the poison doughnut: Japanese barcodes

Saturday, April 19, 2008

The blog darkroastedblend.com notes one firm’s witty Japanese UPC symbols, or bar codes. With food prices what they are today, could they help calm cash-register rage? (Nah, probably not).

My cookbook collection

My Book Wish List

100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema by Scott Hocking
A Conga Line of Suckholes by Mark Latham
A Left-Hand Turn Around the World by David Wolman
A Short History of Rudeness by Mark Caldwell
Adult Themes: Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood by Kate Crawford
As They Say in Zanzibar by David Crystal
Biblica by Viking
Colin Cowie Chic
Cuisine of France
Culture by F.R. Leavis
Delicia!
Fish Who Answer the Telephone and Other Bizarre Books by Russell Ash and Brian Lake
Great Feuds in Mathematics by Hal Hellman
Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
Lonely Planet's Citiescape Asia
Lonely Planet's Micronations
Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia edited by Scott Poynting and George Morgan
Pistache by Sebastian Faulks
Port Out, Starboard Home by Michael Quinion
Talk to the Snail by Stephen Clarke
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
The Joy of Eating: The Virago Book of Food by Jill Foulston
The Meaning of the 21st Century by James Martin
The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson
The Soul of a New Cuisine by Marcus Samuelson
Why Our Schools Are Failing by Kevin Donnelly
Why Read? by Mark Edmundson

Saturday, April 19, 2008