"Food Coloring"

Yet another website update

I have finally made pages for photography.sakraft.com

I have a lot more photos to go trough and put up, but I figured that its been underconstruction for long enough and it deserved some HTML attention.

sakraft.com redesign

I like my new links page so much that I have redone my homepage in a similar fasion, at least for now. I have banished the low contrast image map to the land of wind and ghosts.

Links

I have categorized my bookmarks into an HTML document. I'm not sure why I did this or what motivated the creation of each of the categories. None of the links are duplicated, even though particular ones may fit in several categories or none at all.

Food Box: Go or No Go

Eatery Review: Azerbaijan Grill (aka Azerbaijan Restaurant & Grill).

Looks are deceiving, as this Azerbaijani restaurant looks like a small takeout place from the outside. It is, in fact, a nicely furnished eatery with friendly staff. I felt a bit underdressed in a t-shirt and jeans, but sallied fourth to dine nonetheless. The sign outside says mediterranean and food from the silk road. The menu does have many items that are similar to Greek food. To begin, we were brought complementary pita bread and a yogurt sauce. From there, we ordered an appetizer consisting of a sort of Azerbaijani cheese stick, made with feta and some kind of herb. These are good and come with a spicy green dipping sauce. For dinner, I had boneless chicken kebab. This was also very good. It was served with rice, grilled tomato, onion and broccoli, as well as a lemon. The staff is very attentive and was happy to explain a few of the finer points of Azerbaijani cuisine. Its easy to see why Azerbaijan Grill was named by Newsday as one of the top 10 new restaurants of 2005.

Azerbaijan Grill (aka Azerbaijan Restaurant & Catering)
1610 Old Country Road.
Westbury, NY 11590

On education, Part One

The educational system in this country would be absolutely great if it were not for the government and administrative bureaucracy that has a choke hold on it at the moment. The spark is being smothered. In the beginning these governing forces are necessary to help encourage the establishment of education within a nation, but there comes a point when, after having been well established, the educational system outstrips the capabilities and notions of governing forces like those that exist today. The upshot of this is that we have ended up with an anemic, sputtering and disease-ridden body of education, festering in its own digestive juices. We pursue a totaling of sums and a false sense of egalitarianism rather than the pursuit of understanding. Knowledge as we know it is a mere compilation of facts and this is wholeheartedly the most unnecessary use of an educational system. A whole economic machine is then built upon this uneven (in all dimensions) and mis-purposed foundation. Away with administration. Away with rules and standards. Down with degrees, badges, ranks and honors. The end result of a real education would not be measurable in such terms. It is a coming-and-going thing, a reference, a continuous process that has been categorized and broken to its detriment. It must be more holistic. It must have been in this form at some point in history. We would do well to find it again. It is a seeking. In essence, it is an everlasting spark.

Stereoview: MontBlanc

Skull in 5B Pencil

Awsome VW design thingy!

http://www.busselecta.com/

via Jonny Duddle

I feel so dirty

I've broken down and started teaching a little bit of dreamweaver in my web design classes. Ick.

Mary Ann's Homemade Pasta

Because machines don't have feelings

Finally, a site about web designing by using hand written code. I thought I was the only one:

webdesignfromscratch.com

Matchbox Pinhole Camera

This pinhole camera seems quite easy to make and use with standard 35mm film. Maybe I'll make one for World Wide Pinhole Photography Day.

via Make: blog

Bossa Nova Podcast!

http://podcast.bossanova.fm/

San-serif font show down

or is it a hoedown? Click here and then decide.

Just watched: Joe vs. The Volcano

Tom Hanks: What is that, a teddy bear?
Abe Vigoda: No. It is my soul.
Tom Hanks: ...Well, I hope you don't lose it.
Abe Vigoda: So do I.

The best web design tutorials

The best web design tutorials for HTML and CSS on the web are located on HTML Dog.

Soon to be eatin' at

Big Easy Cajun
630 Old Country Rd, Garden City, NY
(516) 248-7661

{assuming its a restaurant}

My newest links and flickr contacts

whip up: handmade things, fabric etc.

Dare Detectives: Illustration by Ben Caldwell

Ray Fenwick

All of the above are via Drawn!

Dancing At Dusk

Have I told you about

The Short Attention Span Reading Room?

My Grandparent's Engagement Announcement

From the New York Times, October 6 1946. Taped into a photo album.

Jack Kraft

Found: some of my doodles that had been photoshopped

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Figure Drawing

my best after four weeks of instruction

I was going along pretty good until my instructor came by and said "Want me to give you the kiss of death?: don't screw it up." So I virtually did nothing to it after that. He helped a tiny bit with the lower left corner, so this one is mostly me.

I took the photo of this at night with crappy lighting and from an angle (perspective corrected in photoshop. I'll take a better picture outside in daylight.

Countries of my flickr contacts

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Here is a map of the courties of origin of my flickr contacts. Only those that list their location are included on the map. Among my 60 contacts there are 16 countries listed:

USA
Canada
Brazil
South Africa
Germany
Netherlands
Portugal
France
Norway
Spain
Poland
United Kingdom
Malaysia
China
Philippines
Australia

Get your own map at world66.com