February 2012
NYC OpenData: NYC Colleges and Universities →
nycopendata:
Mayor Bloomberg often touts the fact that NYC has more college students than Boston has people.
Below is a map showing NYC’s 76 colleges and universities, created from NYC OpenData.
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“From my experience, you can’t wait around to find what you love. You gotta work...”
– Kate Bingaman Burt via swissmiss (via ninakix)
BPS Research Digest: Doubts cast on the... →
Made Better in Japan - WSJ.com →
“The Big Woody is here. Sunday February, 26th and high noon. Our annual Big and...”
– It’s Big Woody time @ Spuyten Duyvil.
“They make buying the product as friction free, easy and enjoyable as possible....”
– Nespresso « « jimseven jimseven
“Debt was used to buy assets, which rose in price and then burst. He points to...”
– Amid Debt Crisis, A Trail Of Broken ‘Promises’ : NPR
What did people do in a Medieval City? →
aPORKalypse Now: pig and beer together in one...
brewyork:
2012 is apparently not just the year of the pending apocalypse, but also the pending A-Pork-alypse. Get Real NY is back with another new festival, and this one is a celebration of pork and beer called aPORKalypse Now! On Saturday, February 25th, loads of meat and booze will be wheeled into The 404 Event Space (404 10th Ave., at 33rd St., Hell’s Kitchen) for the day-long event. 10...
“Few people are interested in your resume any more. Plenty are interested in what...”
– Seth’s Blog: Can I see your body of work?
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Nitehawk Cinema - Weekend Brunch - Great Movies -... →
The Princess Bride, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Blazing Saddles, The Neverending Story!!!!!!!
“My vote: your goals and your strategy must be simple. You must have passion and...”
– Seth’s Blog: The waffle paradox
January 2012
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Amazon.com: Area 52 (CD DVD): Rodrigo y Gabriela:... →
New Rodrigo y Gabriela album out!
“Pianist Garrick Ohlsson launched his career in 1970, when he became the first...”
– Garrick Ohlsson: In Pursuit Of A Warhorse : Deceptive Cadence : NPR
In Italy, Art As A Window Into Modern Banking :... →
Rethinking The Oreo For Chinese Consumers : Planet... →
“Mongolia is being dug up and sold to China”
– Our correspondent travels to Ulaanbaatar, capital of the country likely to grow faster than any other in the next decade. Mongolia has a chance of becoming a Qatar or a Brunei: a country that has only a small population but almost all of it, in global terms, loaded. (via theeconomist)
Letters of Note: I am a lousy copywriter →
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3CUPS | Chapel Hill, NC | Wine, Coffee, Tea... →
Sumatra press pot, black. Get it.
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The Standard - Chapel Hill, NC →
Burgers and pizzas. Great burgers and pizzas (and fries and fried pickles). The burger bun is made from pizza dough!
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G2B Restaurant Durham - Shane Ingram - Gastro Pub... →
Best place I’ve ever eating in the pan-RTP area. Highly recommended. The chef is awesome.
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Turkey Talk: Restaurant Review of Bosphorus in... →
“Thought for today: How a growth in soft-power impacts a nation’s ability to...”
– Future Perfect » Arctic/Antarctic Expeditions
