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Food Network: Chocolate Peppermint
Pinwheel Cookies

Food Network: Chocolate Peppermint
Pinwheel Cookies 12/26/2004 01:40 AM
Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies

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Teacher Kept Twinkie for About 30 Years
(AP)

Teacher Kept Twinkie for About 30 Years
(AP) 08/12/2004 05:00 PM
AP - A Twinkie standing the test of time on the edge of a blackboard may be a retiring science teacher's lasting legacy.

Microsoft to unveil EyeToy-esque camera
for the Xbox 360

Microsoft to unveil EyeToy-esque camera
for the Xbox 360 03/23/2005 01:29 PM
Engadget Mar 23 2005 4:57PM GMT

a Michael Moore-esque video smearing
Bush

a Michael Moore-esque video smearing
Bush 09/14/2004 06:36 PM
DNC is now running a bizarre attack ad .. lower themselves to videos like this .. DNC Video: Fortunate Son

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Update on my wife's Kafka-esque traffic
ticket dilemma

Update on my wife's Kafka-esque traffic
ticket dilemma 01/06/2005 03:09 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: I've received lots of email about my wife's catch-22 traffic ticket problem (in short, she is trying to pay the ticket but the court won't accept payment because the ticket hasn't been entered into the computer system yet. And the reason it hasn't been entered into the computer system, apparently, is because the officer who issued the ticket didn't enter the date in the date field).

I'd like to thank everyone who wrote to me about this. We got rid of the messages boards on Boing Boing over a year ago, and I'd kind of forgotten how nice and generous 99.9% of Boing Boing's readers are! It's inspiring and uplifting to get email from so many exellent people.

I thought you'd be interested to read the advice I've received about this so far. There are lots of ideas, but the four most common ones are:

1. Get a lawyer.

2. Get a cashier's check and pay the fine with it (sending it by certified mail).

3. Contact the officer who issued the ticket and ask him what the status of the ticket is.

4. Contest the ticket, because it is invalid with a date on it.

Our next steps: we are going to call a lawyer friend who has dealt with ticket problems before, and we are calling AAA, which apparently has a department that helps people deal with traffic tickets.

Here's one thing that might help (click on thumbnail for enlargement). When my wife went down to the court to attempt pay the ticket yesterday, the clerk gave her this "Proof of Appearance" statement. Hopefully, it'll convince the judge that we tried to take care of the matter.

Here is the email I've received so far. Link

Joan Baez-esque cover of NWA's Straight
Outta Compton

Joan Baez-esque cover of NWA's Straight
Outta Compton 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: Nina Gordon, late of Veruca Salt, has recorded a mind-blowing cover of NWA's Straight Outta Compton, in the style of a Baezesque guitar folksinger. It's funny at first, then it's beautiful, then it's both. 5.5 MB MP3 Link, Nina Gordon music download page (Thanks, Ben!)

John Battelle visits Applied Minds, a
Willy Wonka-esque nerdvana

John Battelle visits Applied Minds, a
Willy Wonka-esque nerdvana 06/17/2004 06:12 PM
John describes his mind-blowing tour through Applied Minds, a Glendale, CA consultancy started by former Disney Imagineers Danny Hillis and Bran Ferren.

After chit chatting for a few minutes, he took me to a small room - no wider than my outstretched arms - at the far end of which stood one of those classic red English phone booths. We stepped inside - a bit cramped - and Danny lifted the receiver and dictated a passphrase of some sort. Presto - the rear wall of the booth opened, and we stepped into - nerdvana.

From a cramped phone booth into massive pure-white-lit space two-stories high, adorned with all manner of things strange and beautiful. Over to one side stood the Terminator-like skeleton of a forty-foot dinosaur, its 15-foot pneumatic legs gleaming and exposed. Nearly blending into the walls, itself painted movie-set white, was a tricked out Hummer-like RV refitted as a communications/command center - complete with built-in kitchen and bedroom. The space was a great big project lab, with happy geeks combing over various assemblages of wiring, motors, processors and plans like ants on a summer picnic. It's Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for geeks.

Link

MP3 Sushi

MP3 Sushi 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
MP3 Sushi is a Rendezvous-discoverable streaming jukebox for your Mac. An accompanying MP3 Buddies app allows anyone on your network to stumble across and listen to your stream. <via ben>

Wind-Up Sushi

Wind-Up Sushi 02/01/2005 09:08 PM

Of course we all wanted the USB Sushi, but at almost a grand to get the whole set, we'd be much better off getting these wind-up toys from Office Playground—just $13 for a pack of 12. (Thanks, Bill!)

