Monthly Archives: December 2007

Summize – Search Engine for Reviews

By | December 30, 2007

Just ran across Summize while catching up on the Lifehacker syndication feed. The main feature Summize provides is an aggregation of reviews of books, movies, videos and other products from blogs and ecommerce sites like Amazon. But the site is much deeper than that. Recently Amazon started showing the breakdown of the absolute counts for… Read More »

NY Times Article on Rats in Cars

By | December 29, 2007

The New York Times ran a good article by Patricia Cohen on rats in cars with the headline “Under the Hood, a Cozy Rat Retreat“. The article mentions someone who had a problem with rats chewing on the knock-sensor wire on his Honda Accord. Looking on the Web, he found other Honda owners complaining about… Read More »

Absinthe is Good for You

By | December 22, 2007

Banned since 1912, absinthe made a triumphant return to legality recently in the US. Absinthe has an undeserved reputation for causing hallucinations, dementia, renal failure, convulsions, homicidal mania, ear-ectomies (see van Gogh, Vincent), and a nasty aftertaste of black licorice. Okay, the last one is true. Think Good n Plenties and anise blended with Ouzo… Read More »

Piggie Roasting under an Open Fire

By | December 9, 2007

I went to a friend’s birthday party this weekend (Hi, Eric!) at which he roasted a seventy pound pig. He and a friend built a big fire during the night that they let burn down to hot coals. The pig was wrapped in banana leaves and stuffed with river rocks that had been heated by… Read More »

Colored Vinyl Double 7″

By | December 7, 2007

The KALX double 7″ arrived this week. The two records are colored vinyl, one blue and one red. The sleeve and label art by Chris Hall is fantastic. The record release got great coverage on Pitchfork and other sites. The recordings on the two discs are: Talking Heads – “Stay Hungry” (recorded 4/18/1978 at Lower… Read More »