free peanuts!!
roll your own
gonna have to try this:
For those of you wanting to try an egg yolk ravioli, they're very easy. Marcella Hazan recommends a cup of flour and two eggs to make a pasta dough, mixed and kneaded till it's satiny, about ten minutes. While it's resting in plastic wrap in the fridge, mix into a cup of ricotta, citrus zest (any kind you like, lemon and orange are great, maybe a little juice), black pepper, espelette if you have it, some chives or minced shallot if you have it, kosher salt (and taste it for to make sure it's delicious). Make a pillow on the pasta for the yolk, put a little cheese on top to protect the yolk, and fold the pasta over it, using water or egg wash to seal the pasta. Boil gently for a few minutes and serve with a brown butter and some julienned parsley. The yellow ooze is worth the effort.

from ruhlman
Randy Pausch -- RIP.
shark week
starts today.
Periodic table table. Genius.
New Orleans has gotten its beans back.
cant say this guy doesnt have a good press agent.
myrna loy william powell

nick and nora in drag
Some yahoo who "had gone to a racing school in Florida" seems to have forgotten lesson #1, use your eyes. Under California law, he could have been charged with a felony.

wd-fu
toast its
Fresh on Reade St is still great IMHO, I go for lunch every year once or twice and maybe its my NE childhood, but great fried clams, fish n chips, and yesterday a sensation manila clams linguine!! They had a Halibut Belly sandwich which is gonna get eaten next lunch!!
rip estelle getty (golden girl)
vanity fair spoofs new yorker cover.
inverted baguette
Kefi is a winner, its way uptwon 222W79th but it was delish and well priced, many $15 mains, apps as low as $6......its was all clean, fresh, lots of veggie's, etc.......
tv ad narration (somewhat tongue in cheek) for a pregnancy test:

"the most sophisticated piece of technology you will ever pee on."
spaced minimarathon on bbcamerica 3-6pm. funny stuff from the creator of shaun of the dead and hot fuzz.
2004 Ohio election tampering case still moving forward?
One of the more delightful and interesting quotes comes from Arnebeck, concerning what he expects to discover as the stay is lifted: "[W]e anticipate Mr. Rove will be identified as having engaged in a corrupt, ongoing pattern of corrupt activities specifically affecting the situation here in Ohio."
fugitive kind on now tcm
Schwarz
Weird photos from a nuclear test explosion in the Nevada desert. I'm posting this only as an excuse to mention that I met a guy who was the first man dropped back onto Bikini Atoll after the hydrogen bomb test in 1952. He was collecting sensors that had been left there, but they were all vaporized. Yikes. He said he knew Teller, but I was too shocked by the whole thing to ask any interesting questions.
janet leigh