i post this here at risk of making someone who shall remain nameless even more insufferable about these cunning objects than she already is.

two observations: took my bike to coffee yesterday at 8am when it was -4F with wind chill (-20C, if you're in a country where the system...

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ben 's got a bunch of new work out. see it here , buy it here .

as the semester winds to a close, everything speeds up and slows down at the same time. this year, the end of fall is a little more fraught ...

It was like a church to me. I entered it on soft foot, Breath held like a cap in the hand. It was quiet. What God there was made himself fel...

by michael johansson

The good life is never stable, never secure, never easy and never ended. It is a series of steps or stages, one leading into the other and...

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-- you have sand in your left ear. -- really. -- just a grain or two bouncing around in there. nothing to worry about. -- good to know. -- c...

in the bowels of south station, there is a sandwich board that tells you where to stand for the silver line to logan airport. this sandwich ...

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ritual, valencia st sightglass, 7th st humphrey slocombe, harrison st.

It’s odd to think back on the time—not so long ago—when there were distinct stylistic trends, such as “this season’s colour” or “abstract ...

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Haagen-Dazs has those extra “a’s in its name but also has a nice promotion to help bees. Honey bees of course. From Nov 5 to 11 Haagen-Daz...

via youtube.com joan baez with a cast of muppets. note the pig in the upper left corner during the finale. [thx julian ] Posted via...

i sometimes feel like doing this to people who ask me to design stuff for them for free.

milton glaser is a partner in pentagram , one of the most influential design companies of the last century: the act of draw...

update: jim reveals the granolas . jim leff put together a granola blind tasting today in the east village at dba on 1st ave (which has a fi...

by christoph niemann .

by alice gruhle .

via vimeo.com video signal of the steak cooking, passed through the steak as it cooks. signal degrades as the steak...

a few weeks back, paul stamets wrote to the scifoo mailing list to ask if anyone wanted one of the first run of his lifeboxes . these are c...

i went down to new york last week for the french culinary institute 's harold mcgee series , which consists of mcgee talking about the s...