randomwalks/dj

ECLIPSE/MpowerPlayer
Looks like suitable instructions for getting J2ME MIDP 2.0 development going on the Mac with Eclipse using the Mpowerplayer SDK.
This has been a long time in coming.. Let's hope it works..

Originally from unmediated, on March 3, 2006 3:17 PM

Well, free via web services for now, downloadable db coming soon

Originally from unmediated, on March 3, 2006 3:16 PM

After having about 24 hours to play with the new Intel-based Mac mini, Jonathan Seff got the chance to pick the brain of Apple’s senior director of desktops, Tom Boger.

Originally from Macworld, on March 3, 2006 3:11 PM

Cranbrook student takes his 40-foot thesis on the road. Stay tuned... Story in Metro Times Detroit and the Hawktrainer School Blog. "Although still in the planning stages and waiting on funding from sponsors, Sutherland's "Wall of Water" consists of a 5,000-gallon tank, made from clear acrylic...

Originally from Archinect.com Feed, on March 3, 2006 3:09 PM

Originally posted by sudama from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 3, 2006 2:28 PM

Originally posted by sudama from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 3, 2006 2:27 PM

Feedwhip is built around a simple, powerful idea: we track all your favorite websites so that you don't have to. Every time one of your website changes, we'll send you an email!

Originally posted by exiledsurfer from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 3, 2006 2:24 PM

Originally posted by sudama from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 3, 2006 2:20 PM

Originally posted by latca from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 3, 2006 2:20 PM

Originally posted by miyagawa from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 3, 2006 2:19 PM

Bill Simmons, who writes the Sports Guy column for ESPN.com is, to my mind, far and away the best sportswriter in America. If you're a sports fan and you don't read Simmons, shame on you. From time to time he does a feature called Curious Guy, where he emails with someone who he thinks might be interesting. He did Chuck Klosterman not long ago, for instance, which is well worth looking up.  Well, now he's done me. Part one is up today. Part two is up tomorrow.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060302

Originally posted by malcolmgladwell from gladwell.com, on March 3, 2006 3:48 AM

The Captain of Design himself points us to the ski trail maps of James Nieuhues. Nieuhues is a prolific fellow...he's done paintings for most of the large ski resorts in the western US.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on March 2, 2006 1:43 PM

Originally from lifeblog, on March 2, 2006 1:43 PM

"1) Managers are soul-sucking zombies. 2) Your co-workers are dumber than you think. 3) Simple is best. 4) The customer is always interesting. 5) Everything you may or may not know is temporary."

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on March 2, 2006 1:43 PM

My favorite is Ingvar Kamprad's.
(via del.icio.us/linkblog)

Originally posted by Chris from Cynical-C Blog, on March 2, 2006 1:43 PM

My Dad writes in an email:

"If there's a place and an era I should remember, it is 1950s 'solidly working class London'. I was 17 in 1955 and these are photos of me at ages 16 and 17.

Memories of seeing Teddy Boys around are quite clear, but Teddy Girls, no - in fact I don't even remember the expression being used. It required a bit more cash than we had to dress in the 'drapes' with their velvet trimmed collars (only black was allowed!). I guess we thought of them as a different culture. They didn't do the things we enjoyed doing such as roller skating, riding motorcycles - even shooting magpies. In fact I don't remember them doing much of anything except strut around looking pretty. The few I came in contact with worked as store clerks.

The article is quite good. I have to agree with the mention of no teenagers. To us youngsters, there were adults who worked and kids who went to school. My first noticeable experience of teenagers as we know them today was when I arrived in Canada in 1959. I'm sure you remember me saying that many kids in the U.K. were leaving school and entering the workforce at 15 years of age."

So Dad, does this mean you didn't dance The Creep?!

Update: According to this site on teenage fasion history, Teddy Boys rejected their fathers' working class clothes, instead preferring the elegance of drapes, drainpipe trousers, brocade waistcoats, stiff shirts, shoestring ties and suede shoes.

