Someone asked me today what my favorite tech blog was. I had to think about it a bit, but I eventually decided that HackThePlanet is hands-down the best thing since sliced silicon. I’ve been reading it since 2000, and I still enjoy every post. It’s a hardcore tech geek blog that’s avoided whoring itself, posting hardcore nerd things semi-regularly. Kudos.

Michael Crichton writes This Essay Breaks the Law.

The LA times has A description of an American gulag at Guantanamo bay, with free torture, force-feeding and darkness at noon. This from the land of the free?

How to Cut… I’m always flabbergasted when I observe a cooking teacher with poor knife skills. Unfortunately, it’s all too common. I even occasionally observe a professional cook, even in France, with poor knife skills, although this is a less common occurrence. In my opinion, good knife skills are an essential component of being a good cook. And good knife skills are not particularly difficult for the average person to learn.