Caffeinated Musings

Rule of Thumb

2008-02-06T11:06:00.000-05:00

This morning my national edition of Thrillist brought me a rather entertaining site: rulesofthumb.org
Tagged by keywords and sortable by user ratings you can be better informed for just about any task at hand with a quick tip.

A travel agency will sell for 0.04 to 0.1 times its gross income.
[Rule of thumb about travel by Terri Thompson, New York, New York]

Always ask your spouse to explain their feelings. Never ask your spouse to justify their feelings. [Rule of thumb about marriage by James Erwin, Editor, Des Moines, IA, USA]

Unphotographable

2008-02-01T15:54:00.000-05:00

Today's Photojojo bulletin brought me a site with some very intense imagery... eloquently worded verbal imagery:
Unphotographable.com
On a half dreamed day like this viewed through a misty haze of rain in NYC I felt particularly drawn to the well worded inward lens from this site.

Eternal Sunset

2007-08-31T15:45:00.000-05:00

No... it has nothing to do with vampires!

eternal sunset is a website that allows you to view the sunset live (via webcam) online any time of day or night.

Crusher

2007-07-26T13:42:00.000-05:00

What: Corral your friends with a free, sleek e-mail invite customizable with pictures and videos.
Why: You’ve got a crush.
Where: Online at crush3r.com

[-- from DailyCandy]

Blackle

2007-07-26T12:27:00.000-05:00

Search the Web, save energy at Blackle.com

As you've always known on some level, displaying black on-screen uses slightly less power than white. Blackle is essentially Google gone dark, returning all the same search results while complying with the classic adage: "once you go black, the internet can save 750 megawatt-hours per year".

[--from Thrillist.com]

Pure Modern

2007-06-01T10:36:00.001-05:00

New address for design fanatics: http://www.puremodern.com/
As if Urban Outfitters, CB2 and Apratment Therapy put their heads together!!! - Needless to say I will be spending oodles of time at this url ;)

Does it Suck or Rock?

2007-03-15T12:38:00.000-05:00

A new social ranking search engine sucks-rocks.com may be just what the doctor ordered for on the fly market research or popularity polls.

Example: cell phone services: http://sucks-rocks.com/rate/cingular/sprint/at%26t/verizon/nextel/cellular+one/alltel/t-mobile

Dinner Bachelor Style

2006-11-07T12:59:00.000-05:00

Silly Boi!

2006-10-13T15:12:00.000-05:00

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an
ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky,
manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- P.G. Wodehouse

Watch out Barista!

2006-10-13T11:11:00.000-05:00

frappachino? 250 rupees, please. Caught the gossip about Starbucks expansion into asia on the Divanee Magazine Editors Blog. I guess Barista is now going to have some serious urban competition.
While you're cruising Divanee's site check out the very cool T-shirts ... ;-)

Hot! Hot! Hot!

2006-07-07T16:28:00.000-05:00

Some of the cooler things I want to do this summer in NYC!!!

Pool Parties: http://www.thepoolparties.com/

Movies with a View: http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/

Summerstage: http://www.summerstage.org/

Bryant Park Summer Films: http://www.bryantpark.org/

Genius!

2006-05-15T11:22:00.000-05:00

Quote of the day:

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

GLOW 2006

2006-04-11T10:29:00.000-05:00

GLOW 2006 is Nayikas multimedia, experimental dance theater project. It uses traditional dance with Indian cinematic, comic book, and calendar art images to aid in visually mapping elements of popular culture to abstract classical aesthetic forms. It exposes ruptures in traditional understandings of text and philosophy while exploring spirituality and sensuality through the dancer's body. The simple act of women adorning themselves 'glows' with the pulse of the feminine divine, as does the graceful movement of hips swaying, of feet reverberating. A new sense of woman, of body, and of the spiritual is realized when Gods defy gendered classification, the demonic divine coexists with the sensual feminine, and luminescence is not restricted to form.

