Tuesday, February 11, 2003

That's a topic for a whole rant kind of post: best Chinese food I've ever had. 6:00:47 PM    comment []

Dave: Michael Earl says Cambridge has spicy noodles. "I strongly recommend Mary Chung's Dun Dun Noodles (in Central Square, Cambridge) -- heavy noodles in a hot peanut-based sauce, shredded chicken optional. The Peking Ravoli and Suan La Chow Shao soup are also fabulous. It's a favorite of the MIT comp-sci culture, interestingly." [Scripting News] Second the recommendation. Some of the better Chinese food I've ever eaten. 5:57:30 PM    comment []

Vignette updates portal software. The company releases a new version of business software, providing an update to its tools that create and add to Web pages for employees and business partners. By Alorie Gilbert, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] 2:54:30 PM    comment []

"Complete List of 2003 Oscar Nominees" [Daypop Top 40] 2:10:53 PM    comment []

Dave: Live blog this evening. A reminder, tonight we're having a live session here at Harvard. It's not an intro to weblogs for newbies. I'm going to say that right up front. If you don't know what a weblog is, you can hang out, and maybe we'll get around to explaining what they are, and maybe we'll only talk about other stuff. I have a few ideas. But we never know what's going to happen at one of these until it's over. Tonight's session starts at 6:30PM, at Lewis International Law Center 301 on the law school campus, and will run between 1 and 2 hours. After we'll go out and get some food somewhere (cheap) in the Havard Square area. It's a good chance to meet other people in the weblog world in the Boston area. We'll probably do these sessions pretty regularly through 2003 as the blogging activity bootstraps at Harvard. [Scripting News] 9:45:06 AM    comment []

Heh. Vandals deface ex-hacker Mitnick's site. Twice in the past two weeks, online vandals broke into the Web server of former hacker Kevin Mitnick's security start-up, Defensive Thinking. By Robert Lemos, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] 6:51:27 AM    comment []

Florida Struggles to Find a Way to Achieve Smaller Classes. After Florida voters approved a measure to impose the most restrictive class-size limits in the nation, the state is grappling with just how to accomplish it. By Dana Canedy. [New York Times: Education] C'mon, how esoteric is the solution here? You can change the ratio by altering the numerator or the denominator. Smaller class sizes either by fewer students, or more instructors. Inasmuch as 1 is probably not feasible, it's not hard to see what the answer has to be: hire more teachers. 6:46:27 AM    comment []

Turntable U? In D.J.'s Hands Professor Sees an Instrument. The Berklee College of Music is grappling with the question of whether hip-hop turntablism deserves to be taught alongside harmony, melody and improvisation. By Michael Endelman. [New York Times: Education] 6:43:19 AM    comment []

Feds seek public input on hacker sentencing. (Security Focus) [News Is Free: Popular Items] 6:40:40 AM    comment []

A Broadband Hookup in Every Home. The state of Kentucky is equipping new low-income housing units with high-speed Internet access. Advocates of providing the nation's poor with broadband connections hope the idea prompts similar moves in other states. By Dustin Goot. [Wired News] 6:39:45 AM    comment []