Ta-Nehisi Coates (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008 | Politics
Sorry, but this article is pretty stupid and well critiqued by the Obama campaign. The older I get the more I think that journalism--daily journalism, especially--is simply incapable of dealing with something as nuanced as the black-white relations in this...
Eater (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
&set=72157605644628698"> ?o=0'> ?o=0' style='font-size: 9px; text-align: center;'> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. If the free WiFi at the Denver airport had just worked, we'd have filed this yesterday. But, so it goes and here we are. Thus ends another...
InformationWeek - All Stories (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
French Internet service provider Free and Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in France, French daily Les Echos reports.
Computational Complexity (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Comments on being on the local arrangements committee for CCC 2008. The local arrangements comm. was a joint effort with Richard Chang and Marius Zimand. Always good to have people checking each other. Lisa and Allison from the Conference and Visitor Services did alot of the nitty-gritty work like reserving rooms, buses, setting up websites, and being around. They have my sincerest thanks. The two...
Computational Complexity (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Can still register for CCC08: Register here . BILL: Lance, maybe we should have an Anonymous Guest Blogger for CCC 2008 since I am one of the local organizers (along with Richard Chang and Maruis Zimand), hence anything I write might be biased, and we want someone who is free to complain about not having enough Bagels. LANCE: I can be a non-anoymous non-guest blogger. I have no problem complaining...
Fedora Planet (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Had dinner with a small group of people then miss Chang wanted to go to the harvard bookstore afterward. We mosey over. We walk in and I notice a distinctive looking individual browsing the books. I lean over to Mike McGrath and say “umm, isn’t that Richard stallman'”. He agrees it might be. I decide to ask. It is in fact RMS. We say hello and introduce ourselves. Tell him thanks for the things he...
Eater (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Robert Bohr, right, and his 1988 Larlot With tonight's marquee events, the Food & Wine Best New Chefs party and Dave Chang's whole hog slaughter at Hickory House, the focus of the Classic will undoubtedly shift back to food....
Eater (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
&set=72157605505053626"> ?o=0'> ?o=0' style='font-size: 9px; text-align: center;'> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. 8:02: Word in the press room is the afterparties are at Bar Boulud, Lee Schrager's shindig at P.J. Clarke's, Eleven Madison Park, Todd English's annual fest at...
Ed Levine Eats (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
All right, all right. Everyone has been asking me to make my predictions for the big national James Beard Awards (and the New York chef award) tonight at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. So, I'm going to do it. There are a couple of things everyone should know about the Beard Awards. The electorate tends to tilt toward New York chefs and restaurants and figures with a high media profile....
BravoTV.com Blogs: The Dish (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008 | Entertainment
Last night Bravo held its first ever A-List Awards, and what a night it was. Hosted by the hilarious Kathy Griffin, Bravo celebrated the best in food, fashion, design, beauty, and pop culture. We won't give away too many of the details now, but let's just say there was unexpected kissing and nakedness on stage, and we'll leave it at that! We'll have some photos and clips to whet your appetite soon,...
