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UCO Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker
Reviewed (Verdict: It Makes Ice Cream)

UCO Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker
Reviewed (Verdict: It Makes Ice Cream) 06/24/2005 04:01 PM

It's going to be 95 degrees—Fahrenheit, you Euro-hippies lovely Europeans [Joel pointed out I'm mean to Europe. It's because I want to go back there so badly. And we always strike out at the things we love, don't we - John]—this weekend so here's a bit of fun for you and your dirty friends. The CO Play and Freeze, which I actually received from some friends, is kind of a soccer ball that makes ice cream. You put ice and salt in the outer ball and a lot of cream and stuff inside the metal canister. Then you kick it around until you get a semi-solid lump of frozen cream stuff. It's a nice little bit DIY although it doesn't store very well and often falls onto my head when I open the closet.

UCO Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker Review [Pocket-Lint]

Sun-Cream 0.9.1

Sun-Cream 0.9.1 06/15/2004 03:17 PM
A clean, smooth theme.

Cream CRM 1.0.0

Cream CRM 1.0.0 11/12/2003 06:49 PM
A customer relationship management system for media organizations.

Cream for Vim 0.30

Cream for Vim 0.30 06/17/2004 01:45 AM
A Vim configuration that emulates Mac/Windows text editors.

yum ice cream

yum ice cream 12/22/2004 01:58 AM
Ice cream flavors are not what they used to be. A few years ago, in Nice France, I experienced tasting lavender, and violet flavored ice cream, the wonderful flavors just blew me away. Later on in San Francisco, I found a wonderful Indian ice cream parlor, and fell in love with the cardamom, and rose flavors. When my travels take me back to Japan, I think I will try to avoid some of these incredibly strange ice cream flavors.

May the Cream Be With You

May the Cream Be With You 06/06/2005 12:08 AM

« A princess cake / prinsessakakku / prinsesstårta in a Yoda-green marzipan robe. »

I was working hard on my sofa coma on Friday evening by drinking a beer and scanning my newsfeeds when I saw that someone had made one of those funny green cakes from possibly the most pointlessly complex cake recipe I've ever seen. One of the reviewers of the cookbook the recipe was taken from, Birthd ay Cakes: Recipes and Memories from Celebrated Bakers concurred with my dim view of the recipe:

Finally, several of the recipes are ridiculously complicated for the home baker. "The Princess Cake," for example, requires following four lengthy pages of instructions!

Many of the other reviewers remark at how pretty the book is to look at which I had to laugh at since you know right there they are just in it for the picture porn, not the practicality of the recipes. The princess cake is, in spite of its looks, a simple cake: sponge cake layered with pastry cream and topped with a marzipan shell. Why on earth anyone would put themselves through such torture for something that should be rather simple? I was surprised the recipe didn't also encourage the baker to make their own raspberry jam from hand-picked organic berries or grind their own flour. It's a bad recipe if only for the silly rum 'moistening' solution for the cake since it boils off the alcohol in the rum and then adds more sugar to, perhaps they forget, distilled cane sugar. If the cake wasn't bone dry in the first place it wouldn't be necessary but not only that, rum is not a flavour associated with traditional cakes in the Nordic countries. If you want rum flavour, add a bit of extract to the cream or just brush some of the dark rum right onto the cake. If you've got a good bottle of Meyer's Dark Rum and feel the urge to boil it, please come to my house and don't forget to bring the bottle. :) The Finnish recipes occasionally mention using a wee bit of orange juice for the same purpose but it seems highly optional and up to the discretion of the baker.

So, I went hunting for a recipe since I see these cakes all the time but, aside from getting intense flashbacks to Hostess Snoballs, I've never actually tried one. It's also a cake I can share without regret since I'm not overly fond of marzipan. :) The cake was invented/created in the 1930s by Jenny Åkerström who ran a cooking school for young ladies. She named her creation after the Swedish princesses Margaretha, Märtha and Astrid though it's not known if they enjoyed the cake or not. It appeared in Finland not long after it became popular in 1930s Sweden and has remained a traditional cake ever since, particularly for graduation and end of school year parties. The cake may also be known as the operatårta.

Surprisingly, online there are more recipes for the cake in Finnish than there are in Swedish. And one of the MTV3 cooking shows featured a princess cake recently as well. None of my cookbooks at home had a recipe for it and I even went looking through the cookbooks at Akateeminen and found only two books that had a recipe and neither of them looked very good. I compared all the recipes I could find online and there was little difference save for the cream where there were two camps: pastry cream and plain whipped cream with one Swedish oddball using both mixed together. I turned to CI to compare both the sponge cake and pastry cream recipes and they featured the same ingredients only with far more detailed instructions and perfected technique so I used theirs instead. The sponge cake recipe is ace and, since such cakes are common components in Finnish desserts, I can't recommend it highly enough as it was tasty, moist and spongy just as a good cake of its kind should be.

