"Flexing" Today

Had some chicken soup for breakfast, light on the meat, lots of broth.....Than had some Pork Candy as I call it for my son so he eats it, san daniele prosciutto, its the best IMHO in Italy, from the north in Fruili....

I will flex again manana with some braised grass fed beef, why grass fed?? SUNSHINE!!! look its fact a homone full unhappy life caged animal is just not as tasty and whom wants to eat an angry animal?? I will adapt a reciepe from my pals Diner Journal

http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/26964/index.html
Any thoughts on this?

Matt's mentioned Tim Wu's most excellent paper on the American wireless scene twice now, but I don't think this horse is dead yet. Wu paints a nice -- and by "nice," I mean kinda horrifying -- picture of what an Internet missing the fundamental principle of neutrality might look like. Take, for example, the state of innovation in the cellular market. Here in the U.S., wireless carriers rule the roost. They control what phones hook up to their networks. Since equipment developers have to design for particular networks, carriers pretty much control their entry into the market. Carriers lock phones to their networks and cripple on them neat technologies like Bluetooth, wi-fi, and even call timers (so as not to have you compare your records to theirs). Couple that with no real standards for software development, and few people bother building exciting new cell phone apps. To get a snazzy new iPhone you have enter into a contract with AT&T/Cingular, which is roughly analogous to Apple telling you that your new MacBook won't go online unless you switch to Comcast. The way wireless works today, innovation is only tolerated if it benefits the carrier, not the consumer.

Wireline (you know, when phones have wires) is of course pretty different. Yeah, the landline phone companies once argued that it was technically necessary for theirs to be "totally unified" systems. But today we can hook up just about any device to a phone line -- like, say, a modem -- because we were smart enough to enshrine the idea of open networks into law.

Over at the Agonist, Ian Welsh has more on the American wireless landscape, written in sort of fairy tale prose. Whatever it takes. In convincing people of the dangers of a carrier-controlled Internet, I think we could do worse than to get them to reflect on their own personal experiences as cell phone consumers.
hey tom, you seen anything?
i just noticed that planet of the apes was showing twice today on the history channel. isnt this more appropriate for the scifi channel or did i sleep through that lecture?
just noticed that the two boxes of garbage bags in my possession have some odd amounts of bags per box. they have 17 and 22 respectively. this one has 64. i cant think of any other product so randomly configured.
Nevertheless, Judge Haight — at times invoking the mythology of the ancient Greeks and of Harold Ross, the founding editor of The New Yorker — used blunt language to characterize the Police Department’s activities.

“There is no discernible justification for the apparent disregard of the guidelines” in his 2003 court order, he said. These spell out the broad circumstances under which the police could investigate political gatherings.

Under the guidelines, the police may conduct investigations — including videotaping — at political events only if they have indications that unlawful activity may occur, and only after they have applied for permission to the deputy commissioner in charge of the Intelligence Division.

Judge Haight noted that the Police Department had not produced evidence that any applications for permission to videotape had ever been filed.
My Day of Sunshine

Morning:
8 oz raw sauercraut juice mixed with 32 oz water
Fresh raw coconut juice
Green tea
(1 hour later after exersizing) 1/2 organic banana Raw coconut pulp + Pro-Biotic pill

Lunch:
Sandwich on toasted sprouted bread with hummas, avocado, and radicchio & Raw almonds/cashews
(2.5hours later) 28 oz water mixed with 2oz pure organic pomagranate juice & 2oz pure organic cranberry juice

Dinner:
Lots of wine:>)
Califlower in pomegranate sauce, brussel sprouts, lentil pilaf, dandelion greens (with carmalized onions)
libby blogging per nyt
The Weston A. Price Foundation
for Wise Traditions
in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts
new york city diners
pbs frontlines newswar - 9pm est
Anybody want to help further my education?

When I was in Paris I saw the Rauschenberg Combines show. These are some weird pieces, made out of unusual materials (like, say, a goat,) and my understanding was that this was seen as a pretty radical departure at the time (late 50's.)

