Simpsons do Mad Men

[via livejamie]

The unfinished swan looks gorgeous

Carol Blymire finishes the French Laundry at home

Incredibly well written journey through the French Laundry cookbook, she’s now moved on to Alinea

Crunking Crumping you can believe in (my thanks to Mike Davidson for correcting my hip urban lingo)

Dahlia Lithwick on the fallacy of voter “fraud”

Lithwick has been on this issue for years and offers one of the most insightful analysis on why the real fraud is all of the right wing hysteria about this non-issue

In certain ways, Palin is the latest manifestation of what I call death-by-focus-group, a phenomenon made infamous by the Ford Edsel and by New Coke. In a post-Wikiepdia universe, in which the quantity of information may too easily be conflated for its quality, such mistakes may be all the easier to succumb to.

—Nate Silver, on the Wikipedian candidate

Airbrushing we can believe in

Yahoo’s OpenID research is pretty depressing

Nobody in the test group had even heard of it and it took a lot of coaching to get folks to log in. Sounds like a design problem in need of solving. Or several.

I find that it is easy to be right with what I report, because I only report what I know to be true. This is not some sort of high standard. It is basic journalism.

—John Gruber, on the importance of actually knowing what you’re talking about when you’re a writer. I have a great deal of respect for the work that John does and it’s clear from the incredibly high quality of his writing and reporting that he has this same level of respect for his readers.