Recently readGuy Herbert:
It strikes me as absurd either to claim some sort of credit for an accident of birth, or to assume that the culture one is brought up in is ipso facto the best available to anyone. Nation is usually alien. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: when someone says “we”, I […]
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Antoine lays out why the DK prediction about the election “looks wrong”. Erm, apart from the fact that it comes from Daily Kos? More power to him for having the stomach to read that site.
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Cincinnati Supper Club XII
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The British chocolate company Hotel Chocolat (their flagship store is in High Street Kensington) has launched in the US. To celebrate this, they sent me $300 worth of their finest, most beautiful hand-piped chocolates.
There was a time when I wouldn’t have been able to keep such things in […]
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He is one of the online writers I have been reading for about a decade now. (Yikes, is that possible?) His perspective as a doctor, husband, and father is fascinating to me, but he also makes me laugh with every entry. Not to mention his many accomplished drawings. Plus, Scott posts frequent shots of himself […]
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Plum Street Temple (aka Isaac M. Wise Temple)
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What’s funny is that Antoine discovered this end of town before I did. He went for a solo walk during his visit last April so that I could get some work done, then came back all excited about what he’d found. The Byzantine-Moorish Plum Street […]
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It’s so unoriginal for me to like this so much, but how exactly do you suggest I resist?
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If you want to know anything about where business and our world are both going, I’d recommend reading “Better Than Free” by Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly.
Success in the free-copy world is not derived from the skills of distribution since the Great Copy Machine in the Sky takes care of that. Nor are legal skills […]
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Hillary Johnson has an excellent post about Ms. Swinton’s Oscars appearance at our beauty blog. I love the whole post, but I’ll call this the money quote:
If you try to understand Swinton’s appearance in terms of the red carpet, or even in terms of of movie star, she is impossible to compute, but think of […]
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Regarding the little kerfuffle that went down in Cincinnati yesterday between John McCain and Bill Cunningham, I like what Antoine has to say in NBS’s comments:
Barack Obama didn’t choose his middle name. I agree with McCain on this one. If Senator BO’s middle name was Omar, you could call him “BOO!” but so what?
My middle […]
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Pity the poorly scripted Comcast telemarketer who had the misfortune to ring Chris Pirillo the other night:
See Techdirt for background on “traffic shaping“.
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I am absolutely buried in deadlines. Hence, another blog post.
Thanks to Michelle Oshen for that one.
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This is sad news for Genevieve Schaefer’s family, and for my hometown, which gained so much from her wealth and generosity.
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Rabbit is one of those meats I have eaten and enjoyed, but I can’t think too hard about the fluffy creatures while I’m eating it. I also don’t have the constitution to cook one up myself. (Not so for escargots, which are so divine that even thinking about slimy garden slugs and snails isn’t enough […]
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Alex Singleton (via Samizdata):
Despite Fairtrade’s moral halo, there are other, more ethical forms of coffee available. Most Fairtrade coffee on sale in UK supermarkets and on the high street is roasted and packaged in Europe, principally in Belgium and Germany. This is unnecessary and retards development. Farmers working for Costa Rica’s Café Britt have been […]
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