There are also a few different styles of cake construction. Two layers or three layers, round or rectangular log, cream dome or sponge cake covering the dome as the top layer. It doesn't seem to matter as long as all of the key ingredients are there. The log looks interesting and easier to slice, but getting a sponge cake to bend like that without breaking or popping out of shape would require a few tricks I suspect.

The cream filling is where things get a bit dodgy in many of the recipes since the instructions are vague and don't mention the time needed. I tried the Swedish version of the pastry cream which featured gelatin as a thickener and, from a structural standpoint, I thought it might be the most successful at providing needed firmness to hold the shape of the cake. It eventually set, but the directions were limited and somewhat misleading. The pastry cream should be made the night before as it needs five hours or more to set. It's not difficult to make and it's good to have one less thing to juggle in the kitchen. Americans averse to dairy and/or cream could likely just use Cool Whip™ to replace the pastry cream and whipped cream thus making the cake even easier. We've got so many cream and dairy products that there must be a state embargo on non-dairy products like Cool Whip™.

It's all smooth sailing once you've got your cake layers, pastry cream, jam and marzipan all ready to go. Unless you've got some complex about using organic almonds, don't make the marzipan yourself as it's ready-made in all the usual colours for far less money than all the time and effort you would spend making it. The only drawback to using prepared marzipan is that it can be somewhat dry which makes manipulating it an exercise in patience. It also makes your life easier if you have 2 or preferably 3 round cake pans since this reduces the number of cakes you have to cut from a larger one. I like chocolate layer cakes so I've learned to make my life easier by making the layers at bake time since I suck at slicing cakes evenly or unevenly.

So that's all there is to it. Follow the recipes and make your own princess cake for a graduation party instead of paying 40 euro or so for one from a bakery in town. The 30 euro you save can buy a reasonable amount of beer instead. :)

Prinsesstårta / Prinsessakakku / Princess Cake

makes: 1 cake with 12 servings
special tools: good mixer for whipping, round cake pan[s], pizza cutter
time: about 2 hours total preparation time for cake, cream and marzipan

Preparation steps and approximate time

1. Prepare pastry cream (if using), make it the night before or before leaving for work in the morning. (30 mins)
2. Make sponge cake. (45 mins)
3. Make whipped cream and rahka cream (if using).(20 mins)
4. Assemble cake and chill. (10 mins)
5. Roll out marzipan. (15 mins)
6. Cover cake with marzipan. (15 mins)
7. Chill and serve. (1-2 hours)

Sponge Cake:

makes: two 8- or 9-inch cakes
time: about 45 minutes
source: CI

Sift together

• 1/2 cup or 1,25 dl cake flour
• 1/4 cup or 0,75 dl unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon table salt

Heat together, cover and set aside

• 3 tablespoons whole milk
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla sugar

separate and mix

• 5 eggs room temperature
• 3/4 cup or 1,75 dl granulated sugar

1. Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and heat oven to 350F/175C degrees. Generously grease and flour two or three round 8- or 9-inch cake pans and cover pan bottoms with a round of parchment paper. Whisk flours, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl (or sift onto waxed paper). Heat milk and butter in a small saucepan over low heat until butter melts. Remove from heat and add vanilla; cover and keep warm.
2. Separate three of the eggs, placing whites in bowl of standing mixer fitted with whisk attachment (or large mixing bowl if using hand mixer or whisk) and reserving the 3 yolks plus remaining 2 whole eggs in another mixing bowl. Beat the 3 whites on high speed (or whisk) until whites are foamy. Gradually add 6 tablespoons of the sugar; continue to beat whites to soft, moist peaks. (Do not overbeat.) If using a standing mixer, transfer egg whites to a large bowl and add yolk/whole egg mixture to mixing bowl.
3. Beat yolk/whole egg mixture with remaining 6 tablespoons sugar. Beat on medium-high speed (setting 8 on a KitchenAid) until eggs are very thick and a pale yellow color, about 5 minutes (or 12 minutes by hand). Add beaten eggs to whites.
4. Sprinkle flour mixture over beaten eggs and whites; fold very gently 12 times with a large rubber spatula. Make a well in one side of batter and pour milk mixture into bowl. Continue folding until batter shows no trace of flour, and whites and whole eggs are evenly mixed, about 8 additional strokes.
5. Immediately pour batter into prepared baking pan[s][makes 9-10dl of batter so ~3dl per cake layer]; bake until cake tops are light brown and feel firm and spring back when touched, about 16 minutes for 9-inch cake pans and 20 minutes for 8-inch cake pans.
6. Immediately run a knife around pan perimeter to loosen cake. Cover pan with large plate. Using a towel, invert pan and remove pan from cake. Peel off parchment. Re-invert cake from plate onto rack. Repeat with remaining cake[s]. Cover with clean cloth until ready to assemble cake to keep the cake moist. **If assembling the cake with the cake layer on top style, you may want to place a layer of cake over a bowl about the size of the cake while it is still warm to make it easier to fit over the cream later.