Catalog Page [OfficePlayground]

Sushi pillows

Sushi pillows 02/07/2005 02:08 AM
Xeni Jardin: Pillows for your bed, shaped like yummy sushi delights. Shown here, salmon nigiri.
Link (Thanks, aaron, via Neil Gaiman)

Update: MP3 Sushi 1.5

Update: MP3 Sushi 1.5 01/08/2004 08:46 PM
The MP3 streaming software adds Mac OS X 10.3 Panther compatibility, song searching via the Jukebox web interface, an updated Jukebox component, and other changes.

Sushi Etiquette

Sushi Etiquette 06/01/2004 05:46 AM
How to eat sushi

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Silk and Sushi

Silk and Sushi 08/22/2004 05:05 PM
Silk and Sushi : Chocolate Silk for Breakfast, Sushi for Lunch, Sushi for Dinner -- everyday for a month. It is probably more healthy then eating nothing but McDonalds.

The Times on frozen sushi

The Times on frozen sushi 04/09/2004 04:06 PM

Interesting article in today's NY Times about the common practice of freezing sushi fish, Sushi Fresh From the Deep...the Deep Freeze.

But because of health concerns and growing demand, 50 to 60 percent of sushi in the United States is frozen at some point in its journey from the ocean, according to wholesalers. And rare is the sushi restaurant that tells customers upfront that they may be eating fish that has been in deep freeze for up to two years.

Most would be even more surprised to learn that if the sushi has not been frozen, it is illegal to serve it in the United States.

I used to be a huge sushi fan, but lately I find the appeal is wearing off. After having it for dinner last night, I was even thinking, "I'm done with sushi for a while." Reading this article doesn't make me want to change my mind, I don't care how 'fresh' the fish still tastes. There's just something about frozen fish that I find totally unappealing. Even if that's the way I've been eating it all along.

Naked lady sushi

Naked lady sushi 11/11/2003 08:04 PM
The hottest Japorn export since bukkake? Or a dehumanizing, exploitative stunt? The provocative trend of presenting sushi on the body of an au naturel female model migrates to the US. Chaos ensues. Please, please, be careful with the wasabi.

Chopsticks at the ready, patrons line up. Hours earlier, across town on the campus of the University of Washington, eight activists, mostly Asian-American women, express outrage at what they call the prostitution of sushi and the exploitation of women. They plot their strategy. (...)While the promoter and the sushi model say this melding of prandial and sexual is performance art, Bonzai's patrons --men and women of various ethnicities --say it merely adds to the restaurant's sensual vibe. Opponents say treating women like a serving platter reinforces attitudes that make domestic and sexual violence so prevalent.

Link (Thanks, Paul)

San Francisco Sushi Finder

San Francisco Sushi Finder 11/18/2003 07:53 PM
Nice. (There are other cities, too.)

sushi being served off a naked woman

sushi being served off a naked woman 11/13/2003 02:51 PM
this Seattle party .. stories like this

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Naked sushi in Seattle update

Naked sushi in Seattle update 12/02/2003 04:57 PM
Our pornpals at DazeReader say:

Naked sushi in Seattle update. Dan Savage ridiculed both the "clenchbutts" for protesting naked sushi and the local media for giving them attention. His one criticism: "How come no boy plates?" In the interests of equal opportunity objectification, The Stranger sponsored Naked Doughnuts at the same restaurant on a recent Friday night. "Two good-looking guys will be laid out on the bar and covered with Top Pot doughnuts. . . . Ogle the boys, eat the donuts, fuck the clenchbutts." The restaurant owners invited the two men back for sushi night, so now you can eat sushi off naked women and naked men in Seattle. Bonzai gallery.

Link (thanks, Invi sible Cowgirl)

Sushi restaurants as economic indicators

Sushi restaurants as economic indicators 04/23/2004 10:43 AM
Tyler Cowen, economist and co-proprietor of the excellent Marginal Revolution, recently gave a talk to the International Association of Culinary Professionals and offered some food-related investment advice: If sushi restaurants are new to a country, and are succeeding, buy shares in the stocks of that country. Raw fish, of course, can be toxic. Quality can be hard to monitor with the naked eye. Sushi consumption is a sign that people...

Naked Lady Sushi, part deux.

Naked Lady Sushi, part deux. 11/12/2003 02:56 PM
Seattle sushi restaurants aren't the first to serve food on the bodies of naked women, nor are various Japanese porn sites displaying X-rated human sashimi platter tableaus. Boingboing pal Eli the Bearded points us to this image by William Klein: Photograph of Models and the Surrealist Group around Meret Oppenheim's "Festin," 1960. The image was a fashion shot for Vogue magazine, under the title of Inaugural Feast in the March 1960 issue.