"A glowing addition to the city's mix .so sultry and lush is the dance, so intense the focus, so tropical the ambience" -Village Voice

Nayikas is New York's first resident Indian Odissi dance theater company, and one of the only classical, contemporary and progressive dance ensembles in the South Asian Diaspora. Nayikas modernizes comprehension of the aesthetics of Odissi, India's oldest classical dance form, dating back to 2nd Century B.C. Creating potent and theatrical dance pieces, the Nayikas ('heroines') tell stories that both privilege and resurrect the often neglected voices of women. Nayikas draws from feminist iconography in Indian history & mythology. Thus preserving the essential spiritual core of the dance form while envisioning gender equality & promoting diversity of
imagination in the often-patriarchal religiosity of these traditions. The
Nayikas are Aditi Dhruv, Pavithra Vasudevan, Kirti Srivastava, Shrooti Singh
and Myna Mukherjee.
April 14th and 15th @ 7pm and April 16th @ 2pm
Reservations:
212-933-0162 or reservations@nayikas.org
Venue:
Light House International
The Sol and Lillian Goldman Building
111 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022-1202
www.nayikas.org

A Free Ride for Women in NYC?

2006-04-07T11:36:00.000-05:00

Passing this along from a Daily Candy:

The Emerald Escort
Superpower: Despite living in New York for three years, you still know how to drive.
Your task: Join the fleet of cars and vans of RightRides and transport women safely to their doors at night — for free.

Nanotech helps blind hamsters see

2006-03-22T15:19:00.000-05:00

This article titled "Nanotech helps blind hamsters see" from BBC News seems like it's right out of an Asimov novel. How soon will we have injections that cure the blind?

Technorati tags: science

Reinventing the science t-shirt!

2006-03-15T12:28:00.000-05:00

YellowIbis T-shirts had some very cool and fun t-shirts. My favourites were:

Occupation: mad scientist
and
lotteries are a tax on people who don't understand statistics

Technorati tags: science

Overheard in New York: The Voice of the City

2006-03-15T12:06:00.000-05:00

I just discovered this hillarious Blog - it won the 2006 "most humorous" Weblog award: Overheard in New York: The Voice of the City

Technorati tags: ny

Smallest Coolest Apartment Contest

2006-03-10T15:25:00.000-05:00

Apartment Therapy is having it's 2nd annual Smallest Coolest Apartment Contest along with DWR. Last years contest was chock full of creativity and I'm so excited about this years contest!

Your daily dose of social links!

2006-03-08T13:28:00.000-05:00

popurls.com - popular urls to the latest web buzz

Be Kind, Rewind (Daily Candy)

2006-03-06T15:51:00.000-05:00

A rather cool cassette player for your computer from thinkgeek.com as reported by Daily Candy:

DailyCandy - Be Kind, Rewind

Code Newbie

2006-03-02T16:11:00.000-05:00

Code Newbie is a really cool site for beginning programmers. They have nice code snippets, a very detailed search and an active forum. Thumbs up from this code newbie!

The Science of Cheap Air Fare

2006-03-02T13:07:00.000-05:00

TechCrunch » Flyspy Brings The New Web To Airline Ticketing

Fractal bacteria (kottke.org)

2006-03-02T13:05:00.000-05:00

Some beautiful patterns of fractal bacteria growth as reported by kottke.org

South Asia Blogged

2006-03-02T11:50:00.000-05:00

Another Subcontinent: South Asian Society & Culture

Clocky Alarm Clock

2006-03-01T12:39:00.000-05:00

Clocky would be the perfect alarm clock for me!!! Now if only they can make it dog-proof!

http://www.clocky.net/

Calvin and Hobbes Browser

2006-02-27T17:44:00.000-05:00

A very cool searchable Calvin and Hobbes Browser! (I immediately looked up all math cartoons!)

