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With THE GREEN, Sundance Channel becomes the first television network in the United States to establish a major, regularly-scheduled programming destination dedicated entirely to the environment. Each week THE GREEN will present original series and documentary premieres about the earth's ecology and concepts of "green" living that balance human needs with responsible care for the planet. THE GREEN reflects the current tipping point in public awareness about ecological issues and the trend towards environmentally sustainable approaches to modern living. Presented by Robert Redford, the destination is hosted by award-winning journalist Simran Sethi and community advocate and MacArthur Fellow Majora Carter, two dynamic leaders who have distinguished themselves with revolutionary ideas in such areas as civic planning and global business practices.

Leading off each edition of THE GREEN at 9:00pm is the original program "Big Ideas for a Small Planet," a documentary series presenting the forward-thinking designers, products and processes that are on the leading edge of a new green world. Each episode revolves around a different green theme as it spotlights a specific innovator or innovation that has the potential to transform our everyday lives. "Big Ideas for a Small Planet" is produced by Scout Productions ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" NBC/Bravo and The Fog of War).
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THE artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978 at age 35, loved to cook, but he could never quite unbraid his culinary passions from those of artmaking, with sometimes bizarre dinner party results. At one, recalled his widow, Jane Crawford, he cooked a lovely whole sea bass, but it emerged from the kitchen encased in a block of aspic nearly three feet long. He unmolded it, then gave the table a good kick, so that the aspic wobbled wildly and the bass seemed to fishtail upstream.
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i'm looking for a great dim sum spot to take mom and sisters. anyone have a favorite?
Beavers are back in NYC.
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Started my 9 day "Master Cleanse" with a MSG/Champagne headache.....cheated a little day one with some coconut water and tea, will cheat today with tea again but starting tommorow just the lemon juice/ B maple syrup/cayanne pepper/water drinks + salt water drinks.....

Was tough to look at food day one, by mind was not on board and I almost went and bought food, had to keep reminding my mind what the plan was....

Not a great sleep but energy is good here day #2
Is PS3 on the verge of a death spiral?
That was part II, here's part I.
must read Glenn screed
Tocqueville is Smoking......great meal, sunshoke soup and nantucket bays, uni pasta carbonara!!, every dish around the table looked amazing "11 Mad level"......not cheap but big time DELISH!!!!.....sorry have not remembered yet how to link I will ask again my in house tekkie.....http://www.tocquevillerestaurant.com/
a win for Joost ...
Viacom to Offer Online Video, but Not on YouTube
HD-DVD AACS cracked ...
What Copy Protection? Get AnyDVD
Movie Downloads Coming Soon to the PS3
Tyndall Report
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77 million paintings cant be wrong
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Fruit (and Vegetable) Smoothie
"Flexing" Today

Had some chicken soup for breakfast, light on the meat, lots of broth.....Than had some Pork Candy as I call it for my son so he eats it, san daniele prosciutto, its the best IMHO in Italy, from the north in Fruili....

I will flex again manana with some braised grass fed beef, why grass fed?? SUNSHINE!!! look its fact a homone full unhappy life caged animal is just not as tasty and whom wants to eat an angry animal?? I will adapt a reciepe from my pals Diner Journal

http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/26964/index.html
Any thoughts on this?

Matt's mentioned Tim Wu's most excellent paper on the American wireless scene twice now, but I don't think this horse is dead yet. Wu paints a nice -- and by "nice," I mean kinda horrifying -- picture of what an Internet missing the fundamental principle of neutrality might look like. Take, for example, the state of innovation in the cellular market. Here in the U.S., wireless carriers rule the roost. They control what phones hook up to their networks. Since equipment developers have to design for particular networks, carriers pretty much control their entry into the market. Carriers lock phones to their networks and cripple on them neat technologies like Bluetooth, wi-fi, and even call timers (so as not to have you compare your records to theirs). Couple that with no real standards for software development, and few people bother building exciting new cell phone apps. To get a snazzy new iPhone you have enter into a contract with AT&T/Cingular, which is roughly analogous to Apple telling you that your new MacBook won't go online unless you switch to Comcast. The way wireless works today, innovation is only tolerated if it benefits the carrier, not the consumer.

Wireline (you know, when phones have wires) is of course pretty different. Yeah, the landline phone companies once argued that it was technically necessary for theirs to be "totally unified" systems. But today we can hook up just about any device to a phone line -- like, say, a modem -- because we were smart enough to enshrine the idea of open networks into law.

Over at the Agonist, Ian Welsh has more on the American wireless landscape, written in sort of fairy tale prose. Whatever it takes. In convincing people of the dangers of a carrier-controlled Internet, I think we could do worse than to get them to reflect on their own personal experiences as cell phone consumers.
hey tom, you seen anything?
i just noticed that planet of the apes was showing twice today on the history channel. isnt this more appropriate for the scifi channel or did i sleep through that lecture?