"This fashion is thought to have really originated when 500 Jamaicans arrived in Tilbury in 1948 on board the ex troop ship 'Empire Windrush' in response to the UK's government plea to the Caribbean for workers. They wore Zoot suits and the Edwardian look is thought to have been an adaptation of the suit the Jamaicans were seen wearing about the East End towns... [T]he Teddy Boy outfit was not cheap to buy and when custom tailored usually cost up to £100 for one outfit. An ordinary mass produced drape suit cost approximately £20 and shoes £3. So sporting a new suit indicated to peers how well an individual was doing money wise. At this time a Teddy Boy would have earned between £5 and £12 a week."

And get this 1969 Hong Kong movie about Teddy Girls!

Originally posted by Anne from Space and Culture, on March 2, 2006 1:42 PM

"In the very early days of hypertext research, people worried a lot about hand-crafted links. How will we ever afford to put in all those links? We also worried about how we'd ever manage to afford to digitize stuff for the Web, not to mention paying people to create original Web pages. Overnight, we discovered that we'd got the sign wrong: people would pay for the privilege of making Web sites."

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on March 2, 2006 1:42 PM

I started using del.icio.us this week.

Well, not really. I've had an account since summer '04, but I've never used it for much besides testing API features. Before hearing about Del.icio.us, I rolled my own database of text and URL snippets and experimented with various ways of pushing content in: via bookmarklets, e-mail, drag and drop to "hot" folders on my desktop, and so on. I have high personal inertia so this simple, personal database is still in use running my snippets feed.

However, Reblog 2.0 now supports Del-like posting bookmarklets, republishing items from RSS feeds, and plug-ins. I modified the snippets database to accept input directly from a Reblog plug-in, and activated Reblog's Delicious_Post plug-in as well. Now, the public output of my attention span can be seen in three different places:

1. Tecznotes snippets, with swanky looking posting activity chart. (RSS)
2. Del.icio.us migurski, with social view of links I find interesting and antihelpfully-truncated descriptions. I don't use tags, sorry. (RSS)
3. My Reblog, with attributions and OPML. This is technically the horse's mouth. (RSS, Atom)

This kind of link foraging and rebroadcasting is what Mike and I will be talking about next week at E-Tech. If you're there, please attend our wonderful session Thursday morning.

Originally from tecznotes , on March 2, 2006 1:42 PM

Since I started working for myself in the middle of last year, I've had to change my entire approach to how I approach and arrange my finances. I've fastidiously kept almost every receipt and missive from cable, mobile, credit card, student loan companies and anything that could remotely approach relevance come the Ides of April. Despite this, the pile of paper and impending math is intimidating, and I am constantly afraid of the mess that is my accounting "system." Since I do so much banking on-line, I'd been frustrated that my credit card companies couldn't offer me a spreadsheet of all my purchases, which would make all of this math much easier. I still get mail every week from American Express addressed to $$FIRST_NAME$$ $$LAST_NAME$$.

This week they offered $$FIRST_NAME$$ a "Year End Summary." Curious, I clicked through, and my dreams were answered. Here are all my purchases, not only in PDF, CSV or XLS, but broken down by category. I am floored! There's even an "interactive" version where you can re-categorize misfiled items, although it appears they did a great job. And they should, it's what they do!

Highs and Lows:

• $2000 in "travel" expenses, broken down into airfare, lodging, and other. "Other," the largest chunk, consists entirely of Subway and Amtrak fares. South By Southwest accommodations and three plane trips account for the balance. It would be nice if they could connect the name on the reservations, in two cases Adriana's, into the spreadsheet since I can't write off her tickets on my taxes.


• $1300 in restaurants - less than I would have guessed, but probably because it's so common to pay with cash in New York.


• $0 automobile related charge, account related charges and late fees.


• $[embarrassingly large number] in "Merchandise," the vast majority of which is mobile phone and server costs that I passed on to clients and co-workers. The rest is video games and books. Why did I make three trips to H&M in July? And Apple - wow. Just, wow. Five trips to Whole Foods: $474. Got to get that under control this year!

Originally from hello, typepad, on March 2, 2006 12:31 PM

Pruned has collected some lovely petri dish scenes full of fractal patterns.

Billions and billions of bacterial landscape architects pruning -- no less in environments poisoned with antibiotics -- other bacterial landscape architects, dead or alive, to form dazzling arabesque parterres. The self-organizing embroidery of organisms in constant Darwinian mode.

More here. See also ferrofluid.

