Over The Edge

For a couple of months after September 11, the odor of destruction hung over my neighborhood, directly across the East River and downwind from the World Trade Center. Just a couple of weeks ago, NASA released this picture of the smoke plume that resulted from the fire and collapse. The top of the photo is true […]

Making a bearnaise sauce is a mysterious thing. I once was putting one together — all the ingredients were blended in perfect proportion, gentle heat was being applied, and the sauce was thickening just as it should — when it suddenly just separated out. Fell apart. I applied some quickly learned emergency measures, and the sauce came back […]

The NYSun says there’s a wacky e-mail going around suggesting that the first car of every subway train … well, read for yourself: Thousands of New Yorkers are now forwarding an anonymous e-mail to each other informing them that from now on, every first subway car has been declared ãthe singles car.ä (Bonus points for naming […]

Meg Hourihan has an excellent piece on the O’Reilly Network about another way to use weblogs to make money: use them as a promotional tool. Meg oughta know — she’s one of the founders of the company that came up with the popular Blogger software. Practiced PR pros know, of course, that sponsored content is […]

NASA says it can’t read minds after all, though I frankly find this denial less than fully convincing.