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Mischa is getting photographed by Crain’s Chicago Business today!

Testing a CulinaryCulture widget I just whipped up. Click watch to see Mischa’s recipes.

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Fenton High School sophomore Chuck Forman has designed an on-line service that will give users access to information about the Bensenville school.

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TIS (Transinvestservice) is logistics company near Odessa. They had problems people finding their warehouse (you know — knowing to turn left after 15 km and stuff like that), so TIS set up an giant robot made from old cars as a signpost. As a side-note: “Giant Human Like Battle Robots” is a popular meme in Russia and Ukraine. “When [are we] going to employ Giant Humanlike Battle Robots to protect our borders?” was a winning question for Putin on his nationwide interview with Internet folk. Yuschenko (Ukrainian president) was asked this as well since then.

Agave nectar is one of those silver bullets that’s appeared, mostly in so-called health foods, in the wake of increased public consciousness about high-fructose corn syrup. Don’t believe the hype, processed sugar is processed sugar, whether it comes from corn, cane, beets or cacti. - via Salt & Fat

Agave nectar consists primarily of fructose and glucose. One source gives 92% fructose and 8% glucose; another gives 56% fructose and 20% glucose. These differences presumably reflect variation from one vendor of agave nectar to another. Due to its fructose content and the fact that the glycemic index measures only glucose levels, agave nectar is notable in that its glycemic index and glycemic load are lower than many other natural sweeteners on the market. However, the extremely high percentage of fructose can be deleterious and can trigger fructose malabsorption, metabolic syndrome, hypertriglyceridemia, decreased glucose tolerance, hyperinsulinemia, and accelerated uric acid formation - Wikipedia

Agave nectar is one of those silver bullets that’s appeared, mostly in so-called health foods, in the wake of increased public consciousness about high-fructose corn syrup. Don’t believe the hype, processed sugar is processed sugar, whether it comes from corn, cane, beets or cacti. - via Salt & Fat

Agave nectar consists primarily of fructose and glucose. One source gives 92% fructose and 8% glucose; another gives 56% fructose and 20% glucose. These differences presumably reflect variation from one vendor of agave nectar to another. Due to its fructose content and the fact that the glycemic index measures only glucose levels, agave nectar is notable in that its glycemic index and glycemic load are lower than many other natural sweeteners on the market. However, the extremely high percentage of fructose can be deleterious and can trigger fructose malabsorption, metabolic syndrome, hypertriglyceridemia, decreased glucose tolerance, hyperinsulinemia, and accelerated uric acid formation - Wikipedia

The technique relies on the strange quantum phenomenon called entanglement, in which two particles share the same existence. This deep connection means that a measurement on one particle immediately influences the other, even though they are light-years apart. Bennett and company worked out how to exploit this to send information. (The influence between the particles may be immediate, but the process does not violate relativity because some informatiom has to be sent classically at the speed of light.) They called the technique teleportation.

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The technique relies on the strange quantum phenomenon called entanglement, in which two particles share the same existence. This deep connection means that a measurement on one particle immediately influences the other, even though they are light-years apart. Bennett and company worked out how to exploit this to send information. (The influence between the particles may be immediate, but the process does not violate relativity because some informatiom has to be sent classically at the speed of light.) They called the technique teleportation.

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El Bulli - Spain
Chef Ferran Adria
http://www.elbulli.com

The Fat Duck - UK
Chef Heston Blumenthal
http://www.fatduck.co.uk

Pierre Gagnaire - France
Chef Pierre Gagnaire
http://www.pierre-gagnaire.com

French Laundry - USA
Chef Thomas Keller
http://www.frenchlaundry.com

Nihonryori Ryugin - Japan
Chef Seiji Yamamoto
http://www.nihonryori-ryugin.com

Blue Hill at Stone Barns - USA
Chef Dan Barber
http://www.bluehillfarm.com/food/blue-hill-stone-barns

Mugaritz - Spain
Chef Andoni Aduriz
http://www.mugaritz.com

Noma - Denmark
Chef René Redzepi
http://www.noma.dk

Combal.Zero - Italy
Chef Davide Scabin
http://www.combalzero.com

Aronia de Takazawa - Japan
Chef Yoshiaki Takazawa
http://www.aroniadetakazawa.com

I plan on going to all of these at some point. So far Mischa and I have been to The French Laundry and it was pretty amazing. I personally think Alinea should also be on the list, but 2 US restaurants out of 10 isn’t bad.

