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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Raising a glass to @AtwatersBakery
No sooner do I publish Let’s bring the cortado / piccolo to America than I discover it has already arrived at Atwater’s in Baltimore: And here’s how it’s featured on the coffee menu: @AtwatersBakery at Belvedere Square Market was already … Continue reading
Let’s bring the cortado / piccolo to America
There are ideal ratios of coffee and milk, if you don’t want the flavor of either to fully prevail. To me the closest to the ideal ratio is what in Spain and Peets they call a cortado, some elsewhere call … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, food, Geography, Personal, Photography, Travel, VRM
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After-Christmas Free Tab Sale
I just ran across a pile of tabs from November. (Different browser, different pile, both thanks to OneTab.) Here they are: FlightAware MiseryMap AWC – ADDS Turbulence A Call to Israeli Engineers! Adtech Is Not For You. | Aleph Newsies, techies … Continue reading
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Giant Christmas Eve Used Tab Closing Sale
Here ya go, all free. (If I had time to turn the URLs into text, I would, but I don’t. Merry Christmas, ya’ll.) Above-and-Beyond Responses: Part 1 | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (has some thoughts by yours … Continue reading
We’re all going to need clothes
In the physical world we know what privacy is and how it works. We know because we have worked out privacy technologies and norms over thousands of years. Without them we wouldn’t have civilization. Doors and windows are privacy technologies. So are clothes. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Culture, Future, Life, Past, Personal, Personal clouds, problems, Technology, VRM
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Listening to Serial? Remember the West Memphis Three.
On Saturday I invited Serial listeners to recall the Edgar Smith case. Smith got away, literally, with murder. He did it by convincing the media and the public (and to a lesser degree the courts) that he was innocent man, … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, Culture, Journalism, Law, Life
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Listening to Serial? Remember the Edgar Smith case.
I’m now four episodes into Serial, the hugely popular reality podcast from WBEZ and This American Life. In it reporter Sarah Koenig episodically tugs together many loose ends around the murder of Hae Min Lee, a Baltimore teenager, in 1999. … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, Journalism, News, Past, Personal, Strange stuff
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Is perfectly personalized advertising perfectly creepy?
The uncanny valley is where you find likenesses of live humans that are just real enough to be creepy. On a graph it looks like this: So I was thinking about how this looks for advertising that wants to get … Continue reading
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Latest Linkpile
I thought today I wouldn’t let the list of open tabs get too long, since I spent most of the time working on stuff that’s not especially webfull. But here we are. A Call to Israeli Engineers! Adtech Is Not … Continue reading
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