Tuesday, July 13, 2004
:::: Matsuri -High Holborn- :::: Information ::::Intensive one-day course
The highly experienced chefs at Matsuri High Holborn make great efforts on a daily basis to ensure that they serve the best sushi in London, and you can now learn their secrets in a new one-day sushi course. This class has been designed so that, on completion, you should be able to make delicious, authentic sushi yourself. The price includes a kit containing everything you need to get started.
One day course "I What Will"
The highly experienced chefs at Matsuri High Holborn make great efforts on a daily basis to ensure that they serve the best sushi in London, and you can now learn their secrets in a new one-day sushi course. This class has been designed so that, on completion, you should be able to make delicious, authentic sushi yourself. The price includes a kit containing everything you need to get started.
One day course "I What Will"
Monday, July 12, 2004
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Families re-enact famous US duel: "Descendants of US political rivals have drawn pistols at 10 paces, in a re-enactment of a 200-year-old duel.
On 11 July 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr shot dead the nation's first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers.
The modern-day rivals were Antonio Burr, a distant cousin of Burr, and Douglas Hamilton, a fifth-great grandson of the historical figure.
But this time, no blood was spilled and the two men later went for a beer.
About 100 descendants "
On 11 July 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr shot dead the nation's first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers.
The modern-day rivals were Antonio Burr, a distant cousin of Burr, and Douglas Hamilton, a fifth-great grandson of the historical figure.
But this time, no blood was spilled and the two men later went for a beer.
About 100 descendants "
Friday, July 09, 2004
The New Yorker: From the Archives: "Marlon Brando, who was considered by many to be one of the greatest actors in American movie history, died on July 1st, at the age of eighty. Here, from 1957, is a long Profile of Brando by Truman Capote."
Yahoo! News - Official's 'Dirty Girl' Quip Draws Fire: "State Education Secretary Richard Riordan jokingly told a child her name, Isis, meant 'stupid dirty girl,' prompting widespread criticism and posing a quandary for the man who appointed him, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger"
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Wired 12.07: VIEW: "Once upon a time, politics by other means took the form of war between state-sponsored armies. Then along came the creeping tide of international terror, whose practitioners play by different rules. Terrorists have little use for top-heavy chains of command, cumbersome procurement procedures, and pesky government oversight. They eschew conventional rules of engagement and international codes like the Geneva Conventions. Faced with such an agile enemy, beleaguered states are turning to a force that operates under a similar lack of constraints: private military contractors. Once the hired guns settle into the trenches, though, it can be hard to get them to leave."
BBC NEWS | Technology | Full Spectrum Warrior hits its target: "Full Spectrum Warrior is an excellent military action game that marks an intriguing departure from the norm.
Now available on Xbox, it was initially commissioned by the US military as a training aid.
'The army realised that a lot of their recruits would play video games in their downtime,' explains Greg Donovan, one of the game's producers.
'The game was originally never supposed to be seen as a consumer version. It was always supposed to be a training tool for light infantry.' "
Now available on Xbox, it was initially commissioned by the US military as a training aid.
'The army realised that a lot of their recruits would play video games in their downtime,' explains Greg Donovan, one of the game's producers.
'The game was originally never supposed to be seen as a consumer version. It was always supposed to be a training tool for light infantry.' "
spiked-liberties | Article | Crucifying public debate: " Unless we are able to be wrong, rude and offensive, about Allah, Jesus or even the home secretary, then the right to free speech exists only in theory rather than in practice"
The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large: "n October 24, 1937, Cole Porter went out for a horseback ride at the Piping Rock Club, in Locust Valley, Long Island?one of those swank playgrounds whose names he liked to rhyme in song and which signalled his fully paid-up membership in the Elegentsia. In the woods, the skittish horse, which the forty-six-year-old Porter had been warned against riding, shied and fell on him, crushing both his legs. According to Porter?a story that William McBrien, the author of ?Cole Porter: A Biography? (1998), finds ?difficult to believe??he passed the excruciating hours while he waited to be rescued composing the lyrics to an elusive verse of his song ?At Long Last Love.?"
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Friday, July 02, 2004
Sex and the Single Superhero - Spider-Man's vow of celibacy. By Chris?Suellentrop: " By the end of the movie, viewers learn that Spider-Man is celibate, and his superherodom is a calling, a voluntary priesthood."
Thursday, July 01, 2004
Wired News: Tech Company Gets Hypersensitive: "The technology will lead to one of the first remote sensing devices that can provide readings from several feet away without physical contact, according to executives at Nexense. That could mean no more sweaty heart monitor straps and no more grabbing handles while running on a treadmill -- the device could get a signal through a wristband or a patient's feet. Devices that could use the Nexense technology include heart monitors, satellites, cell phones and automobiles. It could even help people stop snoring. "
Snoring! How's that for serendipity?
Snoring! How's that for serendipity?
Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Operation everything: "In World War II, scientists from a wide range of fields attacked military problems with a potent combination of empiricism and mathematical models. When airplanes came back riddled with holes from enemy attacks, for instance, the intuitive response was to reinforce the armor where the holes were. But, noted the scientists, those were the planes that made it back. They didn't need more armor where they were hit. The real challenge was to figure out the places that had been hit in the planes that went down."
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
ThisisLondon: "Britain accepts that Saddam Hussein is likely to be executed by the Iraqi government for war crimes, senior Government sources have revealed. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Webcam lets users eyeball others: "Instant messaging could get a lot more interesting if webcam technology by Microsoft gets the go-ahead.
i2i, in development at Microsoft Research labs, Cambridge UK, is a two-camera system which follows a person's movement.
It uses specially-developed algorithms to fuse what each camera sees to create an accurate stereo 'cyclopean' image. "
i2i, in development at Microsoft Research labs, Cambridge UK, is a two-camera system which follows a person's movement.
It uses specially-developed algorithms to fuse what each camera sees to create an accurate stereo 'cyclopean' image. "
Making the grandest tour
The Tour de France is the most arduous of the world's sporting events. Riders cover more than 2,000 miles in three weeks at an average speed of around twenty-eight miles per hour. The race can seem more like a test of simple endurance than a display of athletic prowess. The sheer physical effort involved makes it easy to write about its champions in terms of epic poetry.
The race defies ordinary explanation. It is a team sport in which an individual wins. It is an athletic event that actually harms the athletes? bodies. (Racers cannot consume enough food to replace the 6,000 or so calories burned off by each day's stage. Most finish the race with less muscle mass than they began with.) The race's founder, Henri Desgrange, wanted it to be so tough that there would be only a single finisher. He never got his wish, but the sport he set in motion takes such a savage toll on its riders that studies show that the life expectancy of a professional cyclist is barely more than fifty years
Robert Messenger
The race defies ordinary explanation. It is a team sport in which an individual wins. It is an athletic event that actually harms the athletes? bodies. (Racers cannot consume enough food to replace the 6,000 or so calories burned off by each day's stage. Most finish the race with less muscle mass than they began with.) The race's founder, Henri Desgrange, wanted it to be so tough that there would be only a single finisher. He never got his wish, but the sport he set in motion takes such a savage toll on its riders that studies show that the life expectancy of a professional cyclist is barely more than fifty years
Robert Messenger
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Monday, June 28, 2004
No Laughing Matter - The Graham Norton Effect is a raunchy, unfunny mess. By Dana?Stevens: " The overall effect (the, um, Graham Norton effect?) is that of being trapped at a raucous, superficial get-together with a bunch of coked-up strangers who are talking over each other in that drugged-out, manic way. You can almost feel the postnasal drip. I'm sure I have been, in some small way, forever sullied by the experience of watching The Graham Norton Effect. But if even one person out there avoids turning it on next week, my sacrifice will not have been in vain. "
Dana Stevens of Slate sticks it to Graham Norton. My sentiments exactly.
Dana Stevens of Slate sticks it to Graham Norton. My sentiments exactly.
Los Angeles Times: Rich Taste in a Poor Country: "Rich Taste in a Poor Country
North Korea's enigmatic leader Kim Jong Il demands the finest food and drink. But while he indulges, his countrymen starve."
North Korea's enigmatic leader Kim Jong Il demands the finest food and drink. But while he indulges, his countrymen starve."
Commentary - Is the Musical Comedy Dead?: "Nearly every successful musical written between 1943 and 1964 was influenced by the example of Oklahoma! From this perspective, it is no accident that On the Town (1944), Carousel (1945), Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Kiss Me, Kate (1948), Guys and Dolls (1950), The King and I (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), The Music Man (1957), West Side Story (1957), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961), and Hello, Dolly! (1964), all of which have been revived one or more times on Broadway, now constitute the bulk of the musical-comedy repertory."
Telegraph | Arts | The bombs that walk and talk: "This book starts with a tantalising promise: the study of the human body as a weapon of war. Man's ingenuity enables him to turn almost anything into a weapon. Famine and disease have been used as weapons of war as have the sermons of holy men and the charms of beautiful women."
Foreign Policy: Imperial Amnesia I have only read the first page of this. Must get back to it as a corrective to Niall Ferguson.
Friday, June 25, 2004
Economist.com | Technology, shopping and beyond: "Contrary to some recent reports, the roll-out of revolutionary smart-tag technology is still going to plan"
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Technology Review: MIT's Magazine of Innovation: "CNET reports that ?Microsoft has been awarded a patent for using human skin as a power conduit and data bus.? This means that your PDA (in one hand) can send a phone number tothe cell phone (in your other hand) without any effort on your part. (Here?s the patent.) With a ?personal area network,? or PAN, Microsoft aims to reduce the redundancy of carrying multiple mobile devices, many of which have overlapping hardware, software, and data. Eventually, all your data could be stored in a chip (embedded discreetly in an earring) and retrieved at will by any mobile device in your posession. This concept reminds me of a process most people used to use?which involved storing a phone number in our mind, transmitting it via the nervous system to our hand (either one!), and dialing the phone ourselves."
