Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Welcome back Kotter
Borat gets written up in the NY Observer.
It's official, Studio 60 is a critical hit. Are you watching yet? The pilot is available on NBC's website. Also, VERONICA MARS premieres next week on the new CW. Giddy up.
Save money: The best times to buy plane tickets, cars, etc.
Google SMS. Text "walgreens chicago, IL 60613" to GOOGL (4-6645). A few seconds later, a message will arrive giving phone numbers, addresses, and crude directions to any Walgreens stores in the area. This is a free service (or the price of a text message if you don't have unlimited texting). Of Google's products, after their search engine, this probably has the most impact on my daily life. Use also for directions ("sunnyvale, CA to oakland, CA"), stock quotes, simple arithmetic, fact-checking, and weather conditions.
A unique way to discover bands. More eclectic, more current, more nauseatingly exhaustive than any internet radio station can ever hope to be. The one and only, the Hype Machine.
Read at your leisure:
Michael Gondry in the Sunday Magazine.
Indian farmers and suicide.
Why I hate Zach Braff. I agree with most of what the author says.
Manifold Destiny. A must read about a mathematical dilemna unsolved for a century--identified by the Clay Institute as one of seven fundamental, yet unsolved mathetical problems--and the young Russian mathematician who finally solved it but rebuffed the accompanying accolades. The resolution of the Poincaré Conjecture was a collaborative effort ultimately leading to the awarding of three Field's metals and, still unrewarded, a one-million dollar prize. There has been an academic scuffle of sorts surrounding recent events that led to its resolution, mathematicians taking credit when credit is not due, academics pointing fingers, still others deflecting blame. The only one unstirred by the upheaval is the person who proved the conjecture, Grigory Perelman.
You just know the 2008 Best Picture nominees will include a film titled "Perelman" or "Truth Theory" or "Manifold Destiny". As a matter of fact, a co-writer on the New Yorker article wrote the book which was adapted into the film, "A Beautiful Mind."
It's official, Studio 60 is a critical hit. Are you watching yet? The pilot is available on NBC's website. Also, VERONICA MARS premieres next week on the new CW. Giddy up.
Save money: The best times to buy plane tickets, cars, etc.
Google SMS. Text "walgreens chicago, IL 60613" to GOOGL (4-6645). A few seconds later, a message will arrive giving phone numbers, addresses, and crude directions to any Walgreens stores in the area. This is a free service (or the price of a text message if you don't have unlimited texting). Of Google's products, after their search engine, this probably has the most impact on my daily life. Use also for directions ("sunnyvale, CA to oakland, CA"), stock quotes, simple arithmetic, fact-checking, and weather conditions.
A unique way to discover bands. More eclectic, more current, more nauseatingly exhaustive than any internet radio station can ever hope to be. The one and only, the Hype Machine.
Read at your leisure:
Michael Gondry in the Sunday Magazine.
Indian farmers and suicide.
Why I hate Zach Braff. I agree with most of what the author says.
Manifold Destiny. A must read about a mathematical dilemna unsolved for a century--identified by the Clay Institute as one of seven fundamental, yet unsolved mathetical problems--and the young Russian mathematician who finally solved it but rebuffed the accompanying accolades. The resolution of the Poincaré Conjecture was a collaborative effort ultimately leading to the awarding of three Field's metals and, still unrewarded, a one-million dollar prize. There has been an academic scuffle of sorts surrounding recent events that led to its resolution, mathematicians taking credit when credit is not due, academics pointing fingers, still others deflecting blame. The only one unstirred by the upheaval is the person who proved the conjecture, Grigory Perelman.
You just know the 2008 Best Picture nominees will include a film titled "Perelman" or "Truth Theory" or "Manifold Destiny". As a matter of fact, a co-writer on the New Yorker article wrote the book which was adapted into the film, "A Beautiful Mind."