Originally from kottke.org, on March 2, 2006 10:06 AM

Edward Tufte's new book, Beautiful Evidence, has finally gone to print and will be available in May 2006, but can be pre-ordered now. (thx, jim)

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on March 2, 2006 10:06 AM

Urs Fischer installation view, with Kenneth Anger's room visible in the background

James and I attended the press preview yesterday. I expect to write more, and put up some more photos, but I wanted to post some random initial impressions. Also, I can't use my catalog for reference yet since the cover fell off when I opened it and the pages haven't all been cut.

My first impression is that there are a lot more artists with whom I was unfamiliar, unlike the previous one. I'm pleased to see that, because I don't want the Biennial to show a lot of work that regular New York-based gallery-goers have already seen.

A number of works (such as those of Jutta Koether) were created in the spaces, with the curators indicating that the artists' responses to the Breuer building were an important part of this Biennial.

I was struck by the mention of the curators visiting Berlin to see works by young American artists. I worry very much about New York's ability to remain a cultural capital when it's so hard for artists to afford to live here. This week-old article from Crain's New York on the subject gives some statistics from a study by the Freelancers Union.

There is a great deal of political work in the show, which is fine by me, as well has heavily conceptual work. Joao Ribas has an interview on Artinfo with the curators in which they discuss the number of "anonymous" or "fictional" artists/collectives in the show. I would also say the spirit of Beuys is apparent in the show with works by Urs Fischer, JP Munro, and others.

One more observation: I found it odd that a number of works dealing with African-American issues and politics were all put together -- including works by Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Robert A. Pruitt, and Otabenga Jones & Associates. I didn't see a specific mention of a conscious choice to put these near (or next to) each other in any wall texts, but I can think of few other obvious groupings of work dealing with "identity politics" in the show.

Originally from bloggy, on March 2, 2006 8:46 AM

If you follow Jonathan Schwartz, you will have observed a little flurry around our offer of free-trial (and maybe free-for-keeps) T2000 servers. If you read the comments, it’s become apparent that our systems for supporting this kind of marketing promotion, uh, need some work. I’m really glad that Jonathan did this, because I know from bitter experience how bad we are at offering hardware freebies, and this will force us to fix it. Particularly right at the moment, it seems to me a no-brainer that scattering a few of our Opteron and Niagara boxes in the direction of some worthy OSS projects and startup companies would be about the most cost-effective marketing imaginable. On lots of occasions I’ve gone running excitedly to the product groups saying “Hey, it would be really great if we could get XXX a server to try out!” and the reaction is along the lines of “Well yeah, but how would we do that?” It turns out that when you’re a big public company, if you have a defined process in place for doing something, it’s easy and efficient, and if you don’t, you’re in SNAFU territory. Lots of other good stuff in those comments too, check them out. In particular, I happen to know that Wikipedia already has one of the free-trial T2000 boxes, and that’s a very interesting application, so we’re going to work with them see how fast we can make it run on that box. Sun is full of Wikipedia fans.

Originally from ongoing, on March 2, 2006 8:46 AM

Blood in the water:

Originally from Mr. Sun!, on March 2, 2006 8:45 AM

listening today in a groove. words were music and problems were music. an autistic child tells the best jokes i ever heard.

coincidentally, my supervisor pointed to a catalog of tiny instruments and said the agency would pay! my pick.

i wish there was more secular human service, but bizzarely, sometimes things work anyway.

pictured a miniature ornament i made last summer, out of focus hence color saturation, tied with silver thread to a rose-scented geranium.

vincent d' vincent d' vincent. my trinity.

Originally from serenalarogers, on March 2, 2006 8:45 AM

Although the new Apple MacBook Pro looks nearly identical to the company's existing 15-inch PowerBook, something radical is going on under the hood.

Originally from NYT > Technology, on March 2, 2006 8:44 AM

he talked about the game in today's podcast; I posted the MP3 clip  

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on March 2, 2006 8:44 AM

Originally from Wooster Collective, on March 2, 2006 8:44 AM

From a forthcoming Serge Gainsbourg tribute album I give you Cat Power & Karen Elson (jack white's missus) singing je t'aime bizarrely translated into english, a curiosity.
via Filles Sourires

Posted to music

Originally from Stunned, on March 2, 2006 8:39 AM

If you're in proximity to great produce in the Bay, know that we are currently envious.

