Nice. Preview is the top link right now on memepool.

Can you see your hits over there Joester? Does that drive much traffic?

Richard Box is an artist in residence in the Department of Physics at Bristol University. I've never heard of him before (no big surprise) but this looks pretty interesting to me:

FIELD represents a considerable development in Richard's work, whilst previous projects have included ambiguous glass objects much of the outcome has been photographic. FIELD is a major undertaking which will include the installation of several thousand ready- made glass fluorescent tubes. The bulbs will be 'planted' across the site at the foot of an electricity pylon, and will pick up the waste emission from the overhead power line. The piece is simple yet spectacular, making visible what would otherwise go unnoticed. The FIELD of tubes will flicker into life across the hillside as the early evening light fades. The performance each evening is hard to anticipate since it is heavily dependent on the weather. In all the best traditions of land art it is conditional on the variations of the great outdoors, and requires its audience to be patient. Here a parallel can be struck between FIELD and Walter DeMaria's, Lightning Field sited in the Nevada Desert - many visitors travel for days to see it, camp beside it and are lucky if they experience the sort of storm that will make the lightning dance across the 'field' of conductors.

Here's the Bristol University press release. And here's the slashdot story.

Anybody here seen the DeMaria in person? I'd really like to go there someday (although I think it's in New Mexico, not Nevada as the quote above says.)

as much as i loved chocolate and milk as a child, i was not a chocolate milk fanatic, in fact, i rarely had it. in the past few weeks, ive had a little chocolate milk flare-up. and today in a moment of weakness, i reached out in the aisle for the hersheys syrup. got me wondering what other people drank while growing up. we usually had quik for hot chocolate, or occasionally swiss miss. my cousins had bosco which was always the best part of those visits. any ovalteeners out there? what if they had called it roundteen? would it have tasted as good?

bird sighting

Wish I could post a picture, but I was going 65 mph at the time. I saw a pair of hawks (?) perched on a light pole in the middle of the US 101/ I-880 interchange. Very cool. Nice to know that some predators can coexist with us.

the slot: a spot for copy editors

in case you weren't keeping notes...last night's tasting menu at wd...

Wow. 500+ hits from August J. Pollack's link to "closed captioned war president".

based on the book
950 book titles, short stories and plays that have been made into films (thx maud)

architecture: from bad to worse

if theyre going to call it moynihan station, i might be just as happy if it doesnt happen.

anybody see City of God?

if not, do.

So, how bad is the O'Reilly thing?

"Better Than Ever"

In an otherwise dry investment research report, someone cracks wise. Emphasis added.

With HDTV – where an upgrade to an HD signal would be required even if one were to remain with their existing service provider – the significance of that trigger is only amplified. Once a consumer decides to make the substantial investment in a new HD television set, they become acutely conscious of what they can display on it. (And highly aware that if they tell their wife they spent thousands on an HDTV set without having HD programming, they’ll be exposed as an idiot). It seems reasonable to expect that consumers will be disproportionately willing to switch providers to get best High Definition service for their new High Definition set.

no homing pigeons without roads?

impulse purchase - john schlesingers Darling.

nyc photoblog

move over old skull / LI'L GN'R

Jimmy Carter weblog.

Mark's House of Pies

Ripe opens Clarklewis.

is that 99000 unique users?

"It should be clear to all by now that what we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues. This group believes that what matters in politics and economics are conviction and will — not facts, social science or history.

Personally, I don't believe the Bush team will pay a long-term political price for its faith-based intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Too many Americans, including me, believe in their guts that removing Saddam was the right thing to do, even if the W.M.D. intel was wrong."


I agree with Friedman's point here. That is, that the supporting intelegence wasnt there and we (too many Americans including Friedman) dont fucking care. The challenge is to get across why we and he should care.

This Superbowl is really frustrating. I know I’m supposed to watch the commercials, but I keep ignoring them anyway.

southern cookin