40 years of food in NYC (3)
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As part of their monster 40th anniversary celebration, New York magazine has some notes from the past four decades of food and dining in NYC. Gael Greene remembers her favorite meal as a restaurant critic and also lists the 14 most important NYC restaurants over the past 40 years. No Union Square Cafe? Meyer deserves some credit for taking the stuffiness out of NYC dining. Legendary chef André Soltner and David Chang share a conversation ...
the speech accent archive (1)
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The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded.1 The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different ...
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dare said:
Samo za resne lingvistične gike: isti odstavek v angleščini, ki ga izgovarjajo govorci iz vsega sveta. V izgovorjave so tudi označene specifični elementi akcentov. Pojma nimam, kaj bi s tem, ampak je res krasna zadeva :)
The class of 2012 is super wired (19)
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Out of 438 incoming freshman students at Amherst College, 432 of them are on Facebook and only 5 have landlines. 6. Number of students in the class of 2012 who brought desktop computers to campus: 14.7. Number that brought iPhones/iTouches: 93.8. Likelihood that a student with an iPhone/iTouch is in the class of 2012: approximately 1 in 2. Another interesting stat: 94% of all incoming email is spam. (via cd) (link)
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dare said:
Ua!
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Cartwright Reed said:
landlines and desktops are dead. And 50% of the students of iPhones or Touches. Courtesy Kottke.
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Yan said:
The future has arrived
Flexible network usage for mobile phones (5)
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Google has filed a patent that might eliminate the need for mobile phone users to choose a single network. Instead, a piece of software would poll all available networks and select the most appropriate one based on price. Devices using the system would send networks a description of their requirements -- for example, a phone call or access to the internet -- and receive back bids with a per-minute cost, or flat rate, at which ...
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dare said:
Dobra ideja, ampak bolj za prihodnost, na GSM iskanje omrežij kar nekaj časa traja...
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Yan said:
It can't happen fast enough
Charlie Rose wi/ Nouriel Roubini on Freddie/Fannie (4)
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My Restaurant Update (10)
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As most of you know, I own and manage a restaurant called Stacey's at Waterford, in Dublin, California.http://www.staceysatwaterford.com/This is a particularly bad time to be in the restaurant business. So we're always looking for clever ways to compete against the big chain restaurants. Recently I came up with an idea to improve how our customers enjoyed our food at lunch, on average, without changing any of these things that were already excellent, such as...foodpresentationpricesselectionserviceambianceCan you ...
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dare said:
Kdo pravi, da se v običajnih biznisih ne da inovirati? Nekaj odličnih idej za restavracijo.(via Urban)
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elroy said:
The Networking Lunch concept seems interesting. I would probably try it out at least once. You never know who you might meet.
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arsalan said:
this guy is brilliant.
Tipping, Not Just For Cows and Waitresses (7)
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Posted by Jeff Fisher, Google Data APIs TeamWe field all kinds of questions in the discussion groups, usually resulting in small snippets of code that aren't easy for other people to find. So we decided to start up a Tips Blog for all the Google Data APIs.For example, do you know how to perform a GET with a POST? Since Flash doesn't allow a custom Authorization header on a GET, sometimes you need to do ...
Bisexuality passed on by 'hyper-heterosexuals' - being-human - 15 August 2008 - New Scientist (1)
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"It helps to answer a perplexing question - how can there be 'gay genes' given that gay sex doesn't lead to procreation?" says Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the work. "The answer is remarkably simple: the same gene that causes men to like men also causes women to like men, and as a result to have more children."
Phelps’s Epic Journey Ends in Perfection - NYTimes.com (1)
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Phelps is a self-described klutz, a real fish out of water on land, and he has a surgical scar on his right wrist to prove it. In October he took a nasty stumble that imperiled his pursuit of Mark Spitz’s single Games record of seven gold medals. Phelps, 23, slipped on a patch of ice and fell while climbing into a friend’s car in Michigan and broke his right wrist.
Dr. Doom - Profile - Nouriel Roubini - Predicting Crisis in the United States Economy - NYTimes.com (2)
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Two years ago, Nouriel Roubini predicted the current economic crisis. Now he sees things becoming far worse.
