Relentlessly self-critical, Baldwin says, “I don’t think I really have a talent for movie acting.” Credit Photograph by Martin Schoeller Alec Baldwin, who stars in “30 Rock,” the NBC sitcom that has revived his career and done nothing to lift his spirits, has the unbending, straight-armed gait of…
Brian Sutorius
Everyone recognizes New York. From the sweaty jungles to the shivering tundras, we all know the look, the silhouette, the height and breadth of the city. This place is the most famous man-made vista in the whole world, and that’s something. From abroad, we see it not just as America’s greatest…
So we're now nearly five weeks into the iPad deployment and I thought it was time to update you in some detail. The Educational Part So many people have asked me to explain the educational impact of the iPad. I simply can't yet get to grips with everything that's happening. Put simply, the iPad…
Pogoplugs are great little storage devices, but they can do more than they let on. Let's take a look at how you can hack a Pogoplug into a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server. This is a fun little project, but it does take some time and patience. Be sure to set aside a few hours this weekend…
Photo: Michelle Gachet, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 650 Townsend St. building viewed from 8th St. in San Francisco, Calif. on Sept. 17, 2010. 650 Townsend St. building from 8th St. in San Francisco, Calif. on Sept. 17, 2010. 650 Townsend St. building viewed from 8th St.…
Stephen Colbert testified in Congress on Friday about an immigration bill that he said — in all truthiness — he had not read, “like most members of Congress.” And when the comedian was challenged by one disgruntled lawmaker about his expertise, which was based on a single day spent hamming it up in…
If anyone can understand the tension between brick-and-mortar restaurants and the mobile army of food trucks that has stormed D.C. in the past year, it’s Stephan Boillon. After he lost his job at Dino in Cleveland Park in 2008, the veteran chef sought to launch an upscale sandwich shop on…
Bring It On Home [Vice] The Southern Boys Behind Eastbound & Down Send Kenny Powers’s Ass to Mexico Published October, 2010 BY HUNTER STEPHENSON PHOTOS BY RICHARD KERN This colossal exposé on the long-awaited second season of Eastbound & Down is going to appear in our October Larfs Issue, but we…
©photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman (click photo to visit her blog) [Note: Shuna, aka eggbeater, has covered this subject well and honestly in many posts , notably the culinary school question . I address it in the intro to the new paperback of Making of a Chef and on my FAQ page. But when I read…
by Adam M. Bright in Examined Life
It’s February. Eleven p.m. The air is cold, glittery, almost amniotically thick. There are all sorts of archetypal New York touches to the street scene outside: couples jaywalking, slabs of jury-rigged scaffolding over the sidewalks, fat tanklike dumpsters full of…
SEATTLE—The unattached, freewheeling, consequence-free years following Frank Anderton's graduation from college are being spent in "one of the coolest offices in all of Seattle," the 24-year-old reported Tuesday. Anderton, who has the world at his feet, works late at the office. "Man, it's the…
As I hinted in my previous post , Birdfeed’s development was highly stressful. I originally conceived the project with my brother Robert , but ended up losing him and all the early design work he had done on the app due to a conflict with his employer at the time. I let my perfectionism and…
As I work towards completing my own game , I’ve been thinking a lot about finishing projects in general. I’ve noticed that there are a lot of talented developers out there that have trouble finishing games. Truthfully, I’ve left a long trail of unfinished games in my wake… I think everyone has. Not…
Photo: Lance Iversen, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 20 Caption Close Image 1 of 20 French Laundry waiters and food runners line up in front of Chef de Cuisine, Timothy Hollingsworth who is plating up one of the thirteen courses offered on the nightly dinner serving. For many this is an…
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The internet has been a great unifier of people, companies and online networks. Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it A fragmenting virtual world THE first internet boom, a decade and a half ago, resembled a religious movement. Omnipresent cyber-gurus, often framed by colourful PowerPoint…
Bruce Feiler
I am nervous, truly nervous. As the taxi bounces southward through the trendier neighborhoods of Manhattan—Flatiron, the Village, SoHo—I keep imagining the possible retorts of some incensed maître d’:
“What kind of establishment do you think this is?”
“How dare you insult me!”
