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Jennifer 8 Lee gives a great talk about Chinese food. Highlights include giving fortune cookies to people in China, comparing Chinese food to Linux, disclosing the origins of General Tso's chicken, and translating Chop Suey. 16 awesome minutes of video.

Mood: quixotic
Location: America, land of the anacronistic dinner
Music: Radio 1190 - Chunk of Funk

At work we use iText, a free library for manipulating PDFs. The library's author makes his money by giving away cool software that's complicated enough that developers are motivated to buy the book so they can use it well. We just bought said book, and I want royalties:

Trevor armed and ready to do battle with code

Trevor armed and ready to do battle with code

Mood: amused
Location: com.lowagie.text.Jpeg
Music: Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced

NPR's Morning Edition this morning had the following entertaining error:

"Somalia has not had a government since 1991 when warlords overthrew the president. The warlords then turned to infighting, leaving the country in monarchy."

Mood: working
Location: not Somalia, thank goodness
Music: Lou Reed - Magic and Loss

What's better than good home-cooked aligator? Home cooked aligator with bikini-clad gun-wielding models. If only all cookbooks were as much fun as Cajun Sexy Cooking.

Mood: productive
Location: work
Music: Afro Celt Sound System - Release

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