Pastry cream:

time: about 30 mins - Make at least 5 hours ahead or the night before!
source: CI

Heat until simmering/near boiling

• 2 cups or 2,25 dl half-and-half (half whole milk, half cream)
• 1/2 cup or 1,25dl granulated sugar
• pinch table salt

Whisk together until thick

• 5 large egg yolks, chalazae removed*
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch or arrowroot

Stir in last

• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (cold), cut into 4 pieces
• 1,5 teaspoons vanilla extract or 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

1. Heat half&half, 6 tablespoons sugar, and salt in medium heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat until simmering (near boiling), stirring occasionally to dissolve sugar.
2. Meanwhile, whisk egg yolks in medium bowl until thoroughly combined. Whisk in remaining 2 tablespoons sugar and whisk until sugar has begun to dissolve and mixture is creamy, about 15 seconds. Whisk in cornstarch until combined and mixture is pale yellow and thick, about 30 seconds.
3. When half&half mixture reaches full simmer, gradually whisk simmering half-and-half into yolk mixture to temper. Return mixture to saucepan, scraping bowl with rubber spatula; return to simmer over medium heat, whisking constantly, until 3 or 4 bubbles burst on surface and mixture is thickened and glossy, about 30 seconds. Off heat, whisk in butter and vanilla. Transfer mixture to medium bowl, press plastic wrap directly on surface, and refrigerate until cold and set, at least 3 hours or up to 48 hours.

*Chalazae are cordlike strands of egg white protein that are attached to the yolks--removing them with your fingers is easy and eliminates the need to strain the pastry cream after cooking.

rahka-Fraîche Cream:

• 250g plain lowfat rahka
• 250g vanilla fraîche 5%
• about 1-2 dl fine sugar
• 1-2 tablespoons cornstarch or arrowroot

1. whip together rahka and fraîche
2. add sugar to suit your taste
3. add cornstarch if a bit too moist
4. mix half of the rahka cream with the whipped cream
5. refrigerate

note: since neither of these products are likely available to people outside the Nordic region or the EU, they are basically thick sour milk products that might be substituted by using thick vanilla yogurt and lowfat sour cream.

Whipped Cream:

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
• 1/3 cup or 0,75 dl confectioners' sugar (use half of sugar if you prefer less sweetness)
• 3,5 dl or 1.5 cups heavy cream

1. Beat cold heavy cream at medium speed in an electric mixer until thickened. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla and beat until thick.

Assembling (see also diagram):

• pastry cream or rahka cream
• whipped cream
• raspberry jam or low-sugar/just fruit jam for less sweetness

There are two methods of assembly: the cream dome on top method:

1. Slice cake to create 3 evenly sized layers unless you bake with 3 round pans in which case you already have three cakes ready to use.
2. Place the first layer on top of a sheet of baking paper and spread a thin layer of raspberry jam on top of the cake.
3. Spread a layer of pastry cream/rahka cream on top of the jam and place another cake layer on top and repeat jam and cream application.
4. Place the third cake layer on top and with a serrated knife, trim off edge to round off the top. Mound the whipped cream on top of the cake and smooth with a spatula. You can also mix part of the remaining pastry cream with the whipped cream if you like. Coat the sides of the cake if you have any cream leftover as well.
5. Lift cake onto a plate or baking tray and chill in the refrigerator while you prepare the marzipan shell.

and the cake layer on top method:

1. Slice cake to create 3 evenly sized layers unless you bake with 3 round pans in which case you already have three cakes ready to use.
2. Spread a layer of pastry cream/rahka cream on top of the jam. Place the second cake layer over the cream and make a dome of the whipped cream/rahka-whipped cream mix leaving a thin margin around the edge for where the top layer will rest on the lower layers.
3. Remove the third cake layer from the bowl and spread a very thin layer of jam on top which will serve to anchor the marzipan to the cake. Place the cake layer on top over the cream and smooth into a rounded shape. Witha serrated knife, trim off edge to round off the top if necessary.
4. Lift cake onto a plate or baking tray and chill in the refrigerator while you prepare the marzipan shell.

Marzipan shell:

• 350-400g or 14oz green (or pink or yellow) marzipan
• confectioners' sugar

1. Roll marzipan between 2 sheets of baking paper or plastic wrap so that it doesn't stick to your rolling pin. Mark center of the marzipan and remove it from the baking paper. Dust rolling pin with confectioners' sugar and roll part of the marzipan onto it to make it easier to maneuver the marzipan on top of the cake.
2. Cover the cake with the marzipan. At this point, the dome of the cake will be smoothly covered, but there will be folds or creases on the sides. To remove the folds and creases, smooth the marzipan gently with your hand from the top of the cake to the bottom. This requires some patience so don't try to rush it.
3. Work your way around the cake. Once all the folds are eliminated, rub the palm of your hand around the sides of the cake to further smooth it and eliminate air pockets.
4. With a rolling pizza cutter or small, sharp knife, carefully cut off the excess marzipan along the bottom edge. Reserve excess for making leaves.
5. Dust top with confectioners' sugar. You can make a stencil for the confectioners' sugar to decorate with a crown or add a single marzipan/real rose on top.
6. If you choose a rose as garnish, cut two or three elongated ovals out of the remaining marzipan to make leaf shapes. Lightly score the top of the leaves with a knife to create veins and place on top of the cake. Garnish with real pink rose or make your own marzipan rose.
7. Chill until serving.
8. Slice with a sharp knife with a slow, firm pressure.

