There’s this little Japanese bar on Muntaner just above Mallorca and I’d always seen it from the bus and thought I really must go there. Well, finally I did. I wish I hadn’t waited so long! The name is Catalan (Una Mica de Japó) but the place is as authentic as I can imagine, taking [...]
I should really update the theme for this blog!
Well, as the majority of people who know they have stuff to say on a blog, do I ever get around to posting? Almost never… very poor form having a post about not posting in order to post something, but there you go :|
I don’t normally like to spread around the negativity, but I just felt like writing this up. For my sushi, sashimi or maki fix in Barcelona, I go to a Japanese restaurant just up the road from home – the Sanshirou of the post title – and while it’s not bad, it’s nothing outstanding. Sofia loves [...]
This is excellent.
Jingoistic, maybe, but on the money…? Usually: “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill Photo by brettdavis on flickr.
Loving this. Crate art.
This is quite a mad one – and yet obvious when you think about it. Pottery from thousands of years ago carries an ambient recording superimposed into the work of the artesan. A Belgian team have managed to extract the recording from a 6,500 year-old South American vase and some 1,000 year-old Latin from another [...]
The fanboy comments on this flickr set of a new MacBook <gasp> Pro <gasp> being taken out of its packaging <gasp> are just hilarious! “I wonder if they make that outer MacBook package from the same cloth as nano sleeve.” “I still store my PowerBook with that foam condom before I put it in my [...]
For some reason, I saw Scoopt, thought it was a great idea, and neglected to write anything about it here! Anyway, allow me to do so now… From their FAQ: What is Scoopt? Scoopt is a media agency that has been created specifically to help members of the public sell photographs [...]
If you ask me, cats are scary enough, but the robot variety freaks me out. The movie for Nocoro’s felines should give you an idea what I mean ;)
Some very nice designs created in the foam of coffee cups over on flickr. Check out the lion! Heads-up by the great MAKE: BLOG.
Oooh, this is nice! “glow in the dark nightlight is as simple as it gets: a light bulb set in a clear solid brick. Recharges from energy in natural light during the day – glows at night!” Yours for $45. Very nice.
No, I don’t mean Swiss Army Knife in the figurative “it does everything” sense – it is a Swiss Army Knife: check it out.