always heartening to see a woody allen movie well reviewed. owen wilson seems like hed make a good allen protagonist/shlub.

sixpoint in cans and nice labels!

juan cole on the '67 borders

"PBS will begin breaking into programs with underwriting and promo spots four times per hour on an experimental basis beginning this fall, it told station members at the PBS National Meeting here."

last try

my yahoo mail tracks trending stories and lists the top ten. the other day it said "jennifer anniston", the prevailing news story linked to yahoo news noted that her beloved dog had died. oooh, topical!

today the "trending now" banner across the top of my email page read "may 21 judgment day". i just hope its true what they say, that all good dogs go to heaven. wait, no one says that? shit. now what am i supposed to do with this beagle costume?

Reality 86'd

Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide

Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.

Leafsnap contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. Leafsnap currently includes the trees of New York City and Washington, D.C., and will soon grow to include the trees of the entire continental United States.

Available initially for the iPhone.

you know what really annoys me?

"As if Netflix’s rapidly growing Watch Instantly catalog—which now boasts the recent addition of the Miramax library—and its ambitions to be considered in the same company of broadcast cable weren’t evidence enough that it has the whole media world stuffed inside a little red envelope, consider this: Nearly one-third of all bandwidth belongs to Netflix users during primetime hours, making it the largest single source of Internet traffic overall."

GD eugene

this is pretty cool. and, yes, i follow roger ebert on twitter.

mars bar mural

the movies

"When President Barack Obama took office, in 2009, he championed the cause of government transparency, and spoke admiringly of whistle-blowers, whom he described as “often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government.” But the Obama Administration has pursued leak prosecutions with a surprising relentlessness. Including the Drake case, it has been using the Espionage Act to press criminal charges in five alleged instances of national-security leaks—more such prosecutions than have occurred in all previous Administrations combined. The Drake case is one of two that Obama’s Justice Department has carried over from the Bush years."

Super 8 movie projector made out of legos.

"Not content to have a mere three animated comedies on the Fox schedule, Family Guy mastermind Seth MacFarlane is developing a fourth ... and it's a doozy. Deadline reports that MacFarlane has gotten the green light to mount a new version of The Flintstones, the original prime-time cartoon. It's the result of years of negotiation, and MacFarlane intends for the show to potentially spawn movies, too. Considering the source, we expect Dino to suddenly get a lot more lines."

The Hit is a fun crime/road movie set in Spain with great performances by John Hurt, Tim Roth and Terence Stamp

Is vongole the best easiest to make dish? You almost can't mess it up if the clams are good. Yum.

primavera

cod3

bill, look out your window.

Guy saves his house from the White River flood.

great meal at blue hill nyc last night, i asked for a sub on the tasting menu lamb course "something vegetarian please"