Monthly Archives: March 2007

Vietnam’s Got the Best Patis?

By deebeedee | Published: March 20, 2007
What cognac is to France, the pungent, fermented fish sauce in Tinh’s vats is to Vietnam: A national treasure that shouldn’t be produced anywhere else. And everyone agrees that the best fish sauce, or nuoc mam, comes from the island of Phu Quoc. The islanders use only top-grade black anchovies, natural inputs and traditional storage [...]
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Rat Patooie!

By deebeedee | Published: March 17, 2007
A new trailer for the sequel to The Departed Pixar’s Ratatouille is up on YouTube. It looks like it’s intended for a Chinese audience. So the film is about “a kitchen boy who can’t cook” and a “rat who dreams of becoming a chef” and how together they “can be the greatest chef in Paris.” [...]
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Tideland

By deebeedee | Published: March 12, 2007
When I came across Tideland at Blockbuster, I wondered why I haven’t heard about it. It’s the latest from ex-Pythoner Terry Gilliam, director of such classics as Brazil, Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Twelve Monkeys. The film’s protagonist is a young girl who escapes harsh reality by drifting “into a bizarre fantasy world where only [...]
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Photoshop Online for Free

By deebeedee | Published: March 12, 2007
Ok, this news is about one week old but did you know that Adobe will be offering Photoshop as a free online app sometime this year? Serious graphic professionals will still need the desktop version because features like batch processing will be disabled in the online version. Everyone’s predicting that the release of Adobe Photoshop [...]
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Kulintang

By deebeedee | Published: March 5, 2007
One of Wikipedia’s recently created articles is on the Philippine gong instrument ensemble called the kulintang.
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