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mavjop has posted a comment:
Get with the tagging generation, Brian! ;D
mavjop has posted a comment:
Get with the tagging generation, Brian! ;D
BrianRubin has posted a comment:
Yeah, I see that, but still, doesn't give a lot of context I'm sayin'.
http://comics.ign.com/articles/105/10571
The latest IGN Comics Buffy Season 8 comics interview features Brad Meltzer.
mavjop has posted a comment:
P.S. I *did* tag the photo with "Chef Thomas Keller" and "Thomas Keller".
mavjop has posted a comment:
Life's too short for titles!
It's Chef Thomas Keller -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keller -- and the Chef de Cuisine of his restaurant Ad Hoc (a favourite restaurant of mine).
http://ryalltime.blogspot.com/2009/12/id
The final part of the Gunn/Illyria mini-series is out today.
And yes I know I said last month was the last issue, But nobody knew it was 5 issues - so sue me:)
http://moondog-themoonblog.blogspot.com/2
The last "Angel" comic from Lynch and Mooney hits today as does the last issue of the Angel: Only Human mini-series.
http://scifiwire.com/2009/12/7-ways-doll
A SciFi Wire OpEd piece offering an assessment of the show. "Rooting for a Joss Whedon show is like rooting for the Chicago Cubs."
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Booked my vacation time for next year today...
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BrianRubin has posted a comment:
You should add titles to things so we know what we're looking at. Who are these folks? ^_^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJfl1jwEC
It's due to hit screens next year.
It's written by Joss with interior art by Karl Moline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP4Ebu5bJ
I start fighting a war -- I guarantee you'll see something new.
From My Twitter page
12:32 *hangs head* Sorry fellas, giving into my desire for a free #tauntauntuesday tauntan sleeping bag. #fb #
14:25 Ack! Snow in the shoe! *hops* Dang it all! #
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Disguised as a biography of mathematician Bertrand Russell in graphic novel form, this comic book is really about the nature and limits of logic. It takes heady, heavy, and key ideas in logic and renders them witty, visual, and dramatic. You'll learn a lot. The fact that many of the original logicians were mentally unbalanced and irrational, adds a dash of delicious paradox and spice to this entertaining book.
-- KKLogicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
2009, 352 pages
$14
Available from Amazon
Sample Excerpts:
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FTA: What can you say about the vampire series that launched a million vampire series? How about, "This one didn't suck"?
FTA: Salon's Laura Miller best summed up the brilliance of Joss Whedon's cult hit when she wrote, "Whedon's original idea, to take 'the little blond girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie' and make her the hero of the story, mutated into a remarkably flexible and inventive way to portray the terrors of adolescence.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/knight
Co-starring, among many, Marc Blucas!
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/sho
TWoP continue their 'Decade in Review' with a countdown of their favourite scripted shows. Buffy features at number 13.
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/categ
MightyGodKing totally spoils AVATAR (seriously, don't go there if you plan to see the film), but there's also fun speculation at the very end as to what a sequel might be like if Joss took a swing at it.
Also, it is explained why Michael Bay is not a good filmmaker.
Today's Twitter from @mtidwell:
Tweets from a feathered dragon
Alan Moir is one of my favourite political cartoonists. He is a regular in the Sydney Morning Herald
I like that he doesn't have a particular barrow to push; all politics looks silly to him. His current depiction of the NSW Labor Party is a garbage can full of rotting fish heads. His targets are from all over the world.
On the other hand
I like that his targets are not just local politics. He hits at hypocricy too.
Not just politics.
http://ryalltime.blogspot.com/2009/12/gh
Chris Ryall teases art from Franco Urru for two different upcoming Angel projects.
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/117637-w
Robert Moore ponders how Buffy changed genre, narrative, and the role of women.
Doing some pre-Christmas driving: was in Bodega Bay yesterday and today, now in Redding (in the shadow of Mt Shasta) this evening.
