Food author Michael Ruhlman on the three biggest differences between home cooking and restaurant cooking:
Amazon.com: Aside from a heavy hand with butter, what are the top three things that set restaurant cooking apart from home cooking? Ruhlman: Proper use of salt throughout the cooking process and fresh stock are THE [...]
There’s been a lot coverage of the total cost of the war in Iraq this week, mainly due to the $1.6 trillion estimate of the war’s costs through next year, released by Congressional researchers. Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution has written a piece on the subject that gets beyond crude dollar amounts. Here are some [...]
It just so happens that this week, both Robert Scoble and I had problems with our Macs. I’m not sure what was wrong with his Mac, but in my case, I tried to install the OS X 10.4.11 update on my MacBook, and it didn’t take. When the installer was done, the Software Update application [...]
The New York Time technology blog, Bits, has an update on the Netflix prize. No team has made the Netflix recommendations engine 10% more accurate, which is the number required to claim the million dollar prize. However, Netflix has awarded $50,000 to the team that has made the most progress. The group that won the [...]
So here’s what Rackspace says happened yesterday:
In the second incident at approximately 6:30 PM CST Monday, a vehicle struck and brought down the transformer feeding power to the DFW data center. It immediately disrupted power to the entire data center and our emergency generators kicked in and operated as intended. When we transferred [...]
The WGA strike has really captivated me, for some reason. Here are a bunch of links to interesting strike-related material.
Lost creator Damon Lindelof writes about the strike on the New York Times op-ed page:
The motivation for this drastic action — and a strike is drastic, a fact I grow more aware of every [...]
Google’s SDK for the Android mobile platform is now available for download. I’m eager to read what people have to say once they start digging in.
Update: I’ve installed the Eclipse plugin and I’m downloading the SDK (which is required in order to play with the Eclipse plugin). I’m a bit surprised that the Android [...]
Just a few links for Armistice Day, or Veterans’ Day if you prefer:
Every year, Teresa Nielsen Hayden writes an Armistice Day post. Don’t miss it. The New York Times ran an op-ed about Frank Buckles, the last living US veteran of World War I. Henry Allingham is the oldest World War I survivor in the UK. [...]
Tyler Cowen points out a paper examining the link between right-wing terrorism and the study of engineering. I think that Rands’ essay on living with nerds may shed some light on this topic as well, although terrorism and religion were not among the subjects covered.
I’m kind of obsessed with the WGA strike. The best site for strike news I’ve seen a pointer to so far has been Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily. It’s a general Hollywood business news blog, but obviously right now the writers’ strike is dominating the show business news.
The WGA is also posting videos on YouTube. [...]