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Isabelle Allende has written a Zorro novel. I think this is pure awesomeness. My brother, who is even more of a connosieur of trash adventure fiction and high literature than me, is probably going to be like three-hundred-and-seventeen times more squee! than me. :)


Isabelle Allende


Zorro

From About Kim, a weblog of a very impressive acquaintance of mine.

When the Sous-Chef Is an Inkjet


HOMARO CANTU'S maki look a lot like the sushi rolls served at other upscale restaurants: pristine, coin-size disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and rice and wrapped in shiny nori. They also taste like sushi, deliciously fishy and seaweedy.

But the sushi made by Mr. Cantu, the 28-year-old executive chef at Moto in Chicago, often contains no fish. It is prepared on a Canon i560 inkjet printer rather than a cutting board. He prints images of maki on pieces of edible paper made of soybeans and cornstarch, using organic, food-based inks of his own concoction. He then flavors the back of the paper, which is ordinarily used to put images onto birthday cakes, with powdered soy and seaweed seasonings.

I will be in Chicago for PLDI. This is fiendishly expensive, but may be worth it!

Bill Gates strikes a pose for a 1983 issue of Teen Beat:





The mind, she boggles.

Pictures of kids terrified by Santa Claus:

We still can't make de novo cells, but this is cool all the same:

Ebay!

Mary Anderson said she placed her father's "ghost" on the online auction site after her son, Collin, said he was afraid the ghost would return someday. Anderson said Collin has avoided going anywhere in the house alone since his grandfather died last year.

This is cool. :)