Last Saturday night I went to MOMA, and was struck by some Miro work from the 1930's. (Would be good if I could remember the name's of some of the pieces, but alas....) To my admittedly untrained eye they seemed at least as weird and sculptural and unpainterly as the later Rauschenberg's. Ropes and parrots and hats and all sort of objects.

So I'm guessing my understanding of why Rauschenberg was so radical needs some deepening. It's not just that he used found objects in his work. But what more?

Hopefully this doesn't seem too stupid or too impossibly broad.
Was hanging out long with a raw food person's life mate and her dad is a hard core 40+ year raw-head.......while I will never be a raw-head (raw eggs YUCK) cause I think cooking is good for the digestion etc, it was a learning experience and will be very healthy for me......"take in the sunshine"......need to switch my coconut water frenzy to fresh baby coconut's (pasturizing isnt good for the sunshine factor), so luckly I am good with the machette(sp) from my long trips in the carib in the 80's 90's......soaked raw nuts to release sunshine NOPE, eat raw meat that was alpine grass fed NOT.....my sunshine will have to come from wheatgrass, coconuts, greens (lightly sauteed), etc......GO SUNSHINE!!!
Photoshop tutorial for turning a photograph into fake miniature environment.

Discussion thread from a remote controlled toy airplane board where the members take aerial photos from their planes and then use the above technique on them. Tons of examples.

fake miniature environment - docks
this is making the rounds today. brutal oped assessment from a former reagan national security intelligence officer.
(for tom) history of mp3 players.
The head of Cartoon Network resigned today over the marketing stunt that caused a terrorism freak-out in Boston last week. Jim Samples sent a memo to staffers today about his resignation, saying, "It's my hope that my decision allows us to put this chapter behind us and get back to our mission of delivering unrivaled animated entertainment for consumers of all ages."
"The Republic Party" [YouTube] (via that Trios guy)
Long Tail My Ass

When I gave away all my vinyl, I gave up the 1981 League of Gentlemen album (Robert Fripp, et al), which I've never found on CD. Well, it's not on CD. I haven't seen any legit MP3 outlets, including dgmlive.com. It's a really good album by an artist who is still very active. But my only legitimate route is to find a 26 year-old vinyl disk. I'd buy a friggin flac ... right now. But nooooooooooo!
The Parts Left Out of Chicago 10

from paul krassner's blog at huffpo
Guest Blogging: A Bourdain Throwdown

NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT……

via jaschw
stepford pundit
E. EDWARDS: There are not that many politicians who are actually very good at jokes. John spoke one time and I said I wouldn‘t even go because it was—he was supposed to be funny and I didn‘t think he could carry it off.

CROWD: (LAUGHTER)

MATTHEWS: I love it. You‘re great. Behind every great man, there‘s a woman trying to kill him.

CROWD: (LAUGHTER)

E. EDWARDS: He has great characteristics.

MATTHEWS: What is it? Does she do this? Does she bust your balls like this when you come home? When you get (INAUDIBLE), does she do that?

CROWD: (APPLAUSE)

E. EDWARDS: My children are watching this.

CROWD: (LAUGHTER)

MATTHEWS: What‘s this with the equal marriages? Why do people marry their equals? It used to be different? What happened to the Stepford wives, the good old days? What happened?

CROWD: (BOOING)

MATTHEWS: Oh, how P.C. How—why don‘t you hiss?

Oh, thank you. Finally, the freaking hiss. I needed it. It was the hiss. I needed that.
Publisher Arthur Sulzberger on the future of the NY Times print edition:
"I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care, either," he says. He's looking at how best to manage the transition from print to Internet.
"Internet is a wonderful place to be and we're leading there," he adds. The Times has doubled its online readership, and now has 1.1 million subscribing to the print edition - and 1.5 million readers online, each day.
The New York Times is on a journey, Sulzberger says, and its end will be the day the company decides to stop printing the paper. That will be the end of the transition.