courtesy of effie, a history of food in war:

so, i see tiffany on gchat and i show her a photo of my favourite piece, a small, round-bottomed bowl turned from freshly-cut copper beech a...

my cousin, who is brilliant, sent me a link to the skinhead hamlet .

leave it to the swiss . they also have the world's most beautiful passports (designed by herzog & de meuron , of course).

green-turned copper beech, allowed to warp and dry, then steamed, hand-ground, and finished with varnish. grew-sheridan studio, san francisc...

with hand-cut dovetail joinery and irregular sides. in the days before thin plywood, drawers and boxes would have wood plank bases with the ...

thanks to david lebovitz , who leads an apparently irritatingly carefree life eating his way through paris, i now know where to go, if ever ...

when i was in madrid a few years ago, the reina sofia had a brilliant exhibition called "the age of the monochrome" ( art in amer...

elizabeth blair from NPR's In Character series conducted a marvellous interview with cookie monster . what is cookie monster's leas...

maybe. physorg's article about a stanford study showing that human culture may be subject to natural selection is exciting. from the ph...

after finding the black phoenix alchemy lab , i began keeping an eye out for more people making a big deal of smell as a holder for memory. ...

i'm not sure why this is so appealing but there it is: style meets people is selling laser-engraved beans that sprout to show their mes...

i sent this article by giles turnbull on writing 3-line biographies to everyone i know who has a minor neurosis about their life stories. t...

bad weather on the east coast friday night delayed my flight out of boston just enough to make me miss the connection from houston to austin...

not what you might think; more a disquisition on the value of complete data in decision support. example 1 : whenever we consider strategies...

nassim nicholas taleb was the latest speaker in stewart brand's series of free public seminars about long-term thinking (SALT). the las...

from the research scientists at aji no moto *: activa TG . marvel at this sample meat application (sic): some suggested uses include Cold Bo...

around 11pm every night, i experience and succumb to the urge to make a grilled cheese sandwich. specifically, slices of light seeded rye or...

those of us who claim to be interdisciplinary recognise that there's very little information out there that's truly orthogonal to e...

by sister corita kent , whose work also adorns the big gas tanks on boston's south shore. found on kottke (who wisely never responds t...

just when it didn't seem possible to get more intense about food, i find mikuni wild harvest , a company that's been around for year...

i was up in the mountains last night and it was as dark and quiet as it is possible to be while still surrounded by human habitation. i pull...

this is a nice idea, and elegant. aquaduct is the winner of innovate or die . (idea by, i think, the happy folks at goodby, silverstein .) w...

map showing multiple points of interest. pegman appears to contemplate a watery end.

this is the kind of thing that makes me bliss out about working at google. engineers (including one i know, the lovely and delightful sha-ma...

yesterday, i watched closely as a colleague who used to be a professional snooty coffee maker steamed up some milk for a latte. he manages t...

having just gone to bourbon and branch , i'm suffering from a massive over-inclination to appreciate commercial endeavours that depend o...