Yhancik Magazine

Today I tried to make dangos.



Don't be fooled by it's sweet colourful yummy rounded appearance, cos it wasn't yet a huge success.

Basically I wanted to know if I could make dangos with.. that rice flour you can "easily" find here, which is called "crème de riz" (rice cream) instead of "farine de riz" (uh, rice flour).

Obviously, yes, you can.. because it's close from the ones I buy at the chinese bakery (well they're Tāngyuáns there, but basically it's the same), just not quite that yet.

I think I need to put more water, because the dough here is too heavy/dense, when it should be lighter, gummier and almost translucent.

But the raisins filling worked rather well.. it's not red bean paste, but again for westernised Japanese food, I think it's a good replacement ;)


Second attempt soon :p

Seriously ?



"In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards", no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data."

The data and the software used to visualize them are available here : http://code.google.com/p/radiohead/downloads/list
You're invited to share your own experiments on http://www.youtube.com/group/houseofcards.

Seriously ?






(this last one is via womanonfire, thank you :D)

"After countless months of effort, and then starting over and spending countless more months of effort, we are proud to announce deviantART Version 6, aka "Sleek!" This is truly the best version we've ever released, and we're very proud of it. Read on to see how we've improved the site you know and love, and just what these improvements mean to you."

Is it me or every DA release is always "the best" and "they're very proud of it" ? :p

(although, I have to say, they finally brought back a feature that was ridiculously removed in what.. 2003, 2004 ? A devWatch with pictures !)

So this is the 21st century, finally :o

Our crappy #1 ISP in Belgium finally upgraded the monthly transfert volume (that you can use until you're capped at ISDN speed just to teach you that using the internet is baaad piss you off) from 12GB to ZOMGZ 25GB !

Which means that I can now use 768MB daily, instead of 400MB.

Here I come, Youtube, web radios, net labels, video chat in MSN, online gaming and Bittorrent* !


Gawd, I think they even upped the transfert rate :o

But the price is still the same ridiculous 41,75€/month (which is like.. what ? 10€ more than many better services in France).

* Legal ones, OF COURSE :p


Aside from that, everything in Belgium is TOTALLY FINE.

What do I see above my Gmail ?

"ESPN.com - Pacman appears before grand jury in Las Vegas - 2 hours ago"

Like... LOLWUT ?



Mhh.. ok, it's not the *real* Pacman : http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3483202

Suspended NFL player Adam "Pacman" Jones appeared before a grand jury investigating a Las Vegas strip club shooting that left a man paralyzed and two others wounded.

Sounds like a nice guy, eh ?

Yoozila



I can't wait for YouFaceliousr.fm, really.



Runner-up : Plurk.
Sounds like something you do in bucket after an intense drinking session.

What makes the United States of America superior to Belgium is not the military power or a debatable question of size, but of course their tv ads for self-named businesses.

Because as much as we love Les Meubles Mailleux here :


and although it's not the best one


it has nothing on Flea Market Montgomery


which is like / a mini-mall (a mini-mall)


But then...
( a challenger appears )

Niniane Wang's secret project at Google, rumoured to be some kind of Google Metaverse, is out.

Called Lively, it's closer to IMVU than Second Life, actually - with a touch of Habbo Hotel? (I dunno, can you have "your room" with furnitures in IMVU, Miss Narco ?)


I'm super tough in my pink room

Mh, ok.. Why not...
Sometimes I don't understand why Google do some things. But they do it, anyway.

More about it here : http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-07-09-n11.html

"Also, stop calling your group alternative. I can't fucking stand how every pop punk/shitty punk group wants to be called alternative. If you guys are an alternative to anything, you're an alternative to good music."

Anonymous, 2008

:D

(via tim)

Somewhat, you'd expect this socialbloglol generation to be slightly more progressive, opened to change and all...

HOW NAIVE !


Have you noticed that every time a social website introduce changes (in design, for example), you get irrational, over emotional, strongly nostalgic reactions like




In 2006, Last.fm got from flat, simple, minimalistic to bumpyglossyweb2.0ish. People complained.
The current beta of the next version of Last.fm goes back to simple, minimalistic (a bit more than it used to). People complain.
There are proofs :p

I agree that the new design is far from perfect (top tabs moved to the left sidebar makes it way unbalanced), but.. people !
[aka : This is why we can't have nice things]


On a slightly related topic, have you heard about that Diablo 3 nonsense ?
It's the sequel of the sequel of a game where you spend your time in dungeons clicking on monsters to kill them.



( So what ? would you say. )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver :D

via

- Why the hell did George need to make a coming out at all ?
My only assumption is that anything in the 80s looked pretty gay, so it was difficult to discern what was and what wasn't. But you know, I have no idea, I was a child :p

- Why on earth does he fall of his inflatable floating mattress 3 times ? (Why do we see the sames images 2 or 3 times actually ? Didn't they get enough rushes, or what ?)

- "Where strangers take you by the hand and welcome you to Wonderland / From beneath their panamas / Club Tropicana drinks are free"
Seriously, this sounds shady.. I mean.. of dubious character !

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