The Smart Egg Tells You When It’s Cooked - Gizmodo:
The Smart Egg Tells You When It’s Cooked superegg.jpgThe folks at the British Egg Information Service (what the?) got tired of telling people how to properly cook an egg that they made a new self-timing egg that tells informs the “chef” when it’s done. The egg has heat-sensitive ink that displays only when the correct temperature is reached, meaning when your egg is done. The eggs come in hard-boiled, medium, or soft varieties, meaning you have to buy the kind you want or else the ink is useless—it’s not a three-in-one egg.
wow….just learn to cook people. feeding incompetency!
Pitchfork Feature: Column: Get That Out of Your Mouth #27:
Column: Get That Out of Your Mouth #27 The Next Gonzo Journalism Column by Chris Dahlen I keep hearing the same gripe from the critics of the critics of pop culture: Today’s writers eat it. Nobody knows how to cover music, or movies, or video games, or any of the other media that matter. We need someone to swoop in and save us: We need a new Lester Bangs, or a new Hunter S. Thompson– one of those guys who made criticism and alternative journalism seem so vital back in the 1960s and 70s. Where they hell did they go?
Interesting article on the current state of writing and journalism. The problem with asking “where is the next gonzo writer?” is that you can not “teach” gonzo, hell. i’m not even sure you can use the term. I can see New Journalism, maybe Alternative Journalism, being used. But even these are similiar to a newer concept of Citizen Journalism. True, Hunter was a journalist, but far from the traditional sense. I feel that its more an issue of, you have it, or you don’t. Sure, writing can be taught, even well. But “gonzo” is personal, it has to come from both the teaching, and something inside of you, which is why alternative journalism can have so many interesting styles.
[tags] journalism, writing [/tags]
Slashdot | Photograph the Police, Get Arrested:
“Last month a man was arrested in New Hampshire after presenting evidence of a police officer being verbally abusive that he had captured on his home security camera system. Now just recently in Philadelphia a 21 year old student was arrested on his property after he took a photo of the police who were in the process of arresting a drug dealer down the street.” From the article: “Cruz said that when he heard a commotion, he walked out of his back door with his cell phone to see what was happening. He said that when he saw the street lined with police cars, he decided to take a picture of the scene. ‘I opened (the phone) and took a shot,’ Cruz said. Moments later, Cruz said he got the shock of his life when an officer came to his back yard gate.”
This just in: Police now allowed to rape people with their nightsticks at random on the streets. Video is only allowed by other police, who put it online to raise money for retirement funds.
(note: article links to several other incidents such as this, power corrupts, absolute, yada yada)
Sigh….
[tags] 1984, injustice, american way [/tags]
Avoiding the ‘mashup roach motel’ | News.blog | CNET News.com:
Avoiding the ‘mashup roach motel’ July 31, 2006 11:40 AM PDT Like any evolving ecosystem, the Web 2.0 world is encountering its share of growing pains especially now that it’s past the initial stages of development. And the best way to anticipate where things are going, as we’ve learned proverbially, is to look at the past.
Interesting article on some of the “growing pains” of web 2.0. lessons to learn so that the wave doesn’t explode in an economic pop
[tags] web 2.0, thesis [/tags]
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well…that really sucks. I spent an hour writing a post that I was truly proud of, heart felt it was. then my firefox fucking crashes because adobe can’t get their shit together for their recent flash version.
I’m not going ot attempt to recreate such a lovely bit of prose. It is lost, and the world is less of a place for it.
Although, I feel better with that last spurt of egoism.
[tags] lost blog entries suck [/tags]
Here are some very unique statues around the world, would love to get captions of these from people, but there are just too many, I definately have my favorites. A few might not be…appropriate, cosider yourself warned.
http://haha.nu/funny/strange-statues-around-the-world
[tags] statues, unique, art [/tags]
URL: Kansas Church to Fight Mo. Law in Court
“KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas church group that protests at military funerals across the nation filed suit in federal court Friday, claiming a Missouri law banning such picketing infringed on religious freedom and free speech.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Jefferson City on behalf of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church, which has outraged mourning communities by showing up at soldiers’ funerals with anti-homosexual signs.”
– Ok, normally I’m a die-hard advocate of freedom of speech, however, I’m also a firm (as in grabbing arms if needed) believer in respect. The ACLU has spearheaded some great causes, but has also gone overboard a few times, this is one of those times. Freedom of speech is critical, vital to a societies life. However, that freedom needs to be used responsibly, it must be tempered with respect for each other.
*steps off of soapbox*
[tags] ACLU, freedom of speech, WEstboro Baptist Church [/tags]
Got the book, Classroom Blogging by David Warlick. So far it says everything I already thought…sigh. It will be a great resource, I need to find my own path and voice though.
I’m almost finished with Clockwork Muse, as recommended by Clancy at Culture Cat. I plan on implementing the various suggestions, such as the writing schedule and division of work into chapters, however, since changing my thesis idea, I’m back into the reading stages, so its difficult to create an outline and time schedule until I have a firm grip of my sources. I need to hurry though, waited too long, time is slipping away.
[tags] rhetoric, thesis, books [/tags]