Cream for Vim 0.29

Cream for Vim 0.29 04/26/2004 06:58 PM
A Vim configuration that emulates Mac/Windows text editors.

Japanese Ice Cream

Japanese Ice Cream 07/07/2004 05:48 PM
OK, here's one of the reasons I love Japan: The way they have no inhibitions about what might go together with something else. How about Spinach Ice Cream? Or Seaweed Ice Cream? Or how about the Raw Horse Meat Ice Cream ("with chunks!")?

The Wackier World of Japanese Ice Cream

(Via Boing Boing. Of course, it's incredibly lame to refer to Boing Boing, because everybody reads it already, but... well. I just find this one interesting. :-)

"GUINNESS ICE CREAM?"

"GUINNESS ICE CREAM?" 07/25/2004 02:33 PM

Commando Cream

Commando Cream 04/19/2005 11:03 AM

Need to hide from thermal imaging cameras or alien predators with heat vision? Sure, we all do. Now a Greek company, Intermat, has created an exciting body cream that not only significantly reduces visible pores but even breaks up your heat signature.

COMMANDO-HIDING CREAM [DefenseTech]

WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!

WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM! 04/27/2004 06:13 AM
Today (April 27th) is FREE ICE CREAM CONE DAY at Ben & Jerry's. Tomorrow night is FREE SCOOP NIGHT at Baskin Robbins.

"Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream"

"Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream" 04/27/2004 03:55 PM

Cream Of The Crop

Cream Of The Crop 02/18/2004 02:35 AM
A new Probe Droid has just been launched; this week we're searching for who collectors think put on the best show at this year's International Toy Fair? The big apple played host to a ton Star Wars eye candy, now's your chance to cast a vote for the licensee that topped the rest. Do you like Hasbro's new packaging, or Master Replicas AT-AT? Did Code 3's Slave 1 win your heart, or did Gentle Giant strike your fancy? Look for the new Probe Droid ballot now and cast your vote today!

Ice-cream for red-baiters

Ice-cream for red-baiters 03/19/2003 10:45 PM
Ice-cream flavors for jingoistic Limbaughites from "Star-Spangled Ice Cream:"

• I hate the French Vanilla
• Smaller Governmint
• Iraqi Road
• Nutty Environmentalist

All at $20 less per gallon than Ben and Jerry's. Link Discuss (via MeFi)

Adventures in Cream

Adventures in Cream 11/11/2003 08:07 PM
Ack! Every other pint of heavy whipping cream has this crap called Carrageenan. For some reason, it gives me a headache. Clover could be counted on to deliver a quality product, but it's only available at local Whole Foods stores - one around the corner from my apartment, and the other sits further down the 101. Either they're temporarily out of stock, or they're just not interested in keeping my store in stock. When I went back this afternoon, they had Alta Dena cartons on the shelf - which were previously known to have carried icky preservatives. When I inspected the label, the only ingredient was pure cream. I brewed a pot of coffee to give 'er the taste test, and this is just disgusting. I'm gonna "have to" drive down the road and pray that my brand can be found at the next possible grocery location. I may have to wait until later this evening to leave in order to avoid traffic congestion. I suppose I could call ahead, but... where's the fun in that?...

neurotic brooklyn ice cream

neurotic brooklyn ice cream 05/12/2004 02:28 PM
there's nothing more charming than a little store covered in bitter, resentful signs

Star-Spangled Ice Cream

Star-Spangled Ice Cream 03/19/2003 10:28 PM
I-Hate-the-French Vanilla -- at last, Star-Spangled Ice Cream offers a conservative alternative to Ben & Jerry's. Other flavors are Smaller Governmint, Iraqi Road and Nutty Environmentalist. And 10% of the profits go to charities that support the U.S. Armed Forces! (via)

"Star Spangled Ice Cream"

"Star Spangled Ice Cream" 03/19/2003 10:44 PM

We All Scream for Ice Cream (Reuters)

We All Scream for Ice Cream (Reuters) 08/04/2004 10:05 AM
Reuters - An Oklahoma ice cream man opened fire on a customer after a summer ice cream sale turned sour, police said on Tuesday.

Star Spangled Ice Cream

Star Spangled Ice Cream 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream .. the conservative answer to Ben & Jerry's .. taking the culture war into consumerland .. I-Hate-the-French Vanilla .. conservative .. He,he,he .. Mmmmmmmm .. company .. batshit

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Guniness Stout Ice Cream

Guniness Stout Ice Cream 07/25/2004 04:04 AM
Guinness Ice Cream

makeicecream.com/sendicecream/gunstouticec.html
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My "spiritual cream" is free!

