December 2008
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Every restaurant I've been to since moving to New...
Since moving in April, I’ve been to 179 restaurants. I don’t have time right now to rate them, but maybe soon.
Here is the final list, repeats (5 of them, I went to each exactly twice) marked by an asterisk. I also included 2 restaurants in Newark:
Capitol Grille
Butterfield 8
Ben’s Pizza
Havana Central
Baden Baden
Spitzers Corner
Casa mono
Dos caminos
Cubana cafe
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iFartMobile →
Finally, an iPhone app with class.
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Big Picture: 2008 Year in Photography →
(part two)
(part three)
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Romantic comedies spoil your love life →
Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed …They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with their partner.
Probably because they’re too busy eating chocolate and crying in the bath.
Many held the view if someone is meant to be with you, then they should know what you want...
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Flight of the Conchords Season 2 Online Premiere!! →
brieflynoted:
lfarm:
Watch NOW. You’re welcome.
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Cute things falling asleep →
Exactly what it sounds like. (thx maggie)
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MusicBox: Cool Music Library Visualization →
WANT. Worth watching until the end for the playlist features.
(via waxy)
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Shoes thrown at Bush (video) →
Thrown pretty hard, actually. (thx Nima)
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Luxury on Sale: The Lobster Glut →
“People just aren’t buying, but in Maine their stocks are loaded. It’s all about supply and demand.”
At his shop, lobsters go for $10.99 a pound, about $3 less than last year — a trend seen all over town. Balducci’s is selling them for $14.99 to $16.99 a pound, $4 less than last year, and at Wild Edibles they are $2 to $3 less, or $13.99 to $15.99 a pound. The Lobster Place, with locations...
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Today in Happy News: Alcohol and IQ →
[F]or every 15-point increase in childhood mental ability score, the likelihood of drinking problems increased 1.38 times for women, and 1.17 times for men
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A Wall Street Job Can’t Match a Calling in Life:... →
Job vs. Calling
The distinction is artificial but worth drawing. A job will never satisfy you all by itself, but it will afford you security and the chance to pursue an exciting and fulfilling life outside of your work. A calling is an activity you find so compelling that you wind up organizing your entire self around it — often to the detriment of your life outside of it.
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NYC: Large Bathroom for Rent →
I am a female in my mid 60’s and I am looking for a room mate. Times are tight and I need some extra money. I am willing to rent out my bathroom in my 1 bedroom east village home.
My bathroom is large. You can easily put a twin air mattress in there. I only ask that when I need to use the bathroom, you or your air mattress are not in it.
I do ask that when you are in the...
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NYTimes: In defense of teasing →
Given the perils of negotiating rank, many species have evolved dramatized status contests, relying on symbolic displays of physical size and force to peacefully sort out who’s on top. Stags roar. Frogs croak. Chimps throw branches around. Hippos open their jaws as wide as possible to impress competitors.
And humans tease. Teasing can be thought of as a status contest with a twist. As...
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I Can't Decide →
Ask people to make a binary decision for you. (via HN)
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WatchSNL: Jizzed in my pants
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Colbert: Operation Humble Kanye →
“Why buy Kanye’s album? You can basically hear it for free. Just put a tin can to your ear and lean against a ‘Pac-Man’ machine.”
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ICU8MI →
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TVClub: 30 Rock's Reunion →
I will always remember watching Christina Ricci tell some interviewer that she was a reviled, geeky prude in high school. Gosh, for some reason I have a hard time believing that. I can’t imagine Ricci stalking glumly through the halls of Self-Delusion High while the popular kids gawked and pointed and hissed, “Hey look, there’s that horrible Christina Ricci nerd with her amazing breasts and...
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Argentina's Coin Crisis →
Welcome to the world’s strangest economic crisis. Argentina in general—and Buenos Aires in particular—is presently in the grip of a moneda, or coin, shortage. Everywhere you look, there are signs reading, “NO HAY MONEDAS.” As a result, vendors here are more likely to decline to sell you something than to cough up any of their increasingly precious coins in change. I’ve...
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Michael Malloy: Badass Homeless Guy →
[The Murder Trust] plotted to take out three life insurance policies on Malloy, and then get him to drink himself to death. The first part of the plot was successful, and (probably with the aid of a corrupt insurance agent) they stood to gain over $3,500 (almost $57,000 by 2008’s standards by the CPI) if Malloy died an accidental death.
Marino owned a speakeasy, and gave Malloy...
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Tent Caterpillar Wine →
If you have tent caterpillars in your cherry trees, the tents and crawly worms are enough for some folks. Taking the “yuck factor” even further, though, is the person who decided to make tent caterpillar wine.
Infestations are pretty insane. (via reddit)
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A Year of Parking Tickets →
New York City agencies issued 9,955,441 parking tickets from July 2007 to June 2008.
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