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The Selby
The Selby takes pictures of people at their place.
Check it out--->Here
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A Sandwich A Day
Found a great, consistent posting regarding sandwiches in New York. The above happens to be The Roast Beef Luger from Brooklyn Fare, which happens to be right around the corner from me. From the post:
If you can't score a reservation at Peter Luger's but need a cheap, quick fix, head over to the deli section of Brooklyn Fare, Boerum Hill's friendly go-to market. Of the 20 or so sandwiches on the chalkboard menu, the Roast Beef Luger ($5.99 on a roll, $6.99 on the hero) was our favorite. They cut slices off their big slab of roast beef, add a slice of cheddar, bacon, and—this is where the Luger part comes in—smother it with Peter Luger's signature steak sauce. Smother, as in, the paper wrapping it is soaked after a half-hour subway ride back to SE headquarters. It's best to devour this 'wich before soggification sets in.
Read about more sandwiches at---->Serious Eats
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Steampunk
Ever heard of it? If so, good for you. Rather than re-word wiki, here you go:
Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction and speculative fiction, frequently featuring elements of fantasy, that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used — usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or digital mechanical computers (such as Charles Babbage's Analytical engine); these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or with a presumption of functionality.
Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously dystopian than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely.
Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.
Read more---->Here
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