December 2009
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Spinach and cheese strata recipe →
Dec 23rd
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“Generation-Y women discover new brands and get most of their style inspiration...”
– From this research (pdf), via “Gen-Y Women Respond to Interactive, Non-Intrusive Campaigns,” by Captain. O. Bvious.
Dec 22nd
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“You can probably sort out for yourself many of the ways in which constantly...”
– (via a grammar, and britticisms, who adds: “This is something that’s always bothered me, but I’ve never been able to articulate it in a way that at all makes sense or doesn’t sound “reactionary.”) See: White Whine | Stuff White People Like
Dec 22nd
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ListenThe other Christmas song from Home Alone:...
Dec 22nd
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“The digital world, even the high end brands, has become a sleazy carnival,...”
– Seth Godin: It’s no wonder they don’t trust us
Dec 22nd
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The best fashion/design job in Australia is... →
Dec 21st
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What English Sounds Like To Foreigners →
Even more info on this: The song is by Adrian Celentano, and is called “Prisencolinensinainciusol” — which means “universal love,” according to Celentano — written in 1972. It’s written to sound as though it’s sung in English, but if you listen closely, it is inf act complete gibberish (lyrics here). Sasha Frere Jones also wrote about Celentano and this song in the New Yorker in 2008. This...
Dec 20th
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“Cheering makes no difference, you’re still in the game. Google Wave is instant...”
– via Hilobrow
Dec 17th
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No take-backs. Stick a needle.
I remember distinctly when I figured out the secret of tabloids, which is that tabloids are only interesting if you read them serially, and that the amount you read is proportionate to the interest they generate. Basically, you have full control over whether tabloids draw your interest. Knowing this, it is easy to not read tabloids and therefore to not want to read tabloids. The same rule...
Dec 17th
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The Anthropology of Anthropologie by Arianna Stern
(Marylouise Pels and Vanessa Giovacchini in The Selby) The first time I saw a CRG, I was watching Igby Goes Down. In a moment of desperation, the main character Igby resorts to selling drugs to a couple of well-heeled twentysomethings who live in a Manhattan high-rise. “I know a girl from Baltimore,” he says into the intercom, but the two buyers are too strung out to remember the code phrase....
Dec 17th
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The 100 Best Books of the Decade: The Times →
Dec 17th
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Your books of the decade: The Guardian →
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Update: The singer who wrote the imitation English is Adrianio Chelentano, italian pop-musician and movie star. Thanks to Gerd Brunzama!
Dec 17th
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Healthy macaroni cheese recipe →
Dec 17th
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Knock knock. Who’s there? Cardigan. Cardigan who? Oh, no! I went to the library and forgot my card-igan! via thebronzemedal
Dec 16th
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“… our thoughts are shackled by the familiar. The brain is a neural tangle...”
– Jonah Lehrer on the creative benefits of travel via The Frontal Cortex. This time next week I’ll be in Bali, hurrah!
Dec 16th
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What English sounds like to foreigners
An Italian singer wrote this song with gibberish to sound like English. It’s actually quite a great song and video, I wish there was more info on it.
Dec 16th
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Frittata of Parsnip, Red Onion, Kale and Gouda... →
Dec 16th
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Avoidance of possible regret is a much bigger...
If you are an expert in a field, you are a maximiser. Your car is Teutonic. You listen to relatively obscure Indie music. You wear niche clothes brands, like those funny jeans with a wiggle on them. You eat at restaurants you have learned about through recommendation or reviews. And go on holiday somewhere other than Spain, France or the USA. The maximiser seeks to find the very best of...
Dec 16th
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"It's not every morning that you run into one of... →
Dec 16th
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“If the climate was a bank, they would have already saved it.”
– Hugo Chavez at Copenhagen via COP This!
Dec 16th
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“When people think of computer science the image that immediately pops into many...”
– Sapna Cheryan, a University of Washington assistant professor of psychology, and the lead author of a study that shows the environment and trappings of computer science is what turns women away, not the field itself (via Physorg.) Ambient belonging is so powerful. Immediately I can think of lots of...
Dec 16th
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“We watched him golf on television and couldn’t help but stare in wonder....”
– Jonah Lehrer thinks we’re shocked by the Tiger Woods scandal because we made an fundamental attribution error (FAE), which occurs when “people overestimate the importance of supposedly “fundamental” personality traits and underestimate the importance of variables like...
Dec 16th
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