TWoP gives us a list of butt kicking chicks of the decade that include a little blond from Sunnydale and a Terminator.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-year-i
Includes some of our favourites, such as Topher meeting Bennett, Dexter's Thanksgiving, the BSG finale, and Barney Stinson's video resume.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
For the last ages I’ve had a problem with my ipfw (firewall) rules. I have a couple of ipfw rules that, er, to cut out the detail, make my web server work. If those rules aren’t in place, web server no work. No problem, I have a script that runs on startup to set them up... except periodically the rules disappear again. WHAT.
Eventually I think this is probably related to lines like these in my log every so often (selected lines only, there are more):
# AppleYukon2: error - FATAL: SkGeStopPort() does not terminate (Rx)
(...)
# Ethernet [AppleYukon2]: Link up on en0, 100-Megabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control, Debug (...)
In other words, every so often ethernet dies and gets restarted. Speculation - and it is only speculation at this point - is that this may be what’s causing the ipfw rules for that port to also get reset.
Google suggests that this is not a hardware problem, but is just because apple can’t write a f’ing ethernet driver. Also why does it say debug... hmmm....
Thankfully I have come up with a solution to the problem! In the form of this script:
rulecount=`ipfw list | wc -l`
if [ $rulecount == “1” ]
then
ipfw add 100 fwd 127.0.0.1,8080 tcp from any to any 80 in > /dev/null
ipfw add 101 fwd 127.0.0.1,8443 tcp from any to any 443 in > /dev/null
logger Firewall entries reset
fi
And a launchd plist that makes the above script run every 10 minutes. Like, um. Yay? Seems like this should probably work though, regardless of what’s causing the problem. Sigh.
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/12/22/d
Eliza's real life beau has a minor role that gives away a HUGE plot point. Spoilers for other casting as well.
Last night Robert and I planned a really special night out: we went out for a vegetarian Chinese feast (I think it was the best tofu dish I've ever had) then drove into downtown Chicago to see the Christmas lights. I have to confess that the department stores were disappointing, if any had big Christmas displays then we didn't find them.... But as we drove North on Michigan Avenue, along the lake, we saw amazing lights in the zoo! 
Afterwards we went to see the Coen Brother's film 'A Serious Man' which is very weird and really hilarious (I'm so lucky that my brother loves the same kinds of off beat films I do!). I'm not sure I can recommend it to everyone, but we loved it (and Joss recommended it on Whedonesque a week ago).
Oh, and this morning we are snowed in! lol
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Someday you will be able to continuously measure your body in a hundred ways, and this constant data will transform your health. For the past few years David Duncan has been trying out this experiment. Although he is healthy, he's subjected himself to every quantitative test he could find: multiple varieties of genome sequencing, measuring compounds in his blood, getting his brain scanned, tracking body pulses -- and then he tried to correlate all this data. He calls himself the "experimental man." The most fascinating part of his project was his attempt to measure the traces of environmental toxins left in his blood. I believe we will be following in his footsteps in the coming years. I started the site The Quantified Self just for this reason: in order to preview and discuss the tools for this kind of self-tracking (and I make a minor appearance in this book). Duncan's account covers the plus and minus of this technology. He also gives us a clear sense of the potential for self-tracking and the immense difficulties we'll have dealing with the data. I consider this book a very helpful and sobering glimpse of the future of health tools.
-- KKExperimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World
David Ewing Duncan
2009, 384 pages
$18
Available from Amazon
Sample Excerpts:
Chris Austin believes that a much larger effort is needed, something akin to the Human Genome Project: perhaps the Human Envirogenomics Project? He and others believe that the only way to create meaningful envirogenetics data is through a large prospective cohort study, collecting DNA samples and information about exposure to a variety of environmental factors from five hundred thousand to a million participants who are followed for a number of years.
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Hillis told me they took a picture of my proteome using the mass spectrometer--or, at least, a picture of the proteins swirling around in my blood on a certain day in April 2008, when I had my blood drawn. But it was a picture that included measurements at the atomic level of such complexity that it took about 24 gigabytes of storage space to hold all of the sample data (the picture I saw represents only about 1/24th of the total data from the sample)--that was fourteen hundred times the amount of digital space it took to store this entire book.
