February 2009
18 posts
If you are ever in Harvard Square in Cambridge, please make a trip to Trata for some great pizza and great beer. If you go, tell Edgar that Alex sent you.
Mickey Rourke Acceptance Speech for Best Male Lead... →
No disrespect to Sean Penn — Milk was a great film with an iconic performance by him as Harvey Milk — but this was what America should have seen on Oscar night. Mickey Rourke was incredible in The Wrestler.
The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now, or, Why I... →
David Pogue sums up Amazon’s Kindle E-Reader perfectly:
So, for the thousandth time: is this the end of the printed book?
Don’t be silly.
The Kindle has the usual list of e-book perks: dictionary, text search, bookmarks, clippings, MP3 music playback and six type sizes (baby boomers, arise). No trees die to furnish paper for Kindle books, either.
But as traditionalists always point out,...
The best super-hero movie of 2008 is... →
The Dark Knight, of course. It was the best film I saw last year, and I was disappointed that neither it nor its director Christopher Nolan were acknowledged in any way by the Oscars. (Via)
Artists and art collectors are selling the rights... →
The company issuing the loans, Art Capitol Group, is essentially a pawn shop for very wealthy people. From the NY Times article:
Art Capital issues loans of $500,000 or more at interest rates from 6 percent to 16 percent. Fail to pay and you lose your Rubens; several of the works on display in Art Capital’s office on Madison became subject to sale after their owners defaulted.
And:
Art lenders...
Ironworkers at Dana-Farber resume a beloved... →
I love this story.
snooz3r:
Mr. Blue Sky Lily Allen
originally by...
Article Skimmer - The NY Times →
This should be the default view for browsing The NY TImes Web site. (Via)
Favre Says He Will Retire (Again) →
I’ll believe it when I see it.
The new Twitter posting feature is cool.
