David McCullough tours some of NYC Revolutionary War sites in the NYT.
"I was speaking in Vienna and then brought out one of the earliest
drawings ever made of New York," Mr. McCullough said. "It was some
houses and a dock for boats. And I looked at the drawing of that little
place and thought not just of the history that would take place there,
but of all the music that will be played there, the books that will be
written there, the poetry, drama and the architecture that will come
from there. There will be no city like it on earth."
Glass shape affects the size of drinks that get poured into them. Turns out that people put more whiskey into short glasses than tall ones.
Chris Anderson on "The Probabilistic Age" :
Q: Why are people so uncomfortable with Wikipedia? And Google? And, well, that whole blog thing?A: Because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.
Q: Huh?
Let him explain it in a fascinating post. (via Kottke)
