January 2012
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
“In China a fapioa – the official receipt used for expense claims has a resale...”
– Future Perfect » The Reverse Tip
“The majority of strategists and advisors who believe the ‘market is a...”
– Is Decoupling Possible in a Global Economy? | The Big Picture
Measuring the Top 1% by Wealth, Not Income -... →
“How come? Insight-based problem-solving requires a broad, unfocused approach....”
– BPS Research Digest: You’re most creative when you’re at your groggiest
Brands in China: Pro logo | Chinese consumers are... →
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“Developing the reassurance habit is easy to do and hard to kick. The problem is...”
– Seth’s Blog: The problem with reassurance
“Humans have a natural openness to reciprocity. It’s a time-honored...”
– Seth’s Blog: Trading favors
WatchNew York in the 80s - a set on Flickr
Locke: China Is A Country Of Great Contrasts - NPR →
Secretaries Of State At Center Of Election Battles... →
The Friday Podcast: Who Killed Lard? : Planet... →
“You rarely see lard on menus. There aren’t shelves and shelves of it in every supermarket. In this country, we’ve sort of lost touch with the once beloved pig fat. On today’s podcast, we ask — who killed lard?”
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“Through printed ephemera, clothing, and accessories, the exhibition and the...”
– Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Watch(via Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0 | Video on TED.com)
“We’ve known for years that the Central Dogma, though basically correct, is...”
– The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods - Atlantic Mobile
“Memory isn’t etched in neural stone. It’s a creative process,...”
– BPS Research Digest: Your memory of events is distorted within seconds
““I buy a lot of really high-quality coffee. The average price per pound (not...”
– The price of coffee at home « « jimseven jimseven
Visualization Submission: Heatmap of Restaurants... →
nycopendata:
Check out these NYC restaurant heatmaps created by dfkoz using the NYC OpenData “Restaurant Inspection Results” dataset:
Two things I like are data and food. The two rarely mix, unless you do something stupid like create a heatmap of restaurant density in New York City. Which is exactly what I did. Without further ado, here it is:
Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan
Upper Manhattan...
“Whenever Southwest would begin servicing a new city, it drove prices down so...”
– Maximizing capacity utilization as a startup premise - Chris Dixon
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From Grids To Gowns: Four Awesome Shows At the... →
“We have a problem in Italy. It’s the country of many, many little things,...”
– Italy’s Accordion Industry: Tiny And Thriving