Puzzled by an advert in yesterday’s Repubblica, but without time to check it, I was very pleased to have Jess point me to this wire story. Italy’s top chef teaming up with McDonalds - ANSA English.
The “Vivace” (vivacious) is a burger topped with bacon, salted spinach, marinated onions and may...
Almost 30 years ago to the day, New Scientist magazine published an interview with the “very young and very personable Steve Jobs”. Re-reading it today, it is amazing how many of the hallmark Jobs obsessions are there. Usability, applications, meeting new needs. And perhaps the origin of why, as...
In a flurry of texts yesterday I thought I might have come up with a potentially useful neologism: to maltweet, and hence maltweetment. I was wrong.
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off.
So I ran over and said, "Stop! Don't do it!"
"Why shouldn't I?"
"Well, there's so much to live for!"
"Like what?"
"Well, are you religious or atheist?"
"Religious."
"Me too! What are you? Ch...
Friend Derek has been digging into a recent Harper's Weekly poll showing that more Americans (76%) say they would vote for a homosexual than for an atheist (49%). This, he notes, is a change on 1988, when the same poll -- different people? -- gave 26% to 31%. Derek’s conclusion:
Americans are...
