Today's Links
Finally - the identity of "Deep Throat", the whistleblower whose inside info gave Washington Post reporters Woodward & Bernstein the edge they needed to help bring down the presidency of Richard Nixon, has finally been revealed. Former FBI Deputy Chief Mark Felt has owned up. Cool!
Being on diet is a constant challenge to find meals that satisfy my desire for delicious food but also keep to the requirements of the diet. I'm on Weight Watchers - which is a good system for me. I have WW cookbooks, and most of my other cook books have enough nutritional information that I can gauge the recipes' suitability for my diet. Back in the day (1974) when WW was still a 'new thing', they released recipe idea cards as part of their program - and of course, food photography being what it was at the time, and diets being what they were, the choices being offered seem quite alien. But it's the photography that really grabs you.. It doesn't necessarily make you hungry, though. Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974.
On that subject, before I even read down the first page at that site and saw that it was linked from the WW page, I saw the images and thought of James Lilek's Gallery of Regrettable Food - a true classic of online nostalgia repositories, the Gallery collects a plethora of absolutely awful cookbook photography from the 40's, 50's and 60's. The rest of Lilek's site is a marvel, too. Check it out.
Further on the subject of 'food' - here's an amusing little morsel of cinematic confection...
Here's a gallery of images created using POV-Ray tracing. AWESOME! One of my favourites also exists as a QuickTime VR. And here's a forum at CGtalk.com that has a great collection of CG work.
iPod Stories is a site run by a professor in Toronto, researching the impact of consumer technology on the social fabric. Interesting!