Quote of the day -- John Gruber

I like to think that in the run-up to his final keynote, Steve [Jobs] made time for a long, peaceful walk. Somewhere beautiful, where there are no footpaths and the grass grows thick. Hand-in-hand with his wife and family, the sun warm on their backs, smiles on their faces, love in their hearts, at peace with their fate.

--Daring Fireball

Cooking with Machiavelli

1. Arrange to have garlic and onions cast into hot oil.

2. The carrot and celery you must divide against themselves. Ground beef, too, shall turn upon the burner; crush any coherent resistance with a spoon of wood. Sautee until no hint of blood remains to stain your hands.

3. Perhaps, in a dark place without witnesses, the tomato shall meet with the knife.

from BoingBoing

Star Wars Script

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

Guide to top 100 SF-Fantasy books

NPR flowchart that helps you decide what to read next.

Quote of the day -- Joe Walsh

Don't need the ladies crying 'cause the story's sad.
The Rocky Mountain way-- better than the way we had.

Quote of the day -- Steve Jobs

Steve and I were talking about children one time, and he said the problem with children is that they carry your heart with them. The exact phrase was, “It’s your heart running around outside your body.”

-- Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs from Business Week

Quote of the day -- John Kennedy

"For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."


1962 Yale Commencement Address

Excerpts from this speech on YouTube

They're like Ents

Once you get them going, look out.

Old School bedtime stories

"For Children Three Years Old,” from Lessons for Children by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Philadelphia, 1818:

There was a naughty boy; I do not know what his name was, but it was not Charles, nor George, nor Arthur, for those are all very pretty names: but there was a robin came in at his window one very cold morning — shiver — shiver; and its poor little heart was almost frozen to death. And he would not give it the least crumb of bread in the world, but pulled it about by the tail and hurt it sadly, and it died. Now a little while after, the naughty boy’s papa and mamma went away and left him, and then he could get no victuals at all, for you know he could not take care of himself. So he went about to every body — Pray give me something to eat, I am very hungry. And every body said, No, we shall give you none, for we do not love cruel, naughty boys. So he went about from one place to another, till at last he got into a thick wood of trees; for he did not know how to find his way any where; and then it grew dark night. So he sat down and cried sadly; and he could not get out of the wood; and I believe the bears came and ate him up in the wood, for I never heard any thing about him afterwards.

Frazetta

From The Pictorial Arts Journal: Long Live Frazetta

Think Different

Steve Jobs 1955-2011.
Thanks for everything.