TripIt This looks like it could be a good idea, even though travelocity/expedia/etc. will probably buy them or take the idea and run with it– defeating the purpose by making it closed.
(↝via The Economist)
Secrets of the Still: a zesty history and how-to for making spirits, fragrances, curables, gasahol, and other products of the stillroom.
We’re going to need to track a copy of this down for the PH’s Knowledge Ark. Also, please update the blueprints += ‘stillroom’
and cider house and sugar house.
apparently, this cat sits on you, then you die two hours later. Unclear whether the cat can see the future or is made of poison.
(↝via strangemaps of course)
i saw this on CNN in a cafe two months ago, and then had it forwarded to me by everyone that lived in Providence, ever.
there’s a japanese horror movie in here somewhere.
oh man some how i missed the pvd cnxn. Speaking of, on sunday I was walking down Bedford and I heard the following convo:
Hep Girl: “Oh yeah? That’s crazy. So what’s he doing now?” Hep Guy: “Well, I guess he’s just kind of a ‘Man About Providence’ these days.”
(↝via nytimes sunday book review)
I was going for a giant blue disembodied head of william gibson effect there, but images are styled
background-color: #FEFEFE;
so no dice.
and that would be intentional!
Meet the new boss, same as the blah blah
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The Dreamer
“…ice cream, gunpowder, fruit candy, hot cocoa, marshmallows, blood-orange peel, and probably some DDT.”
“After the fruity opening, it settles down to the smell of a freshly opened pack of cigs.”
“a lot like a gin and tonic being sipped by a gentleman smoking a pipe.”
“starts…under a bitter chemical haze that does bear some relation to a gin & tonic…What I remember instead is the distinct smell of tootsie rolls, some powdered sugar, a touch of auto parts.”
“it has a toxic-industrial edge that I find disturbing.”
“For all that, it is a soft, subdued scent once it dries down, and could easily qualify as unisex.”
From various reviews of Versace’s The Dreamer, a smell for dudes.
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You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,” she said. “It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We’re thankful it wasn’t, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out.”
—Spokesperson for the New Haven Mayor, on arresting some beer club germans
“The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.”
“forced,” huh?