Originally posted by beXn from beXnlog, on March 2, 2006 8:39 AM

Wow. First South Dakota, now Mississippi. All at once that rhetorical fear-mongering in the Planned Parenthood and NOW fundraising letters is starting to sound like cool, accurate assessment.

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on March 2, 2006 8:39 AM

Pic of Day 3.1: Kid watching Portable Video
Originally uploaded by triciawang.

Q Train, Brooklyn

Originally from Hi Tricia!, on March 2, 2006 8:38 AM

Sun Microsystems to partner with Architecture for Humanity to create a community conduit to generate and support innovative and sustainable global housing solution.

Originally from Archinect.com Feed, on March 2, 2006 8:35 AM

New York State's efforts to modernize its election system have fallen behind the rest of the nation, delayed by government gridlock.

Originally from NYT > Home Page, on March 2, 2006 8:34 AM

2005 was the biggest year yet for camera phones, those pocket-size precursors to the participatory panopticon and potential planetary protection tool (yes, I got a special deal on "p"s, why do you ask?). Market research group NPD reports:

In 2005, 45 percent of all mobile phones sold in the U.S. were camera phones, up from 26 percent in 2004. Asia followed a very similar trend. Western Europe had a higher incidence of camera phones at 64 percent, and Japan had a much greater adoption rate with more than 90 percent of all mobile phones sold with camera capabilities both in 2004 and 2005.

This tells us two things: we're on the verge of seeing a major blow-up between advocates of strict control over recordings of intellectual property and advocates of universal use of communication tools; and we're approaching a point where location-based information and communication systems relying on cameraphones will have a large enough base of potential users to really make a go of it.

(Via Picturephoning)

(Posted by Jamais Cascio in QuickChanges at 01:18 PM)

Originally from unmediated, on March 2, 2006 8:34 AM

"Americans know more about The Simpsons TV show than the US Constitution's First Amendment, an opinion poll says. ... About one in five thought the right to own a pet was one of the freedoms."

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on March 2, 2006 8:33 AM

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color PURPLE and don't stop to notice it. - Alice Walker

Originally posted by Andrea from Andrea Harner, on March 2, 2006 8:08 AM

World Prison Population. (50KB PDF) by country, 2003. Though only 4% of the world’s population lived in the U.S. in 2003, the U.S. held 23% of the world’s prison population — more than any other nation.

Originally from Social Design Notes, on March 2, 2006 8:07 AM

Not a Toy. Adam’s posted a few images of an illustrated guide for children about the dangers of touching or playing around unexploded munitions. The illustrations cover free, blank softcover notebooks produced by US Army for distribution in Laos as part of the UNDP UXO program in the 1990’s.

Originally from Social Design Notes, on March 2, 2006 8:06 AM

Is it too easy for buildings to get certified as eco-friendly?. “Unlike other so-called green products... some green buildings are little more energy-efficient than traditional structures. Yet they manage to earn a coveted certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, a leading, private environmental organization.... At issue is the Green Building Council’s [LEED] checklist system that certifies projects as green. Some critics say the system gives too much weight to certain easy tasks, while giving the same weight to much more expensive ones.”

Originally from Social Design Notes, on March 2, 2006 8:06 AM

If you heart art, you'll heart we*heart*prints. Fantastic!

Originally from hello, typepad, on March 1, 2006 4:31 PM

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Title: Pink Elephants Gallery: Tiny Showcase

Tiny Showcase has a new beautiful print by Andrea Offermann up today. Like always a percentage of the profits from the prints goes to charity, and they're selling out super fast! Update: They're sold out. Yes, already. I'm sad about it too.

Originally from we[heart]prints, on March 1, 2006 3:20 PM

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Title: Number One Gallery: Nucleus

Out of all of the wonderful prints from comic book artist and illustrator Kazy Kibuishi on Nucleus, this one is my favorite. Something about the tree and the little bunny rabbit spirit really gets to me.

Originally from we[heart]prints, on March 1, 2006 3:20 PM

$

1,050

Title: Junks in Inatori Bay, Izu Gallery: Ohmi Gallery

I LOVE this print. Then again I am also obsessed with any sort of ship that even vaguely reminds me of pirate ships and Goonies and Pirates of the Caribbean. Made from a woodblock created in 1926, this particular print was made in the 40s/50s, and also happens to be one of the more expensive pieces out of the many prints for sale at Ohmi Gallery. Typical prices for individual prints are around a couple of hundred dollars, and there are many many more prints, everything from snowy japanese landscapes to images of geishas to more modern, abstract prints.

