I got a Le Creuset dutch oven over the holidays and since then I've used it five times; twice for no-knead bread. It's dead simple and delicious. Despite it's simplicity, there were things I didn't do quite right the first time around, so I

The October issue of Wired just landed on my desk (their third annual "design issue"), and as I started flipping through it, I noticed a couple full-page watch ads. In all, I counted seven watch ads, mostly in prime positions, including the

This weekend I participated in the local edition of Startup Weekend, a 54-hour-long competition where a group of mostly strangers comes together into teams to put together a product, service or business over the course of a weekend. I wasn't exactly sure what to

That's the headline from a post on The Upshot today by Neil Irwin (@Neil_Irwin). The post starts with a humorous argumentum ad absurdum takedown of Apple's informercial-fail style spot for Apple Pay. The non-problem, as Neil puts it, is that it's too difficult

I just read that an American Idol audition bus is making a stop in town next week. As someone who came up rather short in his quest for a music career (more on that below), I thought I could perhaps provide some perspective for

I recently picked up a copy of Rocksmith 2014 for Xbox 360, a video game which purports to teach you guitar (in as little as 60 days at that). Unlike Guitar Hero and the like, you use an actual guitar, which plugs into the

Today on On The Media's TL;DR blog, PJ Vogt asked an important question for our time: when using an indefinite article before a Twitter username, do you say "a" or "an"? When I saw the link on Daring Fireball,

Each week for work, I write a roundup of five interesting articles. Some weeks it's all I can do to come up with five articles, but this week I had a few extra I thought I'd share here. Horace Dediu on misunderstanding Innovation Mobile

The other day I ran a 10k (with about 26,000 other people). I realize for some, that's not much of an accomplishment, but I hadn't really run at all since my last high school gym class in the mid '90s. And even then,

Thats a good look Better yet a hood look Ladies that's a good look —Beyonce Let’s say you’re someone with an AT&T iPhone 5 with a contract that means you can’t upgrade for any reason for another 16 or

I can see why they might think that, since I tend to grumble when presented with a link titled "23 ways you know you're a child of the 90's" (or some other such nonsense). But it's not true that I hate BuzzFeed.

This was done between June and November. So shut up and get back to work. pic.twitter.com/XpqeMh4RZt — Mike Monteiro (@Mike_FTW) October 21, 2013 A little while ago, some friends of mine organized the third installment of a sort of bizzaro-TED

I started this blog as a place where I could just write for the sake of writing, so I wanted to simplify everything I could. I picked a brand new, minimal blogging platform built around Markdown formatting. The design of the site is simpler

My first car was a maroon Isuzu I-Mark. As I recall, it looked more-or-less like this: Only not quite that nice. It was a strange little car, made up of a mash-up of Isuzu and Mopar parts (it was also sold in the U.

Lately I’ve been listening to podcasts on a regular basis for the first time since I used to listened to Revenge of the Screensavers via Odeo darn near a decade ago. It’s great that anyone can create and publish a podcast without

I’m going to try to tread carefully here, because the article I’m linking to wades into some issues around societal and individual norms and expectations around both working and stay at home mothers, and I really have nothing to add to that

I play in a community band. It’s one of several in my area, actually, and I picked it more or less at random when I moved to town. I feel like I chose wisely—we play in one of the Mid-Atlantic’s largest