I'm gonna get so fat

I've been eating at Chipotle a lot. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that there's one in the building where I work. And now there's one just up the street from my apartment, and practically ANYWHERE ELSE I find myself these days.

So I've often wondered what kind of nutrition and calories I'm absorbing from these deliciously overstuffed monster burritos. Well, my curiosity has been satisfied with chipotlefan.com.

Here's a breakdown of the average meal I order:

Chipotle Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Burrito

Calories 1138
Calories from Fat 446

% DV*
Total Fat 50g
Saturated Fat 12.5g
Cholesterol 30mg
Sodium 4031mg
Total Carbohydrate 141g
Dietary Fiber 16.5g
Sugars 8g
Protein 34g
Vitamin A 83%
Vitamin C 135%
Calcium 49%
Iron 34%

1138 calories? Wow. Someone alert George Lucas.

dM

The Joost is loose

Of all the “Internet is TV” promises heard over the past few years, Joost is the closest I’ve seen so far to the real thing. After finally receiving my beta test invite (sorry, I don't have any invites left), I’ve had a weekend to try it for myself, and I’m pretty impressed with what I see.

The channel guide is cleanly broken down by title as well as genre, and is of course searchable. The interface is completely transparent and disappears soon after a video starts. The star of the show is of course the full motion, full screen video, which looks pretty good on my MacBook, though it could be a bit annoying to watch on anything larger. It has a channel chat feature (which I could care less about, but some will find it cool), some widget thingies like an RSS news feed and a clock that you can pin to your screen to keep track of how much time you've been wasting spent.

I watched the first episode of Comedy Central’s Stella, some music videos, an indie flick, and last night caught a National Geographic nature show and an episode of Rocky & Bullwinkle with my kid. Something for everyone.

It’s still in beta so a lot of things need to be worked out. I experienced a lot of lagging, stuttering video and in some cases programs became unavailable halfway through watching them. I’d of course love to see more channels and more content (some UGC, perhaps?). I’m sure it’s going to become an advertiser’s dream once the community is built.

News at Seven

If you like having RSS-enabled news and blog articles read to you (somewhat slowly) by a computer-generated news anchor, then News at Seven is for you.

It's the brainchild of Northwestern University's Intelligent Information Laboratory. The content is automatically generated and spoken through a series of characters from Half-Life 2 in settings that range from a virtual studio to man-on-the-virtual-street locations.

Is this the future of newscasting? Will news from war zones be conducted via armored camera-toting machines designed by iRobot and read by celebrity avatars in Second Life?

They report. You decide.

www.newsatseven.com