Reuters:
Dutch study unlocks key to firm tomatoes. Firmer tomatoes are all in the genes? Someone tell Pam Anderson ... /rimshot/ ...
Arches NP in B/W- Upon visiting Arches and Moab, UT for the first time, I was struck by morning and evening light as it played in and amongst the rocks. Courtesy of a little toning, step back to an 'older' Arches. Enjoy.
Information Week:
Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain. Always happens with an SP release.
BBC:
Taser parties a growing US trend. Hmmm. Twelve or so years ago, a rapist was using a taser to stun women joggers near here.
Cleveland Plain-Dealer:
Publishers put a lot of thought into designing the covers of books sold at airports. Tailored for an abbreviated shop time.
Miller-McCune:
“Two Cornell psychologists found we have two separate systems for memories, which helps explain how we can “remember” things that never happened.”
NY Times Dining & Wine:
Wine’s Pleasures: Are They All in Your Head? “… the book shows that what appeals to novice wine drinkers is significantly different from what appeals to wine experts ...” So, perhaps we’re better off ignoring the expert wine reviews and following our nose.
NY Times Movie Review:
“Speed Racer” sounds like a rental. Whoah yeah ... a rental. Unless you’ve got very young kids.
NY Times Opinion:
The lucrative art of war. That it happens shouldn’t be a shock ... it’s part and parcel of nearly every war. For brief, shining moments in our past, we’ve had Congressional hawks to swoop down and cut off the perpetrators. Where are the descendants of those hawks?
NY Times Travel:
36 Hours in Liverpool, England. What was that Bangles song? “I’m going down to Liverpool and do nothing ...”
CNN Technology:
Colliding with nature’s best-kept secrets.
Daily Mail.UK:
Facebook fans trash award-winning garden. Alas, nimrodus facebookius is not an isolated disease. Hike anywhere picturesque in the American backcountry, you’ll find folks choose the loveliest spots to perform their wilderness toilet.
Telegraph.UK:
Why beauty is an advert for good genes. Hmmm ... were all those young ladies of the past wrong to love Gary Cooper’s upside-down lopsided smile?
ColourLovers:
CNet News.com:
Citi: solar prices to sink rapidly in looming shakeout. “… Citi said it believes that the silicon shortage will become a silicon over-supply, which will start to push down prices next year and then accelerate further in 2010.”
Reuters:
Oil over $126, new peak for 5th straight day. “I’m not particularly surprised by the speed of the rise in crude. There are many market bulls hoping for prices to rise heading into the summer.” Oligopolistic capitalism is beggaring us, while the government sits and watches.
Charlie Rose:
I every much enjoyed the interview with Paola Antonelli last evening. I’ll add another link to her, this time at TED ... by design.
Later: MoMA, Design and the Elastic Mind. Plenty of information in this interface.
BBC:
Nepal lifts ban on Everest summit. Let the dramas begin.
Why does everything suck?
I am so sick of “Social”. Oh, I agree. I agree so much I’m bashing my keyboard as I type this. As I’ve mentioned before, as a small business, I’m competing now with firms who wish to market ‘social networking’ to everyone and their unborn children ... whether it is appropriate for their audience demographic or not. Bloody waste of time for most. Apparently some feel I should be martyred for being a heretic ...
Scientific American:
Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain. And yet, I have another story of Mr Jackson. Once again, from the ‘80’s. I was coming home late one night from Manhattan, walking through the Princeton University campus from the PJ&B ("Princeton Junction and Back”, the Dinky, the shortest train line in America). I heard a hubbub coming from Whig (or Clio, I never remember which building is which ... the one that was burned, and re-built), and paused under a streetlamp along the wide flagstone walkway. I knew Mr Jackson was going to be speaking there that night, so I wondered whether it might be worth walking to the front of the building. I looked up at the back windows. Mr Jackson walked by a window, and we happened to perceive each other. He saw me slightly backlit, and froze with a look of surprise (I thought fear at the time) on his face. I was dressed in black jeans, black leather jacket, carrying a black briefcase. I looked like a professional assassin out of some movie, in retrospect. His ‘handlers’ peeked out at me, and I thought it was time to beat a hasty retreat, taking a different pathway home.
Sometimes ‘bigotry’ may be plain self-preservation. We unconsciously judge by the predominant cultural archetypes.
Or, simply overactive imagination ... as my 20-something perceptions probably were.
Science Mag:
“Anyone who dreams of a “classless society” may be disheartened by the results of a brain-scanning study reported today: Hierarchical awareness seems to be deeply embedded in the human brain, so much so that there are distinct circuits activated by concerns over social rank ...”
Guardian.UK:
Historic image could be worth millions. “The clue is in the letter W. Schaaf believes the letter could stand for Thomas Wedgwood, a member of the pottery dynasty who was carrying out his experiments around 30 years earlier than Fox Talbot.” Which could place it at 1800.
Financial Times:
One language fits all. The ‘imperialism’ of English.
NY Times Fashion & Style:
New Math for Men: Subtract Just a Little Gray. Ah well ... just don’t do the comb-over.
NY Times:
Aid Supplies Arrive in Myanmar. Every time I run the tap for a glass of clean water, I think of Myanmar. Noone has clean water there right now. Cholera and other water-borne diseases will explode, if the government won’t permit more aid.
NY Times Fashion & Style:
Steampunk hits the bigtime. I have to say, I didn’t realize it was a fashion movement as well.
CNN:
I’d forgotten that comic books were the scapegoats of the ‘60’s. Who recalls that Charlie Brown comic books were the most-traded between college students?
Remembering the stink
over Yahoo!’s acquisition of Flickr ... can you imagine the bloviation over a Microsoft purchase of Facebook?
TED:
Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. View other videos there, too. Thanks, Jeremiah.
I need a reprieve from this morning’s news.
Capturing the bear essentials of Paddington. Pooh is more Taoist, but Paddington will do for today.
The Economist:
Psychology: It pays to get inside your opponents’ heads rather than their hearts.
