The Four High End Steaks You Should Know. [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, except where noted] We do quite a bit of steak talk around here, but we've never covered the true basics: how to pick the one you want. First, a definition. Steaks are basically any piece of meat that falls under the category of "fast-cooking" cuts—cuts that are low enough in connective tissue that they don't require the long cooking times that "slow-cooking" cuts require. While cheaper cuts like sirloin, flank, and skirt, or cheffy cuts like hanger and flatiron are becoming increasingly popular and available these days (my favorite is hanger), the kings of the steakhouse are still those cuts that come from the Longissimus dorsi and the Psoas major.
The Psoas major are a pair of shorter muscles that starts about two-thirds of the way down the steer's spine and run on the opposite side of the ribs to the Longissimus—the inside. Out of these two muscles come a number of cuts. The Ribeye A bone in ribeye and a boneless ribeye The Strip The Tenderloin The T-Bone. Create Attractive Web Typography with CSS3 and Lettering.js. CSS has come a long way in recent years, and with new browser support for a hand full of CSS3 properties the possibilities are becoming more and more diverse!
In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to take basic markup and transform it into an attractive typographical design using only minimum images, pure CSS3 magic and we will spice things up with lettering.js – a jQuery plugin for radical Web Typography. To make things a bit interesting and less boring, instead of just using meaningless placeholder text I will use text from Jules Verne’s “Moon-Voyage” book, chapter X. The Observers of the Moon. So, let’s get started. Let’s take a look at what we are going to create: Check out the demo! Before we start any styling, we are going to need some HTML markup first. You may also notice that I’ve truncated the article text beacuse there’s no need to reproduce the entire article here. Let’s start with applying some basic styles to <body> tag.
We have our web font attached to our CSS and ready to use. Design Charts for Better Typography and Color | Ocean Layout. Colour Text Readability. The cult of busy. When I was young I thought busy people were more important than everyone else. Otherwise, why would they be so busy? I had busy parents and busy bosses, and I assumed they must always have important things to do. It seemed an easy way to see who mattered and who didn’t. The busy must matter more, and the lazy mattered less. This is the cult of busy. I now believe the opposite to be true. Time is the singular measure of life. This means people who are always busy are time poor. On the other hand, people who truly have control over time have some in their pocket to give to someone in need.
I deliberately try not to fill my calendar. This post was inspired by Marrissa Bracke‘s essay Why I stopped working with busy people. Also see: In Defense of Aldehydes | I Can Has Science? Consider this an unscheduled footnote to part 2 of the ongoing 3 part series on navigating the language of chemicals. Read an introduction, Part 1, and Part 2 if you wish; Part 3 should appear on Monday. While reading about the presence of formaldehyde in hair products, I’ve stumbled across descriptions of a few products that proudly claim to be not only formaldehyde free, but free of any “hyde” or any chemical in the “hyde” family.
Though this phrase is relatively harmless, I do find the wording a teensy bit unfair to some of the friendly aldehydes out there. So just to set the record straight, here is why you shouldn’t hate hydes just because they’re hydes. What is a “hyde”? An aldehyde is a type of organiccarbon-based molecule. Formaldehyde is the simplest aldehyde – the rest of the molecule besides the requisite CHO piece is just one tiny hydrogen. “Hydes” aren’t categorically bad. Mix glucose with the two aldehydes below, and you’re well on your way to a dessert! Awesome Pure CSS3 frame boxes (no images) Points 1. Photographing Every Rest Stop In America : The Picture Show. For me, rest stops conjure up feelings of motion sickness and memories of my brother's favorite, but sickly, childhood snack food, Combos.
But photographer Lizzy Oppenheimer has more misty watercolor memories. "I treasured my experiences at rest stops due to not only the relief they provided but more so because of the individual charm of each rest stop," she writes on her website. Oppenheimer's project began in 2009, and her aim is to photograph every single rest area in America, "just before their closure due to budget cuts," she writes. That's a tall order, hence her appeal for help on Kickstarter. Lizzy Oppenheimer Lizzy Oppenheimer Lizzy Oppenheimer Lizzy Oppenheimer Lizzy Oppenheimer Lizzy Oppenheimer Lizzy Oppenheimer To Oppenheimer's credit, rest stops have an interesting architectural history — and her aim is to preserve it. They're sort of the limbo of travel — neither here nor there. Startup-Advisor Dating. I get about 4 emails a week from law students and attorneys with questions about launching a law practice.
It’s an awkward and humbling experience for me. I’m not a law practice management expert and several years ago I had many of these same questions. But I try to answer as many emails and calls as I can. I wish more startup veterans would do the same and provide mentorship to new entrepreneurs, such as taking a seat on a startup’s advisory board. Why does it feel like most successful startup participants have their success and fall back into the shadows of the city? There are successful startup veterans in every community. I think it’s time to start a Startup-Advisor Dating service, in the spirit of Founder Dating. Maybe there’s one around that I’m missing.
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In this article, i would like to share 9 really useful jQuery Event Calendar and Date Picker plugins that every web designers and developers should know. 1. FullCalendar is a famous jQuery calendar plugin which offers features like drag-and-drop, integration with Google Calendar and able to fetch events through JSON. 2. This is a tutorial which uses both jQuery and CSS to build an iPhone styled calendar application. 3. jQuery UI Datepicker The jQuery UI Datepicker is a highly configurable plugin that adds date picker functionality to your pages. 4. jMonthCalendar jMonthCalendar supports full month calendar and events. 5. 6. jQuery Week Calendar 7. 8. jQuery Date Picker Plugin. World's Largest Independent Travel Magazine -- MatadorNetwork.com. IE6 Countdown. Designer Scrabble by Andrew Clifford Capener. A classic game reimagined for type nerds.
