This is really well done.

Empire State Of Mind – Forest Hills State of Mind with Billy Eichner and Rachel Dratch:

(via Gothamist)

My mother gave me a cookbook called “The Best 30-Minute Recipe” a while ago in an attempt to get me to learn how to cook. I was just flipping through it when I noticed this entry in the table of contents:

    * While The Pasta Cooks
        * Pasta with Greens
            * Spaghetti with Spinach, Bacon, and Toasted Bread Crumbs
            * Spaghetti with Greens, White Beans, Bacon, and Toasted Bread Crumbs

Let’s be honest: bacon does make vegetables taste better. Meat haters are missing out.

(That said, I <3 vegetables.)

Reggie and the Full Effect – Congratulations Smack and Katy

Brand New, Welcome to Bangkok

I discovered these at the Boston Public Gardens earlier this year. I am amazed that such a living creature exists.

Photo Credit: “Purple Ball Flowers” by Cheddarcheez licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic.

With a great background track.

Yup, I’ll get right on emailing you about you not being able to serve me advertisements.

My new daydream for my future. Maybe I should start wearing sweater vests.

I just want to give a public shout out to Brookfield Properties for being cool with us geeks bringing our foldable bikes into One New York Plaza.

The midtown offices would probably have none of that

Next wish: provide centralized bike parking. Or at least non-rotating doors that actually open.

Posts around the web that I found interesting today:

• MathWorld’s page on Pi: Always fascinating to read crazy facts about mathematical constants.
• Ignite: It’s Really Just a Series of Tubes: An interesting 5 minute talk on the intracity pneumatic tubes used for communication.
• Upgrading to 9.04 and Ext4 Remotely: Don’t do this, but this will be useful for me in the coming weeks.
• New Filing: DOJ claims immunity in wiretapping case: I’m sad that the Obama DOJ not only embraces the legality of domestic wiretapping, but they’ve produced a new legal doctrine that basically says the president is above the law. Glenn Greenwald gives a detailed analysis.
• Co-founder of Starbucks exclaims his love for his French press: I have mixed feelings about mine.
• Super-expensive bike store in TriBeCa, sales down: Leah and I walked by the other day; she asked me why I didn’t buy my bike here. This article explains why.
• Self-appointed traffic cop in Washingon Square: Give me 23 years and I might be this guy.
• Water Tanks in NYC: It’s nice to know a bit more about the water tanks on buildings in my town.

Since the holiday season is upon us, all of us at DreamHost would like to wish everyone on the internets a very happy Thanksgiving.

Well, you know, so long as you live in a country that gets to celebrate it. Otherwise, we hope your Thursday is really nice.

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