Archive for January, 2008
Yesterday The Daily Show with Jon Stewart aired a memorable interview with Jonah Goldberg, the author of Liberal Fascism. Hilarious and slightly embarrassing to watch.
It’s heavily edited down from an 18 minute interview, and plays like a highlight reel. Editor and Publisher reports Goldberg said it was edited to make him look silly. [...]
Amazing: Link. First, scientists trained a monkey to walk upright on a treadmill, and analysed its brain signals until they could predict its leg movements based on its brain signals alone. Then they had the robot move based on the monkey’s brain signals.
At first, the monkey was walking on the treadmill while watching a live [...]
Esquire magazine has an excellent – though disturbing – feature about “To Catch A Predator”, a series of specials on the American current affairs show Dateline. Link.
If you’re not familiar with “To Catch A Predator”, here’s the rundown:
The typical episode works something like this: Dateline leases a house in a small town somewhere [...]
It’s been just over a year that I’ve been on emusic on the ‘Connoisseur’ plan (100 songs per month). It’s the most dramatic change to the way I listen to music since Napster, and I’ve discovered more marvellous music in the past 12 months than in the five years preceding. I highly recommend [...]
I’m two episodes shy of finishing season 3 of The Wire, and that show just keeps getting better.
Wire creator David Simon was interviewed by Nick Hornby in The Believer. If you’ve seen The Wire, this is compulsory reading. If you haven’t, this’ll make you want to. Link.
Excerpt 1:
Another reason the show [...]
Very nice short film in which strangers describe each other and themselves: Link.
Via Kottke.
Bob Brozman’s fusion of wild rhythms, technical brilliance, and real soul blew me away at Woodford. His website has a lesson in ‘deep rhythm’, so we can all be a bit more like Bob: Link. Excerpt:
The European concept of rhythm is normally conceived as being in one meter (a set number of [...]
The New York Times story has this delightful par:
The result sent tremors of apprehension through Mrs. Clinton’s camp, and she promptly turned her attention to New Hampshire, flying there on a plane that left at midnight. Aides said that former President Bill Clinton would go there immediately and spend the next five days campaigning in [...]
