November 2009
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The National - Mansion on the Hill (Springsteen)
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What's Cooking on Thanksgiving →
whitneymcn:
Possibly the only Thanksgiving infographic you will ever need.
“As cooks turn to the Web for Thanksgiving recipes, the terms they enter into search engines can provide clues to what dishes are being cooked around the nation. On Wednesday on Allrecipes.com, ‘sweet potato casserole’ was by far the most common search term nationwide. It was tops in 36 of the 50 states and easily...
Arlo Guthrie - Alice’s Restaurant
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Ranting about Yelp Reviews
Lately, I’ve lost a bit of faith in Yelp restaurant reviews, mainly because 90% of what I read is:
This place is too expensive
The portions were too small
I never got ____. They never asked if I wanted _____.
They “lied”
The anecdotes and stories that are held within these reviews are often great, but the way that people map them to star ratings just doesn’t make...
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Revealing Design Treasures from the Amazon →
This is a presentation that Jared Spool did back in May, but I just got around to watching today. It’s fun to watch and interesting to learn from.
Make sure you turn on the audio.
On its surface, Amazon.com just seems like a large e-commerce site, albeit a successful one. Its design isn’t flashy, nor is it much to write home about. But deep within its pages are hidden secrets — secrets...
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Radiohead - After The Gold Rush
bijan:
From the...
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The National - Pretty in Pink
fred-wilson:
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The Avett Brothers - The Perfect Space
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Fanfarlo - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (NMH...
Testing Tumblr Photo Replies
If you’re not reading this in the tumblr dashboard, this will be meaningless for you.
If you are using the dashboard - click the camera icon and upload something fun.