Theremin comes of age: look ma, all hands!

Leon Theremin getting crazy

Some thing different

Linkin Park - Breakin the Habit

As you may know I am a fan of drawing and animation.
I especially love sketchy animation set to some good audio. It's time for a break anyway, right? Enjoy.

Video kills

MTV, iconic, revolutionary, hip, imitated.
1981. I'm 15. IBM releases the personal computer, Henry Fonda wins an Oscar for his role in On Golden Pond, the two millionth Ford Fiesta comes off a Cologne assembly line. MTV launches promising to revolutionize, hippify, create, to kill the radio.
MTV didn't have to publish every one of it's top videos from the last almost quarter century on it's Web site, but they did.
Explore 24 years of MTV video history, 1981-05, one video at a time. Here.


Photo credit: MTV.com, A-Ha "Take On Me"

Web 2.0 in under 5 Minutes

This is *so* March 8th. Don't know why I didn't think to share this much earlier. The reason I did think to add this video is I'm logging in to a webinar featuring it's creator tomorrow morning. Michael Wesch, is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology who teaches, among other courses, a Digital Ethnography class at Kansas State University.

Excellent and inspiring. Makes me proud to have been publishing since the Gopher days, which is like being around for the invention of the printing press. Really. Ok, suddenly, I feel old.

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Searching for Mr. Good Recipe

I don't know about you, but sometimes I like to cook. The only cookbooks we have are old, battle scarred and have photos from like the 70's. So, being the Web head I am, I turn to Google and find just the right, easiest, quickest way to make whatever I have the ingredients for.

But these searchs are really for ideas: last night my wife thawed some great, hormone and anti-biotic free stew meat. But I didn't want stew, or chili. I wanted to eat within 30 minutes or so, and so did my two kids. Kids. They can get so impatient when their blood sugar plumets. Recipies are easy enough to find, but inkjet printouts don't often survive the culinery session in a readable format.

So, I am collecting here what are not really my favorite meals, but recipies that meet my immediate requirements which are usually: a. easy, b. I have what I need on hand, and most importantly c. takes under an hour from fridge to plate.

Good eating!

FRAGRANT BEEF CURRY WITH RICE
Bon Appétit, November 2000

2 pounds well-trimmed boneless beef stew meat, cut into 1-inch pieces
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 large onions, sliced
6 whole cloves
2 large garlic cloves, chopped
2 cinnamon sticks
1 bay leaf
1/4 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper
1 1/2 cups whole milk
3 large tomatoes, quartered
3 tablespoons Major Grey chutney (confession; no, I don't normally have chutney on hand. But I had EVERYTHING else! cm)
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons minced peeled fresh ginger
1 1/2 tablespoons curry powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Hot cooked rice

preparation
Sprinkle beef with salt and pepper. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in heavy large pot over high heat. Working in batches, add beef to pot and brown on all sides, about 7 minutes per batch. Using slotted spoon, transfer to plate.
Heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in same pot over medium-high heat. Add onions; sauté until tender and brown, about 7 minutes. Return beef to pot. Add cloves, garlic, cinnamon sticks, bay leaf and dried red pepper to pot; stir 1 minute. Stir in milk, tomatoes, chutney, lemon juice, ginger, curry powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt and bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until beef is tender, stirring occasionally, about 2 hours.
Uncover; increase heat to medium. Boil stew until juices are slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Serve over rice.
Bon Appétit, November 2000

Heroes withdrawal

Can you friggin believe it's 114 days, 20 hours and 10 minutes till the next new episode of Heroes?
(Well, there is always 34 graphic novel chapters)

Dolls

If you have the bandwidth, try playing these at the same time.