finished converting the rescued trek elance frame to a fixed-gear singlespeed today, after 2 hours of sawing and then grinding a steel drop...

History is first and foremost a tangled net of events. Each event lies in dozens of stories, determined and overdetemined by the causes flow...

labo group gave out a few hundred of these le whif s today at TEDxBoston . 200mg of chocolate, aerosolized (i assume). powerfully weird,...

about a month ago, i passed by lever house on the way up to the park avenue armoury to see anthropodino with ami. anthropodino, image from ...

from life work , by donald hall

A group's tolerant attitude toward, and encouragement of, the efforts of another group to raise its power and social standing requires t...

Although it is easy to fit any given segment of the past neatly and intelligibly into the patterns of world history, contemporaries are neve...

we finally have the internet back. 37 days, 39 phone calls ( 192 AT&T minutes ), and 6 service visits after ordering verizon dsl service...

would someone buy me a block of aerogel ? (what is aerogel? find out here and here .) you can do all sorts of neat things with it . it is a...

why, cambridge, can't you have one of these? (or one of these ?, or one of these ?)

after a few false starts, i've figured out the activation schedule on this starter that's been growing for almost two weeks. last ni...

two weeks ago, andrea asked if i'd be interested in going up to burlington for the annual vermont brewer's festival . does a dog hav...

libraries are such marvellous institutions.

going through the files, i found a paper from several years back analysing the relationship between subjective wine quality and underlying v...

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first tim...

after some time in orbit , JAXA's kaguya lunar orbiter crashlands on the moon, as planned, taking HD video until the last moments. >

1 hour autolysis, 3 hour first rising, 2 hour second rising. needs more salt.

i made it out of wyss in time for dinner at love+butter, my first time back in over a year. they've moved into a new apartment with a ma...

a few days ago, a friend who's a political scientist sent me a link to a new york times article about will allen , who is, among other ...

it is difficult, awkward, and time-consuming, but not impossible, to char-grill an entire marinated chicken over a gas burner.

o, the google OS . it was only a matter of time. kottke points out that a web platform/OS effectively already exists , since users can alrea...

in our relentless pursuit of making everyone happy with "doing their best," i find we often lose sight of how there are often righ...

thin-sliced roasted cauliflower, grilled zucchini, tomato, and charred green onions, with black pepper and olive oil, on toasted ciabatta.

after a week of loping about under steely skies, today we woke up to blue skies and bright sun shining through the maple leaves outside the...

i saw this at the kunsthalle in zurich; to get to the screening room, you walk through galleries mostly empty except for parreno's extre...

the latest post from cooking issues is about using a microwave and a vacuum to dehydrate fruit. in building a jerry-rigged microwave vacuum...

before moving a few weeks ago, i noticed that what appeared to be an ornamental cherry tree in the yard next door was in fact a tree beginni...

writing in library books. even in pencil. i would like to arrive on my own at the conclusion that "NETWORK = POWER!!!" items on cr...

Whether a given problem is similarly shaped enough to be solved by analogical transfers of schemes cannot be decided in advance by social sc...

cultures that honor individuality create diversions that routinely disguise the collective bases of individual identity. jack katz, how emot...