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I'm a total sucker for large, impressive structures, so photos like this one of the Viaduc de Millau get me every time. This is beautiful.
Found in Tom's gallery of the Sydney dust storm.
From our Gatsby afternoon, some drinks, from the left (and not counting the lovely Hendrick's gin at the far left):
I also made fried chicken, the morning of the event (though I placed the chicken in a brine the night before).
I kept reading about how difficult it is to regulate the temperature of the oil, and I scoffed: amateurs, surely! Well, no. It's really quite difficult, and it took me a couple of tries to get it right (those tries resulted in blackened crust, but still pretty tasty chicken). Thankfully, I had a lot of tries, since I was frying twenty pieces of chicken, two or three at a time.
But overall, the chicken--and the rest of the food, and the drinks--traveled well to the picnic, so the preparations and work paid off. A lovely event.
comes this relevant quote:
[Even] in piracy's golden age people were aware that an unregulated marketplace invites predators. During the South Sea Bubble of 1720, speculators claiming to be able to make wealth out of debt fleeced British investors and ruined many banks. Pirates who spent that year killing and plundering, Nathaniel Mist grumpily wrote, could salve their guilty consciences, if they had any: "Whatever Robberies they had committed, they might be pretty sure they were not the greatest Villains then living in the World."
Here's a site I'd really like to see: a showcase for software that takes advantage of new developer features for the Mac OS and iPhone platforms (and maybe others, too).
The promise of an update like Snow Leopard--and, to a lesser extent, the features in the new iPhone 3.0 SDK--is the types of new applications that can be built upon the new platform. Reviews of the new operating systems are heavy on information about the new developer features, but light on actual examples of applications making use of those features. And, as a potential developer for these platforms--but even moreso, as a very interested user--those are the apps that I'd love to see.
My current favorite example of such an app: Clarke, an app for updating your location on Fire Eagle, will soon support the Core Location framework for gathering location data (currently, it uses Skyhook data). That's almost neat enough for me to gather the courage to upgrade!
Does a site like this exist?