A teaser on MNS, "Signs of Hope in Baghdad", links to this AP article:Early signs of progress in Baghdad crackdown
Yeehaw! Where's that "Mission Accomplished" banner!

Oh, wait ... what's this in paragraph 13 ...

In the 27 days leading up to the operation, 528 people were killed in bombings around the capital, according to AP figures. In the first 27 days of the operation, the bombing death toll stood at 370 — a drop of about 30 percent.

tracy morgan has some fun on morning tv.

the naked city was shot on location in nyc in 1947. much of the action takes place around rivington st. when i noticed the shapiros wine i realized that this was not shot on some hollywood backlot. so, a nice snapshot of the neighborhood. they even have a scene in the essex market. robert osborne said many of the bustling street shots were taken from a truck which preserved the cameramans anonymity and the naturalistic ambiance.

im sure there are a million awful photos related to the war but this one apparently has upset the tender feelings of the warfloggers.

If It's Sunday, It's Still Conservative: How the Right Continues to Dominate the Sunday Talk Shows,

Why isn't Viiv working for Intel?
NEWEST MULTIMEDIA PC BRAND HASN'T GENERATED MUCH BUZZ

The most common Viiv approach seems similar to Apple TV. A media adapter gizmo sits next to the TV, and connects to a personal computer. The delay in availability of the media adapter gizmos and a new media-aware OS (i.e. Vista), have taken some of the wind out of the sales of Viiv.

One of the "gizmos" is described in the September 2006 article below -- but it's still in beta and currently only supports presentation of photo and music from the attached PC to the TV: Don't even think about moving media in the other way.

DirecTV's Viiv box almost ready for prime time

I'm still not clear why a PC needs Viiv to do this. Fast boot and power-on via LAN perhaps?

Last week I had IMHO a sensational meal at Aburiya Kinnosuke.....one of the best dishes was a Yellowtail Neck cooked in the bincho-tan charcoal pit, splash of lemon and YUM!! The grilled young bamboo was fantastic as was the mixed plate from the "for drinks" menu which included whole baby squid in miso......not everything is great here, the eel and egg just for example was just OK....the noodles which is how I end the meal are stunning as is the way I like to begin fresh tofu.....dont miss the chicken meatballs with soft poached egg on top and anything table bincho-tan coal grilled on the something or other leaf.....eat at the counter

Get Skinny #6

Today is day 2 of my 2nd Liver Flush prep....
Yesterday I had to brunch so had eggs and cheese (and lots of bloody marys's:>) but I will be vegan today and for the next 4 with just a dash of wine Wed's nite....

Colonic #1 will be Friday at 10am, problem is I am #1 so the room will be cool.....

So for the Liver Flush you need to be vegan and drink tons of apple juice too loosen the gall stones...

CLEANZE IT BABY!!

in other news, saudi arabia annexes texas. allah be "yee haw!"

I’ve had only one real job in my life. I know what you’re thinking, but managing the Sex Pistols wasn’t a job; it was a lifestyle that consisted of creating an environment that you could run wild in. The boring job was in London in 1962, when I was 16. I hadn’t done well on my exams — in fact, I hadn’t bothered to take most of them. University was not in the cards.

My mother dragged me to the local labor exchange, where a man read off a list of available jobs: machine operator in a pen factory, assistant to a linens salesman, booking clerk for Fyffes banana boats. As he worked his way down the list, he came across a job for a trainee wine taster at George Sandeman, the venerable wine merchant. The occasional glass of sherry on religious days was the only wine I’d tasted. But my mother, a walking cliche of nouveau riche, thought this sounded respectable enough to boast about at cocktail parties

ears

via jaschw, "El Bulli in Spain is arguably the best restaurant in the world."

the best expresso in nyc to me is Blue Spoon Cafe on Chambers St near City Hall.....amazing, I avoid coffee but when I need to rock, I stop by here and do 2 singles (one after the other) and its sends me into full speed but so smoothly.....it of course comes short and creamy and it rivals Italy (made by this lady there I assume the owner named Heather, not sure the others can make as good).....from her web site ((Our passion for coffee led us to serve Intelligentsia brand coffee and teas — what we believe to be the finest available on the market. An environmentally and socially responsible company, Intelligentsia works closely with growers and importers to ensure the quality of the bean. All Intelligentsia coffee is traded fairly, paying the grower above the Fair Trade price.))....

www.bluespooncoffee.com, worth the trip to drink but only M-F 7am to 6pm

fowl mouth

The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007: Cupertino plans to add H.264 hardware support to its entire line.

wikipedia to check id's. - note first comment

Internet Radio on Death Row

Jesse "Doc" Wendel: "The Day The Music Died"

GUATEMALA CITY -- Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.

New Orleans Jazzfest lineup not too shabby this year.

bush admin + repugs = scorched earth policy

vote democratic in '08

Best. Two word encapsulation of the enduding clusterfuck of a train wreck and meat grinder that is Iraq. Evar: Hollow Victory
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Perhaps this kind of formulation could get the Dems out from under the cloud of fear of being cast as the "war losers". Hey, we won. We all saw the victory party. Mission Fucking Accomplished. Boo yah! It's just that it was not the victory we wanted, since it had nothing to do with threats to the US homeland. Further, handing Iraq over from Sunni thugs to Shiite thugs seems rather pointless. But what's done is done. Saddle up and move out.

Has anybody seen my army man? I can't seem to find him. He was here a minute ago but then he just disappeared...ohhh, there he is---

hagelian dialectics

For my "Pointy Stick Award For Practicing Ludditry With a Computer", I tried to be clever and do a superposition of images in html. This works in firefox but renders badly in internet exploder.









Oh wait. Now it sort of works. Sort of. I'm too tired to futz with it. If I'm lucky, I might get a link from the mighty PZ Myers, and I don't want a badly broken post that mocks a luddite. I got the idea from here. Here's another version ...

Be careful following links from Eschaton today. From Atrios's page, you're two clicks away from some oh-so-very-not-work-safe sword play. Why do these things keep popping up in the Republican Party? Repress much, GOPers?

March 2007 Artforum has review a (pg. 320) of a Paul Laffoley show at Kent Gallery. I'm bummed I missed it. Decent review, I guess, by Jeffrey Kastner:

Laffoley's works tell a psychedelic tale full of compelling sound and fury, but what exactly do they signify? For all their frequent opacity of meaning, the paintings do manage to impart a message of informational consilience that is remarkable in line with cutting-edge science. And unpacking the kernels of genuine scholarship embedded in these crazed matrices will lead viewers on rewarding journeys through often fascinating historical marginalia. Located somewhere between sense and nonsense, between the realm of genius and the province of the crackpot, Laffoley's work poses tantalizing questions about the line separating brilliance from bushwa - questions whose pertinence for contemporary art is by no means confined to the sphere of the outsider.