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Just got back from a trip downtown in the heat, so I thought I’d crack a cool beverage from Japan. I decided to try Capsela first.

You’ll note that the label makes a point of mentioning its vitamin content. The bottle is sort of capsule-shaped also. This might explain why it reminds me faintly of some [...]

I just received something wonderful from our dear friend Rafael: a selection of unusual soft drinks from Japan:

Yes, that really is blue Pepsi there on the left, and a pink Canada Dry product. I’ll post descriptions of each as I try them over the coming days.

I used to think of Belkin as an above-average source of stuff for computers like cables and adapters and stuff. They may or may not be that, but now I have no reason to think that they support their products any better than anyone else who sells Chinese cables and adapters and stuff. I have [...]

This is impressive: a company in Israel is currently conducting clinical trials of a powered exoskeleton which enables a person with paralyzed legs to stand, sit, walk, ascend/descend stairs, etc. Part of the cleverness of the design is its relative simplicity: It doesn’t try to do all of the balancing for the wearer; the wearer [...]

I’m sure you’ve thought to yourself on more than one occasion–maybe even today–that what the world needs is a website which catalogues the packets of condiments that you get at fast-food restaurants. (You know, the little plastic envelope-like things that contain ketchup and mustard and stuff.) Maybe it’s crossed your mind that there are so [...]

My extremely talented and imaginative cousin Ziggy has a new website up at http://ravenland.com. Click that link and take a look at photos of her amazing sculpture and stoneware. I owe a lot to her; she had a profound influence on my musical tastes and overall aesthetic, giving me my first exposure to the likes [...]

Recently I found out about a wondrous thing called CHDK. CHDK is software that adds a number of useful features to Canon digital cameras. It can do things from the mundane, like adding a better battery-level indicator to the display, to the esoteric, like ultra-long and ultra-short exposures. It can even run little scripts so [...]

I ran across Trey Ratcliff’s blog recently. Trey Ratcliff does spectacular photography using a technique called HDR. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range; essentially it’s a method of combining several exposures to reproduce a wider range of contrast values than can be captured with a single exposure. Trey’s apparently something of a photoblogging celebrity; he’s [...]

Let me state up front that I find this more amusing than anything else. One of my old cohorts at Cycling ‘74, Gregory Taylor, brought this video to my attention:

I don’t speak Spanish(?) so I can only guess at what’s being said, but it appears to be an excerpt from a Peruvian television show in [...]