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.
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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."
"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
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.
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Compressed-Air Powered cars could take you over 800 miles on a single fill-up, at speeds of up to 96 mph. They should refuel in less than 3 minutes, and at speeds over 35 mph emit about half the CO2 of a Toyota Prius. Best part? You could see them in the US at the end of next year.
Science News has a write up on baseball / political statistics junkie Nate Silver, and they don't even mention his (great) website fivethirtyeight.com!
Tropic Thunder (2008) - "Rain Of Madness"
