Links to start your November

This is what is Weird & Wonderful to start November:

• Tokyo Sweets Factory – When you go to the original shop, you can actually see all of the sweets as they’re being made, and a restaurant area lets you order specific desserts that are prepared on the spot. How sweet is that?

- tokyo Japan Food

• Captain Kirk’s GUIDE TO WOMEN How To Romance Any Woman In The Galaxy – “there is only one man who can boast that his seductive powers take him boldly where no man has gone before” (I can niether confirm or deny that Joey is the ghost writer for this guide)

- StarTrek Humour ? parody

• Rare Bill Watterson Art :: For the Calvin Connoisseur – a collection of rare early Bill “Calvin and Hobbes” Watterson’s toons from The Kenyon Collegian, his college paper from Kenyon, Ohio. They’re a little edgier than the Calvin and Hobbes strips (but not as funny)

- comics History illustration Newspapers

• Specialty Beers on the Rise in the Land of Sake – New York Times – Thirteen years after japan legalized microbreweries, the country has produced craft brewers who can hold their own with the best that the United States and Europe have to offer.

- Japan tokyo travel

• Five Ways To Get Your (Corporate) Wiki On – give employees a reason to visit and use the company or department wiki. everyday work activities, not just big-picture strategic stuff” agendas, meeting minutes, daily tasks and short term projects. sales progress reports, revenue updates, and other c

- Wiki Enterprise

• String Theory in Two Minutes or Less – no bunnies…

- education geek Movies physics video reference

• Charles Stross reading from Halting State at Borders in San Francisco – A very good book. The comments after the reading are great. (and his editor did expect his latest)

- video CharlesStross SciFi

• Wirearchy :: FLATNESSES, Enterprise 2.0 and the Wired Organization – Lesson #1: Enterprise 2.0 is going to happen in your organization with you or without you.

- Enterprise2.0 web2.0 business Enterprise

• blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web – Marc Andreessen on Open Social (his Ning is involved) and lots of gooey details.

- social_networking socialsoftware socialnetworking web

• Google Announces the OpenSocial API – Google has announced OpenSocial, a new open API for social networks. The new standard will allow developers to create Facebook-like apps on any social network site that implements it with the same calls.

- socialnetworking socialsoftware web2.0 google facebook social_networking

• Google Squares Off Against Facebook With OpenSocial – a standard set of APIs for building social applications that will work across social networking and other Web sites (including Google’s Orkut, hi5, iLike, LinkedIn, Ning, Plaxo, Oracle, Salesforce.com, and Slide, among others)

- socialsoftware google facebook web2.0 development socialnetworking

• Wake up, Toronto ! you’re bigger than you think – RICHARD FLORIDA writes “Toronto has become the nerve centre of one of the world’s greatest mega- regions, a trans-border economic powerhouse that stretches from Buffalo to Quebec City. It’s important to recognize this, because mega-regions have replaced t

- Toronto Culture cities

• DIY Helium Balloon Mission to Near-Space (High ALtitude Object) -

- DIY fun geek

• Robert Goulet mess’es with you stuff – RIP