Chefs Feed: restaurant recommendations by acclaimed chefs
Here’s a refreshing take on the war for the best restaurant recommendation app. It’s called Chefs Feed and it only shows recommendations of dishes and restaurant by a curated list of chefs:
There is no way for you or I to upload a dish photo or make a dish recommendation, and the Riveras like it that way. The only people who can recommend a dish are the 600 professional chefs that make up the Chefs Feed roster of curators. From the Riveras perspective, serious eaters want to know where Mario Batali (Babbo, Lupa) eats in New York and what Thomas Keller (French Laundry) eats in San Francisco — not the selections of some random dude with a smartphone and a few too many whiskey sours.
Where are the world's deadliest major cities?
Where are the world’s deadliest major cities?
Excellent statistics provided once again by the Datablog team for The Guardian.
Where are the world’s deadliest major cities?
Excellent statistics provided once again by the Datablog team for The Guardian.
Stunning illustrations for the family houses in Game of Thrones.
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Stunning illustrations for the family houses in Game of Thrones.
How to distil your own gin
Eye-catching headline as I was reading Wired UK. Why not try really?
On another fire-related note. Extraordinary fire photography by Tom Lacoste.
Renaud Hallee made music with fire.
Renaud Hallee made music with fire.
Color photos of Nazi-occupied Poland circa 1939-1940.
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Color photos of Nazi-occupied Poland circa 1939-1940.
Another reblog from explore-blog:
Networked Society – Seth Godin and others on the future of learning in a new project by Ericsson, two years after Ericsson’s 2020 Project exploring the future of technology.
In the beginning of the video we are told that the origin of a complex bureaucratic system similar to higher education took its roots in the military, leaders needed formatted soldiers. Interesting point of view.
Another reblog from explore-blog:
Networked Society – Seth Godin and others on the future of learning in a new project by Ericsson, two years after Ericsson’s 2020 Project exploring the future of technology.
In the beginning of the video we are told that the origin of a complex bureaucratic system similar to higher education took its roots in the military, leaders needed formatted soldiers. Interesting point of view.
5 things Apple should do with Siri
Interesting Siri wish list by Alex Layne over at GigaOM.
This made me remember that Siri is a beta product — meaning it’s not finalised yet. To make any product successful, you have to start small, simple and not overcrowd the first version with a lot of features. But when this new product is a defining feature of one of the most popular phones in the world, there is a problem. People will start screaming: why can’t it do that? or this?
That’s Apple’s gamble. Siri will not be complex at first even though it will lack basic functions like answering questions about the iPhone. (You can’t ask Siri how much memory you have left.)
Hopefully time will help solve this problem quickly, because a company like Apple can’t have half-baked products for long. Ultimately, it will damage its reputation.
Alex Layne’s Siri wishlist:
1. Show me more than just restaurants and movies.
2. Answer questions about my device.
3. Change my settings.
4. Remember what I said (history)
5. Learn other languages.
5 things Apple should do with Siri
Interesting Siri wish list by Alex Layne over at GigaOM.
This made me remember that Siri is a beta product — meaning it’s not finalised yet. To make any product successful, you have to start small, simple and not overcrowd the first version with a lot of features. But when this new product is a defining feature of one of the most popular phones in the world, there is a problem. People will start screaming: why can’t it do that? or this?
That’s Apple’s gamble. Siri will not be complex at first even though it will lack basic functions like answering questions about the iPhone. (You can’t ask Siri how much memory you have left.)
Hopefully time will help solve this problem quickly, because a company like Apple can’t have half-baked products for long. Ultimately, it will damage its reputation.
Alex Layne’s Siri wishlist:
1. Show me more than just restaurants and movies.
2. Answer questions about my device.
3. Change my settings.
4. Remember what I said (history)
5. Learn other languages.
How France built inequality in its cities
Excellent piece by Clare Foran for The Atlantic Cities. She took a job as an English teacher in Val-de-Reuil, a city in Normandy, northwest of Paris.
As one of France’s New Towns, Val-de-Reuil was supposed to solve many problems and be the pinnacle of urban planning.
The city instead looks dull and stark. But what went wrong?
To start, the city’s concentration of low-income housing has created a weak tax base incapable of adequately supporting the local school system or funding much-needed infrastructure projects. Another problem is that many of the available jobs are not matched to the skill set of the local workforce. A number of big name pharmaceutical companies have laboratories in Val-de-Reuil, including Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi Pasteur. But most residents lack the education or technical training needed to qualify for the positions doled out by these employers.
The whole article is a good read.
How France built inequality in its cities
Excellent piece by Clare Foran for The Atlantic Cities. She took a job as an English teacher in Val-de-Reuil, a city in Normandy, northwest of Paris.
As one of France’s New Towns, Val-de-Reuil was supposed to solve many problems and be the pinnacle of urban planning.
The city instead looks dull and stark. But what went wrong?
To start, the city’s concentration of low-income housing has created a weak tax base incapable of adequately supporting the local school system or funding much-needed infrastructure projects. Another problem is that many of the available jobs are not matched to the skill set of the local workforce. A number of big name pharmaceutical companies have laboratories in Val-de-Reuil, including Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi Pasteur. But most residents lack the education or technical training needed to qualify for the positions doled out by these employers.
The whole article is a good read.