"It's a high-res picture of your whole proteome," said Ruderman.
We got up and walked over to an enormous flat-screen monitor on a wall of the lair, a TouchTable device invented by Hillis that models complex three-dimensional shapes on a flat screen--aircraft, buildings, cars, and proteomes. Ruderman clicked on my proteome file using his fingertips and pulled up functions that zoomed up and down the screen like an iPhone--although the touch-table technology had come first. Up popped a field of yellow dots that looked like a 3-D star field from outer space.
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Meanwhile, huge chasms in our knowledge need to be filled before the Experimental Man will be complete down to every SNP, copy number variation, and synapse. Perhaps the biggest gap is the affect of the environment on our DNA, cells, organs, and bodies. Few of the tests I've taken for the Experimental Man project provide much useful information about how the environment interacts with genes, neurons, and proteomic systems and pathways. As cardiologist Eric Topol of Scripps told me, "You could almost say that giving genetic results without environmental data is inaccurate." The same is true about any system in the body, since the whole point of evolution has been to create defenses inside organisms to fend off the daily onslaught of the environment, from natural challenges such as UV rays and flu viruses to the thousands of toxic chemicals that we humans have unleashed into the air, the water, and the earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSe4OcakH-Q
Sweet! You can find more information here.
I've always had a big thing (oh how eloquent for a word nerd) for constrained writing of various kinds, though I haven't indulged in it for a long time ... until now. I'm reading Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels, so I'm feeling a tad eliptical today. Speaking of, I used an exerpt from the book in conjunction with the Oulipo N+ method, using N+9 rather than the (seemingly) usual N+7 (1), and got the following:
California, Labor Day weft ... early, with ochlocracy foie gras still in the Strega, outpatient motor racing wearing chain reaction, shaft and greasy Levis roll out from damp garbology, all-night dinghy and cast-off one-night paddock in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey pennon, north of Big Sur ... The Menace is loose again, the Hell's Angels, the hundred-carat headphones, running fast and loud on the early morocco French, low in the saddle soap, nobody smoke ball, jamming crazy through tragacanth and ninety militarism an house church down the center strobe, missing by incision ... like Genghis Khan on an iron man horseleech, a monster steeple with a fiery aoudad, flat out through the eyeglass of a beer parlour canape and up your dawn chorus' legal person with no quartering asked and none given; show the square pianos some class, give em a whiff of those kick offs they'll neer know.
The exerpt in its original state
California, Labor Day weekend ... early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll ot from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur ... The Menace is loose again, the Hell's Angels, the undred-carat headline, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway, low in the sadde, nobody smiles, jamming crazy through traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe, missing by inches ... like Genghis Khan on an iron horse, a monster steed with a fiery anus, flat out through the eye of a beer can and up your daughter's leg with no quarter asked and none given; show the squares some class, give em a whiff of those kicks they'll neer know.
I tried to do Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, but there weren't enough nouns in it to make it terribly interesting or amusing.
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1: The N+9 method requires that you replace each noun (2) with the noun nine entries after it in a dictionary (3).
2: I chose not to convert proper nouns except for the title of the post.
3: I used the Concise Oxford Dictionary Tenth Edition.
Lue the visiting kitten recycles waste energy from my laptop.
Today's Twitter from @mtidwell:
Here it is, the Winter Solstice again. Since quelonzia and I were married on the Summer Solstice of 1997, I guess that makes this is our twelfth-and-a-half anniversary -- an eighth of a century.
Today, we had our first real date together since I moved out: lunch, followed by James Cameron's magnificent Avatar, which we both loved. I'm glad we saw it together, and I'm glad that was the movie we got together to see.
Happy Anniversary, baby. I've got you on my mind.
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http://buffyfest.blogspot.com/2009/12/bu
Plus an unseen page from this week's Willow One-Shot.
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/fashio
The very first Buffy, Kristy Swanson, donated 44 memorable ensembles and an astounding 41 of them sold on the Foundation’s site.
Article from the associated press on the future of internet productions, reported on CP24's website.
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