Mark Bittman is definitely one of the finest writers around on food and cooking. His latest article in the New York Times, 100 Fast Grilling Recipes is loaded with excellent advice about grilling a wide variety of vegetables, seafood, and more. I love grilling vegetables, and can hardly wait to cook lots of the vegetables he’s recommended. I’m firing up my Weber charcoal grill tomorrow night, to grill tandoori chicken sausages. Now to decide on vegetables to accompany the sausage, something I’ve never grilled before. Thanks for the ideas, Mark Bittman!
Archive for the ‘Information Resources’ Category
Bittman: 100 Quick Grilling Recipes
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Book Selling Trends Seen at Book Expo: Gutenberg 2.0?
Monday, June 8th, 2009E-Books are ugly: Book design does matter
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Will E-Books Change the Way We Read and Write?
Saturday, April 25th, 2009The jury is still out on how popular E-books will become, but finally there are real advances in E-Book readers after years of trial and error. This is an interesting piece:
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write [The Wall Street Journal]
(Via Library Link of the Day)
Pumpkin or Squash Soup
Monday, January 12th, 2009My friend Anne Wanderman made a fantastic squash soup during the holidays. Here’s another version of it to try.
Recipe of the Day: Pumpkin or Squash Soup: “A luxuriously creamy dish that requires only two main ingredients: a blender and a stove.”
(Via Bitten)
Using the Internet May Help Aging Brains
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Surfing the Internet Boosts Aging Brains: “Web searches appear to engage important cognitive circuits in the brain.”
(Via New York Times.)
Twine
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008This looks like a fine tool for tagging and saving documents, for easy retrieval later. It’s the automatic tagging feature that got my attention. I signed up to be notified when it’s out of beta.
An Online Organizer That Helps Connect the Dots: “Radar Networks is testing a free, Web-based application, called Twine, that may provide some robotic secretarial help in organizing and retrieving documents.”
(Via NYT > Technology.)
NYT Critics List Favorite Books
Saturday, December 29th, 2007A Year of Books Worth Curling Up With: “Janet Maslin, Michiko Kakutani and William Grimes pick their favorite books of 2007.”
(Via NYT > Arts.)
Digitization of Books: a Universal Library?
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Here’s a thought-provoking, well-crafted essay on massive projects underway to digitize the collections of New York Public Library and others. What a time: we have so much choice in accessing reading materials traditionally, and through projects like these.
Future Reading [The New Yorker]
(Via Library Link of the Day.)
Travel the World by Couch Surfing
Monday, September 24th, 2007Interesting short piece about people who network and find a place (a couch, that is) to stay in while traveling.
Summer of Love: 40 Years Later
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007Summer of Love: 40 Years Later: “Series of four articles from May 2007 about the 40-year anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Also includes a photo gallery, video clips of interviews with selected Summer of Love participants, and stories about participants such as Joan Baez, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Harris, Grace Slick, Wavy Gravy, Bob Weir, and Steve Wozniak. From the website for the San Francisco Chronicle.”
GrandCentral, a phone service that wants to simplify your life.
Monday, June 4th, 2007I’m still a cell phone holdout, but when I get one, I’ll use Grand Central
GrandCentral, a phone service that wants to simplify your life.: “We may live in an era of unprecedented change for telephones, but one thing has barely evolved in the last 125 years: the phone number. Between home, work, and cell, most of us have at least three of them to wrangle. When you think about it, the idea that both landline and wireless numbers must remain tied to specific equipment and geographical regions is pretty archaic. It’s as if you needed separate e-mail addresses for every computer that you used—and had to change your e-mail address if you moved cross-country.
(Via Slate Magazine.)
National Yo-Yo Contest & Museum
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007National Yo-Yo Contest & Museum: “Website for ‘the longest running National [yo-yo] Championship in the world. Held annually in Chico, CA on the first Saturday of October,’ and for the ‘world’s largest public display of yo-yo’s and yo-yo memorabilia.’ Features information about the national contest and regional and state contests, an essay about yo-yo history, and photos of the museum and yo-yo competition participants.”
“notMac” service coming?
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007From David Pogue comes a brief report about:
The notMac Challenge: “An open-sourcey effort is afoot to develop a free alternative to Apple’s ‘dot Mac’ service.”
(Via Pogue’s Posts.)
For me an external drive does the job nicely, given the fact that large capacity drives are now very reasonably priced. SuperDuper! is great software for backing up your Mac to an external.
Google: 450,000 Servers and Growing…..in Oregon too
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks an Expansion of Power: “A sprawling new data center in Oregon is evidence of Google’s extraordinary ambition in its battle with Microsoft and Yahoo.”
(Via NYT > Technology.)
New Face at the New York Times
Monday, April 3rd, 2006The online edition of the New York Times has a new layout. It looks good, though the 3 columns of headlines by topic are in a small typeface, not good for older viewers. In the “Most Popular” articles box, note the addition of most Blogged and most Searched.
Library Digitizes Sounds From Our Past
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006Archaic Sounds Reach Modern Ears: “From ragtime tunes to historic speeches, vintage cylinder recordings come back to life, thanks to a nifty device and a California library’s impressive campaign to digitize. By Rachel Metz.”
(Via Wired News.)
Blog Search
Saturday, September 24th, 2005Google Blog Search looks to be one of the better search engines for locating blogs or keywords and subjects in blogs. It’s in beta. A quick search for superlative blogger Richard Wanderman easily turned up entries by or about him.
Timeline: Women in Space
Friday, July 29th, 2005Timeline: Women in Space: “‘Hundreds of humans have flown in space. Only 40 women have made the journey — including Eileen M. Collins, who commands the Space Shuttle Discovery on NASA’s historic return to flight’ in 2005. This timeline features photos and brief information about some of these women, including Valentina Tereshkova (the first woman in space), Sally Ride (first U.S. woman astronaut), and Kathryn Sullivan (first American woman to perform a spacewalk). From National Public Radio (NPR).”
Pixsy
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005“A new image search has reared its cute little head. Pixsy specializes in finding photos on ‘blogs, moblogs, social networks, and other sites that have unique content.’ Cool that it includes copyright warnings. Reviewed by Gary Price at SearchEngineWatch.”
(Via LibrarianInBlack.)