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Quick Links for March 2015

What are the most important NYC restaurants of the last 50 years?
From 1851, Samuel Colt's Y Combinator application
Pretty clever from Amazon: single product wifi buttons that auto-ship you Tide, Pampers, etc. when pressed
50 years after the first US troops landed in Vietnam, a photographic look back at the early years of the war
Intriguing evidence that Europe's Little Ice Age actually is just a statistical artifact
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "I'm ready to share why I converted to Islam"
Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination 'religious freedom' laws are dangerous
GQ has a slideshow of every outfit Don Draper has ever worn on Mad Men (491 & counting)
Lists of the bestselling books for each year of the 20th century
Fashion tips for everyone from Fran Leibowitz. Yay!
Beauty tips for girls from Lego. Yuck.
Twilight of a champion, Muhammad Ali at the end of his career
You know who has a pretty good Pinterest page? Diane Keaton.
The behavioral economics of fine dining; "diners who got a whiff of lavender stayed longer and spent more"
Nike's "Just Do It" slogan was based on the last words of a convict before he was executed by firing squad
Confirmed: TV's Game of Thrones is outpacing George RR Martin's writing speed, the show will spoil the upcoming books
Pixar has released a free version of their RenderMan software for non-commercial use
The case for free-range parenting
The Escalating Scale of Drunkenness, Explained
Foursquare: "a system that could crawl the world with people in the same way Google crawls web pages with machines"
Steve Nash retired from the NBA this weekend; his retirement letter is characteristically thoughtful
Chrome extension to view an awesome Flickr photo whenever you open a new tab
From Follow the Geeks, a profile of the wonderful Gina Trapani
Efficiently getting ppl & supplies on & off a massive cruise ship; "part Nascar pit stop, part loading of Noah's Ark"
47 years after My Lai in Vietnam, Seymour Hersh recounts his reporting on the massacre
Watch out for that Jetskeeter!
This fragrance will make you smell like a flame-grilled hamburger
Take a ride in the F 015 Mercedes self-driving car
People are using assault rifles to cook bacon
The Sext Machine isn't what it sounds like
Cookie Monster has a new career as a life coach
South Korea is the world's plastic surgery capital
"Gentlemen, this is a robbery."
San Quentin State Prison has its own tech incubator
Blade Runner's dystopian miniatures
Imagine yourself wearing a real space suit
Is the resurrection of "Twin Peaks" really going to happen?
Cops for the legalization of pot
Male belly dancers are experiencing a resurgence in Istanbul
There was an anti-robot rally at SXSW
The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals
From 1849, a foldable map of London
Tipping mystifies tourists, economists and anthropologists. Should we stop?
Thanks to California Four O'Clock, "A novel about the lore of pin-ups", for sponsoring the site this week
Duncan Watts answers the question: Should You Go To Grad School?
The author of The Anarchist's Cookbook is now a 65-yo grandfather & writes books about emotional intelligence
With a premium aged whiskey shortage looming, producers experiment with fast aging techniques
Harvard sentences are standardized phrases used to test audio equipment. "A salt pickle tastes fine with ham."
One year on, Michael Lewis surveys the aftermath of the publication of Flash Boys
This is pretty great: Well Deserved is a marketplace for selling excess privilege
Rex Sorgatz says replace the all-at-once show release (a la House of Cards) with one-a-day miniseries marathons
I am obsessed with The Jinx. It's like Serial++. Can't wait for the last episode on Sunday
All the iPhone apps you can't delete are for rich people
The unorthodox Brooks Headley's Fancy Desserts just won Food52's Tournament of Cookbooks
Could you drive an NYC cab? Take this NYC geography test and find out. (My score: 75%)
Is Charlie Brown the worst baseball manager ever? "he lost hundreds of games, often by hundreds of runs..."
Sony isn't repairing Aibos anymore, so now owners are holding funerals when their robot dogs "die"
Ranking all 37 contributors to We Are the World, from Aykroyd to Wonder
The CIA has been working to break iPhone security, including building a hacked version of Xcode for dev to use
RIP Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons
New York Magazine's picks for the Best of New York 2015
For his daughter's first Star Wars viewing, Mark Van Der Hyde rented out an entire theater & invited Jedi cosplayers
"iPhones are really just shitphones from the future"
The best way to follow the Apple Watch event today is The Verge's live blog. Live blog > video stream
Susan Kare's icons for Apple are among the other recent MoMA design acquisitions
The Creative Commons logo and license icons have been acquired by MoMA
Amen: we need to stop leaping forward every spring and falling back each fall
Quiz: how well do you know the NYC subway?
Impertinent Collection – Christoph Niemann goes to MoMA and transforms the museum's masterpieces through lo-fi means
Big sponsorship thanks to Pete Peanut and the Trouble with Birthdays, a beautifully designed book for all ages
MLB prospect & multi-millionaire Daniel Norris lives in a van and shaves with an axe
Gout, a new super-honest food magazine
How the neighborhoods of Manhattan got their names
Errol Morris' short film about Mr. Met has just been posted
Report: HBO will launch stand-alone HBO Now streaming service next month for $15/mo
Oldest remains of Homo genus found in Ethiopia; jaw bone is 2.8 million years old
Etsy files for IPO
After 16 years, Matt Haughey is stepping down from MetaFilter; "I don't eat up risk & stress and shit out innovation"
People will pay $1000+ for "hot stampers", vinyl records that are particularly well-made and unflawed
Winter in NYC is making everyone a little punchy "4-8 inches of snow tonight BAM everybody on the dance floor WHOOPS"
From Serious Eats, a beginners guide to food photography
Are you in NYC next week and want to hear about indie.vc? Come to the info + Q&A session next Tue.
NYer editor David Remnick shares a story about his time reporting in Russia and how it relates to current events
Some background from Grantland's Katie Baker on how NFL Films makes their yearly Super Bowl DVD/BR
I have never been compelled to purchase such an item before, but I just bought NFL Films' Patriots Super Bowl Blu-ray
They're doing it again; the XOXO Festival will be held this year on Sept 10-13 in Portland, OR.
MoMA R&D has put videos of their monthly salons online
Casey Johnston battles the top 32 Kanye songs to find out which of his songs is the tippy top best
A visual history of skis, from 8000 BC to the present day
New book on Steve Jobs coming out; supposed to be miles better than Walter Issacson's
Warren Buffett's annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders
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