Originally from we[heart]prints, on March 1, 2006 3:19 PM

wikipedia: Octavia Estelle Butler (6/22/1947-2/24/2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of very few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards, and was the first sf writer ever to be a recipient of the MacArthur F

Originally posted by yatta from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 2:56 PM

Playing to the backlash against ubiquitous communication, a company called Natural Nano is developing a special high-tech paint that relies on the wizardry of nanotechnology to create a system that locks out unwanted cell phone signals on demand. Newsday reports. "NaturalNano has found a way to use nanotechnology to blend particles of copper into paint that can be brushed onto walls and effectively deflect radio signals. NaturalNano will combine this signal-blocking paint scheme with a radio-filtering device that collects phone signals from outside a shielded space, allowing certain transmissions to proceed while blocking others. It appears to be lefal (jamming devices that emit radio signals to prevent cell phones are against the law) - The radio filter would allow all emergency radio communications to pass through the shield With all other signals, like cell phones, the filter would act like a spigot to block or allow them to pass through—say, only during intermission.

Originally posted by emily from textually.org, on March 1, 2006 2:54 PM

Tana of Small Farms blog has created a nifty map of chefs and farmers in the San Francisco/Monterey Bay area who directly support support local/sustainable agriculture....

Originally from A Full Belly, on March 1, 2006 1:30 PM

The restaurant industry is notoriously difficult. Margins are narrow, competition is tough, and restaurant operators are frequently held hostage to rising prices for energy and commodities. (In this study, nearly 60 percent of restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, failed over a three-year period.) But as an investment, restaurants are doing better than ever. Chipotle, which was spun out of McDonald's, went public in January at $22 a share and essentially doubled the first day. It has since tacked on a couple of points. Earlier this month, Morton's served up a juicy public offering. Several well-known eateries are on the IPO runway: Burger King filed for an IPO on Feb. 16. Donut chain Tim Horton's, a unit of Wendy's, will likely go public next month. Gordon Biersch, a 25-restaurant beer-and-fine-food chain, has likewise announced its intent to sell shares.

In theory, restaurants are a highly cyclical industry, dependent largely on discretionary spending. But in recent years, restaurants have grown faster than the economy as a whole. The National Restaurant Association forecasts that industry sales will rise 5.1 percent in 2006. Data from the Census Bureau shows that seasonally adjusted restaurant and bar sales have risen for eight straight months through January 2006. (SLATE)

Originally from Agenda Inc. Live Feed, on March 1, 2006 1:30 PM

One of Joystiq's writers notes that Hot Coffee appeared on his Business and Public Policy exam.

Hot Coffee is a lesson for MBA students

The final question on the exam was on the topic of the Hot Coffee fiasco that rocked Rockstar last fall.

Originally from Sex & Games, on March 1, 2006 1:29 PM

The wisdom of Henry David Thoreau.

Originally posted by tima from tima thinking outloud., on March 1, 2006 1:29 PM

Originally from unmediated, on March 1, 2006 11:35 AM

Help Jed Berk finding ideas about what to do with peculiar geographical data generated by wherifywireless:

Write him there: berk (at) artcenter (dot) edu

If you’re curious about what jed berk does with animal data, have a look at his project COWdata:

This is an ongoing project, begun in 1995. The idea was conceived while standing in a cow field, thinking of my self as a cow. What emerged is a documentation of a peripatetic bovine, calmly observing life, as it is, in our global environment. The project represents a study in time and is added to on a continual basis. Over the course of the past ten years a considerable archive has been achieved.
I used the data to help realize patterns within the data to help determent new direction(s) for the future of the project.
(…)
My first consideration in gathering this data was to find a way to organize the documentation of the cow photos. I tuned to flickr, an online photo management and sharing application; that offers a good tool set for organizational purposes.
(…)
-Time line (10 years) or in parts
-Behavior, tendencies and narratives
-About the herd
-The time when pictures are not taken
-The places they go
-Night picture vs. daytime
-Time of year (seasonal)
-Favorites
-Participants in the project (other people contributing photos)
-Geographic location
-Dates of travel
-Patterns of recurrence,
-The unknown images?

