MayMay 6 Wednesday 09
Momofuku cookbook
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Helllllz yes.
Get yer clickity fingers ready: you can pre-order the Momofuku cookbook on Amazon. Publication date is October 27, 2009. It is likely to include the several recipes that David Chang shared with Gourmet magazine in Oct 2007 like the …
MayMay 4 Monday 09
30 Rock
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I love Shorpy photos...
A photo of Rockefeller Center from 1933. The view is more or less looking west...that's St. Patrick's Cathedral in the foreground on the left.
Update: And here's another shot of 30 Rock from 1933. Tags: nyc photography
AprilApr 23 Thursday 09
RIP, Geocities
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Amazing...
Yahoo is closing Geocities "later this year". Yahoo bought the service in 1999 for $3.57 billion. Tags: geocities yahoo
AprilApr 18 Saturday 09
The Wire Bible
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Makes me wanna rewatch the wire... such an amazing show. In other news, I finished Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica this week.
This is quite a treat. Someone got ahold of some scripts from The Wire and posted them online:
Disturbin' Strokes
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Hahahahaha... yikes
The intro to Diff'rent Strokes set to some disturbing music is "far more creepy than I thought it would [be]". (via cyn-c) Tags: diffrentstrokes remix tv video
AprilApr 9 Thursday 09
Mmm, God particle
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Hahaha, sounds bad...
Ten steps to perform in the event that you have accidentally swallowed the Higgs boson.
7. Do you feel protons decaying? Grand Unification may be occurring near your vital organs. However, this may be caused by far less …
AprilApr 5 Sunday 09
15 Years Ago Today: Kurt Cobain Died
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Wow... I'm getting old
Fifteen years ago today, the body of Kurt Cobain was found dead inside of his house in Seattle. That day many fans of the band came home from school or work to see this MTV Kurt Loder broadcast (which we don't remember him …
AprilApr 4 Saturday 09
URL shorteners suck
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AMEN
After threatening as much for many months, Joshua Schachter has published a piece about how URL shorteners (TinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd, etc.) suck for everyone except the companies which build URL shorteners.
There are three other parties in the …
AprilApr 3 Saturday 09
Polaroid Auctioned for $52.7 Million
AprilApr 1 Wednesday 09
280. Never respond to a critic in writing.
MarchMar 26 Thursday 09
Where The Wild Things Are - Trailer
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Ohhhh! I can't wait!
Watch the JUST RELEASED trailer for the movie directed by Spike Jonze, Where The Wild Things Are at Apple.com. I’m REALLY excited about this.
MarchMar 19 Thursday 09
What We Do conference at RISD
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Sounds fun! I'm pretty sure they're doing it for my birthday.
What We Do is a one-day ad hoc conference being held at RISD on April 11.
On Saturday, April 11th, 100 members of the RISD community (students, faculty, staff, and alums) will share …
How the Crash Will Reshape America
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I read this article during my last flight from NYC and it was fascinating. The differences between the midwest and a big city are huge, and not always better, but this definitely addresses part of what I couldn't have put into words.
Right or …