Over at flickr, a little photo-tour of a few of my issues with the SCRABBLE beta Facebook app.
Two qualifications: First, it’s not a comparison to Wordscraper, which has problems of its own. Second, it’s a highly selective list; I find…
(Spoiler: Their recipe wins.)
According to Kottke, this sweet potato and butternut squash soup recipe was for a time the most emailed story at NYTimes.com.
Two or three weeks ago, I picked up ingredients for something alarmingly similar; I finally got around to…
Why I gave up on the WordPress 2.7 icon survey:
Q.1
How do you think the [two] GB icon sets as a whole would fit into WordPress 2.7?
*Because both sets are in same visual style, you can answer for both even though…
From The New Yorker, one small item to add to the long list of comparisons of Obama and Matt Santos, the President-Elect’s fictionalized counterpart on The West Wing.
Recall that Obama first said he would meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions in a primary debate in…
I’m with Philip Greenspun on the question of whether to bail out the auto industry:
The government has already done everything that it needs to in order to help G.M. […] Chapter 11 was designed specifically so that employees can keep…
NBC just showed Ann Curry’s green room, as though we though all those graphics she was throwing around were real, solid objects.
CNN pseudo-hologrammically projected Jessica Yellin into the Situation Room on CNN. Now Yellin is explaining that there are 35…
I’ve just read on LiveScience.com that “[b]ooks are just as powerful as movies” at triggering “delight, pain, or disgust” reactions in the brain. As is so often the case on LiveScience, this gripping opening represents a kind of yellow science journalism…
From SciAm’s “The Hidden Power of Scent: Scientific American“:
[P]eople who lose their sense of smell often gain a new appreciation for its importance.
The article goes on to discuss mostly those functions of the olfactory system to which our conscious experience…
In an oldish TED talk I just got around to watching, Alisa Miller, CEO of Public Radio International, begins with an argument I agree with: that US media coverage is heavily weighted towards the trivial and towards a limited range of…
From a 2004 Times Online piece:
Victor Hugo, anxious to know about sales of his newly-published Les Misérables, sent a telegram to his publisher which simply read: “?” The encouraging reply came back: “!”
I would’ve thought for sure the punctuation-as-cutesy-communication model…
The NY Times has some Questions for Robert Thurman, whose answers are very candid, not surprisingly.
My favorite of their questions:
As a Buddhist, how do you reconcile your pacifism with the roles your daughter Uma has played in films like Quentin…
I know I’m behind on this one, as I’m just catching up with my feeds after a long busy spell. But I thought I’d relate a little story from when I saw Bo Diddley, in 2000 or 2001.
I caught his…
Just a quick thought: Is Hilary Clinton only staying in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination for the money?
A little background: The Clintons have lent her campaign more than $11 million. As I remember it, loans to campaigns are…
I’ve just written a substantive comment on a post by Michael Ruhlman about foie gras that’s not force-fed. See, Ruhlman uses the existence and deliciousness of (more) humanely produced foie gras in support of an “Oh, lighten up!” attitude about force-feeding. I expected…
One of the early developers working on Netscape Navigator has put the 1994 version of the company’s website online. [via kottke.org]
One interesting surprise comes on the Netscape 1.0 product page:
IT’S CONSISTENT: Netscape is available – and is functionally identical – on Windows,…
As a homeowner, I have a heightened interest the housing market, to which my financial future is closely tied. But it’s not just “the housing market” in the abstract that makes me nervous right now. More than…
I’ve noticed: When I have an image or sentence or URL copied (or cut) to the clipboard, but not yet pasted into its destination, my left hand—with which I always perform my pasting operations—feels, somehow, different.
I struggle to describe the…
Phenomenal kitchen tip. Seems like it would work better for dry items than for wet, but that probably depends on your blender. (Mine, for example, doesn’t have a blade assembly that’s quite as removable as this one.)
[via lifehacker]
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It’s not so much that I think Lynn Hirschberg’s Oscar portfolio piece, “Breaking Through,” doesn’t get the job done. In her triangulation of the cinematic breakthrough performance, she does showcase a dozen-plus nominees.
My problem with the piece, instead, is its…
Has got to be my boy The Bristol Kid: Watch him.
UPDATE: Smoothwheel’s developer took the time to write a thoughtful comment; please find it below the post.
I’ve spent so, so long trying to figure out how to get horizontal trackpad scrolling working in my installation of Firefox (on a Mac,…
