December 2008
16 posts
Totally pleasant. I woke up completely rested at like 11. No hangover. With the...
– Paul Ford (via yournewfavorite)
Paul Ford and Maciej Ceglowski are the New Yorker of blogs.
How Shake Shack Makes its Burgers
(via Joshua Schachter)
Divulges many Shack secrets, including their special chrome griddles and their use of paint scrapers to make sure all the “goodness” (which I assume means fat) gets pushed back onto the patty.
On a Japanese cell phone, you type the syllables of hiragana and katakana, and...
– The New Yorker: Letter from Japan: I ♥ Novels
This New Yorker article, about the emerging Japanese genre of cell-phone novels discusses a lot of fascinating things (women’s place in Japanese society, the freedom that Internet anonymity is bringing to a society that doesn’t encourage...
We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our...
– Steve Jobs (via bijan)
The difference between investor-responsible, cost-driven development and...
– Alex Payne, Recession Engineering (via Phil Leif)