Where’s the Beef?
Waldo Jaquith on the impracticality of really making a burger totally from scratch. And we’re not talking about buying some ground beef from the grocer:
Further reflection revealed that it’s quite impractical—nearly impossible—to make a cheeseburger from scratch. Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in spring and fall. Large mammals are slaughtered in early winter. The process of making such a burger would take nearly a year, and would inherently involve omitting some core cheeseburger ingredients. It would be wildly expensive—requiring a trio of cows—and demand many acres of land. There’s just no sense in it.
A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not.
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There is practically nothing that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper — and he who considers only the price is that man’s lawful prey.
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Not Your Father’s Digital Assistant
John Gruber on Siri, Apple’s new voice command app:
I was out running errands today, walking through the city. I remembered, a mile away from home, that a screw had fallen out of my wife’s favorite eyeglasses over the weekend, and that she was waiting for me to fix them. Walking down a city street, I said, “Remind me to fix Amy’s glasses when I get home.”1 Half an hour later, within a few doors of our house, the reminder went off.
The great Willie Nelson covers a Coldplay song in this short film commissioned by Chipotle.
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Is it fair to assume that this person murdered her seven children?
LOL.
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Midnight Potato Eau De Toilette - Available In Some Stores
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Rob Delaney: Bought some US stocks →
I just bought some shares in an index fund that tracks the Wilshire 5000, which means I just bought shares in the 5000 largest American companies. I did this because I wished to take substantive action immediately upon learning of Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US credit. Standard & Poor’s, and to…
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elle oh elle: A confusing alphabet →
The English language at its best.
I work right next to my company’s account coordinators, who spell a lot of things on the phone for our clients. I decided to make them all an alphabet they can use to confuse the shit out of the customers. Here it is.
- A as in Aisle
- B as in Bdellium
- C as in Czar
- D as in Djembe
- E as in Eureka
- F as in Phone
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This gave me goosebumps. Dare I say Bono is the best vocalist of his generation.
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RCA
She was a dependable cable, the RCA or phono connector. Been around since the 1940s, with her stout, sturdy pin you knew wasn’t going anywhere. You could trust her with your tapes and CDs and video games if that was your thing.
I just pulled out the last of my RCA cables. Now I’m left with a box of them—a quarter-mile of left, right, red, green and blue in six-foot segments, each with its own unique personality. This one’s for the record player. This one was for the cable box and these ones looked great with the SNES.
But I’m all HDMI now. Feels good, too. Feels right.
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