Link of the Day [4.20.08]
Today we’re gonna visit the godfather of Japanese manga and anime, Tezuka Osamu. He did Astro Boy and for people my age, he also did what was called in America, Simba the White Lion.
Link of the Day [4.19.08]
Official website for the official BrowserMetrics Japanes baseball team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Just the idea of a carp being a good team symbol/mascot is funny. Look at the other teams in the Nippon Professional Baseball league and they’re all birds or something fierce. They swoop down and eat carp from the pond. Is it any wonder that they are stuck to the bottom of the standings?
Link of the Day [4.18.08]
Yesterday, for dinner I made some miso soup. I tried to synthesize my
own recipe. I cribbed most of it from the link of the day, but also
looked at the back of the package for some other inspiration.
Basically, it was silky tofu and frozen stir fry vegetables thrown into
a pot of boiling water until they are cooked. Add the miso, stir, let
it simmer for a few minutes, then server. It was alright, but was
missing something. I think it might have been the "dashi."http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/recipe-of-the-day-nearly-instant-miso-soup-with-tofu/
Link of the Day [4.17.08]
Was this the wrong call or what? Remember, the only successful Apple
product in the decade before the iPod was the iMac, the blueberry,
picture tube looking one. The iMac made a splash, but didn't budge
Apple's fortunes. It wasn't until the iPod that changed things around.
And when it was released for Windows, all hell broke loose. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107
Link of the Day [4.16.08]
How does the health care system of other countries work? What do they
do right? What can the US learn from them? These are questions that
the PBS newshow, Frontline, tried to answer in their provocative
program, Sick Around the World.Being one of the more wealthy of nations, it's surprising why our system
is so dysfunctional. Will we ever ensure that ALL citizens have access
to health insurance? Will we ever see the costs of it go down? Will we
ever break the tyranny that the insurance industry imposes? I don't
know. But to do nothing would suck.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
Link of the day [4.15.08]
Happy tax day. At least that is what my iCal is telling me today is.
Hope you got a refund.Anyway I'm starting a new item which I'm calling "link of the day,"
which is a link I think you should visit. It may be cool. It may be
interesting. It may be thought provoking. Or it may be none of these.
All I want you to do is click on the link. (I should just join google
ad words.)Today's link is to my googleReader shared items. I keep trying to get
you to use a RSS feed reader. I use googleReader and it allows me to
denote a good blog item from my regular reads as well as share them with
others. http://www.google.com/reader/shared/13986059648041625896