I raised chickens as a kid for 4-h. Rusty, one of my hens, laid green eggs. I thought they tasted better, but I think it's just 'cause I liked Rusty best.

The only problem being that SAT scores are a very poor measurement of "smartness".

sweet ... but what happens when someone snaps off the little pocket-keeper-tab thing? (Is there a name for that thing, anyway?)

perhaps when we get a script that will block all but our own comments, we will finally be happy.

>> compared to what?

Well, I just read in the NY Times that it would cost about 6 million dollars to effectively eradicate rabies from North Africa. This stupid Lyon project will probably spend 6 million on one restaurant kitchen. You can't be so dense as to fail to glimpse the inequity and misplaced priorities on display.

Last time I was in Lyon, it was quite a bit larger than 700 acres, so this sounds less like "clone" and more like "Las Vegas theme park".

What a sad and utterly useless waste of energy and materials.

I keep getting distracted by the gloves. Are tennis balls hazardous?

This is the kind of thing that makes me feel sad for the world.

Those are great, Cory. Are they available somewhere more centralized, like the Online Archive of California or other such digital collections aggregation?

If he really believed in small government and spending less taxpayer money, he'd lay off two of those chefs.

If people simply made an effort to be a little more civil to one another, things like this wouldn't happen. Here we have two dicks in a pissing match over what, a speeding ticket? Hardly the end of the world. Have we forgotten the concept of "pick your battles"?

Is it really Andy? I recall reading somewhere that he often sent actors in his place to interviews and appearances?

"it's like blaming the pizzeria for buying spoiled vegetables and putting them on your pizza"

I don't think this is a very good analogy. It implies that museums had the choice to "buy fresh vegetables" if only they had the will to do so. Well, cultural materials like art are in most cases unique, and you either get it for your show or you don't. You can't choose to get the hassle-free art, you take what you can get - you are stuck with the "spoiled vegetables" that the Warhol estate (or whoever) provides, because that's what the customer wants - Warhols.

Our cultural institutions (I speak from my experience as a librarian) are starved of money left and right, and we make do with very little to educate and promote the arts - it is very disheartening to be attacked for an issue that is initiated outside of our control and for which we have very little recourse other than not displaying the items in the first place. Critics often portray copyright issues in a very black and white manner, which they most certainly are not. Copyright issues are very much a gray murk that museums and libraries take very seriously and work with in the most pragmatic way possible. Commentary like Cory's article makes for entertaining reading, but directs anger at the wrong party.

I think military ruins are initially interesting, but eventually boring.

Ironic indeed ... but most likely not the choice of the museum, but imposed upon the exhibition by groups such as ARS, ADAGP, DACS, and CISAC, which represent artists and artists' estates regarding copyright and licensing. I would guess that the museum is contractually obliged to ban photography in exchange for the right to display the works. I agree it's ridiculous, but it's probably not the museum's choice.

Online poker ... rigged? I weep for the future.

Haha - I find it funny that everyone thinks the chicken foot is icky - in my grandma Napolitano's kitchen, the feet were the magic ingredient in her soup-of-all-soups. Also, I think the processed vs. down-home illustrations are a little extreme and based on some really broad generalizations - more what we would like to think than what really is...

Washing any of these knives with a sponge in the normal manner will destroy the sponge almost immediately as it snags on the grater/zester/peeler bits. Seeing as I wash my knives about four times a night when I'm cooking, that's alot of sponge carnage to contemplate.

I've seen articles in model railroad magazines about accurately reproducing graffiti for an "authentic" look. I think one article went so far as taking photos of real actual throw-ups and having them printed onto decal transfer sheet for application to models. I don't think it's so much as "simulating creativity for non-creatives" as a shortcut to getting the look you want. If you are into modeling enough to apply fake graffiti on your trains, you have more pressing concerns than coming up with your own writing style.

Garbage like this does destroy modern civilization. Let's see, we have a plastic injection factory, an electronics factory, a battery factory, a packaging factory, shipping, etc. for what? Five minutes of giggles? and then it gets chucked and all that shit goes straight into the ground. Can we get any more toxic industries involved in the manufacture of anything more useless?