Salt & Fat Jun 29 Jim has already written a fine post on traditional, all-American burgers ; I won’t mess with his wisdom on his homeland’s favorite summer lunch. Instead, I will tell you about mine. I grew up on the border of Croatia and Bosnia, in a region whose culinary weapons are onion, pork…
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What if, back in the day before TVs were in every waiting room and bedroom and bar, before the perpetual buzz of blue background noise changed the way we think and speak, before the easy escapism of M*A*S*H and Wolf Blitzer and Ice Road Truckers,…
In a laboratory 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, a mechanical penis sputters to life. A technician starts a timer as a stream of water erupts from the apparatus’s brass tip, arcing into a urinal mounted exactly 12 inches away. James Krug smiles. His latest back-splatter experiment is under…
Errol Morris on photography. Existence is elsewhere. — André Breton, “The Surrealist Manifesto” www.istockphoto.com 1. The Juice David Dunning, a Cornell professor of social psychology, was perusing the 1996 World Almanac. In a section called Offbeat News Stories he found a tantalizingly brief…
Early last month I detailed my plans for moving to California for friends, a change of scenery and of course the acclaimed high-tech hub in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many have contacted me asking to share my experiences on what it is like to move cross-country — in particular to San Francisco — as…
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A Saturday afternoon in March, and Dennis Crowley, the 33-year-old cofounder of the…
Over the last few months I’ve noticed an annoying trend on various web sites, generally major newspaper and magazine sites, but also certain weblogs. What happens is that when you select text from these web pages, the site uses JavaScript to report what you’ve copied to an analytics server and…
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Apparently, what follows below is an extended explanation of Lost by someone from Bad Robot. In a nutshell, the Dharma Initiative were people brought to the island to help Jacob devise a way to kill the Man in Black. But the Man in Black used Ben to destroy them. The sideways world was the…
When the economy sours, news anchors talk of housing and manufacturing, of hedge funds and barrels of oil. They generally don’t discuss the lives of artists, and how their careers are crushed into a dull oblivion. If artists survive the fiscal and emotional shakedown, they steady themselves as…
W hen I was nineteen and chose to accept the creeping suspicion that I would turn out to be a writer and, by extension, chronically deficient of funds, I made the fiscally prudent decision to drop out of school. I still worked on the college newspaper to which I had sacrificed so much of my…
2:52PM BST 19 May 2010 Swots across the country are weeping over their trigonometry textbooks this week, because the hardest exam in the world has just got easier. Dumbing down has seeped upwards into Britain's seat of highest learning. All Souls: after the papers are marked, shortlisted candidates…
Statistical Anomaly His greatness is not marked in box scores or at slam-dunk contests, but on the court Shane Battier makes his team better, often much better, and his opponents worse, often much worse. Robert Seale for The New York Times Out of Duke University. . . . A 6-foot-8-inch forward. . . .…
In Jim Sheridan’s 2009 film Brothers , Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire play two siblings that are opposites. Maguire’s Sam is an Army captain, a straight-laced hard worker, and a family man. Gyllenhaal’s Tommy is a fresh-out-of-jail convict, a general screw-up, and someone who doesn’t seem to care…
There’s a saying I love: “a camel is a horse designed by committee.” A variation is “a volvo is a porsche designed by committee.” Some of the best product advice I’ve ever heard goes something like “damn what the users want, charge towards your dream.” All of these statements are, of course, saying…
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IsThisYourPaperOnSingleServingSites.com Version 1.18 2008-12-21 Ryan Greenberg The most popular destinations on the Internet are sites that let visitors do everything. At Yahoo! you can read news, find a date, research cars, and check the weather, among myriad other tasks. Shoppers at Amazon can buy…
“Was every single element prepared exactly perfectly, technically correct?” M. asked. Credit Illustration by Floc’h One afternoon last month, a woman in her early thirties, with shoulder-length blond hair and large brown eyes, arrived at Jean Georges, on the ground floor of the Trump International…
When the last Jungle Cruise boat docks for the night and lights fade to black on Sleeping Beauty's Castle, the real work begins. At lush Pixie Hollow, gardeners don miner's headlamps as they begin uprooting stubborn weeds. On Main Street, custodians scrape chewing gum off the sidewalk. And over at…