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Apple is often compared to and seen as competing with Microsoft and Google, but it’s not a great comparison.  While there’s obvious overlap, these three companies are diverging in major ways.

Microsoft is going to continue to rule the corporate environment and will do quite well at it.  We use Google Apps at work and from personal experience, it has a shockingly long way to go to compete.  Google is going to continue to crush everyone in the cloud.  With their smarts and data center operations, we’re years from seeing a competitor.

But no one is even remotely close to Apple in the home.

It’s 2010.  All of our media is digital.  But managing our digital content is a huge pain in the ass.  It’s almost weird when you think about it.  Everyone wants digital media, but it’s such a convoluted confusing process with no good solution available.  And when there’s demand with no supply…

You may not realize it, but Apple has ALL the pieces of the puzzle.  They just need to put them all together.

My prediction is that Apple will announce a tablet of some sort tomorrow, probably with really innovative touch screen technology.  But that’s the small part.  The piece you’re missing is that the tablet will be connected to something much larger: a fully integrated digital media and home networking environment.

iTunes is the 800 pound gorilla for digital music, apps, movies, TV, and soon publishing.  Apple has the content distribution thing down pat, and have the best lawyers in the business to protect it. No problem there.

How do you want to watch it?  Apple sells the most beautiful display screens money can buy and patents for QuickTime.

Next, consider the AirportExpress/AppleTV/TimeCapsule/MacMini family of small headless appliances sitting your LAN.  These devices are suddenly going to get very high priority.  The Mac Mini gets HDMI output and the price plummets.  Now you can stick one in the closet and put one next to each of your TV screens.  Remember, Apple was a pioneer of ad hoc networking with Bonjour and has built quite a few media sharing products (iTunes sharing, iPhoto sharing).  Each of these little Mac Minis will easily talk to one another and share media across the entire LAN.  And what better way to manage them than with a sleek tablet with Cover Flow?

The Tablet will run standalone OS X, sure, but the surprising killer app for it will be Apple Remote Desktop.  OS X has had built in VNC (Apple Remote Desktop) built into it for years, so all your existing computers can be controlled via the tablet.  Welcome home media server that actually works!

Synchronizing all this data?  Consider iPhone syncing with music/movies/contacts/bookmarks and MobileMe for syncing all your desktops.  No problem.

They’ve got Front Row, a gorgeous software interface for controlling your home media.  And Remote, an iPhone app for controlling your iTunes running over the network.  They’ve been practicing this stuff for years.

Throw in Snow Leopard, a major OS X release who’s sole purpose was to slim down and improve performance.  Weird when viewed by itself, but when you start coupling it with many little devices that need a tight version of OS X…

Oh, and I almost forgot: since every purchase in the iTunes Store links your Apple account with your credit card, Apple has more credit cards on file than any other company on the planet.  All ready to 1-click deliver content to your home.  Don’t want to pay for content?  That’s okay too.  Guess who just bought an ad network?

Tomorrow you will see Apple’s 10 year old digital media strategy finally unfold before your eyes.  It will all be so blindingly obvious that you can’t even believe you missed it.  It will actually be the most important thing Steve Jobs has ever done.

The new version of OS X is going to be announced.  It will be the backend that finally unifies all of Apple’s seemingly disparate products and technology: gorgeous displays, content distribution, content sharing, MobileMe, ad hoc networking, remote application control, QuickTime, advertising, payment processing.