Then he investigated the relationship between the horizon lines in relation to the placement of cows.

Originally posted by Nicolas from pasta and vinegar, on March 1, 2006 11:34 AM

This article reports China has detained a man "after he sent text messages telling people of a new case of water pollution,media reported on Thursday. Zhou Qinghai was detained by police for "reporting faulty alarms and making chaos" in Mudanjiang in northeastern Heilongjiang province,the scene of the country's worst water pollution in recent years after an explosion at a chemical pant in November in neighbouring Jilin.
Zhou sent text messages warning people of a possible water cutoff for three or four days after he overheard people talking on a bus about the contamination of the city water source and saw reports by local media questioning the quality of water,the Beijing News said.
He was detained this week, the newspaper said, without saying if he would be charged or giving other details. The "faulty information" had caused "bad social influence", and city residents had been rushing to buy and store water since Monday after an unidentified pollutant was found in the water supply. Xinhua news agency later identified it as a fungus caused by industrial waste. But the taps had not been turned off in the city as water samples had shown the supply to be normal,it added. Environmental degradation,from filthy air in the cities to toxic slicks in the rivers, has become one of the key issues sparking social unrest in China".

Originally from YouMeiTI 有媒体, on March 1, 2006 11:33 AM

david posted a photo:

Wed 01/03/2006 10:56 01032006207

Originally from david's Photos, on March 1, 2006 11:33 AM

T!: Gotta SHIT or defend your THESIS?:

Originally from Hi Tricia!, on March 1, 2006 11:33 AM

Regardless of whether or not the Wachowski's forthcoming movie take on graphic novel V For Vendetta is any good, the promotional artwork is undoubtedly fantastic. Concept Arts has stayed true to British artist David Lloyd's original comic book creations, many of which are going on show in London at The Guardian's newsroom from next Tuesday, 7 March 2006. As part of the ten-day exhibition, the man himself will be talking about his work on Monday, 13 March 2006. Eager fanboys are likely to snap up the tickets quick-sharp, but if you fancy going, email newsroom [at] guardian [dot] co [dot] uk.

via Londonist.

TAGS: Art, Design, London, News, Events, Film,

Originally from Cool Hunting, on March 1, 2006 11:33 AM

Starchef.com talks to San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino about sustainable eating in, Head to Tail.

'Sustainable eating,' according to Chef Cosentino’s eco-friendly culinary sensibility towards food and its preparation, encompasses the use of sustainably grown produce, humane animal husbandry, and an overall obsession with care and respect for the planet and the environment. 'Head to tail' cooking can be traced back to just about every cultural cuisine in the world, such as the Native American community who wasted no part of the buffalo.

I am a believer in sustainable eating as well, and have been trying to eat locally for a long time. More recently I've been adding the "whole animal" approach to my dining, both at home and while out. And I'll admit, it's a bit of a challenge. The other night I was having some friends over for dinner, so I decided I'd make this chicken liver mousse recipe from Gourmet (Feb 06). It was my first real experience with chicken livers. Previously my interaction with them involved removing them from the chicken, prior to roasting, and throwing them in the trash. Once I put them in a baggie and froze them.

I bought approximately a pound of fresh organic chicken livers at Whole Foods. I "cleaned" them, which I had no idea really how to do and ended up with a rather bloody mess on my cutting board as I removed some veins and fat. Honestly, it turned my stomach, but I forced myself to do it if I wanted to be a real "chef". Once that was done, it was pretty much smooth sailing, except that I put all the ingredients in a shallow bowl, and when I put my hand blender in and turned it on, some bloody liver bits went flinging out and stuck themselves to various appliances (toaster, stand mixer) and kitchen items (tea kettle, tiles) and clothing (my green sweater, should have worn a white coat!).

Aside from the horror filmness of it all, the mousse turned out lovely and was a delicious opening to a delightful dinner. I plan to make it again, and to experiment with other animal parts, and to continue to eat them when I'm out to dinner as well. That is, at least, until something goes horribly wrong and I eat something so gross that I revert to vegetarianism forever.

Originally from megnut, on March 1, 2006 11:32 AM

Originally posted by inkdroid from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 10:34 AM