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
BBC - London - Your London - United Colours Index A useful site dor eat your way around the world in London.
BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Computer 'sick' days revealed: "Personal computers in Northern Ireland take more sick days than their owners, according to research.
The average computer has nine sick days a year, six of which are wasted while their owners battle junk e-mail and three days are lost due to viruses"
The average computer has nine sick days a year, six of which are wasted while their owners battle junk e-mail and three days are lost due to viruses"
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Rumsfeld agreed prisoner threats: "US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of aggressive tactics to frighten Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to newly-released documents.
These included stripping prisoners, forcing them into stress positions and harassing them with dogs.
But the methods, approved in December 2002, were rescinded weeks later. "
This could be the current administration's Watergate.
These included stripping prisoners, forcing them into stress positions and harassing them with dogs.
But the methods, approved in December 2002, were rescinded weeks later. "
This could be the current administration's Watergate.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Wired News: Alternative Fuels Cropping Up: "LONDON -- Farmers of the world must shift quickly to growing plants for industrial uses such as oils and plastics to replace petrochemicals as the climate warms and crude supplies run out, British scientists said on Monday."
Replacing fossil fuels and products with plants is obvious really. It had never ever ocurred to me before.
Replacing fossil fuels and products with plants is obvious really. It had never ever ocurred to me before.
Monday, June 21, 2004
Sunday, June 20, 2004
Friday, June 18, 2004
Telegraph | Opinion | The Young British Male is a loser: "The Young Bristish Male has never learnt how to carry out a proper conversation with a fellow YBM, let alone with a girl, let alone a foreign girl. Since the Industrial Revolution, the YBM has taken his pleasure only in the company of other YBMs, and that pleasure is rooted in taciturn, heavy drinking.
The Industrial Revolution was responsible for Albufeira. The great migration to the cities of massed ranks of young men doing factory work, bad weather, early dusks, and puritanism driving alcohol out of the house and into the bar, led to the phenomenon of exclusively male drinking behind closed pub doors. "
The Industrial Revolution was responsible for Albufeira. The great migration to the cities of massed ranks of young men doing factory work, bad weather, early dusks, and puritanism driving alcohol out of the house and into the bar, led to the phenomenon of exclusively male drinking behind closed pub doors. "
Thursday, June 17, 2004
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Victor Davis Hanson on al Qaeda and terrorism on National Review Online: "Like Hitler, bin Ladenism has an agenda: the end of the liberal West. Its supposedly crackpot vision is actually a petrol-rich Middle East free of Jews, Christians, and Westerners, free to rekindle spiritual purity under Sharia. Bin Laden's al Reich is a vast pan-Arabic, Taliban-like caliphate run out of Mecca by new prophets like him, metering out oil to a greedy West in order to purchase the weapons of its destruction; there is, after all, an Israel to be nuked, a Europe to be out-peopled and cowered, and an America to be bombed and terrorized into isolation. This time we are to lose not through blood and iron, but through terror and intimidation: televised beheadings, mass murders, occasional bombings, the disruption of commerce, travel, and the oil supply."
The New York Times > Magazine > Food: Chinese Characters: "Of all the books I published in my years at Random House, one of the oddest yet most delightful was the revised third edition of a Chinese cookbook originally brought out by another publisher in 1945. ''How to Cook and Eat in Chinese,'' by Buwei Yang Chao, was, as far as I can discover, the first successful attempt to provide an authentic rather than Westernized Chinese cookbook. It includes more than 200 recipes, with a sophisticated introduction to Chinese culinary culture that covers ingredients, techniques, politesse, terms and tools. Chao's recipes are still accurate and easily mastered, and her commentary remains fresh and informative. And with her help, I created my own polyglot improvisations long before fusion became the fashion." jacob Epstein
Monday, June 14, 2004
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The Saudis get their reward for promoting extremism: "The Saudis have provoked a clash of civilisations, not so much between east and west as within Islam itself. " William Dalrymple.
Friday, June 11, 2004
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
OpinionJournal - Extra: "America, Recuse Thyself!
So the world's mad at us? Maybe we should just say goodbye.
BY P.J. O'ROURKE "
So the world's mad at us? Maybe we should just say goodbye.
BY P.J. O'ROURKE "
Monday, June 07, 2004
The Spectator.co.uk: "Traveller in time
Peter Phillips goes to Turkish Kurdistan and finds a land full of early Christian history"
Peter Phillips goes to Turkish Kurdistan and finds a land full of early Christian history"
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)