Monthly Archives: June 2003

In David Cross’ recent stand up album, Shut up you fucking baby, he talks about his childhood in Atlanta, being the only Jew on the block, and most importantly about the misconception that hicks are actually from the south. This past weekend, I tested his hypothesis, and went with a few new friends to theContinue reading “Honky tonk, GA”

I’ve heard of these shenanigans before, but never been so lucky as to be personally involved. I just received an official looking email with return address service@paypal.com asking people to verify their account information to cut down on fraud: Your As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instanceContinue reading “Sneaky sneaky”

In the past week I made my way down to Atlanta for a summer position at the CDC (more on that later). It was an arrangement of amazing serendipity that came together at the last minute, and I’m very thankful for the opportunity. Everyone needs a regular influx of ideas as well as breaks fromContinue reading “Enter the crunk”

In his keynote at the JupiTerZ conference on weblog strategy, David Weinberger revealed that he tends to scale everything by a factor of 2.5. Not surprisingly, this is the original calculated value of the cameronfactor, first observed by Jonah Peretti in 2001. It begs the question: the cameronfactor is either a universal human constant orContinue reading “Cameronfactor revealed to be universal”

A story I posted last year purported that wine experts were easily hornswoggled into thinking white wine is red. This seems to confirm many peoples’ suspicions that wine tasting is an entirely subjective experience, or at least that the visual component is much more important than we would predict. A recent study shows that wineContinue reading “The science of wine”

I recently became aware of an interesting debate over what I thought was common sense. Until I started asking around, I never would have thought this was so contentious (i.e. I thought I was right, goddammit). The question is over which spice goes in which shaker. Here’s the beef: Flavor Camp: Salt goes in theContinue reading “Salt ‘n peppa debate”