STEVE KROFT: So what’s with the beard? CONAN O’BRIEN: That first day that I woke up and was no longer the host of The Tonight Show , I remember the first thought I had is I am not shaving. And– that was my small victory, you know. OK so I lost the Tonight Show but I’ll show them, I’ll stop shaving.…
By Joel Bourne On a blistering day in the megalopolis that is southern California, Shivaji Deshmukh of the Orange County Water District offers me a cup of cool, clear water that just yesterday was swirling around in an Anaheim toilet bowl. We're standing outside the second largest water-reclamation…
Your Room as Cocoon: Teeny, Cheap and Chic Sign In to E-Mail Print At a boutique hotel near the exclusive shops and hangouts of New York’s meatpacking district, a bellman, polite and formal in the classic uniform of burgundy trimmed in gold, pushed open a rich wood door for a guest the other day.…
MR. MANNERS Jacob Morse operates Tweeting Too Hard, which calls out the self-important. Rex Curry for The New York Times JOHN CUSACK tweets with his iPhone and, much like the characters he plays, his style is fast and loose. “I’m pretty new to it, and if there’s a spell check on an iPhone, I can’t…
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years.…
The first anthrax attacks came days after the jetliner assaults of September 11, 2001. Postmarked Trenton, New Jersey, and believed to have been sent from a mailbox near Princeton University, the initial mailings went to NBC News, the New York Post, and the Florida-based publisher of several…
Okay, so I joined Twitter on July 4 2007, only a year after the full-scale version of the service was launched. This was my first tweet: 01:52:40 Creating my twitter account – woohoo! And there that tweet sat, all by its lonesome for nearly two years, when I tweeted the following: 11:34:17 Adding my…
Last week, Twitter announced its new advertising system , called promoted tweets. I was at Twitter's Chirp conference as a speaker, so I got an up-close look at the reaction to the big news, along with the (frankly, more interesting to me) announcements for developers and media . But from the New…
The Phone The first question is, how did the phone leave Apple’s campus? Starting a few weeks ago, some number of iPhone engineers who, because of the nature of their work were already familiar with the details of Apple’s next-generation iPhone, were authorized to begin using late pre-production…
A new generation of tech entrepreneurs in the city is trying to overthrow old media and build a better New York�with the help of their iPhones. Are they dreaming? Definitely. But in a good way. O n any given day in New York City, there are usually close to a dozen, if not more, �meetups� for people…
Okey-doke. I wish to call your attention to my final comment on the supposed iPhone 4G that someone found in a bar in the San Francisco Bay area: “Who the hell knows? Maybe this really is the next iPhone.” There have been three developments since I posted that piece late Saturday night: 1) Engadget…
SAN FRANCISCO — It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship. Twitter made it easy for programmers outside the company to build 70,000 applications that made the microblogging service more usable. Without them, people would not be able to post a photo, shorten a URL, monitor several Twitter…
Sell a really good, juicy burger on a fresh bun. Make perfect French fries. Don’t cut corners. That’s been the business plan since Jerry Murrell and his sons opened their first burger joint in 1986. When they began selling franchises in 2002, the family had just five stores in northern Virginia.…
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The low snap of a single gunshot bursts from eight speakers at once. Each speaker is positioned behind a single man, and each man is positioned more or less identically in a sprinter’s crouch: his feet in the starting blocks, his legs slightly bent, his rear end higher than…
Back in December, here’s how I concluded my piece on what I expected from Apple’s then-still-unannounced tablet : If you’re thinking The Tablet is just a big iPhone, or just Apple’s take on the e-reader, or just a media player, or just anything, I say you’re thinking too small — the equivalent of…
Monday, March 22, 2010 Merlin Mann is a writer, speaker, blogger, podcaster and student of the creative mind. He's the creator of 43Folders , a popular web site devoted to time, attention and creative work, as well as the man behind such varied projects as The Merlin Show , Kung Fu Grippe , 5ives,…
LeBron James' roots are in Cleveland But New York may be calling his "business" side. Icon SMI/Getty Images When trying to understand the psychology of the huge decision LeBron James must make this summer, first you have to meet and understand Cleveland LeBron. This is perfectly illustrated at just…
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