December 2014
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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 our favorite place to grab a bite in Baltimore. (Here’s a menu.) Could be they Continue reading
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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 a gibraltar, and Australians and Kiwis call a piccolo (short for piccolo latte). This is a Continue reading
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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 and that troublesome term "product." (with tweets) · jayrosen_nyu · Storify Cars – Products: Who 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 truly) Above-and-Beyond Responses: Part 2 | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (has more Continue reading
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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. So are manners respecting the intentions behind our own and others’ use of those things. Those manners Continue reading
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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, falsely convicted of brutally killing a teenage girl. After he was released he attempted another Continue reading
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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. The perp, said the cops and the proscecutor at the time, was former boyfriend Adnan Continue reading
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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 perfectly personal. You know: advertising that comes from systems that know you better than you 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 For You. | Aleph While this resonates with me (as somebody who dislikes being on Continue reading