Blogs about: Banally Useful

Fascinating Facts on Body Rhythm1 comment

eÆsthete wrote 5 days ago: While many of us spend a good deal of our lives in a comatose state, we don’t notice essential … more »

Tags: time, Body, rhythm, internalclock

Do Your Own Picassohead

eÆsthete wrote 6 days ago: Wonderful. Compelling. Addictive. A new favorite way to waste time. Mr.Picassohead. [via link] … more »

Tags: Idle Chatter, Art, create.art, Drawing, guides, ONLINEART

Carlin, Proust & Heaven

eÆsthete wrote 6 days ago: Much has been written following the death of George Carlin a few weeks ago. But I came across a few … more »

Tags: Classics, Entertainment, Notable Aesthetes, Retro, Comedy, GeorgeCarlin, Memorial, Proust, vanityfair

The Eleven Best Foods You Aren't Eating1 comment

eÆsthete wrote 6 days ago: An unusual list of foods that probably aren’t in your shopping cart. This list is generating a lot … more »

Tags: New & Notable, health, Nutrition, Foods, jonnybowden

Thrift Shop's Dirty Little Secrets

eÆsthete wrote 6 days ago: Secret lives at the thrift shop: pornographic Polaroids in hidden in hollowed-out used books.[via de … more »

Tags: Idle Chatter, Retro, thriftshops, Pornography

Nature's Viagra1 comment

eÆsthete wrote 6 days ago: In a recent study, scientists contend that watermelon, that iconic staple of summer fare, possesses … more »

Tags: New & Notable, Nutrition, watermelon, Viagra, Natural, Fruit, Erectile Dysfunction

Rice Science

eÆsthete wrote 1 week ago: Norman T. Uphoff of Cornell University is all over the world hunger problem like white on rice, repo … more »

Tags: Global Matters, Humanitarian, Matters of Conscience, Mother Earth, Jesuit, NormanT.Uphoff, Planting, Rice, Science

Change the Margins

eÆsthete wrote 2 weeks ago: Change the Margins: a campaign to save the environment by changing paper margins. [via link]   … more »

Tags: Mother Earth, the examined life, Ethical Living, Campaign, Environmental, savepaper, margins, eco

MPAA and Copyright Infringement

eÆsthete wrote 2 weeks ago: The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the … more »

Tags: Entertainment, New & Notable, MPAA, intellectualproperty, Copyright, infringement, Legal

Q&A with Tom Ford

eÆsthete wrote 2 weeks ago: Beginning today, the fashion crowd descends on Milan to see Men’s Spring Summer 09 collections an … more »

Tags: Style & Savior Faire, New & Notable, Fashion, Wallpaper, Interview, TomFord, opening, MiLan

The Wonder of Wind Tunnels

eÆsthete wrote 2 weeks ago: For the uninitiated wind tunnels are machines for “flying” aircraft on the ground. Whil … more »

Tags: aircraft, windtunnels, NASA, flight, Facts

Peak-Season Produce

eÆsthete wrote 2 weeks ago: For those of you with a penchant for locally grown produce, also referred to as ‘from farm to … more »

Tags: Mother Earth, interactivemap, Ingredients, produce, farmtotable

How We Drive

eÆsthete wrote 4 weeks ago: How we Drive is a new blog by contributing writer Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive th … more »

Tags: arts & letters, New & Notable, book, Driving, Tests, TomVanderbilt

Profitable Reading

eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: Do you know where your money is? Ten books on investing recommended by the seer himself, Warren Buff … more »

Tags: arts & letters, Books, Investing, Advice, warren+buffet

The Hazards of Slurping

eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: Liquid calories slip by so easily, it’s almost hard to take them seriously. But alas, all those su … more »

Tags: Idle Chatter, biggulp, calories, Drinks, jambajuice, Weight

Volvelles

eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: The power and magnitude of volvelles. Even metafilter’s on board.   … more »

Tags: volvelles

Seriously Sous Vide

eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: Thomas Keller’s “Under Pressure,” the chef’s long-awaited cookbook on sous v … more »

Tags: arts & letters, Epicurean Epiphanies, Chefs, sousvide, cooking, book, thomaskeller

Vinquire?

eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: Wine’s traditionally organized by tons of stupidly specific categories you wouldn’t admi … more »

Tags: Wine & Spirits, Wine, Database, guide, Ratings, retailers

The Michelangelo of Tutorials

eÆsthete wrote 2 months ago: One of the most fantastic things about building a suite of tools around a community, instead of the … more »

Tags: Tutorials, chocolatize


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