And the Tablet becomes the one ring to rule them all.

Ralphie sitting by the pool

From my brain! It’s quite unfinished, I didn’t stylize any of the posts, just the outer shell. I just launched my wife’s tumblr theme, it’s much more polished.

I just finished Mischa’s new Tumblr theme. Still a few things to tweak but I’m very happy with it!

I’m not sure what to make of this.

I want to throw my hat into the social check-in ring. My take on it would be instead of checking into a bar or restaurant you’d only be checking into bathrooms. Based on a private survey I conducted 74% of all iphone use is on the toilet, so this makes perfect sense. Mischa came up with the name King of the Throne, and now we just need one or two more cofounders to get this going. Who’s in?

Mischa’s cousin is visiting us while we’re in Key West. We prepared a seafood feast for him of fresh blackfin tuna and wahoo sushi and grilled lobster tails. One thing I made was some mini nigiri with wahoo, dill and wasabi tobiko.

While living down in Key West for half the year we take full advantage of the fresh seafood. Just recently Mischa put together a Spicy Local Stone Crab over Radicchio and Cucumber Salad. It was amazing.

I did some research and apparently Florida stone crab are 1 of only 2 sources of meat in the world that does not require killing the animal. Of course that was from Wikipedia so there was no source cited and no mention of what the other animal is. A quick search online mentioned other possible candidates such as octopus arms or Rocky Mountain oysters. All I know is that typically I’m not a huge fan of crab, but I loved these stone crab.

I definitely appreciate the abundance of fresh seafood. While living in Chicago it’s hard to find, if not impossible, to get seafood that was caught that morning.

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Perfect Manhattan made with Elmer T. Lee and Buzzard’s Bitters.

Just got my hand crafted bottle of Buzzard’s Bitters from Mike. I’m going to make a manhattan right now!

Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell

Mischa made an amazing stuffed Lebanese roasted chicken with zaatar butter. She’s getting really good with her food photography too!

mischadehart:

Ask me anything! http://www.formspring.me/mischadehart

When you’re done asking her, ask me anything!

mrgan:

(This post uses formatting and features not visible in the Tumblr Dashboard. If anything below doesn’t make sense or looks plain ugly, consider viewing the post on my website. I love the Dashboard, I hate the Dashboard.)

Did you know you can do 3D transformations on objects in Webkit-based browsers? What I mean is, you can take an IMG or a DIV or, well, anything, and translate, rotate, or scale it in 3D space, along three axes.

I intended to make a standalone iPhone game that would demo this but other things got in the way, so I’m sharing what I have in hope that you can learn a bit about next-generation CSS and Javascript. Hit http://mrgan.com/pandy on your iPhone to try it out, then hit the same on your computer to have at the source code.

A few notes:

• This will look fine on Safari on your desktop, but you can only interact with it on the iPhone, because I’m detecting touch events, not clicks.
• Move your finger around to rotate the cube. (Many thanks to Andy Matuschak for help with the arcball!)
• This whole thing was done quick and dirty, so don’t fault Webkit or the iPhone for bugs and performance; that’s all on me :)
• This is in no way based on the awesome-sounding WebGL technology, which aims to make 3D way more powerful on the web.
• Nothing to do with canvas either! Just some DIVs rotated in 3D space.

We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.

Aw snap Chromium!

I support Yukon Cornelius.

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You can’t parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can’t be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that is insufficiently sophisticated to understand the constructs employed by HTML. HTML is not a regular language and hence cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Regex queries are not equipped to break down HTML into its meaningful parts. so many times but it is not getting to me. Even enhanced irregular regular expressions as used by Perl are not up to the task of parsing HTML. You will never make me crack. HTML is a language of sufficient complexity that it cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Even Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions. Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love, marriage, and ritual infanticide. The

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The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to the Register, shut down the whole operation. (via Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really) | Popular Science)

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Bald bears baffle vets with mystery condition at German zoo

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