End of Silence

Pitchfork: Early John Coltrane Collaborations Collected on Box Set
A new Coltrane box set that sounds worthwhile. I need to check out the video they linked.
(tags: johncoltrane boxset jazz pitchforkmedia)

The Rip-off in Iraq: You Will Not Believe How Low the War Profiteers Have Gone
Boy, those cost estimates for the war back in 2002 were way off [...]

Paul Krassner: Assholes of the Week #7 - Politics on The Huffington Post
If this Wesley Clark revelation is true, then it needs to be brought to everyone’s attention. Not that we all don’t believe it already anyway.
(tags: wesleyclark iraq pentagon huffingtonpost)

Bush and Napoleon Both Believed Their Own Propaganda About a “Greater Middle East”
Must I roll out the old phrase? Something about doom and repeating. Somebody help me out.
(tags: bush napoleon middleast fiasco history juancole nevadathunder)

Pitchfork: Mastodon, Deerhunter, Black Lips Do Burn to Shine
(tags: burntoshine mastodon atlanta seattle louisville)

new “realisticats” internet phenomenon takes world by storm [...]

ThemBid.com » Blog Archive » Removing Backgrounds Quickly in the Gimp
(tags: image editing gimp tutorial howto tools background lifehacker)

“Perfect” iTunes equalizer setting | 43 Folders
(tags: itunes equalizer osx)

Small and Smaller
Mahablog with another awesome post on Bush and how, unlike the rest of the country, his legacy is completely tied up in the war that he now voluntarily is likening to Vietnam. Also, on the ineffectiveness of the Democrats.
(tags: iraq unitedstates foreignpolicy bush democrats mahablog)

Stephen King: The last word on Harry Potter | [...]

8.19.07 Red Hook
David Byrne blogs about concession stands that I saw featured on a special NYC edition of Tony Bourdain’s No Reservations. Looks like the city might shut them down after this summer. Damn. I really wanted to try them out.
(tags: redhook concessions food tonybourdain nyc salvadoran guatemalan mexican)

Boing Boing: Lumix FX07 cameras - perfect pocket camera
Note to self: When the time comes to replace current camera.
(tags: camera photography digital review panaonic leica corydoctorow boingboing)

One house through boom and bust
Oh look. A couple used their California home as an ATM, foreclosed and moved to Austin to drive up our prices. Marvelous.
(tags: mortgage finance housing california texas stupidity)

We were invited to a birthday dinner party for a friend. Her husband is an owner of a local restaurant, so they prepared a special tasting menu just for the occasion. Here’s what we had (more for my memory than anything else because I’ll forget):
Reception - Veuve Cliquot
Primer Curso - Sweet Corn Pann Cotta, Cucumber [...]

The War as We Saw It - New York Times
An op-ed in the NY Times from soldiers nearing the end of their 15 month deployment. Read it. Now.
(tags: iraq war soldiers firstperson oped nytimes)