“IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN this Supervillain / Linux parody of those Apple 'switch' ads, well, watch it. It's funny.” [The Shifted Librarian via  Jack Burton, via InstaPundit] [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]] this is pretty funny

The best cookbook ever. While I'm talking about cooking, I have to recommend my favorite cookbook of all-time: The Vegetarian Bistro: 250 Authentic French Regional Recipes by Marlena Spieler. I use this wonderful cookbook all the time. It's filled with really good stuff: a roasted portobello mushroom recipe that takes less than five minutes of […]

Presentation Persisting and Surviving the Journal Review Process [PhDweblogs] [Mathemagenic] this is worthwhile

Woz gives Mitnick 1GHz PowerBook [The Macintosh News Network] well at least he has a proper tool…

Cloned Cat. Cloned Cat Doesn't look and behave like the original cat.Public perception of cloning is clone=original, but we have the proof it isn't always true. Isn't that the proof complex systems doesn't always work like we want, so it'd better to slow down the marketing of genetic engineered food ? [MetaFilter] so did someone […]

Paradigm. Andreas Klostermaier suggests that Tinderbox leads a paradigm shift in computing. [Mark Bernstein] in a few weeks i may be a believer..

Actual terror found. I just read there's a war going on in Cote d'Ivoire. Twenty-five hundred French troops on the ground (does anybody call it an invasion?) while peace talkers convene in Paris. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 2500 does not an invasion make. there is historical precident here too..

Some things I have learned about cooking over the years. The secret to cooking really good food lies in the quality of your ingredients. I've heard this many times, but I have finally come to believe its absolute truth with my purchase of good quality balsamic vinager ($8 bottle from Buon Italia at the Chelsea […]

Radical cheer. LA dispatch: Who are, who are, who are we? Cheerleaders against the war, that's who, writes Duncan Campbell. [Guardian Unlimited] ra ra ra, shishkoombah or whatever. war is bad people, even if you will probably manage to leverage it to break the opec cartel and thus give the suv users cheap gas for […]

The new Alpha EV7 systems look impressive. [Hack the Planet] mmm, alpha, mmmm, these are great.. much bteer than intel, always have been. what i've always wanted was what i term commodity computers, where things like processors would come in little blocks that one could slid into a slot the size of a hd that […]