calling george washington
"Immense coils of hot, electrified gas in the Sun's atmosphere behave like a musical instrument, scientists say."
a strawberry as big as the ritz
Coming up on Animal Planet: Spring Watch USA. And with warm weather finally coming in spring should be busting out all over in the next few days.
Get Skinny #7
Its time to get back on tract here after too much fun eating and free my body of decades of toxin.......Master Cleanse Take #2, I hope to beet the last one of 6 days by at least one day......Than its spring/summer eating like a pig (Veggie Heaven) till we resume the cleaning this September.....
Its time to get back on tract here after too much fun eating and free my body of decades of toxin.......Master Cleanse Take #2, I hope to beet the last one of 6 days by at least one day......Than its spring/summer eating like a pig (Veggie Heaven) till we resume the cleaning this September.....
Tasty treats are starting to pop up out of the ground....
Locanda Vini Olii which has always been at the top of my NYC eating charts from day one.......spring fava's, spring chich pea;s (new to me), asparagus blanco, than pasta pasta pasta, insanely great steak (Italian low fat breed from Montana)
While some people say the best pizza in NYC could be this new-ish place on 12st?? First Ave near 12th??....My fav is at The Modern's Tarte Flambee but in a micro thin version, stunning, at $12 and easy to eat it solo (with a beer), its a $25 snack spot w/ tax and tip, so its dear but its living!!
Bar Masa's tofu salad is another $12 treat that I cant get out of my head (mouth).......greens, raisons, pine nuts, is this Japanese, but than add the insane tofu, and the wasabi dressing = WOW!!!....the deep fried spring flowers rock too
Locanda Vini Olii which has always been at the top of my NYC eating charts from day one.......spring fava's, spring chich pea;s (new to me), asparagus blanco, than pasta pasta pasta, insanely great steak (Italian low fat breed from Montana)
While some people say the best pizza in NYC could be this new-ish place on 12st?? First Ave near 12th??....My fav is at The Modern's Tarte Flambee but in a micro thin version, stunning, at $12 and easy to eat it solo (with a beer), its a $25 snack spot w/ tax and tip, so its dear but its living!!
Bar Masa's tofu salad is another $12 treat that I cant get out of my head (mouth).......greens, raisons, pine nuts, is this Japanese, but than add the insane tofu, and the wasabi dressing = WOW!!!....the deep fried spring flowers rock too
VC-1 can be licensed, but virtually no royalty cash goes to Microsoft
Microsoft claimed to have invented Windows Media Video 9, and tried to undermine the acceptance of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 by saying WMV9 would be cheaper. (They also said it was better, which was, how to say, "optimistic".)
In an attempt to broaden the acceptance of WMV9, Microsoft went to SMPTE to have it turned into an open standard, called VC-1. In the process, it became clear that WMV9, um, "shared" some technology with AVC. Almost all of the essential patents belong to other companies.
Microsoft claimed to have invented Windows Media Video 9, and tried to undermine the acceptance of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 by saying WMV9 would be cheaper. (They also said it was better, which was, how to say, "optimistic".)
In an attempt to broaden the acceptance of WMV9, Microsoft went to SMPTE to have it turned into an open standard, called VC-1. In the process, it became clear that WMV9, um, "shared" some technology with AVC. Almost all of the essential patents belong to other companies.
I'm still not exactly sure what to make of James Kunstler, but I can definitely agree with him that Tom Friedman is an idiot.
Bolton encounters an actual interviewer. Hilarious.
Fox's new show, Drive has crappy dialog, lame character development, and Fla. looks strangely similar to San Bernardino County, mountains and all.
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.
jim.....fyi
The Jason Neroni files: leaves Porchetta citing irreconcilable differnces, reportedly finds himself the subject of an arrest warrant, says it's all good, gets arrested, and finally, is released with a court date, but not before getting the full treatment.
(skinny)
The Jason Neroni files: leaves Porchetta citing irreconcilable differnces, reportedly finds himself the subject of an arrest warrant, says it's all good, gets arrested, and finally, is released with a court date, but not before getting the full treatment.
(skinny)
couldnt pass up this headline number three on the soy milk charts from the good folks at wingnut daily:
Soy is making kids 'gay'
Soy is making kids 'gay'
NYTimes subhead today: "Don Imus never caught a breath because he was in the gunsights of a 24-hour news cycle."
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
"Gun control? Welcoming immigrants? A woman's right to choose? Never mind his past positions. The only -ism that Rudy Giuliani believes in is sadism."
News organizations filed documents in federal court Monday opposing a government request to close portions of an upcoming trial of two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act.
Media organizations, including The Associated Press, are concerned the government wants to keep large portions of evidence in the case out of public view when former American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman go to trial.
Defense attorneys have expressed a similar concern, filing a motion to ''Strike the Government's Request to Close the Trial.''
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III rejected a similar motion filed last month and said at the time that he thought defense lawyers were being overdramatic in portraying the government as seeking to ''close the trial.''
In rare cases, courts have allowed the government to use what is called ''the silent witness rule,'' in which a jury sees certain evidence against the defendants that is never made available publicly.
Rosen and Weissman are accused of violating a rarely prosecuted World War I-era law that bars the receipt and disclosure of national defense information.
The Italian Connection
Carlo Bonini, journalist for La Repubblica in Italy and author of Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror, describes Italy's role in the flawed intelligence that helped justify the war in Iraq.
Carlo Bonini, journalist for La Repubblica in Italy and author of Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror, describes Italy's role in the flawed intelligence that helped justify the war in Iraq.
Gwen's voice
"Now, bear with me a moment here. Back in 2002-2003, officials in the Bush administration and their neocon supporters, retro-think-tank admirers, and allied media pundits, basking in all their Global War on Terror glory, were eager to talk about the region extending from North Africa through the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the former SSRs of Central Asia right up to the Chinese border as an "arc of instability." That arc coincided with the energy heartlands of the planet and what was needed to "stabilize" it, to keep those energy supplies flowing freely (and in the right directions), was clear enough to them. The "last superpower," the greatest military force in history, would simply have to put its foot down and so bring to heel the "rogue" powers of the region. The geopolitical nerve would have to be mustered to stamp a massive "footprint" -- to use a Pentagon term of the time -- in the middle of that vast, valuable region. (Such a print was to be measured by military bases established.) Also needed was the nerve not just to lob a few cruise missiles in the direction of Baghdad, but to offer such an imposing demonstration of American shock-and-awe power that those "rogues" -- Iraq, Syria, Iran (Hezbollah, Hamas) -- would be cowed into submission, along with uppity U.S. allies like oil-rich Saudi Arabia."