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dare said:
testiram tole tumbleblog sceno
SimplePie: Super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom feed parsing in PHP. (20)
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A super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom parser written in PHP.
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dare said:
mal testiram integracijo Google Shared v blog...
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ThiagoCampezzi said:
Uma boa classe de PHP para parsear feeds sem toda a parte complicada de parsear feeds :)
High-Tech Hitchhiking (2)
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Have you ever stood at the bus stop watching hundreds of cars go by and wondered just how many of those cars are headed to the same place you want to go? Wouldn't it be great if you could just stick out your thumb and get a quick ride rather than waiting 10 minutes for the old bus? [break] Imagining the Future Imagine if, instead of congested lanes of large cars with one person on ...
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dare said:
Hudo dobra ideja za rešitev urbanega prometa. Ampak verjetno ena tistih, ki je tehnično zelo lepo rešljiva, zahteva pa preveliko spremembo v glavah, da bi bila sploh izvedljiva.Poleg tega (žal, vsaj s podjetniškega stališča) pa ideja zahteva tako veliko kritično maso, da jo lahko sfura samo kak mobilni operater ali podobno ogromno podjetje.
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Geoff said:
Such a brilliant concept!
Nonlinear presentation tool (5)
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I just discovered this very interesting presentation tool which is being developed in Budapest.ZuiPrezi is a zooming presentation editor which allows you to easily create dynamic and visually structured zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, and drawings. ZuiPrezi has a very intuitive interface and support for online sharing, and it works really well with tablet PCs.This is a tool I can't wait to delve into -- I have been looking for something like this ...
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dare said:
Wow! Bloody amazing!
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My friend Nouriel Roubini (and some others) were on Charlie Rose last night talking Fannie/Freddie. Worth watching.Contribute commentDelicious popular (2543) permalink
I am often asked if the Olympic village - the vast restaurant and housing conglomeration that hosts the world's top athletes for the duration of the Games - is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be.Shared by ~C4Chaos (51) Alan Simpson (4) Alex C (43) Alex Trafford (33) Alexandre Gamela (4) Allison (2) Amy (0) Andrew Landeryou (81) Anna MacDougall (204) Antonio Delgado (53) Babychen Mathew (372) Ben Jacob (9) blindsurf3r (9) Brad Brown Jr. (26) chris (19) Chung (140) Coty Gonzales (6) Cris Pearson (3) dare (8) Dave Dugal (11) Dave S (25) Delilah (0) Frederik Højholt (0) Gary Jungling (25) Hayes Haugen (3) hominid todd (31) J. J. (8) jamesjbigler (21) Jeremy (5) Jess Lee (25) Jonathan (92) Josh Baltzell (2) JunChen (43) Kevin (11) Kevin De Mulder (27) Kevin Hessel (27) Leon Westbrook (24) M. Serdar Kuzuloglu (16) Mark (12) Matteo (21) Mick Spencer (3) Mike F (687) misha (15) Nelson Minar (8) Nikollas Ordway (67) Oleg Stepanov (0) omar zaki (0) Patrick (1) Patrix (8) Paul McEnany (4) Pedro Silva (17) Pulkit Vasudha (4) Quentin (0) RAPatton (93) rebrse (114) Robert (72) Ryan (17) Scott (10) Sharath (14) Sid (11) sooraj (0) stealingsand (27) Stevo (47) Tom Goering (6) tuff tookas (9) Zhasper (63)Explore read five notesNYT > NYTimes.com Home (507) permalink
Jon Stewart says his job is just throwing spitballs. But in satirizing a world that defies satire, “The Daily Show” delivers both news and morality.Shared by Alexander Carlill (29) AMERICA_2008 (12) Andrew Cohen (2) B.K. DeLong (2) Bibi (44) Carey (19) chiao (20) Chris Makarsky (28) dare (8) Dave Stanton (9) David (17) e (21) Elizabeth (51) Haley (20) janequigley (24) Jared (0) Jason (14) Jimmy Little (0) Jon (18) Josh (38) kebernet (61) Marco Schwarz (5) mfh (17) Parth Awasthi (8) Paul Robertson (6) Seany G (20) Suzannah Porter (7) Suzanne Yada (2) V C (55)Contribute comment
