taste spotting (food aggregator)
Admiral Fallon to resign. Bad bad news as far as I can tell. Maybe the next war is back on.
just watched Avenue Montaigne. light fare but pleasant and ultimately satisfying.
Went to an event at the top of the New Museum last night. Great space. Not too sure about the art downstairs though.
A couple blurry pictures in comments...
A couple blurry pictures in comments...
upsurge of anti-semitism in the media today.
that doc about kenny shopsin is on ifc tonight at 930.
Watching the 2007 Top Chef finale. This phrase gets me every time ... "rack of lamb poached in duck fat".
not martha does bacon chocolate and skin lotion
your liberal blogosphere. i love how they are sitting in the dark with the symmetry of macs, beers and glasses. the middle guy is bucking the beard trend though.
2 locations with one set of media
On Real Time, Terry McCauliffe raised the specter of 9/11.
Fuck you, Terry.
Seriously.
Hillary, are trying to make me vote for Nader?
Fuck you, Terry.
Seriously.
Hillary, are trying to make me vote for Nader?
based on polling at the moment both hillary and obama beat mccain via the electoral process in surprisingly alternate fashions.
"saving grace" is in the middle of a three-night condensed recap on TNT HD prior to starting the second season. the four episodes last night were pretty good. holly hunter's character has more depth than a typical tv character.
yah FUCKING wooo
wd50 3* NYTimes today
RIGHT on
wd50 3* NYTimes today
RIGHT on
"Anyone who has heard the snap of a rubber band breaking knows it's time to reach for a replacement.
But a group of French scientists have made a self-healing rubber band material that can reclaim its stretchy usefulness by simply pressing the broken edges back together for a few minutes.
The material, described on Wednesday in the journal Nature, can be broken and repaired over and over again."
Full article:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080221/tsc-uk-rubber-band-011ccfa_1.html
But a group of French scientists have made a self-healing rubber band material that can reclaim its stretchy usefulness by simply pressing the broken edges back together for a few minutes.
The material, described on Wednesday in the journal Nature, can be broken and repaired over and over again."
Full article:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080221/tsc-uk-rubber-band-011ccfa_1.html
My cable tv went out. The box is trying to reboot, but it's been doing that for 30 minutes. Cable internet is fine though, so that's sort of weird. I guess it saves me from having to figure out which is the least bad cable network to watch the results on.
The Blue Brain project is now at a crucial juncture. The first phase of the project—"the feasibility phase"—is coming to a close. The skeptics, for the most part, have been proven wrong. It took less than two years for the Blue Brain supercomputer to accurately simulate a neocortical column, which is a tiny slice of brain containing approximately 10,000 neurons, with about 30 million synaptic connections between them. "The column has been built and it runs," Markram says. "Now we just have to scale it up." Blue Brain scientists are confident that, at some point in the next few years, they will be able to start simulating an entire brain. "If we build this brain right, it will do everything," Markram says. I ask him if that includes selfconsciousness: Is it really possible to put a ghost into a machine? "When I say everything, I mean everything," he says, and a mischievous smile spreads across his face.
hillary is on the daily show tonight.
dont read kos as assiduously as i did but this special election for hasterts open seat in illinois caught my eye because its apparently winnable and because the democrat is a physicist. we need more diversity than just lawyers representing us.
pre-code night on tcm tonight including a new documentary, Thou Shalt Not Sin . will tivo if not watch norma shearers oscar winning turn in The Divorcee.
