Chart fail. (Via FlowingData)
“People tend to search for gravy at 3pm. When they panic and realize they have no idea how to make it.” — Thanksgiving, by the numbers. (Via Gawker)
The Latest Entrepreneurial Fantasy Is Selling Cupcakes (NYTimes) -
Out here in San Francisco, the burnt out rich open wineries. In New York they open cupcake shops.
Thanksgiving at Mohegan Sun - A Chinese Casino Celebration -
Heading to casinos first became a Thanksgiving activity for Chinese immigrants decades ago because the holiday is one of the only days that Chinese restaurants are either run by a skeleton staff or closed. Mohegan Sun is one of several regional casinos that compete for this crowd. On any other day, 50 buses might run between Mohegan Sun and Chinese neighborhoods in New York, along with some from Massachusetts; on Thanksgiving, there are 100.
“We’re at an odd inflection – old people think screens are TVs, young people think all screens can be touched.” — Chris Heathcote: screens and interactivity (via iamdanw) (via benkraal)
I’m thankful for access to routinely amazing food. (I can’t wait to eat this turkey.)
“Table manners are social agreements; they are devised precisely because violence could so easily erupt at dinner. Eating is aggressive by nature and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question. But intimations of greed and rage keep breaking in: many mealtime superstitions, for example, point to the imminent death of one of the guests. Eating is performed by the individual, in his or her most personal interest; eating in company, however, necessarily places the individual face to face with the group. It is the group that insists on table manners; ‘they’ will not accept a refusal to conform. The individual’s ‘personal interest’ lies therefore not only in ensuring his or her bodily survival, but also in pleasing, placating and not frightening or disgusting the other diners.” — Margaret Visser, Rituals of Dinner
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Thanksgiving is an odd day, internet-wise, when you’re not in America and celebrating it yourself. For the rest of us, this is just any other day, a Thursday like any other, except that with the U.S. coming to a near-complete halt, you really do notice when you’re online.
Opening up Google Reader would normally yield a lot to look through, today not so much. Twitter isn’t chirping as much as it usually does. Tumblr is quieter than usual, too. This obviously also depends on how America-skewed your RSS feeds, Twitter and Tumblr contacts are, but it’s hard not to notice to some degree. It makes me feel like today is a holiday here too, even though it’s not.
Anyway.
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends, Happy Belated Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends, and Happy Internet Is Slow Day to the rest of you.
So Dubai’s broke. I don’t know what to believe anymore. If recreating the wonders of the world and building islands isn’t the road to riches, I’m stumped. (Via NYTimes)
Musee d’Orsay Cafeteria by severn mcconaughy bowen
Paris, France