Digital Pictures & Posterity

The article “No home for digital pictures?” over at The BBC’s website points out an acute problem with digital imaging. Namely, what happens to pictures if their media becomes obsolete?

In fact, it turns out that images stored electronically just 15 years ago are already becoming difficult to access. The Domesday Project, a multimedia archive of British life in 1986 designed as a digital counterpart to the original Domesday Book compiled by monks in 1086, was stored on laser discs.

Digital cameras 27% of new cameras sold are digital The equipment needed to view the images on these discs is already very rare, yet the Domesday book, written on paper, is still accessible more than 1,000 years after it was produced. […]

It’s for that reason that, though I still intend on (eventually) buying a digital camera, I’ll also be buying an analog counterpart.

“To Each His Own”

Some people have food recipes that no one else seems to like. And, from MetaFilter is this site that lists many such questionable recipes. This will give you the general idea:

I like to take bologna and put it on a hot dog bun with string cheese and orange marmalade in the middle of the bologna, then micro wave it to melt the cheese a little--about 1 minute. Yum! I also like grape jelly and roast beef sandwhiches. I like grilled cheese sanwhiches, with strawberry jam and ham as the filling. Hamburgers on a plate, no bun, smothered in syrup or honey is good too. […]

But, even the MetaFilter thread itself is a good source for many such recipes. In particular, I’ll excerpt this one for Jason ;).

Crack two eggs in a bowl, mix with bbq sauce, cheyenne pepper, tabasco and chives. Scramble it, put it on english muffin with bacon, melt cheese over it.

My arteries are fine... so far. [emphasis mine]

Weirdness aside, these two actually seem a bit tempting, though I’d have to tweak the recipe for non-Pillsbury brand dough:

Oddity # 1:

Take small candy bars (typically called “fun size” here in the States — seen the most at Halloween) and wrap them in canned (Pilsbury) crescent roll dough, seal ’em up, bake them according to the directions on the dough.

Butterfingers work best. Crispy and brown pastry shell, melty goodness on the inside.

Oddity # 2:

Grilled peanut butter, banana and honey sandwiches. Smear butter on the outside and grill them like you would a grilled cheese sandwich. Call me Elvis.

British Open

Whew, that was a close one for Ernie Els as he won his first British Open. He had a narrow one-to-two stroke lead for most of the final round. But, in the last holes, he lost some ground to force a playoff with Australians Stuart Appleby and Steve Elkington and Thomas Levet of France.

In the end, Els held strong and avoided mistakes. Ernie Els is the new Open champion.

With one foot in the bunker and the other on the bank Els played a magnificent recovery from the downslope at the back of the bunker, running the ball within five feet of the hole.

Across the left to right slope Levet struck the putt firmly, shaving the hole as it ran seven feet past. He holed for a five leaving Els a single putt for the championship. He holed it.

If you missed any of the Open Championship, ABC is airing final-round highlights at 5:00/4:00c.