Month: March 2010

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Jay Leno is an asshole.

Andy Richter filled in for Regis to co-host Regis and Kelly today. In addition to interviewing the always charming James Spader, Richter had his first opportunity to speak his mind about the Late Night Debacle. He did not hold back.

Definitely visit the link to see the two videos that were posted…

Boing Boing posts that:

Karen O’Leary creates hand-cut city maps from paper. She just finished Paris, and it is shown above. More here, and her Flickr stream is here.

Definitely check out that flickr link, as some of her other efforts are at least as impressive as this one…

According to Russell Keast, from Deakin University:

We know that the human tongue can detect five tastes – sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami (a savoury, protein-rich taste contained in foods such as soy sauce and chicken stock). Through our study we can conclude that humans have a sixth taste – fat.

I can’t some up with anything good to say at the moment because I’m thinking about French Fries. ;-p

Interesting article that examines Toyota’s issues with “sudden acceleration” from an engineering (and not a political) point of view…

I was quite happy to see, among other things, Jeff Bridges win an Oscar last night. I don’t like hearing about “Oscar campaigns,” though. They smack too much of politics for me, but I guess it’s naive to think that politics doesn’t play a part…

It would be fun to report that the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, which were announced February 2, were the result of brilliant maneuvering or diabolically clever stratagems, of masterstrokes and counterthrusts carefully planned in studio war rooms.