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Making Cannoli~ The Filling (pt.2): Food-Travels.
An interesting site I stumbled onto through a facebook connection. “Chef-Micheal” happens to be someone I used to hang with occasionally a long time ago (back in the day…). Looks like he’s got an extensive series of videos and information about his food related travels.

There’s a huge amount of stuff on the site and I haven’t even scratched the surface. Definitely something to pass along to my mother-in-law, as well as anyone interested in learning about some traditional cultural foods first-hand… Great stuff!

So that made me think…Heye, what have I not seen in forever? How about ‘Throwing Muses’…

The Unusual Times

A great site for just plain weird stuff!

Along with just being the right thing to do (although I’ve been using Flock for the past week and am kinda hooked…), Firefox will try to break the Guiness World Record for most downloads in a day…

Wow. Another cool flash site, this time using the “galaxy” as a browsing mechanism. Type a keyword and you’re suddenly flying through “tagged” planets full of pictures. Swoop around with your mouse and click an image to see it bigger. Very slick! Check it HERE…

Here’s a 30 second impression of Netvibes so far… Really Freakin cool!!
I’ve been looking for some type of “in-browser’ solution to managing rss feeds, widgets, social sites, etc… The customizable options on here seem endless and I haven’t even begun to explore the widgets and social connectivity aspect of the site… Check it out…

Check out these demo videos from Immersive Media… These are the same people who did that ‘Street View’ thing for Google Maps, only now it’s interactive video (interactive in the sense that you can rotate around a 360 degree view of the action…
Once the clip intro has loaded and the video starts, you’ll see you can click inside the video and drag your mouse around to rotate your view…
This first one takes a few minutes to load and is a smattering of different environments… The second clip is similar to the ‘Street View’ thing as you travel down a road in Austin, Texas…





More Demos Here…

Wow, this one is pretty slick. Download this AddOn and browse images and videos in one of the slickest ways yet. It’s real snappy, very intuitive and highly addicting. The way it handles YouTube is real nice and the ability to search a nice number of image based sites is cool. Quickly scanning through hundreds of search results instead of hitting “next” over and over is also a plus…

This movie looks pretty hilarious. Too bad its not playing anywhere near here. Hafta wait for the DVD I s’pose… Quite an impressive cast. Looks like it could have the feel of ‘Best In Show’ or ‘Spinal Tap’, only the arena this time is the World of Poker… Quickie from the website synopsis… “The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players who reach the final table of the world’s second most famous high stakes tournament, the Grand Championship of Poker…. An eclectic cast brings together many of today’s top comedic actors; Woody Harrelson, David Cross, Dennis Farina, Cheryl Hines, Richard Kind and Chris Parnell. The film also stars award–winning comedian Ray Romano, the legendary German film director Werner Herzog and sitcom vet Gabe “Welcome Back Kotter” Kaplan.”