February 2012
13 posts
Made Better in Japan →
The Japanese are perfecting many quintessentially Western things, like food, drinks and clothes…
“I think these are Spanish napkins,” Gonzalo, my Bilbao-born companion, says in disbelief. It’s almost too ridiculous to think that anyone would import such a shoddy implement from halfway around the world. But the owner of this restaurant tracked down these servietas,...
"Lin-sanity" makes the FT →
Mr Lin, 23, has gone from obscurity to the world’s most-watched basketball star in under a week. His story – an unwanted player who shines when given a chance – has the right mix of adversity and success to captivate the US, but it poses a problem for the media in basketball-mad China.
In any case he’s making me watch the NBA again…
Gilthead
This is a gilt-head bream (notice the gold-coloured stripe next to the eyes), or daurade in French. My local Morrisons had piles of them at half price, so I suspect people are put off by the fact it’s an entire fish. In fact it’s already scaled and gutted, and all you need to do is put it under the grill… As the Wikipedia article says:
The gilt-head bream is generally...
WatchEveryone was out today after last night’s snowfall, never seen so many people on Primrose Hill outside New Year’s Eve…
January 2012
15 posts
If 2012's Oscar-nominated movie posters told the... →
Excellent. This one for the Tree of Life in particular is great:
The Hangover, starring Dean Martin, Jack Lemmon... →
“Movies reimagined for another time and place.” Brilliant!
McSweeney’s: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s... →
Riding in upon a teal Ford Focus came a great warrior, a suitor of the gentlefolks’ granddaughter.
(via kottke.org)
The Oatmeal's SOPA protest page →
Brilliant.
US ambassador to Belgium aims to visit every town... →
Funny profile from the WSJ.
The iconography of Indian trucking →
Fascinating!
Amazing remakes of classic paintings →
The attention to detail in all of these is stunning.
Exposing the TSA security theatre →
Vanity Fair meets up with security expert and prominent TSA critic Bruce Schneier, at Ronald Reagan airport in Washington, DC.
As we came by the checkpoint line, Schneier described one of these aspects: the ease with which people can pass through airport security with fake boarding passes. First, scan an old boarding pass, he said—more loudly than necessary, it seemed to me. Alter it with...
5 business apps to install on your new iPad
I try to avoid writing listicles, but I suspect many an iPad was found under the Christmas tree this year and so I thought it could be helpful to showcase some of the apps that make the iPad a great business tool, in my opinion.
The Apple productivity suite (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) — Their names obviously refer to their Mac counterparts, but Apple’s equivalents of Word, Excel and...
December 2011
9 posts
Rather on the crazy end of the spectrum: dolphin... →
Things heard on an airplane →
Another winner from The Oatmeal.
Foursquare's original pitch deck →
Very focused.
Cristiano Ronaldo's dazzle boots →
Ronaldo’s new football boots sport a sort of camouflage seen on WW1 battleships, in order to confuse opposing defenders.
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I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore -... →
It’s funny cos it’s true: “People just don’t make sense anymore.”
November 2011
22 posts
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The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave... →
Nice peek at the sketchbook of the artist who designed the icons for the 1984 Macintosh.
Roger Federer masterclass stuns Rafael Nadal in... →
What a night!
Paul Rand's proposal book for the NeXT logo →
Brilliant, like a tutorial in branding. The clarity of the vision and the argument is amazing.
1,000s of hacker attacks a day →
Interesting account of the upheaval that results when your account falls victim, as well as the obligatory tips to improve online security at the end.
McDonald's McRib as an arbitrage trade on lean hog... →
Great read.
Car customisations in Shanghai →
Two observations:
Note the brands
Proof yet again that money can’t buy you good taste…