My "spiritual cream" is free! 12/18/2003 09:49 PM
Kabbalah is the new Scientology "The Rav" - Born Feivel Gruberger in Brooklyn, was an insurance salesman before leaving his first wife and children to reinvent himself as a modern spiritual guru. He runs the Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre. When Berg blesses ordinary spring water, it apparently becomes "infused with kabbalistic meditation . . . for healing, well-being and rejuvenation" - qualities that are neatly marketed in his exclusive make-up range, which includes a "restoring night cream" at £80 and a £91 eye-cream.

Ben & Jerry's Free Ice Cream cone
day

Ben & Jerry's Free Ice Cream cone
day 04/28/2004 12:18 AM
New York Super Fudge Chunk .. sugary and delicious .. our boyfriends

benjerry.com
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Sexualized Japanese Ice Cream commercial

Sexualized Japanese Ice Cream commercial 02/01/2005 08:37 PM
Xeni Jardin: Here is a Japanese television commercial that encourages children to buy and eat soft-serv ice cream. Nothing strange about that at all. Lots of folks use sex to sell ju nk food these days.
(via Fleshbot).

Ice Cream Prices May Cause 'Licker
Shock' (AP)

Ice Cream Prices May Cause 'Licker
Shock' (AP) 05/10/2004 03:03 PM
AP - Already staggering from sticker shock at the gas pump, consumers may suffer "licker shock" at the ice cream stand this summer when they see some of the industry's biggest price hikes ever.

Want Fries with That Ice Cream? Ah,
You're Pregnant (Reuters)

Want Fries with That Ice Cream? Ah,
You're Pregnant (Reuters) 09/17/2004 10:33 AM
Reuters - Whether it's ice cream and french fries, garlic on crackers or brown sauce on everything, nearly 60 percent of pregnant women in Britain admit to having weird cravings.

Crocks rev up for Sahara and ice-cream
(Reuters)

Crocks rev up for Sahara and ice-cream
(Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:40 PM
Reuters - Chris "Chip" Wilson says he has a secret weapon when he heads off on Friday for a gruelling car rally across seven countries and hundreds of miles of scorching Sahara -- ice-cream.

MDN: The Wackier World of Japanese Ice
Cream

MDN: The Wackier World of Japanese Ice
Cream 07/08/2004 10:33 AM
Another round of wacky Japanese ice cream flavours .. whale, goat and garlic .. list

mdn.mainichi.co.jp/photospecials/0406/ice-cream04/00.html
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Wacky world of Japanese ice cream

Wacky world of Japanese ice cream 07/07/2004 02:35 PM
Quirky feature in Japan's Mainichi Daily about ice cream flavors popular with Japanese consumers. Move aside, rocky road -- make way for lettuce-potato, tulip, horseflesh ("with meaty chunks," shown here at left), and cherry blossom. Link (Thanks, Mustafa)

Company Sends Ice Cream to the Dogs
(Reuters)

Company Sends Ice Cream to the Dogs
(Reuters) 04/21/2004 10:02 AM
Reuters - The maker of Eskimo Pie ice cream said on Tuesday it was launching cold treats for hot dogs who want to stay slim and cool this summer.

Group Says 'Nogger' Ice-Cream Ad Racist
(Reuters)

Group Says 'Nogger' Ice-Cream Ad Racist
(Reuters) 04/15/2005 09:51 AM
Reuters - A Swedish rights group cried foul over advertisements for a liquorice ice-cream, saying the posters for "Nogger Black" were racist.

Ice Cream Prices Rise As Summer
Approaches (AP)

Ice Cream Prices Rise As Summer
Approaches (AP) 04/20/2004 07:25 AM
AP - Gasoline isn't the only thing that's costing more as summer approaches. The National Ice Cream Retailers Association says ice cream prices are going up, too.

A Small Victory - Heaven in an Ice Cream
Bowl

A Small Victory - Heaven in an Ice Cream
Bowl 07/25/2004 09:11 AM
GUINNESS ICE CREAM? .. A Small Victory .. Michele

asmallvictory.net/archives/007272.html
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Ice cream man loses cool; shoots at
customer (Reuters)

Ice cream man loses cool; shoots at
customer (Reuters) 08/03/2004 06:08 PM
Reuters - An Oklahoma ice cream man opened fire on a customer after a summer ice cream sale turned sour.

Booze-flavoured ice cream chills
activists (Reuters)

Booze-flavoured ice cream chills
activists (Reuters) 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Reuters - A new vodka-flavoured ice cream launched in Australia has provoked an outcry from groups worried it would give children a taste for alcohol.

A day in the bl0g of an erotic
photographer. And, China Nympho Cream.

