January 31, 2007
Slate wine columnist's story of his two-year odyssey in pursuit of a $700 bottle of wine
January 27, 2007
Photo series featuring people going through NYC subway turnstiles
January 23, 2007
Ten common mistakes people make when trying to improve their credit score
Microsoft has released a nice new software add-in that enables easy editing of EXIF data inside digital photographs from within Windows Explorer
It also provides enhanced "hover tips" and additional sort properties for digital photographs in Explorer (in Details view).
Taxi drivers in Shanghai are to be issued with "spit sacks" to curb their habit of rolling down their windows and hawking into the road
Phlegmatic cabbies will soon have a sack fixed to the metal grill that surrounds the driver's seat, so that both they and their passengers can make use of it.
The pound hit a 14-year record against the dollar, rising above $1.99
All outbound links from the English Wikipedia site now use the NOFOLLOW attribute, no exceptions
January 21, 2007
January 19, 2007
Diagram that charts every instance of the phrase "is the new" encountered from various sources in 2005
"Space Travel is the new HIV"? What the hell does that mean?
January 15, 2007
ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson said the network would run all 22 episodes of Lost straight through next year, perhaps starting in midseason (a la 24)
I think that's a good idea.
January 14, 2007
The Sopranos and Entourage return April 8th
Ando Momofuku, the inventor of instant noodles, dies
The article says he was born in Taiwan to Japanese parents while his Wikipedia entry says he was born into a wealthy Taiwanese family and only later became a Japanese citizen. I wonder which is correct.
January 12, 2007
Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III
January 11, 2007
January 10, 2007
Time magazine writer got an early look at an iPhone
January 7, 2007
January 5, 2007
The Mystery of Picasso
Time-lapse photography of the creation of a Picasso painting.
January 4, 2007
NYT story on Taiwan's high speed rail
I'm looking forward to taking it after the initial frenzy dies down.
NY Times' David Pogue looks at 4 online backup services
I have been thinking about trying Mozy.
January 3, 2007
Find out the sex of your brain with this online test
I scored right in the middle of the male-female brain continuum.
A couple worth $2 billion did their own divorce in an afternoon over a bottle of wine
January 2, 2007
New York magazine's "Where to Eat 2007"
January 1, 2007
NYC retired the last mechanical parking meter a couple of weeks ago