Month: February 2009

What’s For Dinner?

Hands up those of you who have come home after a long day at work (or play) and have said to yourself “What the heck am I going to eat for dinner tonight?”

OK, hands down.

Now hands up if you think I could see you when you put your hands up.

OK, hands down.

A neat site I’ve come across is designed to help those of us with little creativity in the kitchen – Cooking By Numbers.

Just mark down what you have in your fridge and cupboard and the site returns a variety of recipes that you could use with just those ingredients you listed.

Now the computer can be creative for you!  Oh wait, that can’t be good …

AOL Leak Results In “I Love Alaska”

Who is user # 711391?

A few years back AOL published the “anonymized” search history of hundreds of thousands of its subscribers.  At the time I wrote that it was rich with potential for interesting stories – and it appears I was not the only one to believe so.

Here is a series of mini movies called “I Love Alaska.”  It tells an interesting tale using solely the search criteria of one user from the AOL data dump.

Isn’t the digital age fun?!

I Love Alaska – Episode 1/13 from SubmarineChannel on Vimeo.

A high definition version is available here.

At first this seems mildly interesting, until you realize that this was a person’s real life at the time.  Voyeristic?  Yes.  Interesting? Definitely.  Proof that anonymity doesn’t really exist on the Internet for most of us?  You bet.