Category Archives: General

The Sriracha Story

Like many people, I love Sriracha. This story makes me love it even more. Via TechCrunch: The company name sounded Chinese – Huy Fong Foods. Was this the latest Chinese product to take off in the US? Turns out it … Continue reading


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Subways in North America (Robin Bose Edition)

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More on Google Reader and Trust

Google’s new trust issue mentioned in my last Google Reader post – mainly that Google might find it more difficult to convince people to invest time to try their new products if they keep retiring apps that aren’t popular with mainstream … Continue reading


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Don’t Panic!

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Glenn Yoder & The Western States

I had a great time last night at the CD release party for Glenn Yoder & The Western States at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge. They put on a great all-around performance, and Jeff Katz, the guitar player and a … Continue reading


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Avan Jogia and Inigo Montoya

My site traffic has surged 500% over the past few days after 20-year old Canadian sensation Avan Jogia tweeted about my post on Mandy Patinkin, Inigo Montoya, and Saul Berenson: Admittedly, I’d never heard of Avan, but I appreciate the … Continue reading


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Sustainable Approaches to Reducing Food Waste in India

About a year ago I spent a month in India working on an MIT research project focused on food waste with a classmate and close friend, Paul Artiuch. Throughout that month, we blogged extensively about what we learned both on … Continue reading


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Comment on the “Milk Cliff”

Adam Sigel, in response to an earlier post: Turns out that Tommy from Snatch was somewhat right when he told us to drink less milk. “Big Dairy” has conditioned us to equate milk with calcium, but it’s not the only … Continue reading


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Wonkblog’s Choose Your Own Fiscal Cliff Adverture

After I posted Wonkblog’s summary of fiscal cliff offers, Dylan Matthews posted an interactive fiscal cliff graph where you can add/remove various policies to see how they affect estimated GDP and government debt. It’s good stuff:


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Fiscal Cliff Offers

Via Wongblog, this is the best description of the negotiations I’ve seen yet:


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