an intimate drinking and eating room in Park Slope, Brooklyn that serves a daily selection of rare and special beers paired with an assortment of cheese, charcuterie, homemade snacks, preserved foods, and small meals.
Month: September 2008
Anti-Theft Lunch Bag
bags with realistic mold stains. another design solution to a societal problem
Stack Overflow
Every question in Stack Overflow is like the Wikipedia article for some extremely narrow, specific programming question. How do I enlarge a fizzbar without overwriting the user’s snibbit? This question should only appear once in the site. Duplicates should be cleaned up quickly and redirected to the original question. Some people propose answers. Others vote on those answers. If you see the right answer, vote it up. If an answer is obviously wrong (or inferior in some way), you vote it down. Very quickly, the best answers bubble to the top. The person who asked the question in the first place also has the ability to designate one answer as the “accepted” answer, but this isn’t required. The accepted answer floats above all the other answers.
this will hopefully kill the inane programming Q&A forums. i hate forum software.
Witchcraft riot
A riot broke out at a soccer match in the Congo after 1 of the players was accused of using witchcraft. 13 people were killed
in africa, belief in witchcraft is still widespread. unbelievable.
Homeownership negative externalities
higher investment in homes may bring negative externalities through climate change. Second, home ownership apparently makes a laborer less geographically mobile and increases the severity of business cycles and real shocks.
NEA Funds $1.3b Poem
The poem’s structure, laid out extensively on lined-paper blueprints, involves a traditional 3- quatrain-and-a-couplet framework, which will be tethered to an iambic meter for increased stability and symmetry.
Google for BlackBerry
nice. now if only blackberries weren’t such slow pieces of crapware for losers tethered to exchange.
Digital Nomads
Digital Nomads is a community site for individuals that work or play without regard for their physical location. It is a place where they can come together to read about other digital nomads, share ideas, tips and tricks, and best practices, and read the latest nomad-oriented news. Digital Nomads live a lifestyle where their laptop and other electronic devices create the center of their office and/or play-space.
digital nomads and coworking go mainstream.
while we understand that there is no place like home, we like to think we have many homes — the primary one being the World Wide Web.
Finally, Zurich starts catching up with its partner city San Francisco (and other Californian cities like Berkeley, Stanford/Palo Alto etc.) in regard to shared workspace for so called “Digital Nomads” and the like: According to these great news, a “citizen space” will soon be opened at Heinrichstr. 267 in Zurich
Useless Jobs favor GOP
people in useless professions try harder to put what they do in a greater spiritual or religious context. Obvious examples are scientology/buddhism/kaballa/”spirituality” for Hollywood types and evangelical Christianity for athletes.
Against HMID
by giving a tax subsidy to housing, it distorts investment decisions toward houses and away from assets like factories and equipment that are more productive at the margin.
It is nothing short of a farce that those chiefly responsible for the mortgage mess, i.e., the deadbeat borrowers themselves, have enjoyed a tax subsidy at the expense of the responsible parties (renters) who did not participate in the housing bubble.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 