Great use of tab to showcase works of Alex Cohaniuc.

Simple, beautiful, grid-based site from Jason Duerr

“Lisa Marie” (dig the old school beat and the nice words about the woman, which is pretty rare coming from a rapper)

Never buy a used house full of wallpapers. We spent the entire yesterday scraping off three bathrooms and one bedroom for our friend who just bought a twenty-something-year-old townhouse. It was not that fun, but then she treated us at Hai Duong for some Vietnamese dishses (canh chua ca kho to). That was fun.

I am stuffed like a turkey on Thanksgiving at Il Mee. Four of us knocked off four BBQ dishes filled with beef, pork and squid complemented with a bottle of rice wine. We actually like this place better than Hee Been. The price is $19.99 per person, which is eight dollars lower than Hee Been, and the marinating is a bit better. The only trade off is that the tables are a bit smaller.

Blue Flavor sports a new, fun and simple design.

This is creative:

A former city employee in the Fukushima prefecture town of Koriyama has built a 4-meter (13-ft) long canoe from thousands of used disposable chopsticks recovered from the city hall cafeteria.

Awesome orchestration and visualization.

I love the idea of dining in the sky, but I am not sure if I can keep my food in my stomach. The slideshow is also worth checking out.

Jazz is a very competitive music, especially when two groups come together. At the jazz jam session at George Washington University today I witnessed the young cats butted head to head. Unlike the usual jam session, a band from Brubeck Institute was also in the house. The two horn lines joined force on the closing “Now is the Time” featured three trumpeters, two tenor saxophonists, and the rhythm section (drums, bass, guitar and keyboard). Each horn player took on a 2-bar solo. Once everyone did his part, each trumpet from each camp tried to car each other. One tried to play louder and floated more notes than the other. You can see the masculinity on these two guys’ face as they traded short passages. The one from GW camp did his usual shtick outplayed his opponent. The guy from BI came back at the last bar and they blew to the squeaking point. While all these macho sounds went on, the drummer who accommodated them all was a cute, dark hair (probably Spanish) girl. She kept the beat going and brought them back together at the end. This is what you get when you have all male player and one hot female drummer in one band.