December 2010
6 posts
Pistachio and Rose madeleines
English, instead of metric measurements
1 large egg
1/5 cup caster sugar
pinch of salt
1/5 cup grams unsalted pistachios
2 tablespoons of pure icing sugar
3.5 tbsp unsalted butter, plus 1 tablespoon for greasing pan
1/3 cup plain flour, preferably Italian 00
1 tablespoon rosewater
24-bun mini-madeleine tin (I used a 12 tin regular madeleine tin and only just scraped by enough for 12...
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.”
“In an era when Web 2.0 companies are nudging us to publish more and more, the...”
Sometimes I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg is engineering the greatest hack of our generation. Not hack in its technical or literal sense.
But in the sense that Facebook is hacking our narcissistic, voyeuristic and irrationally human tendencies to create the most comprehensive database of people ever to exist.
February 2010
2 posts
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January 2010
4 posts
“It’s possible that we may have reached a point where information is being...”
– Joshua Keating of Foreign Policy on Twitter’s Haiti coverage
“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first...”
– Aleister Crowley (Oh, the irony!)
Max Richter - On The Nature of Daylight
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September 2009
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August 2009
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July 2009
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June 2009
9 posts
“You ever have one of those dreams where you’re suddenly taking a final and you...”
– David Axelrod’s commencement speech
Real-Time Data and Accounting
“The ideal is to move accountants out of the data aggregation business. With modern data markup languages and Internet tools, companies can make the raw transactions data available for anyone to analyze. In the spirit of open source software, analysts will aggregate the data into whatever form they find illuminating, and the market will then determine what statistical representations of...
”Seize the day, for the world is fleeting In the eyes of the wise, the moment is better than the whole world, Alexander, who ruled a whole world, At the very moment he died, left the world.” —Mir Imad (1554-1615)
“To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of...”
– Susan Sontag
“It’s one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice...”
– Tim Kreider, The New York Times
The 50 Quid Danger Fund →
Lots of people have really good creative ideas. Not just grand ideas about how to save the world but also silly little ideas that make them smile.
By giving out £50 to anyone, whoever they are, to do their great idea, we want to create thousands of little inspirations across the UK.
This is how it works:
Have idea. You have an idea that disrupts normality in a smart and surprising way and...
I was late in loving you, beauty so ancient and so new, I was late in loving you. You were inside me and I was outside myself, and I was looking for you out there and went rushing headlong among all the beautiful things you had made, me in my self-made ugliness. You were there for me and I was not with you. All sorts of things distracted me from you, things that wouldn’t have had any...
May 2009
5 posts
A post about Village Underground
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MF DOOM is a rapper….
Check out some of his stuff here….
“I find some comfort in being told this: that we can never hope to understand why...”
– Richard Eyre
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions:
1) an elevated level of general well-being, which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities;
2) a high degree of social atomization and, as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals;
3) the absence of dramatic social...
April 2009
32 posts
“America has had a revolving door. People go from Wall Street to Treasury and...”
– Joseph Stiglitz, on cognitive regulatory capture at work
“You have to be willing to accept that Latin Americans, who are experts in crisis...”
– Jose Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States
YEAH
April 16 (Bloomberg) — San Francisco Bay Area home prices fell a record 46 percent in March from a year earlier as foreclosures drove more than half the sales in the region.
Onra - The Anthem He’s a French-Viet...
“The mayor will have to hash this out with public health officials. It’s the...”
– Nathan Ballard, spokesperson for SF Mayor Gavin Newsom, responding to a proposal for regulating medical marijuana and simultaneously demonstrating conclusively that the Mayor has the world’s coolest PR team ever (via) (via odshine) (via j-yo)
Orwell was a good dad.
From The New Yorker and the Times of London:
Most Orwell readers know that he and Eileen adopted a son, Richard. And that’s about all they know of Richard Blair (George Orwell was the pseudonym of Eric Blair), who has kept his silence throughout his life—until now. So who is Orwell’s son? A retired engineer, who lives in a picturesque village in Warwickshire, and who has entirely happy...
Onra - Hope More electronic-symphonic bliss.
soo:
It’s OK if Twitter cuts down on blogging and writing. The beauty of the platform is that it waters down each of your random thoughts. This can only be a good thing. Personal blogging rested on the premise that your observations deserved unmitigated exploration. But they’re probably not. Now you can see your intents, designs, aims, hopes, and theories for what they really are — a grain of sand...
Designing Through a Depression
The New York Times:
“At its heart, design is about problem-solving, but it’s also about problem-identifying. Instead of creating a need for things, designers can now focus on responding to things we do need.”
“Recently, a 71-year-old entrepreneur defined his breed as “the most stubborn and...”
– Jacqueline Novogratz
3:30 a.m. Kingsland road bus down from the Russian
J: Their fancy dress costumes are awesome! She even has a fake cocaine nosebleed!
J (five minutes later): Oh wait, she wiped it off.
“I don’t know if I’m unhappy because I’m not free, or if...”
– Patricia Franchini, Jean-Luc Godard’s “À bout de souffle”
Let's Polka - An Accordion Blog (They exist!) →
This will take my embarrassing accordion fetish to new levels.
Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle Um wow, this is...
