The Dog Who Loved to Suck on Toads

priceless.

retrospective: weird al's "eat it" on japanese tv

blogs are bigger than jesus

it's true, just look at google trends.

ooops, as predicted...

RFID tags embedded in credit cards hacked: nytimes story.

give me back my google

internet without the commercial clutter: givemebackmygoogle.

computing films

malcolm gladwell chronicles attempts to predict the commercial success of films, and while i am not in principle opposed to "black box" (atheortical) theoretical approaches like neural networks, why not put talents to better use, and make a better netflix suggestion algorithm?

unconscious irony

john ashcroft is interviewed by nytimes:

In addition to songwriting, you dabble in the visual arts. What sort of work do you do?

I make barbed-wire sculpture.

Why barbed wire?

Because there was a surplus of it on my farm.

yes indeed.

big lebowski phonetic alphabet

if you have not seen the big lebowski (twice!), get to it. meanwhile, you can learn its phonetic alphabet.

we love france VI

and they love mushrooms. which we (nay, i not nina) love too which is why we are planning an excursion to a birch forest this weekend.

if you have not seen hard gay, here is your introduction: thank you japan!

sammy's roumanian

this weekend's visit to nyny brought many joys, among them a visit to sammy's roumanian style restaurant, a gem from another era on the lower east side.

what can we say when there is a maple syrup-style bottle of schmaltz on every table?

and said bottle is used generously to mix chopped liver with caramelized onions and sliced radish to generate sammy's chopped liver in real time!

fried potatoes, latkes, garlic tenderized steak, pickles, and frozen vodka completed the experience.

john stewart inquires...

while one-sided commentary is not entirely right, this one is simply too good...