Jim Willis

Tomatoes and Peppers, Via George Lang – Bitten – Dining & Wine – New York Times Blog lecsó could hardly be simpler: It’s an onion, pepper and tomato stew, seasoned with paprika and salt.

The virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see only as much as we possess (from Thoreau’s journal on 6/22/1839).

The American Scholar – The Disadvantages of an Elite Education – By William Deresiewicz What happens when busyness and sociability leave no room for solitude? The ability to engage in introspection …is the essential precondition for living an intellectual life, and the essential…

This Old (Healthy) House – Well Researchers found that people who live in older, more walkable neighborhoods are at lower risk for overweight and obesity … because they had been designed for pedestrians. Newer neighborhoods…

taking the lock off the door to www.redbankorbit.com Have a peek around. Let me know if anything looks broken.

trying to selectively export posts from typepad to wordpress based on category criteria. not as easy as I’d hoped.

Apple Mail Jott to OmniFocus AppleScript – The Omni Group Forums get jott messages into omnifocus

How to Save Local Newspapers: Cellphones – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog

My inbox is empty for the first time in several months. WooHoo! This calls for a cheesesteak for lunch.

Short term vs long term meditation on attention and delta waves – Mind Update a group randomly assigned to 5 days of meditation practice with the integrative body–mind training method shows significantly better attention and control of stress than a similarly chosen control…