The Rules:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

The Mouse & the Billionaire Omnivore’s Hundred

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, 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

80 percent is pretty damn good, I think. We have made a pact to finish the list within the next year. We’ll keep you updated.

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NYC has opened up her loving arms to us and welcomed us back home. She is important, interesting, exciting, lovely, joyful, warm, beautiful, and still a poor substitute for our loved ones on the West Coast.

My copy of Nanoloop that I ordered from ebay just came. It goes nicely with my sweet Gameboy Pocket that I got a few months ago.

So far, I am super impressed with Nanoloop. I saw Bubblyfish give a talk on chiptune music a couple months back, and immediately saw how much nicer Nanoloop was to work with than LSDJ, which I had played around with a few years back. It’s not nearly as powerful, but it’s a great way to come up with some super fun songs. The interface is extremely easy to understand. It’s easy to navigate between the different screens, and it visualy makes sense what is happening when you apply certain functions on the sound. I need to keep this in mind when developing my own interface this coming year.

Thought: It may be interesting to actually map the key commands from the Gameboy to an external device, making it more performative.

Also, a side note: I am crapping myself over that picture of Rabato’s rig. Check out more at his Gameboy music site.

Dipity.com has a fascinating chronological map of the history of internet memes. It is a really nice information layout. Timelines really are generally the wayto go. Just ask National Geographic. They have placed bigger (more popular) memes towards the top of the screen, which is a great navigation element. You can also drill down and display all of the content from a given time period. Clicking on a topic will launch a window to either read about the item or watch the video.

On a side note. It’s also fun to see how we have advanced in our tastes.

I recently got a copy of Nicolas Collins’, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, and I am really excited.

It is a great little exploration in the world of sound and machines. Much of the material covered, especially the earlier chapters (soldering?), I am already familiar with, but there is a great deal of fun projects in here. Ripe with possibilities! I have been feeling stone-walled with the simplistic microchip sounds I’ve been making (a person can only take so many square waves), so I look forward to chapters 20 – 24 with some more advanced oscillators. Hopefully Bob Moog is smiling down.

I am getting very excited about this upcoming year of school. I can’t believe there’s only one more year left. I want to play with electronics, music, and the internet 18 hours a day, forever.

Has anyone else noticed that Robert Redford is slated to star in the upcoming Untitled Jackie Robinson Project as Branch Rickey?

I just crapped my pants.

The question then, of course, is who will play Jackie. L says Jamie Foxx, but I’m not convinced. The imdb message boards also suggest Will Smith, Cuba Gooding Jr., Eddie Murphy, and Derek Luke. None of these choices seem appropriate, though I recognize I may be an overzealous Jackie fan. Anybody else got any ideas?