http://www.sillybean.net reading, writing, web design, and the intersections thereof Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:51:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Dark Chocolate and Cherry Brownies":http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1835270 -- OM NOM. http://www.sillybean.net/2008/08/dark-chocolate-and-cherry-brownies/ "Ubiquity":http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/ -- new plugin for Firefox. My God, this is how the web should be! Watch the video. http://www.sillybean.net/2008/08/ubiquity/ "_Laughter of Dead Kings_":http://www.amazon.com/Laughter-Dead-Kings-Vicky-Bliss/dp/0061246247/, the new Vicky Bliss mystery, is out this week. Back to work. Frantically busy. First week of school. GAH. http://www.sillybean.net/2008/08/vicky-bliss-psa/ "Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test":http://thehathorlegacy.com/why-film-schools-teach-screenwriters-not-to-pass-the-bechdel-test/ (via "Beth":http://beth-bernobich.livejournal.com/228643.html) http://www.sillybean.net/2008/08/why-film-schools-teach-screenwriters-not-to-pass-the-bechdel-test/ "Blockbuster CEO Doesn't Understand the Fascination With Netflix":http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/08/blockbuster-ceo.html -- 'Equally bewildering to Mr. Keyes is the emphasis on catalog size. Why would anyone want to watch anything other than new releases, he wonders. "I don't care how many movies are available to me. As my personal taste as a customer, ... http://www.sillybean.net/2008/08/blockbusters-ceo-is-a-total-moron/ ... "uploading now":http://sillybean.net/photos/index.php?album=boston-vacation. http://www.sillybean.net/2008/08/trip-photos-2/ Our vacation has snuck up on me. Sarah and I are driving to Houston tomorrow night and flying to Boston on Saturday, meeting up with the boys there. They'll be in training all next week, so we'll be on our own during the day. We have food and touristy recommendations, ... http://www.sillybean.net/2008/08/oops-time-for-vacation/ "A culture of rat neurons in a cabinet communicates with a robot via Bluetooth and learns to steer it around obstacles.":http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19926696.100-rise-of-the-ratbrained-robots.html In the immortal words of Keanu... whoa. http://www.sillybean.net/2008/08/rat-brained-robots/ "Lenovo's ad":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=198okcxeF74 with the two guys in the airport is absolutely hysterical. (For all the people here not watching NBC's Olympic coverage.) http://www.sillybean.net/2008/08/lenovo-ad/ Over in a "nice discussion of the generation gap in SF on Tor.com":http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=3316, a commenter "crunches numbers on the ages of Hugo winners":http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=bookmark&content_type=Comment&id=3316&content_sub_id=3368 and comes up with a pretty clear trend. Really fascinating, assuming you care about this sort of thing in the first place. ETA: "A handy graph":http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/who-wins-hugos/, all ... http://www.sillybean.net/2008/08/the-greying-of-sf-not-a-myth/