Category: looky

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/)

The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) carries out research on public opinion on foreign policy and international issues by conducting nationwide polls, focus groups and comprehensive reviews of polling conducted by other organizations.

Web link of note: Program on International Policy Attitudes
(At http://www.pipa.org/)

Russian-run and Russia-hosted, it’s a service where you can get your mp3s on the cheap.

Best of all, it’s perfectly legal (in Russia anyway!)
Web link of note: All of MP3
(At http://www.allofmp3.com)

Parody band fusing Metallica and the Beatles
Web link of note: Beatallica
(At http://www.beatallica.com/)

Pacific Media Expo seeks to create an entertainment community for artists, industry and their fans. Pacific Media Expo exists to bring the cutting edge of Asian entertainment to America.

Web link of note: Pacific Media Expo
(At http://pacificmediaexpo.com/)

I had the check for my tax preparers… I stopped by to drop it off and save a stamp.

Took the elevator up… the doors were closed. And locked.

What’s the deal? It’s 2pm! Maybe they left early so their clients wouldn’t bug them on Tax Day. They are probably all out getting smashed. WOOOO!