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“Smart Siri” – Voice Answer for $1.99 instead of $3.99
Works on iOS devices and Android, powered in part by the all powerful Wolfram Alpha.
The next Voice Answer update will integrate the above robot animation, as well as much of the
functionality of Sparkling Apps‘ other app, Place.
Examples of topics and specific questions:
- Mathematics:
‘Integrate sin x dx from x=0 to pi’ - Units & Measures
‘U.K. men’s size 11 shoe in Japanese size’ - Money & Finance
‘What is the Apple stock price’ - Statistics & Data Analysis
‘geometric mean 12, 17′ - Dates & Times
‘What is the current time in Tokyo?’ - Socioeconomic Data
‘What is an Intercity bus driver salary?’ - Current Weather
‘What will be the high temperature today?’ - Health & Medicine
‘What is the life expectancy of a U.S. female age 30?’ - Places & Geography
‘Where is ZIP 60637?’ - Chemistry
‘Show the 3D structure of ibuprofen’ - People & History
‘When did Ghandi die?’ - Food & Nutrition
’2 slices of swiss cheese’ - Physics
‘What is the speed of light?’ - Materials
‘Show me Topaz’ - Education
‘How many kids are repeating primary school in Mexico?’ - Culture & Media
‘US constitution’ - Organizations
‘New York University’ - Engineering
‘Doppler shift 300Hz, 75mph’ - Astronomy
‘Star chart’ - Music
‘Key of Aflat minor’ - Transportation
‘What is the total length of all roads in Spain?’ - Technological World
‘Frequency allocations 900MHz’ - Words & Linguistics
‘Show me words that rhyme with bear’ - Earth Sciences
‘When was the Jurassic Period?’ - Life Sciences
‘Compare puma, lion, red fox’ - Sports & Games
‘San Francisco Giants’ - Web & Computer Systems
‘What is the cheapest tablet?’ - Colors
‘What do you get when you mix red and blue’
The answers are spoken out, and relevant images are given.
Undo The Koch Brothers Before They Undo You
Robert Greenwald’s
latest film release:
The Koch Brothers Exposed
Joe Pollack, 81, dies today.
Joe Pollack, beloved writer/critic, has died today.
It is a sad day for St. Louis.
His last film review posted by his wife Ann, after his death this morning.
An earlier review of Food, Inc. – the movie.
Harper Barnes on Joe Pollack.
Science (Friday) To The Rescue!
NPR’s Science Friday
(Sci-Fi BE is a great app)
- Be Here Now: Meditation For The Body And Brain
An interview w. “Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World” author Mark Williams,
an Oxford University clinical psychologist
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The Oxford Mindfulness Center
&
The book’s blog
- Combating Depression With Meditation, Diet
An interview with “Spontaneous Happiness” author Dr. Andrew Weil
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His website
The Turin Horse/A Torinói Ló
At Webster University
Feb. 17, 18 & 19 – 7:30 p.m.
My review:
Highly celebrated by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Susan Sontag, cinema’s current Homo Hungaricus, Béla Tarr is famous for the rarely screened films “Sátántangó” and “Werckmeister Harmonies.”
Jancsó’s long takes and Olmi’s details, here with echoes of Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” and Bresson’s “Au Hasard Balthazar” – that legacy is quite present, but the punch and grit that Tarr delivers is all his own. Yet for all those so-called “difficult films,” including this one, mention must be made of his longstanding companion in crime, the famous Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, who knows his topic when he challenges all reviews with “You know, the problem is that anything that’s the least bit serious gets bad PR.”
This time again, in a tale that weaves a horse and the wind together as key characters, it is clear that there’s trouble. Is it Hungary, the earth, the land? Where to turn to? What causes insanity or Niezsche’s ten year silence? No answers… or at least nothing you can put in your pocket during the film or afterwards.
Survival must be madness…
2011 Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear Winner -> A-
Thierry Marx: de l’Affiche Rouge à Miyamoto Musashi
Podcast interview avec le Top Chef
sur France Culture
(L’Affiche Rouge, Ordre/Désordre, France/Japon, Tradition/Nouveauté…)
Élu en 2006 par le Gault et Millau chef de l’année.
- Chef au Mandarin Oriental à Paris -
Thierry Marx © Tim Douet
Miyamoto Musashi - 宮本 武蔵"
独行道 Dokkōdō’ s precepts
(“The Way of Walking Alone”)
- Accept everything just the way it is.
- Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
- Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.
- Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
- Be detached from desire your whole life long.
- Do not regret what you have done.
- Never be jealous.
- Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
- Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.
- Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
- In all things have no preferences.
- Be indifferent to where you live.
- Do not pursue the taste of good food.
- Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
- Do not act following customary beliefs.
- Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.
- Do not fear death.
- Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.
- Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
- You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
- Never stray from the Way.
Last (Cross-Cultural) Latkes, Before Is Too Late
Potato Jalapeño Latkes
12 pieces (2 per person)
Ingredients:
2 Large russet potatoes, peeled
1 Egg yolk
½ cup Matzo meal
1 Jalapeño, seeded and finely chopped
1 t Kosher salt
Olive oil for frying
To Make:
1) Using a box grater, coarsely grate the potatoes into a medium-size bowl. Add the egg yolk, jalapeño, salt, and matzo meal; mix well and let cool in the refrigerator for five minutes to allow ingredients to bind.
2) Remove bowl from refrigerator and drain off any excess liquid.
Julian Medina’s potato jalapeno latkes in the pan
3) Over a medium flame, heat ½ cup olive oil in a 10-inch skillet until hot but not smoking. Take 1 heaping tablespoon of the potato mixture at a time and place into the pan, being careful not to crowd the latkes. Cook each latke until golden brown on both sides (approximately five minutes total).
4) Transfer latkes to a paper-towel-lined plate, add additional salt if desired. Add ¼ to ½ cup of olive oil (if needed) to pan and repeat process with remaining latke mixture.
5) Serve immediately (traditional apple sauce is fine)
(Recipe courtesy Chef Julian Medina & The World/PRI/BBC/WGBH)