Link< /a> to image, Link to previous BoingBoing post.

Spotted while coming back from sushi in
Mt. View

Spotted while coming back from sushi in
Mt. View 12/31/2003 07:26 PM
The offices of Actional and Stratify. They apparently share a building. I don't know why I a sign saying "Actional" and "Stratify" amusing. They probably don't see it that way.

Naked Sushi Lady history, part three

Naked Sushi Lady history, part three 11/13/2003 11:13 AM
Don't forget Stanley Kubrick: the milk ladies in Clockwork Orange. Okay, they're serving dairy products, not California rolls, but you get the idea. Link to full-size image, Link to previous BoingBoing post on the Naked Sushi Lady Controversy: one, two. (Thanks, Janet!)

Paper: Naked Sushi Offer Leads to Fine
(AP)

Paper: Naked Sushi Offer Leads to Fine
(AP) 04/19/2004 10:59 AM
AP - A restaurant in southwestern China has been fined for offering to serve sushi on the bodies of naked women, a newspaper reported Monday, after advertisements for the event sparked a rush of both indignation and curiosity.

Sushi and soft money at high rollers'
hotel

Sushi and soft money at high rollers'
hotel 07/28/2004 04:21 PM

Naked Sushi meme hits China, everyone
freaks out

Naked Sushi meme hits China, everyone
freaks out 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
Remember the string of earlier posts on BoingBoing about restaurants serving sushi on the bodies of clothes-free hotties? The owner of a Japanese restaurant in the Chinese city of Kunming had the same idea:

The Hefengcun Huaishi restaurant launched a promotional "feast on a beauty's body," for local journalists last Friday, hiring two attractive fair-skinned college girls to lie on tables, with sushi and other food and flowers placed on their bare bodies covered with thin gauze. The reports caused a firestorm in the local and national press with many readers slamming the novel dining trend as offensive and insulting to women.(...) Known as "Nyotai Mori" in Japan, the feasts date back to ancient times and are often offered in special hotspring resorts today, but are generally left off menus. They are offered to aficionados on request.

Link (Thanks, Steve Portigal!)

Naked Lady Sushi parody website from
Japan

Naked Lady Sushi parody website from
Japan 11/13/2003 12:21 PM
BoingBoing pal Geisha Asobi points us to Takako Umemiya's NYO-TA-I-MO-RI-Project (Link), and says, "She is very funny!!!!" I don't speak or read Japanese, but maybe a better-educated BoingBoing reader can contribute a partial translation. Takako's website features her sashimi-clad body in an apparent spoof of the ongoing International Naked Lady Sushi Controversy (marginally work-safe, I suppose).

The Seattle Times: Local News: Sushi in
the raw: Restaurant's displays get
women's group steamed

The Seattle Times: Local News: Sushi in
the raw: Restaurant's displays get
women's group steamed 11/12/2003 01:17 PM
Seattle Needs to Relax .. have to be kidding me

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chocolate chocolate chocolate

chocolate chocolate chocolate 03/17/2005 03:20 AM
Chocolate is so damn good I keep seeing boutique chocolate companies popping up everywhere (like this one: www.delicioustruffles.com). And now Pete of Pete's Wicked Ale has started one (www.cocoapetes.com) Which begs the question is chocolate the next beer? Is America about to be deluged with extraordinary chocolates like we've been hit with microbrews? And why has it taken so damn long?

I have seen God in a cup of chocolate

I have seen God in a cup of chocolate 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: I don't hardly eat sugar, and I practically never eat dessert, but last night, Ben Hammersley took me to Hemingway's, a chocolate joint in Florence, Italy. I have never, ever tasted anything remotely as good as the things I tasted last night. I ate so much chocolate that I sweated it all night. It was completely worth it. Examine this picture of me closely: that expression on my face is chocolate ecstasy.

There were many delicious things on offer at Hemingway's, but two were so good as to be life-changing. The first was a flourless, eggless dark chocolate torte, which had the consistency of the inside of a truffle and was served slightly chilled. Every mouthful of this made me feel like something important in my mouth was bursting. There were medieval princes who spent lifetimes searching for experiences that did this sort of thing to your sensory apparatus. Whatever they found was nothing so good as this.

