Raclette in NYC? [Serious Eats Talk]"Sue Perette in Brooklyn (270 smith st) have Raclette like in France, with the grill on the table, and they serve individual as well. Great little place where all the menu is worth trying."
Lorusso Pizza & Focaccia – Long Island City – Astoria, NYSaw this while driving in Astoria near [...]
Grand Burrito recommendation"For really good, non-chain-style Mexican, y'all really need to check out Grand Burrito (SW corner of 23rd/5th), open 24/7." —drmoze, on Serious Eats New York
The Top 100 Sci-Fi Short Stories [Sci-Fi Lists]Good reading list to have on hand. I've only read 12 of them.
Big Red Kitchen: Jalapeño Popper DipAnother good one for Super [...]
13 Tutorials to Help You Grow Your Blog Readership Next Year [Problogger]1. The Myth of Great Content Marketing Itself
2. Nine Things to Do to Make Sure Your Next Blog Post is Read by More Than Your Mom
3. Five Ways to Get Your Blog Indexed by Google in 24 Hours
4. SEO Tips for Bloggers
5. How [...]
Holiday pupcakes are almost done [Cute Overload]Heh. Puppy in the mixing bowl. Cute, but it looks staged.
Video: Olbermann’s Special Comment on the HCR shitshow [MSNBC]"No single payer, no sale. No public option, no sale."
HCR as we knew it is dead [HuffPo]"I cannot imagine that the White House has done focus groups or polling among the [...]
Giro Ambient Bike Gloves [REI]These look good for cold-weather riding. 6/6 rating. $45
A Twist on Mom’s Spaghetti Pie [Burgers and Acquisitions]Recipe that takes leftover spaghetti, mixes it with egg and Parmesan, and plunks it into a muffin tin to make individual servings of spaghetti pie. Probably something more along the lines of what a kid [...]
On "rockstar butchers" [Serious Eats]"Someone had to eventually replace 'mixologists' as the over-hyped, self-important, douchebags of the restaurant and food world. Go grind me some hamburger and STFU…"
Media training tips for trainers – part 2 [noodlepie]Good tip on how to use Delicious more effectively. Wonder how many people are still using Delicious though.
Make better use of the road [The Bellows]"Meanwhile, commenters in the previous post are all very upset that cyclists might even consider not strictly obeying the rules of the road. This, quite frankly, is dumb. Every time I find myself on an interstate, it seems to me that nearly 100% of the cars and trucks [...]
Big Paper, little paper, no paper at all? [Philly Citypaper]"In April, I ran a panel for the Society of Professional Journalists on "Ethics in the Digital Age," which attracted a wide range of J-school students. I argued that the ethical virtues of an actual newspaper are partly due to having to produce a physical product, [...]
‘The Ramen King and I’ [Serious Eats]"Portions of this memoir read very much like a Murakami novel—the quiet yet inexplicable obsessions of neurotic protagonists, interwoven with the mythicized stories of unknown figures and minor characters that stop just short of the surreal."
Auto-retweet bot using Yahoo PipesMight be useful. Who knows.
Google Image Search now filters for [...]
List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names [Wikipedia]In searching for the correct term to describe a resident of Toronto, I found this helpful list. Demonymic (or gentilic) is, according to Wikipedia, "the name for a resident of a locality which is derived from the name of the particular locality." And I found my [...]