cities
- Going Underground. A London Tube diary.
- New York Daily Photo. Daily photograph + commentary by a longtime New Yorker.
- BKKMenu, RealThai, and toaontherun. Bangkok meals and Bangkok photographs.
conversations
- Arts & Letters Daily. Unearthing online gems since 1998.
- Crooked Timber. Philosophy, politics, culture.
- Edge. The Third Culture.
- Harper’s. Thoughtful explorations.
- The Volokh Conspiracy. Mostly about the law.
crushes
- Douglas Hofstadter. Strange loops by way of typography, Lisp, Tit for Tat, Gödel, Escher, Bach and more.
- Amartya Sen and Daniel Kahneman. Economics made human again…
- MIT Media Lab. Font of all cool things, including John Maeda.
design
- Abstract City. A New Yorker-turned-Berliner remembers his former city, whimsically and monthly.
- Design Council. UK national strategic body for design.
- Design Observer. Writings on design and culture.
- Doors of Perception. Conversations on design and innovation by John Thackara.
- swissmiss. Lovely blog from a “swiss designer gone nyc.”
food
- 101 Cookbooks. Lovely recipes accompanied by postcard-y photographs.
- Chez Pim. Like most Thais, Pim is very into her food. Unlike most Thais, she photographs and describes her meals (eaten all over the world) lovingly and sends it off into the www where 10,000 people read her weekly.
- Curious Cook. Before molecular gastronomy, there was Harold McGee.
- Leite’s Culinaria. Essays, interviews, instructions.
- Nigel Slater. My first (food writer) love.
information
- if:book. Text, information, and publishing in the age of new media.
- Language Hat. Crisp languages and linguistics blog.
- The Map Room. Just as it sounds.
- Mapper’s delight: the London Underground maps. Delightful indeed.
- Edward Tufte. High priest of sexy information design.
- information aesthetics. Gorgeous, gorgeous information design blog.
joys + bites
- Daily Puppy. Extreme cuteness.
- The Straight Dope. “If ignorance were cornflakes, you’d be General Mills.” Luckily the World’s Smartest Human Being is here to help.
- Very Short List. Five days a week at the intersection of “great discoveries” + “high/low culture” + “short, sweet e-mails” (not to mention “beautiful graphics” + “cool Venn diagrams”).
markets
- Free Exchange. The Economist’s blog.
- Marginal Revolution. Two economists discuss.
- Post-Autistic Economics Network and Review. Things that are wrong with neoclassical economics.
- Emanuel Derman [ website | blog ]. Writings from one of Wall Street’s original physicists- turned- quants.
technology
- Technology Review. MIT’s magazine on innovation.
- Wired Blogs. Fifteen weblogs from Wired on techie topics such as web software, freedom and privacy, the cult of Apple, digital music, and crowdsourcing.
- danah boyd. Goddess of “networked publics” ethnography.
voices
- Malcolm Gladwell.
- Jennifer 8. Lee. No website, but all over the Web.
- Susan Orlean.
- Evan Ratliff.
- James Surowiecki. Also no website, but Google points to lots of his articles as well.
