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Atlanta Eats

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Before we left for our trip to Puerto Rico, I copied this list of places to eat at the Atlanta Airport. The list was extracted from “Grabbing a Bite Between Flights,” by Matt Gross for the NY Times

Since we flew to PR on Christmas Day we thought we’d try One Flew South for our Christmas dinner. We enjoyed it so much that we also ate there during our layover in Atlanta, that’s what you get when you go for the cheap tickets, on our way back. The service and food was excellent. It is a bit up-scale and more pricey than most restaurant food, but it was worth it. We shared an arugula, butternut squash salad, and salmon ‘hot-pot’ style. We had one beer, one coffee and the cheeses plate for dessert on the way out and the rice pudding on the way back. The bill, with 18% gratuity included was about $50.00. Very much worth it, and if the restaurant were in Fredericksburg, we’d be regulars.
ATLANTA: ATL

www.atlanta-airport.com

Bistro del Sol, outside security, near the central atrium, (404) 767-3988, has Mediterranean-inspired food, wraps and jerk chicken. Bubbly service, too.

One Flew South, in Concourse E; (404) 816-3464; www.oneflewsouthatl.com. It opened Nov. 17, too late for inclusion here, but with twists on Southern food, it looks worth checking out.

Paschal’s, several locations; (404) 305-8888; www.paschalsrestaurant.com.

To find the Taxi assembly break room, leave the airport via the northern baggage-claim exits, turn left, walk down left side of the road and under the overpass.

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BEARDO Releases “USA For Affluence” On Pitchfork TV

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  • BEARDO Releases “USA For Affluence” On Pitchfork TV | The Dead Hub
    Featuring Andrew W.K., Fred Armisen (Trenchmouth), Moby, Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem, the New Pornographers’ Carl Newman, Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, The Make Up, Weird War), Amy Carlson (Third Watch/Law & Order) Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers, Ryan Schreiber (Pitchfork founder/president), Gavin McInnes (Street Carnage/ex-VICE),
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Wired Campus & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-12-19

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  • Wired Campus: Most Popular Wired Campus TV Installments – Chronicle.com
    This year we kicked off Wired Campus TV, our tech-video series. We used the same free or low-cost video tools that some professors are trying in their courses to produce these short Web features.
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  • Room Thirteen – Where Music Rocks
    A Place to Bury Strangers – ‘A Place to Bury Strangers’
    “A Place To Bury Strangers have been highly touted for being loud, which may be true but what people fail to mention is the sheer brilliance. There is not one weak track on this ten song album which sees an array of rock, psychedelic, experimental and shoegaze music with plenty of distortion and killer tunes to blow your mind!” Neil Richardson
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Review of A Place to Bury Strangers’ show in Cardiff, Wales

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Multimedia on the Web, Future of the Internet, and Image Search Engineslinks for 2008-12-17

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TED Talks : Why we don’t understand as much as we think we do – Jonathan Drori (2007)


Today I listened to the TED Talk: Why we don’t understand as much as we think we do – Jonathan Drori (2007).  He starts by asking some simple questions that he claims most people get wrong. We get these wrong, he claims, because of the education and experiences we have had. They bias our understanding. He also makes the point that in some cases, using magnetism as an example, students understand more about a topic before they have been schooled in it.

Early on he features the quote: “Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out” – Cardinal Wolsey, 1471 – 1530

Here are the questions. You’ll have to watch the talk to hear his answers to the first three.

1. A little seed weighs next to nothing, but a tree weighs a lot. Where does all the stuff come from?

2.Can you light a little torch-bulb with a battery, a bulb and one piece of wire?

3. Why is it hotter in summer than in winter?

4. Now please scribble a diagram of the solar system and the way the planets orbit.
The orbits are elliptical, but not very elongated, that is, the distance between to foci is realtively small. See, for example,
http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/permafrosttunnel/Ice_Age_Earth_Orbit.jpg

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U.S. Confirmed Deaths
Reported Deaths: 4209
Confirmed Deaths: 4208
Pending Confirmation: 1
DoD Confirmation List

Source: Iraq Coalition Casualty Count

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A Place to Bury Strangers at the Mercury Lounge

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  • A Place To Bury Strangers – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY Events | Metromix New York
    We’re just gonna put it out there: value-wise, this is one of the best money-to-band lineups we’ve seen in a while. Let the fools drop pointless hundreds on an average dinner and champagne they pretend to like. You’ll drop $25 and rock out to A Place To Bury Strangers, the Brooklyn trio that fuses shoegaze, industrial hard rock and dark post-punk. Frontman Oliver Ackermann, the founder of effects pedal company Death by Audio, employs many of them to great use in his band’s own set, constantly tweaking and warping the sound while never devolving into pointless noise. It’s loud. Hard. Noisy. Perfect for (ears) ringing in the New Year. Brooklyn’s Dirty on Purpose also perform in what will be their last show ever. With The Vandelles
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A Place to Bury Strangers in London links for 2008-12-13

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  • Monday 08/12/08 A Place To Bury Strangers @ ICA, London – GIGWISE
    The images on the screen at the back of the stage switch between scenes of the open road and flowers, but they do little to soften the blows of aggressive anthem To Fix The Gash In Your Head which is blowing chunks out of the crowd’s heads as Oliver’s guitar (one of many played tonight) roars aggressively to the back of the room while Jay Space drums beats as heavy as thunder. As the trio tear through a monstrous set, there’s little interaction between band and crowd, and it’s not needed as it’s clear everyone’s immersed in the music, even a stage invader goes unnoticed by Oliver!
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  • A Place To Bury Strangers
    This juxtaposition is beautifully realised by A Place To Bury Strangers’ visual backdrop. A series of pleasant scenes – rolling countryside, the beauty of flowers in spring – are subverted though a series of briefly flashing subliminal images depicting scenes of outright stark terror and discomfort before giving way to the void of black suns and black holes. Plugging into an electric mainline, this head-on collision of sound and vision makes for a thrillingly visceral experience from a band that has the sheer balls to pick up the baton that’s been passed on by forebears My Bloody Valentine and run with it at full pelt not just at a brick wall but right through it.
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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-12-12

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  • rokbun – Scotland’s Live Music
    These guys really know how to put on a show. For the majority of the gig, the room is barely lit except for fairy lights and the bar, and so much smoke is pumped into the room to the point that the band is barely visable (and made it hell to get any decent photos) but for the final song, we’re faced with 10 minutes of strobe lights, just as our eyes have adjusted to the dark. Guitarist Oliver Ackerman picks up his guitar and swings it by the strings and leads, and the whole front row step back to avoid being skewered.
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  • TheStar.com | entertainment | Vinyl 45s make a comeback
    “I personally love them,” says Oliver Ackermann of New York noise-rock outfit A Place to Bury Strangers, which recently issued a volley of seven-inches on Important Records. “When you create a seven-inch, it’s an opportunity to do something unique that doesn’t fit for an album. The tracks are also immediate; there is no filler. A single is a glimpse of a moment and an experience and an idea.”
    (tags: aptbs 7inch vinyl)
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