deploying TV over ADSL2+ gear is the cost of set-top boxes for the service, which he says often run in the $400-500 range. InStat-MDR recently noted that sub-$100 boxes would allow the TV via DSL business to start moving forward.

So, how quickly could we get from "Broad-cast" to Nich-cast? Think TiVo + Netflix: and think Evan:

"The Power of the Tail: 1 million sites with 1000 users is far larger than 100 sites with a million users (AdSense, Affiliate models, et al" Hmmm...

for more about the Power of the Tails see The Long Tail via Boing Boing

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

and more about: TV over Internet protocol (TVIP)

Gmail Notifier

Gmail Notifier, updated October 4, 2004, a Windows (>2k) system tray app. new Icons and other stuff, see faq

Zoom quilt: This must be want Alice felt like

zoom

Like Kottke said, man.... Trippy.

6 Best Practices for J2EE Architecture

The Codist Links to 6 Best Practices for J2EE Architecture:

Never Shortcut Server-Side Validation; Security is Not an Add-On; I18N is Not a Just a Buzzword Anymore; Avoid Common Mistakes With MVC Presentation; Don't Be Embarrassed by POJOs; Data Access Does Not Mandate O/R Mapping

Magical Maps

Via bTang reBlog:

MultiMap.com is using its aerial photo/map mash-up as a tool to sell maps and photos. But it's the combination of the two that leaves me with my mouth hanging open.

Hover over the map and the (dhtml?) trick which will have you catching flys. So Cool.

Update:Life with Alarcity : Map Mashup dissects the JavaScript and gets the link love from Boing Boing

This trick is done completely in Javascript, located in global.js, and uses the overlay.style.* properties that I've really only seen used in Javascript-based menus before. I'm a bit confused on how this works in IE, as it does not support alpha tranparency

TokyoArtBeat and QR codes

From Antipixel comes TokyoArtBeat, which is a brilliantly executed site (in English and Japanese) which tracks shows and events in the art, design, film, art party and opening events.

As an interesting plus, it has those QR Codes which you scan with your mobile (Camera) phone to instantly download a map to the event location. (It also has Yahoo! Maps for those not so blessed).

I've mentioned QRCodes (two-dimension quick response codes) before : One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, BarCode Fish... and Camera-phone barcode reader and Camera Phones Link World to Web.

Life as I know it....: Lotus Notes RSS Aggregator

Life as I know it has kind words for my Lotus Notes News Reader (v0.3). Remember It's : free; open source; designed for R5.x.

Thanks Colton! It's allways nice to hear from folk who have found it useful (like the Nsf-On-Air people).

I haven't got around to adding other major changes to it, but keep thinking of modifing to make it easier to use as a server newsfeed reader (an admin role to maintain feeds), plus a web view of the feeds (for non notes client people).

Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire

Sarah McLachlan's new video cost 15 Dollars.

Bigelow's Inflatable Treehouse and the Next X

Bigelow's Gamble, via futurismic

Given Mondays 2nd flight, and hopeful X-Prize win, it time to set the next big challenge.

Update : SpaceShip One successfully reached it's altitude of +100km (+62 miles for the metrically challenged), piloted by Brian Binnie to a maximum altitude of 368,000 feet, passed an altitude record set by NASA's X-15 forty years ago. (Google tells me that = 112.1664 kilometers).

Xeni Boing's the event and links to Jason DeFillippo's photos

on a related note: Mercury 7 Astronaut Gordon Cooper passed away at age 77

FuturePundit blogs "X Prize Shows Prizes Can Speed Technological Advances", with a great summary of why this is important and , links for more info.

The more important story is that prize money can very efficiently speed the rate of technological advance in targetted areas. If NASA's entire budget was shifted over into prize money it would do far more to accelerate the development of space technology than the current set of programs that NASA funds.