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one of my favorite korean dishes

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

Many people find eating raw beef dangerous and raw egg yolks disgusting … but let me introduce you to one of my favorite Korean dishes which combines the two called yuk’oe.

I’m not exactly sure how it’s supposed to be pronounced, but I’ve seen it transliterated from Korean to English many ways: yuk’oe, yuk hoe, yuke, hyoo-kwe, and on and on. But no matter how you spell it or say it, it means the same thing: a beefy sweet gooey mess of goodness that slides down your throat. It’s hard to find a restaurant that serves it, and I wouldn’t risk ordering it in a sketchy looking place … but if you manage to find a classy enough Korean restaurant (which really don’t exist — most Koreans tend to open sushi restaurants around here), and you’re feeilng adventurous … give this dish a try.

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speak with your vote: abstain.

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

In celebration of the 2004 US Elections, I figured I’d link to a very apropos web comic called “Nuklear Power” that should remind us why this whole voting process is a ridiculous farse.

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go digital with that vintage vinyl look

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

If you’re like me, you probably have a large music collection and more and more of it in CD format, but you still have some vintage vinyl records for nostalgic reasons. Wouldn’t it be great if you could keep that vintage look and feel but have high-fidelity CD audio quality sound? Well, you can! Check out these nifty CD-R’s at Cyberguys.com:

These are 80 minute (700 MB) CD-R’s that look like the old “45″ style vinyl records! You can get them as a 10-pack for $6.95 ($0.70 a CD), 25-pack for $14.49 ($0.58 a CD) for the colored disks. They offer a plain white version in a 50-pack for $31.95 ($0.64 a CD) as well.

If you’re not interested in these novelty CD-R’s and just want a source for cheap CD-R’s, Cyberguys.com also offers Ziotek 80 min (700 MB) CD-R’s, 50-pack for $14.49 ($0.29 a CD).

Check them out — they’re a great place for a geek to shop when you’re tired of surfing ThinkGeek.

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how easily fooled the senses are

Wednesday, October 13th, 2004

An ex-coworker, Saf Stern, forwarded me a link to an interesting optical illusion. It’s one of many that Akiyoshi KITAOKA has been creating. Check out the rest of Akiyoshi KITAOKA’s optical illusions.

How easily fooled the senses are …

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from the “comically ironic” department

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

For a while now, I’ve been kind of half-seriously joking that AOL should release its Netscape Enterprise Server web server as open source software since it already did with its other web server software, AOLserver.

Today, my joke has become a reality in a way: Red Hat announced that it is acquiring the Netscape Enterprise Suite from AOL and will be releasing it as open source software (press release). The Netscape Enterprise Suite includes Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate Management Server.

Perhaps another one of my long-term visions will also come true: I can finally implement NSAPI support for AOLserver, which would make things a little easier for folks to migrate to AOLserver.

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