colbert emcees white house correspondents dinner.
video @
crooks and liars
this is one odd juxtaposition but im sure its just a coincidence that an african american congresswoman is onscreen in handcuffs. but seriously, how gruesome must you be to get turned down by a
prostitute?
Kristol
squirms on the grill as Colbert peppers him with questions about the PNAC.
download superstar the karen carpenter story / dont know whos ok with this and who aint
Kottke has film critic Jim Emerson's
list of 102 movies that you should see before you can consider yourself movie literate. I've got a *long* way to go.
I haven't read it yet, so I'm not sure if it confirms or denies my skeptical take on most alternate energy sources, but Popular Mechanics has a new article that
chrunches the numbers. Seems like the right place to start.
His passion of the moment is Totten Inlet Virginicas oysters native to the East Coast (Crassostrea virginica, to the Latin-spouting crowd), whose ancestors were brought west from the Chesapeake Bay a century ago. Introduced in 2004, they are raised by Taylor Shellfish Farms in a bay that opens off Puget Sound. Mr. Rowley, who helps to market them, gives them his nomination for "the best oyster on the planet."
Gorgeous
HDR images of Manhattan. (What's an
HDR image?) Probably
this is the one if you only have time for one click.
Jim, I would really like to get your thoughts on "net neutrality." I remember at one point you said you wished there *were* priority systems in place where people who used more bandwidth paid more. Hope I'm not misstating that.
Cory Doctorow seems to think government regulation to achieve neutrality isn't the answer. On the other hand, MyDD and others are framing this as "the end of the Net as we know it" and arguing that government regulation is the only thing protecting us from the telecoms busting up the Internet. I'm very confused, partly because i still don't understand how the Net actually works.
this may already have made the rounds / if not, microsoft i-pod vid is
here.