I guess I am going to start a blog post here to keep track of stuff I need to eat in various places I might be visiting. There’s probably a better way to do this with an app or something, but most likely it would be some sort of socially networked thing, and I do [...]
I was sad to see last night that Six Apart has been bought out by VideoEgg forming a new company called Say Media. I started using Six Apart‘s then-signature product, Movable Type, in mid 2003. It was the only option at the time if you wanted to host your own blog, on your own server, [...]
After traveling for three and a half years and through 70-plus countries with nothing more than a backpack, travel writer Gary Arndt offers 20 observations about the state of the world: 1) People are generally good. 2) The media lies. 3) The world is boring. 4) People don’t hate Americans…. I particularly liked No. 12: [...]
The new design began rolling out last night, with plenty of #NewTwitter tweets accompanying the relaunched website. Looks like things like photos and videos (from selected partners) will be shown in-line on website in a slide-out pane when you click a tweet. Looks a lot like an iPhone app. Most of the people I know [...]
Fish catching methods of the world – Google BooksAmphibious mussel harvester. Europe-U.S. Country Size Comparison MapDuring our walking trip in France, C. reminded me that France is roughly the size of Texas. This map of Europe overlaid on the U.S. puts that in perspective, visually.
Best baguettes in NYC [NYM]According to this 2006 New York magazine story, which employed Cornell professor and French bread expert Stephen Kaplan, they are, in order: Almondine, Pain d'Avignon, Amy's Bread, Balthazar Bakery, Le Pain Quotidien, and Sullivan Street Bakery. (Though one should note that he seems to hate Balthazar's and LPQ's specimens.) 10 Restaurant [...]
From a set of etchings I did on found transparencies in the late ’90s. I worked at a newspaper in Oregon, where they were getting rid of old archives of transparencies from the entertainment desk. Can you believe that newspapers used to be composed this way? The networks would send out press packs to papers [...]