Scripting News

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:38:18 GMT

NY Times: "What made Mrs. Child such an influential teacher was her good-humored insistence that competent home cooks, if they followed instructions, would find even complicated French dishes within their grasp."

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:39:57 GMT

Julia Child on Time's cover in 1966.

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:28:09 GMT

NPR: A Chef Remembers Culinary Ambassador Julia Child.

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:29:58 GMT

Julie Powell: "Bon Appetit."

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:33:28 GMT

Julia Child's tombstone. ";->"

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:58:15 GMT

Beautiful satellite shot of the air show at Oshkosh, WI. Huge numbers of private airplanes.

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:29:46 GMT

BBC: Olympic games open in Athens.

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:57:39 GMT

The Playboy interview with the Google guys.

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:43:18 GMT

Steve Rubel: Why We Need a Blogger Hall of Fame.

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:24:32 GMT

Hacking Netflix: "Variety is reporting that Blockbuster has signed a deal with Microsoft to promote their new online service to the more than 350 million unique visitors to the MSN site each month."

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:24:20 GMT

Seattle PI: "Microsoft and NBC are looking to modify or perhaps even end their MSNBC joint venture."

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:19:46 GMT

Recall Toolbar is a "personal search engine that helps you instantly find that needle that you're trying to find again in the haystack of pages you've already visited."

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:05:36 GMT

Yesterday's audio blog post was about differences between bloggers and journalists. I thought of another. Bloggers generally have archives, so you can see what they said a year ago, two years ago and so forth. Newspapers and magazines, even on the Web, generally don't make their archive availalbe, and when they do, it's almost always for a prohibitive per-article fee. So when the NY Times or Washington Post acknowledge that their reporting of the Iraq War was flawed, they have access to the archive that we don't. What other stories turned out to be wrong? How frequently do they look back and examine? What coverage assumed facts not in evidence? We don't know. This makes them less trustworthy, and gives them less incentive to even try to cover the news fairly. Most bloggers know, because the archive is permanent, that their writings will be examined with the benefit of hindsight.

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:48:20 GMT

This Is Rumor Control reports that Iran has decided to attack US forces in Iraq. "The rhetoric coming out of the Bush administration has convinced Iran that military conflict is inevitable and rather than await an attack at a time and place of America's choosing, the Iranians will try to inflict significant damage to US forces on Iraqi soil..."

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:37:13 GMT

CBS MW: "Google said in a filing Friday that it does not believe an interview in the September 2004 issue of Playboy magazine by founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page violates quiet period rules governing initial public offerings."

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:49:50 GMT

Douglas Anders reports on anti-semitism on the airwaves in Toledo, OH.

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:32:16 GMT

Engadget recommends a new kind of marketing for Vonage.