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Landing on Page 1 With Hardly a Wary Eye – New York Times Annals of “things aren’t as bad as advertised.” Turns out we won’t really be standing up on airplanes. Whew. (tags: corrections travel) Editors’ Note – New York…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

How architects build brands. By Witold

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)

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