Sapere Aude
Month: January 2011
Istanbul as it never was: If all the palaces had been properly maintained instead of the sorry village the turks conquered in 1453.
French illustrator Antoine Helbert is a great fan of the architecture of Byzantium and has created more than 24 intricate drawings of buildings and monuments in the capitol city of Constantinople spanning a period of almost 1000 years from the 4th century to the 13th century.
off the beaten path cave dwellings
The Tunisian Internet Agency is being blamed for the presence of injected JavaScript that captures usernames and passwords. The code has been discovered on login pages for Gmail, Yahoo, and Facebook, and is the reason for the recent rash of account hijackings reported by Tunisian protesters.
When states act like rogues, whom can you trust?
It all kind of started with a painting that I created in 2006 called The Journey Begins. A young boy finds a magic painting that transports him into another world. This world already existed in my mind because I had toyed around with world building for several years without a specific goal in mind. The Journey Begins provided me with a protagonist and from that point on, things started to escalate in my head. And the painting had a second, very important, effect. It attracted people on the internet and raised interest in my work. I even started to sell prints of The Journey Begins to total strangers and suddenly I was that boy again, who sold copies of his own work. Only that the school yard had become a lot bigger this time.
stunning
like ny open house but more obscure places.
Please stop obscuring your food with horrible websites.
a plan for solar system colonization using solar sails and lagrange points.
the articles of note section is about the best start page for media exploration on the internet. the difference of cultured editing vs what the twitter retards would come up with.
The Paris Metro and the service it provides are deeply intertwined into the fabric of the city. As the 4.5M Parisians who ride it every day will probably attest it’s the quickest way around whether it’s for work, for play or both. The metro’s distinctive art-nouveau style is unmistakable and the plant like green wrought iron entrances topped with the orange orbs and Metropolitan signage designed by Hector Guimard which sprout up all over the city lead one down to the gleaming white tiled platforms to be whisked away all over the city. On my first trip to Paris I arrived into Gare du Nord and entered the dense maze that is the metro. Despite the crowds, the noise and the distinct odor of piss, I was in love. The kind of love which inspires one to risk life, limb and deportation to get up close and personal.
advice that probably holds everywhere.
1. Look for time-specific food. In San Miguel for instance, there is barbacoa from 8-10:00., carnitas from ~11-16:00, and wonderful chorizo after 20:00. In Mexico, if the food is available only part of the day, it’s almost always good. It’s for locals and there is no storage in these places so it’s also extremely fresh.
2. Often the best meals are served in places which have no names. In San Miguel the “brothers Bautista” run the best carnitas stands, but there is no sign and no marking. The stands are simply there on the side of the road, with some plastic tables and chairs, at a few places around town. Everyone in town knows about them.
3. Ask around with taxi drivers and be persistent. Ask the older taxi drivers. Throw away your guidebook, no matter which one you have.
4. Use breakfast and lunch for your best meals; dinner is an afterthought. Almost everywhere good is closed by 20:00 or often long before then. Always visit a place that closes by 13:00
5. Roadside restaurants, on the edges of towns or between towns, serve some of the best food in Mexico or anywhere else for that matter. Some of these restaurants even have names, though you can overlook that in the interests of eating well.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 