The 100 foods you should eat before dying

The food blog "Very Good Taste" published a list of the 100 foods everyone should try at least once.

This is a great list and I had quite a bit of fun going through and marking what I've eaten. The project is to copy the hundred foods below and bold the ones you've eaten and cross out the ones you wouldn't eat.

Take a look, it was fun remembering the places I've had some of these random meals at.

1. Venison

2. Nettle tea

3. Huevos rancheros

4. Steak tartare

5. Crocodile

6. Black pudding

7. Cheese fondue

8. Carp

9. Borscht

10. Baba ghanoush

11. Calamari

12. Pho

13. PB&J sandwich

14. Aloo gobi

15. Hot dog from a street cart

16. Epoisses

17. Black truffle

18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes

19. Steamed pork buns

20. Pistachio ice cream

21. Heirloom tomatoes

22. Fresh wild berries

23. Foie gras

24. Rice and beans

25. Brawn, or head cheese

26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper

27. Dulce de leche

28. Oysters

29. Baklava

30. Bagna cauda

31. Wasabi peas

32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl

33. Salted lassi

34. Sauerkraut

35. Root beer float

36. Cognac with a fat cigar

37. Clotted cream tea

38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O

39. Gumbo

40. Oxtail

41. Curried goat

42. Whole insects

43. Phaal

44. Goat’s milk

45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more

46. Fugu

47. Chicken tikka masala

48. Eel

49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut

50. Sea urchin

51. Prickly pear

52. Umeboshi

53. Abalone

54. Paneer

55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal

56. Spaetzle

57. Dirty gin martini

58. Beer above 8% ABV

59. Poutine

60. Carob chips

61. S’mores

62. Sweetbreads

63. Kaolin

64. Currywurst

65. Durian

66. Frogs’ legs

67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake

68. Haggis

69. Fried plantain

70. Chitterlings, or andouillette

71. Gazpacho

72. Caviar and blini

73. Louche absinthe

74. Gjetost, or brunost

75. Roadkill

76. Baijiu

77. Hostess Fruit Pie

78. Snail

79. Lapsang souchong

80. Bellini

81. Tom yum

82. Eggs Benedict

83. Pocky

84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.

85. Kobe beef

86. Hare

87. Goulash

88. Flowers

89. Horse

90. Criollo chocolate

91. Spam

92. Soft shell crab

93. Rose harissa

94. Catfish

95. Mole poblano

96. Bagel and lox

97. Lobster Thermidor

98. Polenta

99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee

100. Snake

my additions:

101: pork belly

102: truffled popcorn

The problem with twitter

Tweetmeme is a very popular new service that tracks what is most popular on Twitter.  Today the number one story on tweetmeme (seen below) is about gay marriage in California.  

The story was covered by the LA Times LAST YEAR (2008) and is shown below.  As you can see in the red highlighted section, the article is clearly from last year.  This event demonstrates how quickly people can be infected by viral news.  Its my guess that we will see more and more irrational stories explode as irrational people adopt Twitter.  

The problem with Twitter as a news source and real time search: no moderation.  Further proof that professional journalism is one of the most important topics to take a hit by the economy and must be supported.

Ever cheaper labor, ever faster machines

Seth Godin's speech from the Feb 2009 TED talks in Long Beach.

Mass marketing requires hypnotizing the masses and works for average ideas and its not working anymore. Everyone thought that if you could buy enough advertising you could win.

Factories to tribes. You can connect to people that can change our world, align large numbers of people because they want to connect.

Find something worth changing and assemble a tribe.

You really have to watch this.

Are you good enough to market anything?

Seriously, are you good enough to market anything? Are you even good enough to write the copy?

Lets take veal for example. I love veal. Veal chops, veal parm, Milanese, or just simply fry it with some sharp cheese and throw arugula on it. But were talking about a cute, baby cow here. Something that most people would see and go "oooooh". We have to kill this thing and chop it up, ever so finely, to make veal.

Can you market this?

One of my favorite places in Northern Jersey, right by my parents (although I haven't bothered to actually go there yet) is Bobolink farms (www.cowoutside.com) I found out about this place watching Anthony Bourdain one day and love it. Its a cool / hip little farm that was raising cows to make milk to make cheese. They couldn't get their hands on enough organic milk to make their cheese so they bought the cow themselves. I'm pretty sure my grandmother warned me about going straight to the cow at some point... but it doesn't seem applicable

Today I received an email from them and this was one of the items:

--------------------------- from Bobolink Farms
Veal on the horizon

We've had 26 births so far this year, and a bit more than half of them are male. So, except for a few who will grow up to be the next Bobolink Grazier daddies, we've got veal on the way. We will be ready to sell veal by the beginning of June at the latest.

Remember, our veal is raised on the pasture, free to romp and play with the other young members of our herd. Our veal calves are never isolated or confined, and they are nurtured by Mom until it's time to go. This creates a healthy, rosy-pink veal. The meat is sweet, delicate, and tender.

We'll let you know when we're ready to process your orders, via this newsletter. Meanwhile, make room in your freezer!
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Can you sell cute, baby cows for dinner?

Take that privacy!

The most recent threat to the tiny little resemblance of privacy we have comes from technology. It's so cool though you can't help but love it.

If you manage to JailBreak your iPhone without going insane (I barely survived) you should install www.Qik.com. The software allows you to stream video live from your iPhone to the web. The wonderful little site also records your stream allowing you to render a full library of archived, live videos. Sound and all.

I can't even imagine what this is going to lead to... Oh wait, yes I can. Its going to be funny.

Here's me:

I'd rather be in jail - Jailbreaking an iPhone

I've put off cracking my iPhone for some time now without good reason. Tonight I decided to start by Jailbreaking the phone using QuickPwn. I have gone through no less than 10 restore cycles in the last 4 hours.

I finally got through all the different applications I wanted to install and decided to use LogoMe 2.2 because everyone "swears" it works.

It was the final deathnail. Black screen, no power, not on, no SSH, no VNC. blah.

This hurts me: The Pacific Garbage Patch

If you've never seen or heard anything about the Pacific Garbage this will most likely blow your mind. If you do what it is then I'm sure you're as disturbed by it as I am.

We need to reduce our consumption of plastic. This is one of those "things" that we can all do, and all make a difference. STOP REACHING FOR THE PLASTIC BAG. Seriously, just start somewhere. Those two peppers you have don't need a plastic bag- throw them in the cart.

It's time to change.

Avangate Casual Drinks Networking

If you are going to be in Silicon Valley Thursday, March 26th please join us for our second networking event. The last event was attended by a great group of professionals in the software industry. We invite people from all over the industry spectrum to come enjoy some solid food and free drinks.

Please come join us and bring a friend!

Register here

5 Guaranteed Methods to Increase Revenue for ISVs

I recently co-hosted a webinar with Asheesh Barman from Acutrack. Send me an email if you would like a copy of the PPT. Otherwise, enjoy:

Increasing Revenue with Hosted eCommerce and Software Licensing

Here's a recording of the Webinar I co-hosted with Marty Udisches from Reprise Software. The next blog post has the description and old registration pages.