Monthly Archives: May 2006

links for 2006-05-20

Phat Duck in The Pastry Department: Trendy Candy Eeek. Not only a great-sounding candy recipe, but perhaps yet another blog to keep up with! (tags: food) Coffee and caffeine, what could be better? A haiku about the same! (tags: chocolate … Continue reading

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Behind this bookcase

Behind this bookcase is the Secret Annexe, where Anne Frank and her family hid during World War II, until they were betrayed and deported to the concentration camps. Visiting the Anne Frank House was deeply moving, a real highlight of … Continue reading

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Great stuff from Amsterdam

Check out this gorgeous tulip vase I bought in Amsterdam. Beautiful colors, finely painted. And since I usually have tulips in the house, so obviously USEFUL! These shoes were another matter. Perhaps, perhaps I didn’t NEED them in the same … Continue reading

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links for 2006-05-13

Boing Boing: British farmer supplies gallows to totalitarian governments News you probably won’t read anywhere else. (tags: UK) National Geographic Magazine’s Sights & Sounds: The Empty Quarter Ever since I read Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian Sands, I’ve been obsessed with the … Continue reading

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In Amsterdam

I might have bought something that looks sort of like this. Today. In Amsterdam.

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links for 2006-05-12

102 movies everybody should have seen I haven’t dared to count up how few of these movies I’ve seen. . . . (tags: films) Boing Boing: Revolving “Circular Kitchen” puts entire kitchen into a cylinder Especially for those of us … Continue reading

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links for 2006-05-09

How architects build brands. By Witold

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links for 2006-05-07

A Guide to Yahoo! Social Media Tools Ways to jazz up this blog, if I ever have time to figure them out. (tags: blogging technology)

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links for 2006-05-06

An Organ Recital for the Very, Very Patient – New York Times Largo, molto largo. (tags: music Germany)

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links for 2006-05-05

A Shrine to Southern Literature, Slightly Frayed – New York Times At last. Can’t wait to see this in person, that is, if they’re ever open, if they ever answer the phone, etc. Bit of a long story behind this … Continue reading

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