Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Happy birthday, Dizzy Gillespie

10.20.2010

There they go again. Google is appropriately saluting Dizzy Gillespie with another predictably cool doodle. “It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” – Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)

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The Hero’s Journey as seen in The Matrix

10.20.2010

Author Christopher Vogler discusses the 12 steps of The Hero’s Journey, a classic story structure model based on Joseph Campbell’s seminal work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The makers of this informative video have nicely applied these ideas to The Matrix: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Two years ago today

10.20.2010

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Don’t flip a steak more than once. Myth?

10.20.2010

I’m a relative newcomer to the “knowledge” that the secret to cooking a perfect steak requires that you flip it only once, halfway through cooking. The theory is one of physics: reintroducing cooked beef to heat makes it tough. But is the theory true? Does the technique actually create a noticeable improvement in the way [...]

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