Photographs of London. Taken at night. While hanging out of a helicopter. Big Picture: London from above, at night.

I frequent Trabant, a coffee shop near work, because they make excellent coffee using a Clover, a $12,000 brewer designed and built by local coffee enthusiasts and engineers. The machine quickly became de rigueur for so-called “third wave” cafés, until the whole company was bought by Starbucks. (The story is that Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz [...]

…working out downtown and wearing the t-shirt that said: Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again? It’s either time for a new “workout shirt” or time for a Bowflex.

Finding ourselves with four ears of corn, a bin of cherry tomatoes, and a bunch of basil, we decided to reprise the Corn and Tomato Salad that I made for our party on the fourth (and actually, Amber made it this time around). Sunset’s picture, not mine Last time I made it ahead of time [...]

Best of Show at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance went to this stunning 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta, owned by John and Mary Shirley of Medina, Washington. Autoblog Gallery: Best of Show

From Sports Illustrated, a frame-by-frame sequence of Phelps’ touch in the 100m ‘fly. And as to why Olympic times are measured to the hundredth-of-a-second, it’s not because of the Omega timing systems, which are accurate to a thousandth. It’s because of the minute differences in length of the lanes of the pool itself.

For Amber, answers and conjecture as to what is on the iPod of Michael Phelps. via kottke

It’s once again heirloom tomato season, so last night I dug out the recipe for “insalata caprese on grilled garlic toasts” from Well Fed (his picture, not mine, below): It’s a combination you’ve likely seen before, but Grant’s recipe is very particular about arrangement (basil leaves under the tomato keep the bread from getting soggy) [...]