At The New Yorker, David Denby reviews “A Prairie Home Companion” and “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Among other things, Denby has the best brief assessment of Al Gore that NewMexiKen has ever read.
Oh, and by the way, NewMexiKen saw “The Break-Up” and it’s awful.
NewMexiKen is tired of what appears to be inconsistent service from my host provider.
Anyone care to recommend another provider?
(For those who don’t know, the host is where the files and database that generate NewMexiKen reside.)
Walt Handelsman: N.S.A. Wiretapping [cartoon video].
Why is it that in restaurants when they celebrate a customer’s birthday they always sing some dumb chanty-like song instead of the tune we all know — Happy Birthday to You?
… was born 84 years ago today. We know her as Judy Garland. She was just under 5-feet tall and the need for weight-control lead her to drugs, which controlled much of her adult life. She died of a barbiturate overdose at age 47.
Ms. Garland was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for A Star is Born (1955) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Judgment at Nuremberg (1962). She won a special “Juvenile Oscar” for The Wizard of Oz (1940).
From Discovery News:
Language skills once thought exclusively human are also within the reach of dogs, say German researchers studying a nine-year-old border collie that has a 200-word vocabulary. …
In a game where Rico is told to fetch an unfamiliar object with a name he hasn’t heard before, Rico runs into a room where the new object is on the floor among several familiar objects, of which he already knows the names. Rico reliably figures out that the new word must go with the new object in a single try. Then, after a month of not seeing the new object or hearing the new word, he remembers them.
What’s scary is that he’s 9, which means 63 in human terms, right? I’m younger than that and I can go into a room and forget what I went into it for.
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