- A High School Reunion Reignites a 50-Year Crush – via Links You’ll Love
- Feel-good story of the day? The fast food chain White Castle has over 30,000 reservations for February 14th. – via @froggyb.bsky.social
- Love in the Time of Darwinism
- The Voice at Embankment Tube Station
- “If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.” – Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Roger and Elaine
- “When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein
- Flirting with an attractive woman really does make men feel good, scientists find, as they discover it causes a surge in health-giving hormones.
- My Two Favorite Poems about Love
Posts tagged “restaurants”
- Just in time for Penguin Awareness Day (on Thursday, January 20th), the Wildlife Conservation Society‘s Argentina Program has released amazing underwater selfie video recently taken by a male Gentoo penguin fitted with a special camera.
- Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, said, “I don’t know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.” – via The Curious About Everything Newsletter
- In the city of Poznań, Poland, a group of eight clams controls the local water supply through a clever bio-monitoring system. – via kottke
- I have been trying unsuccessfully for a while now to find the recipe for the Pistachio & Orange “Redemption Cake” that Amelia Le Bruin made on The Great British Baking Show: Holidays (S7: E1 “The Great Christmas Baking Show”). If anyone has any leads, please let me know. [Update: I sent her an Instagram DM and she replied to tell me she’d try to find the recipe in her notes!]
- Oysters and Beer Have Always Been on the Menu at One of America’s Oldest, Most Renowned Restaurants. I have been here many times, including a memorable birthday dinner in my 40s, and can confirm that The Union Oyster House is a national treasure. – via my dad
- Netflix Is Telling Writers to Dumb Down Shows Since Viewers Are on Their Phones – via The Dailies
- The essay Who Goes Nazi? from the August 1941 issue of Harper’s Magazine should be required reading at every high school in America. – via Laura Olin (threads / bluesky)
- It was fun to read about all the wild Christmas gifts NFL quarterbacks got their offensive lineman last week. Did you know that NFL teams are required to provide “three dozen sliced oranges for halftime” for the visiting team? And that each team easily goes through at least 80,000 Uncrustables each year? Oh, and Notre Dame winning the Sugar Bowl on January 2, 2025 ensured a Black head coach will be in an FBS national championship game for the first time ever. – via The Athletic (threads / bluesky)
- People often ask me what I think their children should study to learn how to be a programmer, or create video games or apps and I always answer that they should start with the absolute basics. Learn Bash Scripting in 10 minutes is a great example.
#FridayFive: Walt Disney World Resort Restaurants
Where to eat when you visit the Mouse
#FridayFive: Fast Food
In case of emergency
Goodbye, Trader Vic’s
The end of an era
#FridayFive: Steaks
Ranking Steaks
A Last Meal
I am increasingly convinced that a tremendous amount of yin and yang is important to a successful marriage. My wife and I have dramatically different opinions about dining, for example: She lives to eat. I eat to live. If you were to give each of us an hour to decide what we wanted for a
#FridayFive: Best Los Angeles Restaurants
Where to eat in the City of Angels
- Hugh Hefner: Teen Cartoonist
- Have you ever ordered any of these secret restaurant menu items?
- Congratulations to the Gators, who won their first NCAA Indoor Track Championship this weekend. (It’s nice when the football team has a running back who spends the offseason being one of the fastest sprinters in the nation.)
- A solar-powered iPhone charger is a pretty cool idea.
- Almost everyone I know uses a computer on a daily basis. Almost nobody I know understands the differences between files, applications, and websites. That’s why Apple is doing the smart thing by hiding all of that.
- “Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.”
- The best way to learn about database design is to design databases. It sounds simple. It gets more complicated when you try to design a database to manage gay marriage.
- There are quite a few pearls of wisdom in the 2009 annual letter to shareholders from Warren Buffett.
- Somebody needs to buy me these boots. They are awesome. Size 11, please.
- This was a sort of depressing headline to see in my feed reader: Once-revered South Carolina lawmaker freezes to death alone.
- “Faced with a flood of headlines on an ever-increasing variety of topics, we shut off. We turn to news that doesn’t require much understanding — crime, traffic, weather — or we turn off the news altogether.”
- I’ve been looking for a way to run three displays from my MacBook Pro for over a year now and not found any that weren’t ridiculously expensive. And then I came across this guy running four displays!
- Geek out with this awesome CSS3 Generator.
2024-04-09: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.