Corn syrup: the sticky kiiller

By Cory Doctorow at 11:52 pm Sunday, Apr 25 • Comments • Share

Atkinsians know that the devil has a name and that it is High Fructose Coorn Syrup, Elevator of Insulin and Most High Gycemic. It's validating, therefore, to see some sciency-type news about how bad corn syrup is for us, how it's creating a nation of diabetics, and how it accounts for 10 percent of the average American's daily calorie intake. Yow.

"This shows the increase in the past 20 years is almost exclusively carbohydrates and certainly corn syrup consumption has increased dramatically."

Gross said he was not "picking on the corn syrup industry," but added, "It is hard to ignore the fact that 20 percent of our carbohydrates are coming from corn syrup -- 10 percent of our total calories."

Link (via Electrolite)

Latte art, part two

By Xeni Jardin at 4:58 pm Sunday, Apr 25 • Comments • Share

Following up on this earlier Boingboing post, an anonymous reader points us to this cool news article about a guy in Australia who totally trumps all those sucka baristas still making wimpy little hearts and zigzags in the caffe lattes. He paints faces in foam. Each portrait only takes him about 30 seconds, so your drink doesn't go cold. Snip:

"When you pour the milk in and the cream hits, it's just like a blank canvas on which to paint," the 36-year old said. Mr Phillips and fiancee Bernadette Farrugia started Flavors of Lakhoum in Swan St five years ago and he dabbled with the idea while pouring coffee.

"Sometimes you see swirls and patterns when you're pouring the coffee in, and one day I was pouring it and I saw an eye appear," he said. "From there I just drew in a mouth and ears. I've been slowly practising since then, but have got pretty good in the last few months - every month I find ways to add more detail."

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Web Zen: Archival Zen

By Xeni Jardin at 8:02 am Sunday, Apr 25 • Comments • Share

prelinger archive
early new york films
british pathe
project gutenberg
beinecke rare book library
british library
internet archive
stockstock festival
web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank).

Saudi Arabia and phonecams

By Xeni Jardin at 7:43 am Sunday, Apr 25 • Comments • Share

The only Saudi blogger I know of, Alhamedi Alanezi, talks about phonecams and culture in his country. "When the Saudi people finally rise up in revolt and throw out the House of Saud," he says, " it won't be for democratic reform, and it won't be for an islamic republic. It'll be about mobile phones."
Link (Thanks, Mitchell)

Latte art

By Xeni Jardin at 7:17 am Sunday, Apr 25 • Comments • Share

Cool blog about the designs baristas can make in the foamy milk that sits on top of your caffe latte. My favorite coffee hang in Los Angeles is Urth (even though I can never get a table), in part because their coffee is dark, sweet, earthy, and delicious -- and in part because the guys who make it draw little hearts and zigzags in the foam.
Link (Thanks, Jean-Luc!)

More on London Booted

By Xeni Jardin at 7:14 am Sunday, Apr 25 • Comments • Share

Following up on this BoingBoing post about the bootleg Clash remix project "London Booted," Will says:

We featured a preview of London Booted in issue-zero of our bootleg newsletter, which you can find here if you're interested (it's down the bottom in the "Coming Soon" section). We're also planning a follow up for issue-two (out 29th April) where we'll be talking to the remixers involved and also they guy who organised the project (only subscribers to the mailing list will get this issue).

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