New Lens. $90. Winner.

Got to play with a Noktor 50mm / F0.95 Lens last night. Life’s unpredictable, never thought I’d have the chance to play with something like this before it’s on the market.

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Noktor launches tomorrow, March 1st, 2010.

Mmmmmmmmmm

When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside—and reproached him for what they called his debasement of the public taste. “It is not my function,” said Wynand, “to help people preserve a self-respect they haven’t got. You give them what they profess to like in public. I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to believe.

From The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The first single from this new project is called Boy Lilikoi.

Boy Lilikoi by Jónsi

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In a way, iPhone users all got a huge upgrade today, yeah?

But in all seriousness, the iPad packs quite a punch for it’s cost—especially for an Apple Product. Maybe it’s an ideal substitute for a netbook for some consumers.

Recipe World Peace/Korova Cookies

When Dorie Greenspan included Pierre Hermé’s recipe for to-die-for chocolate cookies in her Paris Sweets cookbook, she called them Korova Cookies (Sablés Korova), after the restaurant off the Champs-Élysées for which Pierre Hermé created these cookies, not the milk bar in A Clockwork Orange. In her most recent book, she calls them World Peace Cookies, as her neighbor became convinced that a daily dose of these cookies was all that is needed to ensure planetary peace and happiness.

Made Chocolate Zabaglione today.

[Recipe Goes Here, yo]