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This is preaty neat.
- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
beberg@mithral.com
Pitch Dark Bar Opens for Blind Dates
Thu Sep 5,10:09 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - Diners at Berlin's newest restaurant cannot see what they
are eating and have to be guided to their table by blind waiters because the
bar is pitch black.
The restaurant, which opened Wednesday, aims to make guests concentrate on
senses other than sight.
Holding on to one another, the first visitors followed waiter Roland
Zimmermann, 33, into the dining room. Although the PhD student has been
blind since childhood, he is the only one able to point out chairs, cutlery
and drinks.
"I'm putting your plate right in front of you," Zimmermann said. "I can't
find my mouth," one voice replied out of the dark. "I wonder what this dish
is -- Lasagne? Or some casserole?" another invisible guest said.
In the "unsicht-Bar," which means invisible in German, diners cannot choose
complete dishes from the menu but can only indicate whether they would like
a fish, meat or vegetarian option.
"We want people to have an extraordinary experience of tasting, feeling and
smelling," said Manfred Scharbach, head of the organization for blind and
sight-restricted people, which is running the bar.
"People are surprised that their tongues and taste senses are taking over
and are sending signals, which their eyes would normally have sent," he
added.
Of the 30 staff, 22 are blind.
An average meal lasts about three hours and the waiters are always around to
help, Scharnbach said.
And at the end of the night, they will even reveal what customers have
actually been eating.

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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, CDale wrote:
> It also depends on what the fad is or what is in style.  (:
DNA's idea of fads is on the 100 kiloyear scale, unfortunately. As long as
current fads don't involve in-vivo rewrite of the genome, homeoboxes
including (now there's a problem for you, homeoboxing the adult), they're
not all that smart an idear.
> Actualy our silly antiquated ideas about relationships and love have
> resulted in the bleedings of many upon many a page (and musical
> instrumnet, and canvas)  What's the problem if we dash a little Mrs.
Art is sure nice. However, if art is our first priority we're kinda
fux0red, if we've set our sight on a sustainable culture.
> Dash on them?  (:  Or cayenne.  Or ginger. (mm ask me about ginger
> root play).
>
> And let me tell you this: just because a child happens to be
> single-parented (what a word), does not mean that child is
> dysfunctional or lives in a dysfunctional home.  The govt/media/church
Our firmware is not built to be single-parented. You can counteract that
somewhat by exposing the kid to a community of close friends, but not too
many do that.
> has tried to make it look like there is a disintegration, when in
> fact, there is a coming together of other family members and friends
> to raise children.  It's not decaying -- it's changing.  Nothing wrong
> with change.
I don't know what exactly is wrong, but something is definitely wrong.
This is way too important to be left to just our intuition of what is
right and what is wrong.
> > At least from the viewpoint of demographics sustainability and
> > counterpressure to gerontocracy and resulting innovatiophobia we're doing
> > something wrong.
> >
> > Maybe we should really go dirty Tleilaxu all the way.
> >
>
> Maybe y'all should buy m-w some more bandwidth.
m-w?