“You…
My software company, 37signals, is nearly 11 years old. But until now, it's never really had a place to call its own. For much of that time, we've been positively nomadic. Our first headquarters was in the office of one of our original partners, a Chicago-based graphic designer named Carlos Segura.…
In his new book, Rick Reilly writes at length about ferret legging, a bloody endurance competition wherein the athlete stuffs a ferret down his pants. In 1987, Outside 's Donald Katz wrote the first, and still the best, ferret-legging account. Here it is. Reprinted with the author's permission. An…
The best television shows are a group effort, so it was fitting that the opening number at the Emmys on Sunday night was a fast and quite funny musical number of many. The host, Jimmy Fallon , wisely didn’t open with a version of his “Late Night” monologue, but instead returned to his “Saturday…
Christopher Poole is 22 years old, and as is often true for men his age, his mental life has been punctuated by a series of passing enthusiasms: video games, online chat rooms, Japanese animation. Currently he seems to be going through a Robert Moses phase. On the nightstand in his New York City…
Galveston, May 18, 2008
He stands at the lip of the bowl, which looks like a giant, empty swimming pool, and gazes at the brand-new concrete. He plops down his skateboard and sets his left foot on top of it, rolling it back and forth a few times near the edge. Except for his blue jeans, he’s wearing…
Game 5 was the end. That was LeBron James’(notes) last night in home whites, the night he looked beaten from the first quarter, the night that crushed so many dreams in Cleveland. Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals – the clincher in Boston – was an afterthought. And looking back, so was…
Image 1 of 3 Going up: Roald Dahl in his flying gear Image 1 of 3 Roald Dahl's Hurricane in Haifa in 1941 Image 1 of 3 Dahl drew heavily on his experience of flying in stories such as James and the Giant Peach 10:38AM BST 09 Aug 2010 Part 1: Roald Dahl's darkest hour Part 2: Roald Dahl: the spy who…
T he year 1960 began calmly enough for Roald Dahl, but it would prove to be tumultuous in many ways. Kiss Kiss, his fourth collection of short stories, was published in the United States in March and stormed into The New York Times bestseller lists. As Dahl boarded the boat back from New York to…
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Tony Cenicola/The New York Times WHEN fine-tuning the flavor of dishes and drinks, I’ve always turned to the usual bench of taste and aroma boosters: salt and pepper, lemon juice, herbs and spices, this or that condiment. One ingredient that never, ever came to mind was water. Water has no flavor to…
Celebrity Bill Murray Is Ready To See You Now He is one of the greatest comic actors alive. A man who's navigated his career with a peerless instinct for quality and self-respect. The man behind movies—from Caddyshack to Stripes , from Rushmore to Lost in Translation —that seem to have defined a…
I stumbled on this unsettling story of an obscure Pokémon bootleg/art-hack that I thought might be neat to share on here. I think this originated from 4chan, so I’ve no idea if this hack actually exists. It probably doesn’t, but it’s still a great concept/tale!:
I’m what you could call a collector…
A few seconds pass. Hi, Sam, James Franco says. I feel the same low-grade thrill of intimacy I felt at our first meeting in the NYU bathroomthis time spiced with a new kind of danger. I think we’re not supposed to be talking, I say. Why, what happened? he says. Did somebody call you? Did you…
Entertainment I Was with Coco A year ago, Todd Levin got the job of a lifetime—writing for 'The Tonight Show.' Nine months later, he was packing his desk. Now he recounts what it was really like: helping reboot a fifty-six-year-old franchise; watching his boss, Conan O'Brien, get screwed; and saying…
Also read Wired Magazine's January 2012 feature on Cow Clicker I made a Facebook game about Facebook games, called Cow Clicker. You can go play it on Facebook now , or you can see some screenshots on on this site . Here’s the short description, from the page just linked: Cow Clicker is a Facebook…
This morning, I sat down with Will Ferrell, Adam McKay , and Eva Mendes to discuss their new film "The Other Guys," and while I'm still under embargo about that movie, I can share what happened at the very end of my interview with McKay. I mentioned to him that I was doing this series on this site…
His hands trembled as he split the box cardboard in the dim light from the tiny barred window above his head. He had already ravenously eaten the food that was left in the Red Cross Package and now found the strength to consider another escape attempt. A previous attempt had led to failure and…
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