...right?Iranian cartoon pulled from film festival | The Australian:From correspondents in BangkokJune 27, 2007THAILAND has caved in to pressure from Iran and withdrawn the animated movie Persepolis, about a girl growing up and feeling repressed under Islamic rule, from next month's Bangkok International Film Festival.'I was invited by the Iranian embassy to discuss the matter and we both came to...
Saturday, June 30, 2007
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E and I spent this morning at the local farmer's market. There was a stall with a merchant selling wooden furniture and cooking utensils. Amid the spatulas and spoons, these jumped out at me...I picked one up and thought, "With that curvature? Utensils my ass." But they were exactly the right size and shape...
Friday, June 22, 2007
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Bones could allow data swaps via handshake:YOUR backbone's connected to your shoulder bone, your shoulder bone's connected to your neck bone - and your neck bone's connected to your cellphone.Something along these lines is what Lin Zhong and Michael Liebschner at Rice University in Houston, Texas, envisage. They want to use the human skeleton to transmit commands reliably and securely to wearable...
A quick smoke? It's good for the wings:Birds are picking up discarded cigarette butts and using the smoke to fumigate their wings of parasites, experts said yesterday.Hitchcock's THE BIRDS was prophetic! Mother Earth is getting ready to rise up and beat us like J-Lo in that movie where she learned Krav Maga and kicked her abusive husband's ass. Just five more years, wat...
Saturday, June 09, 2007
My plan for the day was set back a bit. I got caught up in BookTV, random Saturday morning lingering, and this video I got via 3:AM Magazine. Have a seat and educate yourself for about twenty minutes...I've been keeping a list of various good reads, but am I now going to have to start a new one for documentary videos on YouTu...
Friday, June 08, 2007
Once again, someone says something I always knew but never knew how to put into words. This is why you are your own worst enemy.From Dar Kush:Your ego identifies itself with whatever your “steady state” is—usually your current self, but if you are in a state of flux, whatever your most stable condition might have been.... Whatever your automatic habits would turn you into? That’s your ego. Take your...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Blogger unmasked, court case upended - The Boston GlobeBy Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | May 31, 2007It was a Perry Mason moment updated for the Internet age.As Ivy League-educated pediatrician Robert P. Lindeman sat on the stand in Suffolk Superior Court this month, defending himself in a malpractice suit involving the death of a 12-year-old patient, the opposing counsel startled him with a question.Was...
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