But the very best was their Mexican-style drinking chocolate, called the Montezuma, a viscous drink made with very bitter chocolate, seasoned with chillies, aged Cuban rum (I don't drink, either, but I had two of these), and cinnamon and nutmeg. The longer I held sips of Montezuma in my mouth, the more flavors and subtleties I discovered. The chillies suffused my sinuses and the rum made my whole abdomen glow gently, like banked coals. This was, without a doubt, the best thing I ever tasted, and possibly the best sensation I've ever experienced. I've seen people in religious ecstasy. That's what this felt like.

Afterwards, I fell asleep for half an hour on the sofa in Hemingway's, collapsed on one of my dining companions. My brain was overwhelmed with the tastes, and it had to shut my body off so that it could process the input. I have a feeling that from now on, whenever a little money finds its way into my pocket, the temptation to blow it on a plane ticket to Florence (cheap from London, as these things go) and have a cup of Hemingway's Montezuma is going to be nigh-irresistible. I no longer feel the need to blow my cash on computers or gadgets -- just hook an IV of this thing straight into my arm and leave me to die by chocolate. Link

Nokia's chocolate box

Nokia's chocolate box 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
Maybe Nokia knows something we don't about what the ladies really want for Valentine's Day, but in Japan they're selling a special box of...

Roulette Chocolate

Roulette Chocolate 08/14/2004 04:55 AM
Firebox™ Chocolate-Chili Russian Roulette .. fudgy yumyums

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The best chocolate in Paris

The best chocolate in Paris 12/19/2004 03:21 PM
From the Sunday New York Times comes this delicious article, In Paris, Boutiques and Cafes Where Chocolatiers Raise the Bar. Herewith, then, a guide to Paris for the chocolate aficionado. It is by no means exhaustive; the Paris phone book has several pages of listings for chocolatiers, but I think this represents a selection of those most worthy of your time. It contains a good listing of the top spots in the city. Closer to home, if your home happens to be New York City, is the Chocolate Bar. Oddly enough, I've never visited this place, even though it's so close to my house. When I first moved to NYC, I assumed I'd go here regularly, and yet it's never happened. Perhaps this afternoon I'll pay them a visit. All this reading and thinking about chocolate has made me hungry!

Why does my dog smell like chocolate?

Why does my dog smell like chocolate? 05/06/2004 11:21 PM
letting the online community explain the eternal questions.

Cake with your Chocolate

Cake with your Chocolate 03/14/2005 06:01 PM

« Best chocolate cake ever.... »

I have a puppy who doesn't often let me relax on the couch in the evening but somehow sleeps contentedly on the kitchen floor if I am baking something, so I have been baking a bit more than usual lately. I was looking for a cooking pan one evening and rediscovered the gothic cathedral Bundt pan I've had for a few years that I'd forgotten about and thought about making a Bundt cake that would appeal to the Finnish dessert palate. I figured I could make the cake for some friends we were having over but I would subject my coworkers to a test cake to see if they liked it as much as I guessed they might. It's funny how so many products in Finland claim 'Authentic American Taste' but how few of them are anywhere near the actual taste and, when given something that really does taste like it does back home, how few Finns really enjoy it. I have learned through trial and error that it is a rare American dessert that appeals to the Finnish palate. The cake is very chocolatey, not overly sweet and the whipped cream and raspberries are a near constant feature in Finnish desserts.

As a disclaimer, I'm not all that crazy about chocolate cakes, but if I had tasted the batter before I poured it all into the pan and shoved it into the oven, I could have easily decided to eat the entire bowl of batter myself instead of having only the spatula to lick the remainder from. I think a couple of people at work went back for a second piece so it's safe to say that it was well received. I made the first cake with kermaviili because I didn't think that Finland really had a true sour cream and kermaviili was reasonably close to the mark. The second cake I made with smetana, which I was told was more like sour cream than kermaviili. Kermaviili is about 10% fat, smetana is about 47% fat and American sour cream is somewhere around 21% fat. Of the two cakes, the kermaviili cake was far better because it was more moist and less rich than the smetana cake. I think this is one of the few occasions where less fat is better than more.

Don't overdo the mixing as it will introduce too much air into the batter and cause the cake to rise more than it should. I used my standing mixer for the first cake and noticed that I really didn't need it save for the creaming of the butter and sugar. The cake release should be used on any pan you use, even if it is the most stick-free teflon on the market. Wrap cake in foil or plastic wrap after cooling for an hour or two if you don't plan to eat it right away to help keep the cake moist.

