“Hi Spielberg, let’s do it together,” reads a graffitied message on a wall in one scene from Tony Jaa’s Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior. It’s a invitation for Spielberg to cast him in a film.
That’s one offer Spielberg should be glad to accept. Jaa, a martial arts star of almost superhuman abilities, knows how to an execute a thrilling action sequence. And he and the directors appear share the same fundamental belief about action/adventure films, namely, that it’s fine to suspend logic and plausibility as long as you make things look …

Mah jong and hip-hop: together at last!

Tonight I made one of my favorite dishes, Spanish Chicken with Saffron Rice. I use a simplified version of this recipe from Epicurious.com that I got at A Southern Season. They were selling saffron that day, and this recipe is as good a reason as any to splurge on some.
The changes my recipe made to the Epicurious verson were: using 3 lbs. of chicken breast instead of a whole chicken and omitting the peppers and peas. My version also didn’t specify that you were to cook the rice in the …

Or, in my unique version, oily-yet-delicious tomato sludge.

This blogger’s experience working at the behemoth that is the Googleplex put me in mind of the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to work for Globex. But does Google offer self-cleaning kitchens?
What happens when Google swallows your life? A new hire at the internet company is blogging the experience, from waking in his Google apartment to taking a Google car to Google dinner and then Googling home via Google.
A Sun veteran, software developer Tim Bray was no stranger to big-company life. But he knew Google enveloped employees on a whole …