2005 Scientific Highlights

2005-12-24T14:03:00.000-05:00

A well informed (if not well written) list of some of the major scientific highlights of 2005 [From Slashdot]

Firefox Hacks You Must Have

2005-12-13T13:08:00.000-05:00

Wired news article that comprehensively reviews popular Firefox hacks

eyecandy for your apartment

2005-10-10T16:34:00.000-05:00

Cribcandy - a thumbnail bookmark blog with the best stuff for your home

Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins

2005-09-19T13:25:00.000-05:00

A journal article in Nature talks about how an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa, using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth. He also documents his findings in his blog: http://www.quellidellabassa.org/

Il Buco's Annual Sidewalk Pork Roast

2005-09-18T19:48:00.000-05:00

If you were wondering how you are going to get through another week since it's Sunday night ALREADY!!!... another weekend dissapears taking a little more summer with it. THIS is what you have to look forward to this week in NYC!!!
I'll see you there!

Housing Maps - NYC

2005-05-20T11:02:00.000-05:00

Cool Google + Craigslist Hack

Veritas Odit Moras

2005-05-13T15:14:00.000-05:00

Arts and Letters Daily

The then and now of everything you want to ponder and debate... a very complete site for provoking thought and conversation.

The Simputer

2005-05-10T16:09:00.000-05:00

Computers for the Third Word, The Simputer is a Handheld Device Designed for Rural Villagers

Spring Cleaning

2005-04-19T14:25:00.000-05:00

A great little resource list from the Manhattan User's Guide:

Spring Cleaning

R-MOTO Superbike Concept

2005-04-18T16:49:00.000-05:00

A Cool New Designer ELECTRIC moterbike concept!
rMOTO, Superbike Concept

Old San Juan

2005-04-14T15:02:00.000-05:00

The last day of the Culebra trip featured a romp through Old San Juan (Puerto Rico).

Isla de Culebra

2005-04-14T14:53:00.000-05:00

Here finally are a few photos from a recent trip to Culebra, Puerto Rico (click for more)

Hinduism for Rugrats

2005-04-14T13:30:00.000-05:00

A cute new children's book about Hindu gods and goddesses from Pixar animator Sanjay Patel

The adorable guide to Hinduism : Screenhead

The Thought Project

2005-04-14T10:38:00.000-05:00

A really cool site where Simon stoped strangers to ask them what they were thinking just before he approached them and transcribed it with photos on his gorgeous web site.

THE THOUGHT PROJECT // BY SIMON HOEGSBERG

Moving Sale - Upper East Side, Manhattan

2005-04-08T13:36:00.000-05:00

Solid Wood Dresser for Sale - $50

Antique Enammel Subway Sign for Sale - $200

Computer Desk with Shelves, Hutch and Wheels - $10 (This has been taken)

Media stand on wheels with media storage shelf - $20

I'm moving out of my apartment in 2 weeks and am looking to sell/giveaway some of my furniture (see pics above). I also have a few odds and ends (coffee maker, barstool, lamp etc.) to sell/giveaway and will be having a moving sale soon. E-mail me for details at pialim@gmail.com

Click here to see my craigs list post.

Microarray and Bioinformatics Blog

2005-04-05T16:00:00.000-05:00

Microarray and Bioinformatics Blog
Back in the core of the Big Apple the all too familiar rhythm of this my city is suddenly jarring... Science is the only thing that grounds me.

Mac Mania

2005-03-24T14:40:00.000-05:00

The Cult of Mac - by Leander Kahney

Since I've been recently initiated into the world of Macs through my ever evolving love affair with MacDaddy (my G4 laptop), I thought I'd share some of of my adventures:
DragThing
Konfabulator
VoodooPad
O'Reilly's macdevcenter.com
The Cult of Mac Blog
Pure-Mac.com (added 8th Apr 2005)

Nayikas Second Season

2005-03-17T13:48:00.000-05:00

Nayikas

The Rubin Museum of Art in Association with the INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL. INC Present the season premiere of 'GLOW' - A multimedia, experimental dance theatre performance by the Nayikas Dance Theatre Company.

The Nayikas are amazing!!! - Don't miss this show - Mar 17th, 18th (7pm) and 19th (3pm) @ the Rubin (17th St. and 7th Ave., NYC)

My First Blogger Post

2005-02-21T16:34:00.000-05:00

Hello Earthlings... here is my first tenuous step in the world of bloggers... are there any intelligent lifeforms out there?