The Best Chocolate Bundt Cake

Serves: 12 to 14
Special equipment: Bundt or tube pan
Time: about 90 minutes
Source: Cook's Illustrated

Cake Release

• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon cocoa

Cake

• 3/4 cup (2.25 oz) or 1,75dl cocoa, natural (not Dutch-processed)
• 6 oz or 170g bittersweet chocolate (2 100g bars of Fazer baking chocolate which leaves a few bits for eating.)
• 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder (optional)
• 3/4 or 1.75dl cup water (boiling)
• 1 cup (8.75 oz) or 2,5dl sour cream (kermaviili not smetana if in Finland), room temperature
• 1.75 cups or 4,25dl unbleached all-purpose flour 
• 1 teaspoon table salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 12 tablespoons(1.5 sticks) or 170g unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 cups (14 oz) or 4,75dl light brown sugar 
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 
• 5 large eggs, room temperature
• confectioners' sugar for dusting

FOR THE PAN:

1. Stir together butter and cocoa in small bowl until paste forms; using a pastry brush, coat all interior surfaces of standard 12-cup Bundt pan. (If mixture becomes too thick to brush on, microwave it for 10 to 20 seconds, or until warm and softened.)
2. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position; heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.

FOR THE CAKE:

1. Combine cocoa, chocolate, and espresso powder (if using) in medium heatproof bowl; pour boiling water over and whisk until smooth. Cool to room temperature; then whisk in sour cream.
2. Whisk flour, salt, and baking soda in second bowl to combine.
3. In standing mixer fitted with flat beater, beat butter, sugar, and vanilla on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
4. Reduce speed to medium and add eggs one at a time, mixing about 30 seconds after each addition and scraping down bowl with rubber spatula after first 2 additions.
5. Reduce to medium-low speed (batter may appear separated); add about one third of flour mixture and half of chocolate/sour cream mixture and mix until just incorporated, about 20 seconds.
6. Scrape bowl and repeat using half of remaining flour mixture and all of remaining chocolate mixture; add remaining flour mixture and beat until just incorporated, about 10 seconds.
7. Scrape bowl and mix on medium-low until batter is thoroughly combined, about 30 seconds.
8. Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan, being careful not to pour batter on sides of pan.
9. Bake until wooden skewer inserted into center comes out with few crumbs attached, 45 to 50 minutes.
10. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then invert cake onto parchment-lined wire rack; cool to room temperature, about 3 hours.
11. Dust with confectioners' sugar, transfer to serving platter, and cut into wedges; serve with Tangy Whipped Cream and raspberries, if desired.

Tangy Whipped Cream

• 1 cup or 2,50dl heavy cream (cold)
• 1/4 cup or ~.60dl sour cream 
• 1/4 cup or ~.60dl packed light brown sugar 
• 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract 

With electric mixer, beat all ingredients, gradually increasing speed from low to high, until cream forms soft peaks, 1.5 to 2 minutes.

Lightly Sweetened Raspberries

• 3 cups or 7dl fresh raspberries gently rinsed and dried
• 1 - 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 

Gently toss raspberries with sugar, then let stand until berries have released some juice and sugar has dissolved, about 15 minutes.

Death by Chocolate

Death by Chocolate 06/23/2004 12:21 PM
Welcome to tropical Ivory Coast, the small African nation that is home of almost half of the world's cocoa exports! Visit the sandy beaches! Get kidnapped and disappeared by government officials!

Chocolate for XDoclet 0.2.0

Chocolate for XDoclet 0.2.0 11/02/2003 05:24 AM
An EJB designer tool with XDoclet support for Borland JBuilder.

Pork Chocolate Bar??

Pork Chocolate Bar?? 06/22/2004 07:02 PM
Chocolate dipped pork fat is now on the menu in one of the Ukraine's trendiest restaurants. Because regular pork fat isn't chocolately enough.

Your Password For A Chocolate Bar, A
Pen, Or Nothing At All

Your Password For A Chocolate Bar, A
Pen, Or Nothing At All 04/19/2004 07:01 PM
Last year we pointed to a study saying that people would give you their password in exchange for a cheap ballpoint pen, and this year the prize has changed, but the result is the same. A new study shows that all it takes is a chocolate bar and plenty of people will cough up their passwords. Of course, what they don't realize is that whoever was giving out the chocolate bars was the real sucker. A study last month showed that people will cough up all sorts of info if you just ask for it, without giving anything in return.

Chocolate Mousse in RDF

Chocolate Mousse in RDF 12/02/2003 01:55 AM
Mark Pilgrim: All hierarchies, directories, and schemas are necessarily biased by the worldview of the person creating them, and mine is no exception.
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