A Baker's Dozen of Fairly Recent Links
- Wolfenoot: "Eat roast meat (because wolves eat meat) and cake decorated like a full moon. A holiday to the spirit of wolves that celebrates people who are kind to dogs? I can 100% get behind this. So we will be celebrating Wolfenoot. It’s on the 23rd November.... If you’re posting publicly about it, use #wolfenoot...
- Emma Christensen: Recipe: Chili-Rubbed Ribeye Steak with Maple-Bourbon Butter | Kitchn: "For the steaks: 1 tablespoon cacao nibs 1 tablespoon chili powder 2 teaspoons brown sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika (optional) Black pepper 2 (1-pound) boneless ribeye steaks. For the maple-bourbon butter: 1 tablespoon bourbon 1 teaspoon maple syrup 1/2 stick (4 tablespoons) butter, very soft...
- John Bell: +Against Measurement_
- Daniel Swain: Substantial early-season rainfall in California to dampen explosive wildfire conditions: "Significant rainfall now appears likely from about the SF Bay Area south to Los Angeles County, with at least some precipitation pretty much statewide...
- John Williams: 'Normal' Monetary Policy in Words and Deeds: "We could return to a system... in which the supply of reserves... was kept relatively scarce, and the interest rate was set by... open market operations. Alternatively, we could continue with the system that we’ve been using since the crisis, in which bank reserves are abundant and the federal funds rate target is achieved through adjustments to administered rates...
- Doug Jones: Logarithmic History: "The history of the universe—from the Big Bang to the end of the year—day by day...
- Great China Restaurant
- Zach Weinersmith: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: "The Program...
- Wikipedia: Hexapodia Is the Key Insight!
- Noah Smith: Why Millennials Are Sour on the Economy: "Lack of mobility, stagnant incomes and thwarted expectations is a painful mix...
- Noah Smith: How to Fill the Gaps in the U.S. Economy: "Many of these advances have come through a single agency—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA (also known as ARPA at some points in its history)...
- Jason Snell: Why Are Apple Watch Faces Such a Mess?: "a lot of Apple Watch users have been surprised that they can’t add older complications to those faces. Apps need to be updated to explicitly support the new complication style, which was only introduced to developers on the day the Apple Watch Series 4 was announced...
- Moses Abramovitz (1986): Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind
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