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Note from Seattle
For the next two weeks I'm in Seattle. Working with my TASCHA peeps, mostly to get our new website launched. Today it was sunny, not enough to see the mountains but nonetheless magnificent. Today I saw a home for sale with the sign: 100% Financing. I thought: Good god, people. Isn't that how you got into this mess in the first place?
Continue reading...Kim Crawford Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
30. July 2009
This stuff tastes like flowers, but it's not sweet. Their website describes it this way: "Lifted aromatics of tropical fruits combined with the traditional nettle and herbaceous aromas of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc." Yeah whatever. Blah, blah, blah. Flowers, I tell you!
Continue reading...Les Vins de Vienne: Crozes-Hermitage, 2000
20. July 2009
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Yeah, I know. Supposed to be writing about communications, technology, social change. How you can save the world. Not today. News of the day is this wine made from syrah grapes. Crozes-Hermitage, 2000. From Les Vins de Vienne, Cuilleron-Gaillard-Villard.
Continue reading...Identica: Open microblogging & recipes in 140 characters or less
17. July 2009
Identica's commitment to open standards is hot. And all good technology shares this characteristic: People can figure out how to make it work for them. It's hackable. Just look at Twyka in Kenya and Naijapulse in Nigeria. And as for me? Tonight I discovered a group that shares recipes in 140 characters or less. Bliss.
Continue reading...Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
14. July 2009
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I love love love to cook. Odd that I never put recipes here. Tonight this turned out so good that it inspired me to share with you — it's the best and easiest thing I've made in a long while. And all you have to do is chop and boil water.
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Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Disguised” for The New Yorker’s monthly reading and conversation with Deborah Treisman. Englander’s voice couldn’t be more perfect.
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Early in his career, professor Mark Rowlands had two loves: philosophy and Brenin, a wolf he was forced to bring along to his lectures. Through their relationship, Rowlands started examining his work and life. Listen on CBC’s Ideas, via EarIdeas.
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Every month, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, hosts a reading and conversation with a well-known writer. August 2009 featured Joshua Ferris reading George Saunders’s “Adams.” The rhythm is magnificent.
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