Radiolab’s show on Choice

Apparently there’s been a action film boom over in Vietnam. This is the trailer for Clash, which showed at the Tribeca Film Festival 2010.  Here is how reviewer Andrew O’Hehir summed it:

It’s a high-octane martial-arts ass-kicker built around an overly complicated criminal scheme, a leggy heroine who looks great in a ball gown and chops down French musclemen with her awesome kickboxing moves, and a soundtrack fueled by slammin’ Vietnamese hip-hop. Yeah — I actually said “Vietnamese hip-hop.”

american-apologies:

Watch Obama do stand-up at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Hilarity ensues.

Epicurious has a series of videos on what you need to know to brew all kinds of coffee and espresso drinks. One crucial guide to me is how to steam milk, as shown by a man declared as CHAMPION BARISTA. I’ve had a recent addiction to lattes, something that Starbucks, with a store located two footsteps away from my work, never seems to get right. Even worse, they use a whole vat of scalded steamed milk, assuring that I’m not the only one with the same experience.

Often after lunches at ferry plaza, I stop by Pier 3 at The Plant cafe, where the barista there steams milk in individual portions, then stares at the tin for when the milk settles just so.

The small, cool contest has begun over at apartment therapy. My favorite section is the teeny tiny division where apartments must be under 400 square feet. At first I thought only 400 square feet? Does your bath tub double as a dish washing basin and a bed?

And yet, I admire the bare necessity that would seem uncomfortable to those who require in their lives walk in closets and his and hers sinks.

Coffee.