Scientific BBQ at its best:
The choice of smoker style is a personal preference. There are lots of different models ranging from barrel drums to Kamodos. Good barbecue can come from a $50 or a $5000 smoker. The key to quality brisket is mostly about temperature stability and moisture control.
Seth would probably be an excellent home brewer too.
There’s so much value in this site. I can’t wait until Business Insider starts referencing the data there. Good times ahead.
A facinating look at how global economics works.
One theory for why rich cities tend to get richer is “cumulative advantage,” which is more commonly known as the rich-get-richer principle. The idea is that cities with thriving industries (consulting in Boston; software in San Jose; commodities in Chicago) attract the smartest workers, whose talents add to the success of those industries, redoubling their ability to attract the smartest workers. Talent attracts talent.
One of the hardest things about putting together demos of software is creating interesting and useful dummy data. When I wrote about how I use plain text for tasks, I was torn between having fun with the dummy data and not wanting to get sued by someone. It’s a lot of work to create a fully realized set of data and it’s even more work when it’s mind numbingly boring.
My thanks to curbi for sponsoring this site. curbi is something that I can really get behind. It helps to enable technology for kids by reducing the risk for parents. What a great product. Seriously, if you have kids, it’s worth at least checking out the free trial.
It’s a common news story today. “Children spending too much time online!” Every day you can find an article about the ever-present internet and what it’s doing to the next generation.
What a lovely interview about a terrific song. Today so many great songs lack meaningful liner notes. This type of interview makes The Commander Thinks Aloud more concrete and beautiful.
By way of @hotdogsladies
This is Jason Kottke at his best. It’s not just a link to something interesting. He takes something already compelling and reframes it to make it more important and more thought provoking.
Those were dark times…the power of the startup had just been lost after Kozmo’s CEO Dave Isildur was slain by economists while delivering a single pint of Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby to far reaches of the Outer Sunset and had not yet been rediscovered by Schachter, Butterfield, and Zuckerberg.
Taking notes is hard enough. Taking notes during meetings can be a real pain. Jeff and I discuss our techniques and shortcomings during the latest episode of Nerds on Draft. We also drink two fantastic and wildly different IPAs. Ever wonder what a good “Lite” beer would be like? We describe it in excrutiating detail.
Here’s a neat project I was graciously asked to participate in. It’s a series of very short interview posts about where Internet personas come from. Check out the archive. I really like the concept and the progress of the collection.
I think there are some nice parallels between between opening a brewery and developing an app. There are clearly large differences. Brewers have infrastructure costs in the $100,000 range and working in a coffee shop will get you arrested.
But this, from Andrew Nations, really caught my attention as a parallel between the two:
“Most breweries are struggling with staying relevant. A new brewery is opening every single day in America.
