Friday, September 01, 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
US Open
The US Open is playing in my backyard now. This is Maria Sharapova just in case you aren't sure.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
It Really Feels Like the 90s All Over Again
picture from wikimedia.orgThe Look that Moves Thousand Dollar Merchandise
Kate Moss owns the The New York Times Style Magazine.
I don't know if the world is running out of supermodel or Kate Moss is just that hot, again. When I read the Style magazine, it brought back fond memories of the 90s, when I was young and stupid instead of today's old and stupid. And when Kate Moss was the model.
In the 300-page magazine, Kate Moss appears as model for Dior, Burberry, Louis Vuitton, David Yurman, Versace, Belstaff, and LongChamp, in a grand total of 10 pages, hawking thousand dollars bags and thousand dollars coats. Mainly sex and fashion bullshit actually.
When Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch, he lost his contract with Paramount. When Kate blew rails on a couch, the sponsors love her even more (well maybe not those uptight Swedes H&M, but who gives a fuck about H&M anyway). Allegedly, Kate stands to make 19 million pounds for 2006, more than what she used to make before the cocaine scandal. Looks like the movie industry and the fashion industry have a very different set of standards on what sells and what not sells.
We should all learn from Kate, here is more.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Poincare Conjecture
The face of a genius, in addition to, only a mother can love.And the shitstorm happening in the mathematics community.
Poincare Conjecture is a very difficult subject. How difficult? it takes more than a hundred years before some Russian or Chinese can solve it. To me, it's just as difficult as say understanding how a dishwasher works.
Did Grigori Perelman complete the proof? Or rather team Xi-Ping Zhu/Hui-dong Cao/Shing-Tung Yau completed what Perelman left unfinished?
When Stephen Hawking visited Beijing, everybody and his dog were paying attention to Hawking. Little did we pay attention to Shing-Tung Yau's talk on Poincare Conjecture until lately I guess. Or except the mathematicians.
Here's what Dr. Perelman say, as reported in the New Yorker's article. And I quote
“It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens,” he said. “It is people like me who are isolated.” We asked him whether he had read Cao and Zhu’s paper. “It is not clear to me what new contribution did they make,” he said. “Apparently, Zhu did not quite understand the argument and reworked it.” As for Yau, Perelman said, “I can’t say I’m outraged. Other people do worse. Of course, there are many mathematicians who are more or less honest. But almost all of them are conformists. They are more or less honest, but they tolerate those who are not honest.”
He's not outraged all right, but he is totally bitter no doubt.
Philip Greenspun's weblog
The New Yorker's article
New York Times on Hawking's trip t o China.
New York Times on Perelman and Poincare.
Albert Ho
Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images(FYI: No, this is not a still picture from A Better Tomorrow, Part IV.)
For a second, I thought Albert Ho was some triad big brother, must be the aviator shades he donned on; I think to cover his scars sustained during a vicious attack in a Central's McDonald's days ago. In terms of sunglasses, we do have similar tastes.
Albert Ho, you really rock.
Beating of Lawyer Threatns Hong Kong's Allure, Keith Bradsher
UPDATES:
In response to Vince's comment, I will let the photos speak for themselves...
Photos' rights belong to their rightful owners.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Joe Rosenthal 10/9/1911 - 8/20/2006
Mr. Rosenthal was rejected by the army because of "abysmally poor eyesight," he proceeded to work for Associated Press as a photographer. He won the Pulizer Prize for Photography with the iconic picture Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.The New York Times Obituaries
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rosenthal
Note: I wouldn't know about it if not because of Sid. Thanks.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
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