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Did you know? The Easter Island Statues have bodies:

Easter Island Statue Project

The Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) is a private research program and archive created by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Principle Investigator and EISP founder and director, with Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, Rapa Nui artist and co-director of EISP.  The profound and immediate need for conservation actions on the moai became apparent over the course of more than 20 years of subjective observation and field experience acquired by us during our island-wide archaeological survey, which was conducted in association with our Chilean and Rapa Nui colleagues.

more photos:

really? no one ever thought of digging deeper?

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This video is just a teaser for the really cool interactive web project baroque.me by Alexander Chen. 

About the project:

Baroque.me visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suites. Using the mathematics behind string length and pitch, it came from a simple idea: what if all the notes were drawn as strings? Instead of a stream of classical notation on a page, this interactive project highlights the music’s underlying structure and subtle shifts.

The fun begins when you interfere with the trajectories of the white balls causing a disruption to the rhythm and flow of the piece. Why just watch when you can play?

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skedrawdles:

The water cycle.

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A site devoted to beef stew.

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Reviewing two Melbournian frozen yoghurt places. I has my preferences, and there's a bias but I try to present both sides in a positive light (when praise is due).

Have a picture of some fro-yo.

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Click title for review of White Tomato, take two! This time it includes beef bulgolgi, spicy bean curd and seafood hotpot (again, but now with a numerical rating) and spicy squid.

There is also a picture of the ceiling. But the picture below is not that. It's the squid.

http://sakiikas.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/white-tomato-spicy-squid.jpg

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Click title for an educational rant about dumplings. Not just the south-eastern asian type either. All of the dumplings that come to mind, and possibly aided by wikipedia. It'll be good for you.

Below is a picture of the end result.

http://sakiikas.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/dumplings-01.jpg

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Click title for a food review of Japanese restaurant Edoya. There is takoyaki, beef sukiyaki, teriyaki fish and dessert. Don't forget the SUSHI COUNTER with the sushi chef.

Picture below is the 10 out of 10 teriyaki fish.

http://sakiikas.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/edoya-teriyaki-sakana.jpg

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Click the title for a review on Wonton House, a Chinese eatery specialising in wontons. There are soup noodles, rice, and dishes to share. It's not a place I'd recommend. Best thing I've seen is the fried chicken rice, in the picture below.

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Click the title for a food review of okonomiyaki and beef curry rice at Yoyogi. Yoyogi is a Japanese cheap-eats place. I also include a spiel for Japanese curry. It includes a description, and some statistics.

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Link to my wordpress review of White Tomato. White Tomato is a Korean restaurant. This review covers 3 items from the lunch menu, all of which are $9.50.

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Petaling Street Malaysian Hawker Food

Name: Petaling Street Malaysian Hawker Food Location: Corner Swanston/Bourke Sts, near Boost Juice. Price range: Mains are $10-23. Mostly around the ten-mark, so it's a cheap student-eats place. Combination Hor Fun with egg gravy ($9.90)

I choose this because I like Hor Fun, which are wide flat rice noodles. Hor Fun stir-frying skills are essential for a short-order SE Asian chef, since it tells the customer a lot about the strength of the heat (specs of the kitchen) and tossing skills of the chef (specs of the chef crew).

I have had better combination Hor Fun with egg gravy at Kopitam. It is overly salty, the egg gravy is gluggy with cornstarch, the chicken tastes like its been sitting in seafood, but the seafood is passable. The Hor Fun themselves were okay, I'd give the skill check a pass (barely) and the kitchen specs a bare pass. (needs more fire power, imo.) But I am willing to overlook the lack of fire power if the chicken and egg gravy was better. Would I order it again? No. Tomato soup rice noodles with fish balls ($9.50)

This is another one of my orders. It was a 'Chef's recommendation', so I trust the crew would recommend something tasty. I am also a slave to curiousity. Tomato soup rice noodles you say? Game on! It's bland, and disappointing. The tomato soup tastes like the dregs of tinned Spag, with copious amounts of rice noodles (I don't like that type of noodle, so it met my initial bias). Fish balls and fish cake are okay in a noodle soup, but it needs something else with it. Would I order it again? No. Fried fish with Thai sauce ($12.80)

This is ordered by a lunch buddy. I was initially wary of fish, because it can go wrong in so many ways. Fish is either fried or steamed here, with two sauce options for each. It looks good. The fish tastes good too. My wariness is dispelled. I'd have to say I have some terrible skills at picking delicious foods, and that my lunch buddy has those skills. Would I order it? Yes, and so would my lunch buddy (and has.) Cham ($3 hot, $3.50 cold)

Cham is a mix of coffee and tea. What did I say about curiousity? It's actually tasty. I've had it twice. The first time, it is better than Kopitam's (taste-wise, and quantity-wise if you order it hot), but the second, it was ordered during lunch rush hour and was orderly sweet. It's hit and miss. Would I order it again? Yes. Ribena Sprite ($3.50)

Exactly what it says on the tin. It's so pretty.

Would I order it? Yes. (But only if there was nothing else that tickled my curiosity. Everybody knows what Sprite and Ribena tastes like. If you don't, correct this.)

Overall, the price is good. There are a lot of items on the menu, so go with some friends and ask for their recommendations. The fish is good, and it's a popular dish with the people I saw at lunch hour. Laksa also looks good. I meant to order Laksa on both counts, but other things seemed like a better idea at the time.

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Instameal: Paldo udon

Name: Paldo Udon Description: wad of udon noodles, two sachets. One soup base, one dehydrated vegetable.

Price: $0.90 Spiciness: 1/10 Taste: Noodles were a surprise. Usually instant-udon tends to be oily, but this one isn't. It's roughly the same as ramen noodles, but paler and thicker like udon. It wasn't as spicy as it looks. As with all udon noodles, don't overcook them, as I have. (Shown in the end product photo). I can't remember which vegetables were in it, because it was a while ago, but there's nothing weird in it. It's just tasty. The negative point is the energy content, and the lack of protein. But then again, this shouldn't surprise anyone.

The end-product: (the green beans were added. They are not included with the packet.)

Would I buy it again? Yes. I am pleasantly surprised.