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Broiled lobster: James Hook & Co. goes up in flames
Aw crap. Well, it’s a good thing that George & Becky bought those lobsters last week. But, on a very silly note: on hearing that 60,000 pounds of lobster were in a fire, I find myself wondering: is there enough butter in all of Boston?
(tags: boston)

The [...]

State of the Art - Digital Life For Analog Keepsakes - NYTimes.com
Boomers? Guess I can put that vinyl digitization project on hold.
(tags: music)

Leopard: Update 10.5.3
Reader reports point to a number of minor glitches, including (troublingly) temporarily disappearing Airport support. But nothing show stopping, apparently.
(tags: security mac)

Samsung L870 S60 slider features Webkit-based browser - Engadget [...]

I’m putting enough energy into this particular theme that I think I might keep it around a while. Today I addressed a problem with my daily link posts, which come from del.icio.us with some embedded markup. The formatting of that markup was causing some bogus line breaks (on Firefox, the list bullet displayed on a [...]

Latest Web Bloggers Give Cooking the Book a Whole Meaning - WSJ.com
How did I miss the one about The Whole Beast???
(tags: cucina books)

Music review: Scarlett Johansson, “Anywhere I Lay My Head” | Salon Arts & Entertainment
A positive review that compares the album to old 4AD numbers.
(tags: music review scarlettjohansson tomwaits)

In Ex-Spokesman’s Book, Harsh Words for [...]

… are the fun weeks, aren’t they? I feel like I’m up to my eyeballs in work and yet the week just started.
Miscellaneous notes:

I’m within striking distance of reaching zero unlistened to tracks in my iTunes library, after almost two years of dedicated listening to ensure that I listened to every track in the library [...]

Why Krugman is Wrong | By Andrew Sullivan
Deconstructing the latent racism of HRC.
(tags: obama hillaryclinton 2008 election)

The 16-year rewrite (Scripting News)
“Sometimes code rewrites are the way to go.” Yeah, if you’re dealing with 16 year old code, it’s probably worth reexamining your assumptions occasionally.
(tags: development)

Barefoot in the Park? Watch Your Step - NYTimes.com
Don’t go barefoot [...]

Being one of the top Google hits for “product manager resume” has its responsibilities as well as its perks. I occasionally, as I was today, get contacted by people trying to figure out things about the product management career path, and sometimes they ask really good questions. Today my correspondent asked, essentially, how to become [...]

I’ve been doing a bit of clean up on some of the early days of my site. Back then, I used Manila’s “story” feature (akin to WordPress pages), and a bit of code that allowed you to edit the front page of the site every day, flipping the old version back into the archives automatically [...]

Cheez Whiz is overrated for cheesesteaks | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/24/2008
A religious dispute that will never be settled. Makes me wonder what it would be like with Taleggio.
(tags: cucina philadelphia)

Obama Stands In for Kennedy at Wesleyan - NYTimes.com
How to be gracious and inspiring in the midst of sadness.
(tags: obama tedkennedy)

I’ve spent the weekend so far mostly outside, which has been great. When I was at Fennell’s party last weekend I never got a chance to mow our lawn, and it took forever to get through this afternoon. Then grilling burgers afterwards, with errands in between.
There’s nothing more urgent or important that needs to be [...]

Stumper : Obama Hints at Naming Clinton to His ‘Team of Rivals’
I think that we need more of this kind of thinking. With the problems facing this country, rivalries need to stop after the election and we need to put the best qualified team of people on fixing things.
(tags: america 2008 election obama)

Daring Fireball Linked [...]

Lisa and I had dinner with George and Becky last night. I hadn’t seen George, a Sloan classmate (and fellow E-52), since one of the last times I was in San Francisco. They’ve been anxious to get some Boston specialties during their visit, so they asked if they could bring lobsters to our house from [...]

mezzoblue § Handoff
How to work as a web designer who works with developers.
(tags: webdesign)

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Design: Taming Lists
Stupid CSS list tricks.
(tags: css webdesign)

I’m writing this working list so that I can keep a record of what I did to the Excel theme to get it the way I like it, as well as for anyone else who’s interested in learning how to hack up WordPress themes.
Issues:

The amount of vertical space consumed by the header region (seems to [...]

Peter Gabriel’s RealWorld Studios have teamed up with Bowers & Wilkins (B&W speakers) to bring an online music club targeted at audiophiles. It’s not really a store, because the service offers only subscription pricing and the content is exclusive–up and coming musicians recording at RealWorld. The B&W Music Club is part of a set of [...]