No longer will you strategize about how to make a high-point word, but rather how to make the prettiest one. Andrew Clifford Capener has designed the A-1 Scrabble designer edition. From the designer: The purpose of this project was to revive an old, but loved game. If you’re interested in purchasing the Scrabble designer edition, sign up at Andrew’s website to get on the list. [via Designcrush] The Food Labs Guide to Corned Beef and the Science of Simmering.
More tests, more results! Follow The Food Lab on Facebook or Twitter. [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] When most people cook corned beef brisket, what do they do? I really love corned beef. There are two basic steps to corned beef: the rub, and the cooking. I've cooked 38 pounds of beef in my tiny apartment, which is driving the dog absolutely wild. The Rub First, a bit of history. The average Irishman was too poor to afford the very beef they were raising Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the green fields of Ireland were used to graze cattle to produce corned beef that went mainly to feeding British civilians, the British and American navies and armies (its long shelf life made it ideal for overseas journeys), and for trade with the French. It wasn't until the mass Irish immigration into the United States that the Irish lower class started consuming corned beef in large quantities. To this day, very little corned beef is consumed in Ireland by the Irish.
Ah! Salt Nitrates Cooking. Type at work in the real world. CCA MFA COURSEWORK // Infographics on the Behance Network. Make It Sour!!! Taste Test: Cream Soda. SLIDESHOW: Taste Test: Cream Soda [Photographs: Adam Lindsley] Cream soda can be polarizing. Some people liken it to liquefied candy—which isn't far off considering that it was often served at soda fountains with a scoop of ice cream. These days it's reaching a wider consumer base than ever, thanks in large part to the surge of boutique bottlers popping up across the country. True aficionados know there's more to cream soda than just how much sugar's been crammed into the bottle. While early recipes included such ingredients as egg whites, sodium bicarbonate, and lemon oil, most cream soda made today is comprised only of carbonated water, sugar (typically cane or high-fructose corn syrup), citric acid, artificial flavors, and artificial coloring.
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The general lesson is simple: you can use some basic mathematical principles to design order and beauty in your own creations. A Little History In ancient Greece there was an elite group of mathematicians who called themselves the Pythagoreans. Rabbit Breeding A while after that, in the 12th and 13th century, lived a talented Italian mathematician. The Golden Ratio The Golden Rectangle, shown here, shows how you can divide it upon itself infinitely (and perfectly). The Rule of Thirds. Yasuhiro Sawada. Maybe it was my last post, or Scott’s recent travel adventures, but something has reinvigorated my desire to go back to Japan. I guess I’ve always wanted to go back, the feeling is just very acute right now. As Jon and Kjell mentioned in the Non-Format interview, Tokyo is a rather hard city to beat.
Personally I can’t imagine a more inspiring place. Anyway the poster above is by Yasuhiro Sawada and I’m sorry to say, I don’t know too much more about it. I’ve always loved it for the simple shapes and unusual layout. It also took me repeated viewings to see that there was a message in the shapes — felt pretty oblivious after that. Using HTML5 To Transform WordPress’ TwentyTen Theme - Smashing Magazine. 10 Rock Solid Website Layout Examples. Layout can both be one of the easiest and one of the trickiest facets of web design. Sometimes a designer can bust out an amazing layout in minutes and sometimes that same designer can struggle for the better part of day with the same task. Each project is unique and calls for a unique solution, but I’ve found it helpful to keep a few rock solid and incredibly versatile alignments in mind that I can bust out when I get stuck.
The ten layouts below should be enough to get you through even the worst cases of designer’s block when you can’t figure out the best way to arrange the content on your page. Keeping It Simple Page layout is equal parts art and science. Creating something that’s visually attractive and unique takes an artist’s eye. Designers often stress out far too much about the layout process. However, if you have a good look around the web you’ll see that this isn’t necessarily the case.
Great looking websites often use layouts that are fairly simple and not the least bit unique. Forex Charts | Currency Charts. Examining The Design Process: Clichés and Idea Generation - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Where do good ideas come from? It’s a question that matters a great deal to designers, yet seems to be curiously discounted in the common perception of graphic design. Any time I talk with, say, an uncle at Thanksgiving about my work, I’m reminded that, in most people’s minds, the job of being a designer is mainly a matter of learning a set of computer applications — programs which, when properly operated, presumably do the work of generating ideas on their own.
If pressed further, most people will offer up some version of the Genius Theory: the idea that certain individuals are simply blessed with a force called ‘creativity’ that (as the theory goes) allows them to summon remarkable visual solutions to problems where the rest of us see only a blank canvas. In this article, we will look at four examples of successful visual solutions created by well-known designers, and examine the process by which each designer arrived at his final concept.
The Problem of Clichés. Greece and America: the Taxman Wants More — Mises Economics Blog. Agents from the Financial and Economic Crime Unit sat at the Three Little Pigs Cafe bar in Athens recently working a stakeout to find a suspected tax cheat–the Three Little Pigs owner. These Greek government gumshoes were soon asking to look at customers’ receipts to see if the night club was collecting value-added taxes.
“Armed with a new law devised to help Greece crack down on tax cheats, the agents shut the cafe for the next 48 hours because, they said, receipts were missing,” the New York Times reports. “Across the city, other restaurants and nightclubs were also being padlocked, their names showing up in the local newspapers, their front doors sealed for all to see.” Greek authorities believe their government is losing $30 billion a year because taxpayers aren’t paying what they owe. “We have learned a lot,” said Ilias Plaskovitis, the general secretary of the Finance Ministry.
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