What’s on the Menu? Help transcribe The New York Public Library’s historical menu collection
This is like Zooniverse’s Old Weather project, but for restaurant menus: help transcribe thousands of restaurant menus going back to the 1940s.
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Word has always done a great job of displaying the... · Ben Ward's Scattered Mind
Ben calls bullshit on Microsoft's defence of Outlook's rendering. Ben, as usual, is correct.
The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites
"In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital."
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Danah Boyd's essay is required reading for anyone with even a passing interest in social networks.
Photo Matt » The Most Frustrating Thing
Matt points out that we can get sidetracked by taking what matters most to us and assuming that it matters most for success.
gastronaut
A food blog based in Brighton. This is a woman after my own heart.
Powazek: Just a Thought: Death to User-Generated Content
Derek hits the nail on the head. User-generated content is such a cold, cold term.
May I take your order?
A menu with some great Engrish translations like "burn the spring chicken", "domestic life beef immerses cabbage" and "a west bean pays the fish a soup".
How to style a restaurant menu with CSS
A nice use of CSS.