kottke.orgJason Kottke's weblog, home of fine hypertext productsA fancy Manhattan restaurant opened by famed chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten <a...- June 19, 2008 A fancy Manhattan restaurant opened by famed chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten features on its menu a dish called "Sea Urchin Bukkake". It, er, comes with "all the condiments of bukkake". (I could go on, but that's a good place to stop.) (link)http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15897.html The Chinese are encouraging their restaurants to change the names...- June 19, 2008 The Chinese are encouraging their restaurants to change the names of some of their dishes before the Olympics start. Those dishes due for a name change include: - Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman - Chicken without sexual life - Husband and wife's lung slice (link)http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15895.html Video visualizations of how the HTML rendering engine underneath Firefox's hood...- June 19, 2008 Video visualizations of how the HTML rendering engine underneath Firefox's hood renders mozilla.org, a Wikipedia page, and Google Japan. (link)http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15893.html Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, The Blind Side, etc, has <a...- June 18, 2008 Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, The Blind Side, etc, has moved back to his native New Orleans to work on a book "that will center on the restoration of New Orleans". Back in Aug 2007, Lewis wrote an article for the NY Times Magazine about Hurricane Katrina and the economics of catastrophe. (thx, brian) (link)http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15892.html The most awesome bread-making video in the world. (via <a...- June 18, 2008 The most awesome bread-making video in the world. (via madame lamb) (link)http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15891.html |