A day in the bl0g of an erotic
photographer. And, China Nympho Cream. 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Xeni Jardin: Nerve.com recently launched "The Daily Siege" -- a blog-oid daily feature from fashion and erotic shooter Clayton James Cubitt, aka Siege, who's been the subject of numerous BoingBoing posts in the past. Some of the UI and access decisions the Nerve.com guys made, I'm not nuts about. But the content here -- both the images and the first-person narrative -- includes some real gems. For instance, this stream-of-consciousness post in which Siege explains how he went through a series of editing decisions that took a shot from its original raw state to an edited, reimagined, and dramatically richer state for publication. Very few personal blogs dig inside the creative process of working artists with this level of intimacy. Cool stuff. As Siege says here, it's like math class -- where you show your "dirty work" to your classmates, and share all of the details, both flattering and otherwise. Right, and then, well, there's the "China Nympho Cream" post. Quick snapshots (1, 2, 3) of an erotic-enhancement ointment of dubious origin, tucked inside ultra-bizarro packaging. Link to Siege's blog. Temporary access for this paid-subscription-required site is username: cheapass, password: cheapass. (NSFW)

Ben & Jerry's - Vermont's Finest Ice
Cream, Frozen Yogurt and Sorbet

Ben & Jerry's - Vermont's Finest Ice
Cream, Frozen Yogurt and Sorbet 04/28/2004 12:18 AM
Free Cone Day (Tuesday, April 27th) .. Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream .. phish food .. love

benandjerrys.com
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Thom Yorke, watch out for that mile-high
ice cream cone!

Thom Yorke, watch out for that mile-high
ice cream cone! 11/02/2003 09:46 PM
Hilarious story (several weeks old, sorry -- been traveling) about an experiment in which a San Francisco Bay Area 5th grade class listens to Radiohead, then draws what they hear. Some of the resulting images look like they could pass for actual Radiohead album covers. Snip:

"We will play a career-spanning selection of Radiohead songs; the kids, equipped with Sharpies and blank sheets of paper, will simply draw whatever the music suggests to them. We don't even give them the name of the band. They don't know anything about Radiohead, the mountain of criticism, the mythology. Their thoughts and interpretations are pure, unsullied, literally unique.

They are also extremely bizarre. The kids consent to this experiment, if only because [teacher] Mitsi [Kato] tells them to. They do, however, immediately request that we play Sean Paul or 50 Cent instead. 'This is not hip-hop,' Mitsi says. 'I'm not asking if you like it.' She doesn't have to ask. They don't. "

Link (Thanks, Mara!)

I scream, you scream, we all scream for
ice cream

I scream, you scream, we all scream for
ice cream 09/05/2004 02:42 PM
For reasons that seemed to make sense at the time, I'm the proud owner of three ice cream makers. (Two Cuisinart and a Krupps. The Cuisinart ones are nicer, FWIW) And we've got a freezer that keeps things nicely sub-arctic and'll drop the chilling containers to a useable temperature in about six hours. And a bunch of us are getting together on Monday for a picnic. That means... ice cream! So, besides the standards (vanilla, chocolate, mint chocolate chip, cocoanut, and lemon sorbet (don't use straight lemon juice for that. It's a bit... tart)) I've been fiddling some. I mean,...
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IE 7 - Tabbed

IE 7 - Tabbed 06/05/2005 11:33 PM

Tabbed Browsing

Tabbed Browsing 03/11/2003 09:44 AM

I've seen a lot of comments in various Mac forums where people have claimed that "Dave Hyatt said he doesn't like tabbed browsing!" or "Dave Hyatt hates tabbed browsing!" I find these posts perplexing, because I never said any such thing, and of course the opposite is true. I love tabbed browsing. I implemented tabbrowser in the Mozilla trunk. I implemented tabbed browsing in Chimera. I implemented the version used in Phoenix. Given how many times I've implemented it, I'm amazed that people would think that I am not a tabbed browsing devotee.

That said, I wanted to express some of my thoughts about the various UI decisions one has to make when designing a tabbed browsing system.

Target Audience

I think the most important question you have to answer before designing a multi-page system is "Who is my target audience?" In the case of Phoenix the target audience is experts and power users. I do not believe that tabs serve any useful purpose for novice users, because novice users don't ever use multiple views of Web data. They just browse from page to page.

The classic novice user Web setup is to have Windows IE maximized with the sidebar open. That kind of user simply doesn't need tabs. Tabs are total overkill for what that person wants to do with his/her Web browser.

That is why I think ideas like this, although extremely pretty, seem to be targeting an audience that IMO doesn't exist. A power user doesn't want thumbnails, since they wouldn't be easily distinguishable anyway once you opened several tabs, the overflow mechanism for such a system would be clumsy (or would use too much space, scrollbar anyone?), and you lose too much horizontal real estate. Sure, it's got a neat initial "whizzy" factor to it, but it's simply not as usable or as scalable as the classic tab strip model.

Bookmark Groups vs. Folder Options

This is something I've implemented three different ways in Phoenix, Mozilla, and Chimera. In both Chimera and Mozilla the bookmark group is a special entity that you have to make by taking a tab snapshot. I now hate this idea. The implementation is to just have a tagged special folder that when clicked loads all the bookmarks in tabs, a sort of one-click clustered loading. This complicates bookmark management and viewing, since you now have this third kind of entity along with regular folders and bookmarks.

I much prefer the system we came up with for Phoenix, which is borrowed somewhat from Opera. In this system, folder submenus pick up an extra "Open in Tabs" menu item, and you can just load any folder's children in tabs. No special new kind of bookmark group, and no special means required for creating bookmark groups. You just work with folders and can now load a single page of a group by drilling into a folder, or load all the pages in a group.

