Taster from Gill

As I’ve shared here before, one of the joys of my week is reading anything AA Gill writes in the Sunday Times. This week brought another classic barb. I mean who esle would have the verve or the nerve to write this:

I started with a complimentary shot glass of insemination-temperature cauliflower soup, with a cold cream cappuccino top and a grey, slimy nose-blow of truffle oil as a garnish. You can sip it like espresso, the waiter said helpfully. Liquidised cauliflower tastes like fat boy’s farts. Effluent cauliflower with added truffle oil tastes like corpse bloat.

Anyone care to join me in a whip round to get AA and Gordon Ramsay to come out here and give some of our complacent over-priced establishments the flaying they deserve?

Social browsing with Flock

If you’re into social networking sites, blogging and sharing stuff you find on the web, you know it can get crazy trying to keep track of it all. Which is why you might want to take a look at a browser you may not have heard of, called Flock. What makes Flock stand out from other browsers is that you can build direct links to things like your Facebook account, MyGoogle, My Yahoo, your blogs, Twitter, Flickr and so on – and makes sharing between them as easy and drag and drop right from a web page. You can also run news feeds and media from YouTube right in the browser as well as keep track of your networked buddies in handy sidebars. Importing bookmarks, cookies and other preferences from other browsers was a snap. If I have one criticism is that there seem to be so many bells and whistles that it can seem a little overwhelming and busy but once you’ve got the hang of it, it might just become your favourite browser. The much improved 1.1 version is out now.