Week#3: Feed Me....please?

Very fun and informational session this week. I really tried not to go into a feed(ing) frenzy, but that ended up being easier said than done, when i realized that i had ended up with 14 feed lines on my newly minted bloglines account. So i whittled away the feeds that i knew, in all honesty, i would never really read and trashed them until my gluttonously bloated account was streamlined and svelte with only 5 feeds. (Dieting in cyberspace; who would have thunk)

Grokker's innovative visual mapping system for information retrieval was interesting and fun. "oooh, big color circle...must press. Ahhh zoom in." The key advantage that i see to this visual a(i)ddition is that rather than being inundated with inane amounts of text, that tend to blur all together, the subcategorization of circles with size/color-coordinated spheres makes us, the information searcher, pay closer attention to individual "hits," in the form of aforementioned colored spheres, while seemingly paradoxically making the searching/scanning of info much faster. Definetly a good tool.

Well, Finally, what would all this talk of feed be without a post of what i serchaed, and found, on a page, in a little blue sphere @ Grokker:

ONION RINGS
1 cup pancake mix
1/4 cup cornmeal
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup milk
1 large onion

Combine pancake mix, cornmeal, salt and milk.
Beat until smooth. Peel onion. Cut in 1/4 inch slices and separate into rings. Dip onion rings into batter. Allow excess batter to drain off. Fry rings in deep hot fat for 2 minutes or until golden. Drain and sprinkle with salt. Serve immediately.

enjoy. and let your feeding frenzy begin.