Waters’ Mark – Chicago Magazine – June 2007 – Chicago “Chicago chefs have embraced [Alice Waters'] style—Italian influenced, French technique—particularly at Blackbird and North Pond. I wanted to see how those two spots compared to two Bay Area counterparts.” (tags: chicago berkeley sanFrancisco food restaurant) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2007/07/25/CU2007072501607.html Narrated animation from the New England Journal of Medicine. [...]
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
July 30th, 2007
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Q&A With Karen Abbott on Chicago’s Most Decadent Brothel – Nerve.com Screening Room “You just don’t think of people from that era as being so kinky.” (tags: chicago history book:isbn=9781400065301 geotagged geo:lat=41.838273 geo:lon=-87.627935 geo:tool=blockrocker.com) cityofsound: City states and global federalism “the mayor of Milan… has essentially called for a return to organisation via city states [...]
July 29th, 2007
Machine Tag Sightings
Machine tags are neat, but it still seems like they aren’t used for much and they’re kind of a lot of work to apply. The good news is that I just stumbled onto two links, each of which addresses one of those points for one of the areas I’m most interested in geotagging. First, I [...]
July 29th, 2007
Incubating Ideas
danah boyd‘s blog has a whole lot more readers than mine. I thought I bellyflopped with a recent post, but a recent rough essay she published called Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace yielded a much larger response: 277 comments on her blog, 234 blog post responses (as tracked by Technorati), a mention [...]
July 29th, 2007
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Inventory: 15 Simpsons Moments That Perfectly Captured Their Eras | The A.V. Club (tags: humor) Guest Blog: Teens Weigh in on Changes in Publishing, Media “I talked with two teens headed into their senior years in high school — about some of the changes and challenges going on in publishing (particularly around how difficult reaching [...]
July 28th, 2007
Another Facet of Harry Potter Mania
I was looking at the Amazon page for the book Girls of Riyadh after reading an interview with the author in this week’s Time Out Chicago. Even though the “What do Customers Ultimately Buy” block is kind of implicitly meant to point you to related books, the new Harry Potter is selling so much that [...]
July 28th, 2007
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foxymoron (pseudodictionary) n. An attractive but intellectually vacant person, especially female. (tags: language) Walk Score – How walkable is your house? “Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc.” (tags: maps tools walks) Family jazzing up Morse Ave. [...]
July 27th, 2007
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YSlow for Firebug “YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow. YSlow is integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you: * Performance report card * HTTP/HTML summary * List of components in the page * Tools including JSLint” (tags: firefox development javascript tools) Advertising: BP buys into Google’s propaganda [...]
July 26th, 2007
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Seth Goldstein: web 3.0 = facebook 2.0? “Google died on May 24, 2007.” (tags: blog facebook hyperbole) IT Conversations: Ken Banks “Jon Udell and Ken Banks explore the economics of cellphone use in Africa, the communication patterns that automated text messaging can support, and the challenge of building an application that supports an aging population [...]
July 25th, 2007
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RangeVoting.org – Gerrymandering and a cure – shortest splitline algorithm “It has been over 200 years. Isn’t it time to make gerrymandering a thing of the past?” (tags: maps math democracy) RangeVoting.org – Gerrymandering “art” gallery ‘Here is a short “gallery” of Gerrymandering “art” from recent history (some districts might be a little out of [...]