ElectricNews.net:News:Say 'cheese' to mobile fridge camera

A digital camera in your fridge. It takes a picture everytime you shut the door (I'm assuming the light is on for that!). Why? Simple... if you have a picute enabled phone or handheld, you can log into the system and see the picture to see what you are missing... say, if you are at the grocery store. "Hmmm.. More milk, and who keeps drinking the sodas?"

Out of all the weird things I've seen in 'enabled' kitchen ware, this one makes the most sense, but it does have problems. Until then, the best solution remains the 'Honey-Check' method...

"Hello, honey... I love you too. Just calling to tell you I love you... oh, could you look in the fridge?"

New Scientist

Sumulated food! It's a device that mimics the feel, texture and taste of food, but they are still working on smell, a very important factor in taste.

The use put forth is for companies to use computers in making food stuff, making it a quicker process. Me, I very much doubt it will ever come close to what came out of my Mom's Crock Pot on Sundays, or the whole experience that is her red beans and rice... which tastes great no matter how much mustard Dad puts on it. ;)

Blogging for better bins

I talked generally about our leaders using blogs to keep in touch with the people (or more likely, to blow smoke at us). But as my Mother pointed out, I didn't really put a link to the Brits that were doing it. Here is a story about it.

Mom... always correcting me. Gotta love her. ;)

Digging for Googleholes - Google may be our new god, but it's not omnipotent. By Steven Johnson

We all use Google, but now some problems with using it are coming up. Here many are listed, and it's something to think about. The most interesting one to me was that, as we are researching more and more by net rather than book, and books aren't on the net, it's making for a very big collective blind spot.

At some point, we need a system where a book can be on the web and able to be searched, with maybe paid access or some other system.

I knew for years (just ask my Mom) that we would have a global information market. We ain't there yet, and we are going though the growing pains now.