friday night drinks

the dragonfruit, pictured, is also known as pitaya or huo lóng guo. it is the fruit of a cactusy looking tree thing in southeast asia and in the right season you can pick them up at asian grocery stores in melbourne. they are really tasty and make the perfect accompaniment to a fruity summer cocktail on a balmy night.

this cocktail builder [click on link] takes what liquids you have around the place and tells you what cocktail you can whip up. i found it on the web 2.0 awards site, where it won first place in the 'fun' section. and deservedly so.

however, one small flaw that i noticed in this 2.0 application was that it only accepted legitimate beverages into the cocktail equation. that is, when i tried to enter 'detergent', 'bleach', 'shampoo', 'nail polish remover', 'grey water' and 'molotov' into the text field i was summarily rejected each time. yet it accepted coca cola, which is arguably more caustic than all of the above combined.

which means that the site won't be of help when i want to invite my neighbour who has loud parties which last until 5am in the morning on schoolnights for cocktails.

the web 2.0 directory is out of control. it's quite daunting. i probably have heard of 5% of the applications, maybe less than that. but knowing what you want is a matter of reading what more informed people have to say about particular applications, and also relying on sites like the awards site which filters the good from the bad. thats where rss feeds and tags come in handy.