a cool, dry evening with new yorkers and atlantics, after a humid day featuring the transportation of many boxes. (that's not water in t...

without the perks, plain ol' fame and fortune just ain't worth the trouble. roseanne barr also see the tarahumara and peter latha...

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via etienne cliquet for more cool stuff that also uses capillary action, see george whitesides 's wonderful paper-based analysis ...

porchetta; 110 e 7th st, ny, ny.

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maison premiere has many absinthes.

"To summon a thing that is not there at all, to call it by speaking its true name, that is a great mastery, not to be lightly used. No...

He was not only the greatest traveller I've ever known (because he was the truest), he was also one of the happiest people I have had th...

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good t...

露胸跣足入廛来， 抹土涂灰笑满腮。 不用神仙真秘诀， 直教枯木放花开。

Every human action gains in honour, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come ... Therefore, when we buil...

large quantities of parsley and a healthy dose of turmeric and cumin are crucial. good with smoked mackerel, but maybe even better with th...

Preparing things simply is deceptively difficult, since there is no way to cover up our mistakes. edward espe brown, tassajara

a view of overliner, from mit's 150th anniversary celebrations.

"When we started, we thought we were looking for smart people, but it turned out that intelligence was not as important as we expected....

this generative sequencer is very neat. it is a set of rules that "produces chaotic results in some settings, therefore you can end up...

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michel de certeau, in the practice of everyday life   (an unfairly neglected book) , makes a useful distinction between strategies and tacti...

on the one hand: the documentation on this thing is awful. the evaporator flask (= $$$) is missing. on the other hand: it's a rotav...

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