The Evolution of Brunch. By Bryan Curtis - Slate Magazine
there’s an argument that [Sunday Brunch] owes a great deal to American Jewry. Brunch, Gary Greengrass acknowledges, was a kind of Jewish alternative to church. Jewish families, with nothing much to do on Sunday mornings, would take a long, leisurely meal, with traditional foods like bagels, lox, and blintzes.
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The other thing about Sunday brunch is that it tends to be generational. In your 20s—mandatory, often twice a weekend. In your 30s and 40s—less so, unless you want to lug around a stroller. Fifties and beyond—again frequent, though starting at an earlier hour. It might as well be breakfast.
Heh, didn’t realize I live so close to the birth place of Brunch! I even walked by Barney Greengrass on the way to Saigon Grill — it looked very fishy. I think we shall go check out Sarabeth this weekend~ :-)
20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Death - - science news articles online technology magazine articles 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Death
16 Waiting to exhale: In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an experiment with a specially designed deathbed and reported that the human body lost 21 grams upon dying. This has been widely held as fact ever since. It’s not.
I previously blogged about the excellent book about Death: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
(via BoingBoing)
ps: did you all notice Digg link on that Discover article? Wow…
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FRONTLINE: the tank man | PBS
“The story behind one of the most powerful images of our time” Frontline investigates. You can watch the whole show online. It’s fascinating and very moving.
This man was even voted one of the Time 100
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Flickr Photo Compass 0.8 - 6V8 - Production of my Mind
Wow, Flickr Map was released yesterday, and today someone wrote this neat Greasemonkey script which inserts photo-compass in Flickr UI which shows you photos that were taken near-by the currently browsing photo. Very neat!
(via LifeHacker)
Jon, Mark and Robbo’s Easy Drinking Whisky - Amazing Nose and Tongue Facts
Found on the website for Scotch that Frederic recommended.
The sense of smell is estimated to be about 10,000 times more sensitive than the sense of taste.
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Compulsive nose picking is called rhinotillexomania.
Yahoo! Real Estate - Homes, Mortgage Rates, School Reports and more!
Just in time for house selling spree! :D
Very nicely done, especially the Y! Maps Beta integration (though we had it first at bahhhh.com!)
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
Read on for more…
Continue reading ‘Some interesting arithmatics’
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Today, Flickr launched geotagging — basically ability to “pin-up” your photos to the world map. The idea is not new, and has been implemented by third party to some degree, but this one is VERY nicely integrated with Y! Maps Beta and existing Flickr UI.
Examples (click on the Satellite/Hybrid on top-right corner for more coolness):
All of my photos that are geotagged
Geotagged photos from my Europe Set
YouTube - D1大整古-流動廁所
This is the funniest thing I have ever seen on television! Make sure you watch um.. “the end” :-P
Japanese people really out-pranks everybody.
For all you nerds and geeks out there, the first external Yahoo! Hack Day is Coming, Sept 29-30. (Hm, the website looks so Jamie Zawinski’sh, who probably also copied the color combo from the Matrix :-)
“funtwo”, an anonymous guitar virtuoso in this video and a huge YouTube celebrity (#1 in Most Fav’ed, Most Viewed, and Most Discussed Music video of all time), now his identity is finally revealed. It’s shocking that he’s only been playing guitar for 6 years!
I was able to trace funtwo’s video to Jeong-Hyun Lim, a 23-year-old Korean who taught himself guitar over the course of the last six years. Now living in Seoul, he listens avidly to Bach and Vivaldi, and in 2000 he took a month of guitar lessons. He plays an ESP, an Alfee Custon SEC-28OTC with gold-colored detailing.
Update: He even makes Yahoo! 9 today!
Chinese Salad Architecture - a photoset on Flickr
This is what happens if restaurants only allow 1 trip to the salad bar, LOL
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