With the Chimera way, you'd end up having a Blogs group, and then you'd also have to bookmark individual blogs for when you didn't want to load the group. You had needless replication that is avoided by just making the operation available on folders instead.

Replace vs. Append?

When doing clustered loading, we took two approaches. One can be seen in Mozilla, and I personally hate it. The other can be seen in Phoenix and is my favorite choice. Mozilla actually appends the tabs loaded by a bookmark group to the end of the tabbed list. This means that if you click first on a News group and load tabs 1-5 and then click on a Blogs group, you'll end up with new tabs 6-10.

In Phoenix, you replace instead, so the News tabs go away and are replaced by tabs 6-10. The argument for append is basically that you end up with potential data loss in that you may lose access to the previous tabs by closing up some of the ones you replaced, e.g., if the second group has fewer tabs than the first. This is of course a solvable problem, though, and doesn't justify changing the default behavior to append.

Position of Tabs inside the Tab Strip

Chimera centers tabs within the tab strip. Everyone else puts them on the left. The only reason Chimera does this is because I couldn't figure out how to use the normal tab widget to make the tabs be left-aligned. Center-alignment for a dynamic tab system is of course awful, since for every tab you open, all of the tabs move.

It's much better to avoid moving all of the tabs around when a single new tab opens, and left-aligning the tabs inside the tab strip makes for a much less jarring experience.

Where do new tabs open?

A highly debated issue with tabs is "Where should new tabs open?" NetCaptor and the old Chimera (in early versions) use the following model. If you click to open a link in a new tab, then the new page will open just to the right of the current tab. Links will continue to open to the right if you keep opening them, so you may have a setup like this:

1 2 3 4

where 2 is the active tab, and you then open three more links from 2 and end up with:

1 2 7 6 5 3 4

The advantage of this approach is that similar pages stay together. The disadvantage is that the opening of new tabs is more jarring, since you do an insertion in many cases rather than an append.

A disadvantage is that you have to read the pages from right to left in order to preserve the original order. Because of this, when you *close* tabs, this model dictates that you move to the left.

You do have the advantage that when you finish with the child links, you conveniently end up back at the original document as you close up tabs.

The second model, and the one I favor (used in Phoenix, Chimera, and Mozilla now) is to always open new tabs on the far right. Usability testing at AOL showed that this was far and away what users expected to happen, and it lends a smoothness to the tab opening process, since you never move any other tabs.

You also get to read links from left to right instead of right to left, e.g., the previous example would result in:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

In this model, in order to be able to browse the links you open effectively, when tabs are closed you need to move to the right. Note that when you finish with child links, you don't end up back at the previous page in this case, but in the common case, you do. Note that by far the common case is to simply have:

1

and that you'll open a few links, end up with:

1 2 3 4

and still end up back at 1 once you close up. The ability to easily read left to right, and to not shuffle the tabs around on the tab strip when you open new links more than makes up for the edge case where you may not end up back at the parent tab.

Close Boxes

I actually prefer Galeon's behavior here. Phoenix and Mozilla offer close boxes for the tab strip, but this UI frankly stinks, because the user expectation is that clicking on the X will actually close up the entire tab strip. In effect, the X should map to the "Close Other Tabs" command, but instead it maps to "Close Selected Tab." This is utterly confusing, and at least Chimera avoids the problem by not having a close box at all.

The right way IMO to do this is to have a close box for closing up the tab strip itself in the same place Phoenix and Mozilla have it, but to also have close boxes on the tabs themselves (the way Galeon does it). With this model, it's clear what the different close metaphors are, and you don't end up with user (even power user) confusion.

Background vs. Foreground

Despite the inconsistency with opening links in new windows, I strongly support the default in Phoenix, which is to open links in new tabs in the background by default. This option should be overridable with a modifier key (SHIFT in Phoenix) and also the default should be controllable via a pref. Phoenix, Moz and Chimera all have the same pref and modifier key, but only Phoenix defaults to background loading by default.

It's really interesting just how many different choices have been made by tabbed browsing implementers. Pick the browser that implements the system you like best I guess. :)

Mac Tip: Safari Gets Tabbed

Mac Tip: Safari Gets Tabbed 09/25/2004 09:55 AM
G4 Tech TV Sep 25 2004 2:17PM GMT

New MSN toolbar with tabbed browsing

New MSN toolbar with tabbed browsing 06/17/2005 05:11 PM
"Want to keep more than one website open at a time, but tired of managing multiple Internet Explorer windows? Tabbed browsing lets you have multiple pages open in a single Internet Explorer window."

Tabbed Window Managers

Tabbed Window Managers 01/10/2003 06:58 PM
PWM and Fluxbox are tabbed window managers for X11. I kinda like Fluxbox, need to play with it some more......

"Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing"

"Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing" 12/19/2004 03:21 PM

IE's Tabbed Browsing Embarrassment

IE's Tabbed Browsing Embarrassment 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
Asa is smacking someone on the IE team pretty hard today: It's obviously a hack that's actually based on new windows for each tab. I can crash it at will. It's so flickery as to be completely unusable. It's filled with serious dataloss bugs. It's just crap, plain and simple. Anyone that makes any excuse for this embarrassment, please trackback me because I'm very interested in hearing how anyone can defend it. Yikes. At least there's a semi-amusing trail of...

Explorer's rivals allow for tabbed
browsing

Explorer's rivals allow for tabbed
browsing 01/11/2004 07:12 PM
It has a built-in popup blocker and a built-in Google search box that spares you the need to navigate to the Google Web site. There's ...

Mossberg praises Safari's tabbed
browsing

Mossberg praises Safari's tabbed
browsing 01/08/2004 07:17 PM
In his Personal Technology column for The Wall Street Journal today, Walt Mossberg discusses "tabbed" browsing on both the Mac and Windows platforms...

For Tabbed Browsing And Other New
Tricks, Try Explorer's Rivals

For Tabbed Browsing And Other New
Tricks, Try Explorer's Rivals 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
By Walter S. Mossberg (Wall Street Journal via MyAppleMenu)

MSN Bookmark Manager & Tabbed MSN
Search Coming Soon?

MSN Bookmark Manager & Tabbed MSN
Search Coming Soon? 03/17/2005 03:44 AM
Thanks to Sam1504 for the heads up

MSN is currently working on "MSN Favorites" allowing users to do the following:

HTML and IE based service for roaming favorites

Drag & Drop Favorites link from almost any page, link or URL

Word Wheeling through favorites

‘Suggest More’ searches from Favorites and Word Wheeling

Tabbed Search results

Saved Searches as Favorites

Roaming favorites is a great addition to Microsoft's MSN Services and will allow users to fully store and reference search queries and favorite sites anywhere and easily.

View: MSN Favorites

It seems Microsoft's MSN department is busy developing a tabbed version of MSN Search for use inside web browsers.

With the tabbed interface becoming more popular Microsoft are clearly considering its uses across a range of products. Later this summer Microsoft will release Internet Explorer 7 with tabbed browsing and it's expected that MSN Search with the tabbed interface will be launched later this year too.

View: MSN Tabbed Search
News source: Neowin's BPN

Read full story...

IE7 Leaks Talk of Tabbed Browsing and
RSS Aggregator

IE7 Leaks Talk of Tabbed Browsing and
RSS Aggregator 03/19/2005 02:43 AM
"... tabbed browsing, an integrated news aggregator, full PNG transparency support..."

Macintosh Explorer adds tabbed file
browsing

Macintosh Explorer adds tabbed file
browsing 07/21/2004 02:51 PM
Rage Software has released Macintosh Explorer 4.1, an update to the US$15.95 integrated file browser and file management tool...

Mac OS X Hints: Open Safari to multiple
tabbed pages

Mac OS X Hints: Open Safari to multiple
tabbed pages 10/29/2003 02:19 AM
skatz13: "I wrote this script to allow the opening of multiple pages in tabs as the startup homepage. It may not be pretty, but it works." ...

Tabbed Browsing, Stop Browser Hijackers,
Set Up a Spycam

Tabbed Browsing, Stop Browser Hijackers,
Set Up a Spycam 08/03/2004 04:11 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 3 2004 8:20AM GMT

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.04

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.04 08/19/2004 03:55 AM
A cross-platform Perl module for creating Excel binary files.

Spreadsheet-WriteExcelXML-0.02

Spreadsheet-WriteExcelXML-0.02 04/25/2004 11:31 PM

Spreadsheet-BasicRead-1.02

Spreadsheet-BasicRead-1.02 08/20/2004 11:37 PM

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.02

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.02 05/29/2004 12:22 AM

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.43

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.43 04/28/2004 12:25 AM

Planet Spreadsheet

Planet Spreadsheet 05/05/2004 02:19 PM

Here's a good piece from Wired News on the always excellent Future of Music Conference, held this weekend in Washington, DC.

(Sadly no one from Creative Commons HQ was able to make it this year, but plenty of our friends did. Check out Siva Vaidhyanathan's guest spot on our chairman's blog for his take on the event.)

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.10

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.10 09/24/2004 03:58 AM
A cross-platform Perl module for creating Excel binary files.

Spreadsheet-WriteExcelXML-0.03

Spreadsheet-WriteExcelXML-0.03 05/14/2004 12:20 AM

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.10

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.10 09/24/2004 12:02 AM

Spreadsheet Compare

Spreadsheet Compare 05/17/2004 02:47 PM
Project started!

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 0.43

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 0.43 04/28/2004 09:46 PM
A cross-platform Perl module for creating Excel binary files.

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-1.01

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-1.01 05/24/2004 05:26 PM

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.01

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.01 05/27/2004 12:21 AM

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.01

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.01 05/27/2004 03:02 AM
A cross-platform Perl module for creating Excel binary files.

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.12

Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.12 03/23/2005 11:57 PM

Cream for Vim 0.27

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