Wandering around St. Marks Place down in the city I happened across an old standard and one new place to eat.
Crepe Creations is more over near Washington Park, but it’s definately worth the trek out if you’re at all into crepes.  They do both whole wheat and standard, with an amazing array of toppings for […]

The EFF is suing ATT based on the fact that they’re allowing the .gov to wiretap customers without any form of warrant or congress granted permission.  As if to back up the allegation, the Bush group is attempting to label everything going on a “state secret” and stop any attempt to sue ATT because they’re […]

As you may have heard, Nintendo changed the name of their next generation console from the er.. revolutionary sounding revolution to the Wii.
I can almost see their American PR people saying “guys.. look.. we know that you like the name and all.  We’re just not sure how it’ll fly in anywhere that’s not Japan…”
Penny Arcade […]

MIT doesn’t have quite the spirit it used to in regards to rebelious behaviour.  Once upon a time, marking out the whole of the Harvard bridge in measures of a student didn’t ellicit much more than a chuckle.
These days, however, you can’t even hold up a sign protesting a speakers employer without being harrased.  Which […]

What is sexy?  Subjective?  A state of mind?
Whatever, apparently it’s not these women.   Charlie Wrigley lays it down for us in his first of a 5 parter on the Unsexiest Women in the World.  Full of celebrity and tongue in cheek commentary, it makes for a funny read.
After all, Boston *is* Funny, right?
Boston is […]

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is having it’s 25th annual Cherry Blossom Festival. If you’re a Northern New-Englander like me you might want to drop by an partake in the festivities.
Aside from tea and the usual Asian arts section, there’ll be a performance by Gaijin a Go-Go, whom are (I’m told) a Japanese pop act […]

The guys from Penny Arcade might not be movie critics.  When it comes to games however, they know their stuff.
So much so that I’d trust their judgement on movie games.  When they say that Silent Hill envoked the spirit of the game in that it made them feel they were in perpetual torment, I’m inclined […]

Cuscus is good stuff.  It’s tasty, especially with Mediteranean spices.
Alienware PC might not be that good.  More a personal single experience thing, but my sister got a PC from them on her birthday from her husband.  Now, normally he’d spec out the PC himself but things have been a bit busy and he no doubt […]

Chalk up a loss for the RIAA in their fight against America.  Seems they didn’t even bother responding to a court order in the case against Brittany Chan to provide a functional way to get her the Guardian Ad Litem they insisted on.
In light of the inexplicable lack of response from the RIAA on the […]

So Xgl and Compiz didn’t really have me chomping at the bit with anticipation when they were being talked up by the coders and GUI wonks earlier in the year.  It’s just another GUI layer, only faster, right?
Not exactly.  While it is another layer of GUI effects, it’s a really sexy layer of GUI effects.  […]