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A few days back, Caroline and I were discussing coffee’s deceitful nature. It smells amazingly rich and comforting, but tastes watery and burnt. I was trying to come up wih similar examples, but aside from cheddar Sun Chips (a reverse case–they smell awful but taste delicious) I am mostly drawing a blank. Can anyone help me out here?

• For Tony, a Wired article about Internet addiction in China. I’ve read a bit about this phenomenon in Korea, and have wondered if it’s a legitimate concern, or if it’s just the fact that 43% of China’s 1.3 billion citizens are under 29–a cohort which outnumbers the entire United States population.
• For Scott, a blog about clouds. Update: link broken, server problems.
• For just about everyone else, the Voltaggio brothers’ website is definitely drool-worthy. They also have a bunch of Youtube videos.

HT: Andrew Sullivan and Ezra Klein

In order of intensity, a (mostly unhealthy) list of things I want to consume in Chicago:

1. the $225, 29-course “Tour” at Alinea
2. Hot Doug’s Fuck, they are closed the entire time I’ll be there.
3. New Glarus Fat Squirrel
4. Chicago-style pizza
5. anything at Kuma’s
6. Italian beef

Today, the Sun posted a list of 100 things you should eat in Baltimore. After the jump, the list, along with notes–the things I’ve done are italicized.

I should note that these are largely unedited user comments, not an original list by Elizabeth Large, the restaurant critic; as such, they are a bit of a mixed bag. I would also like to note that this was originally an actual list, but they decided to turn it into a slideshow. It’s pretty, but this post took me a lot longer to finish.
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This is probably the only thing that Dan Choi and David Chang have in common.

Choi: “My parents always brag about me in church…[My mom] would talk about me graduating from West Point and being a Harvard student and going to Iraq and coming back, being very involved in church, and bragging about all this stuff. They even got to the point where it was like, ”And he’s a tall Korean, too!” Their validation of their existence is through living vicariously and bragging about all these things that I’ve accomplished and done.”

Chang: “Koreans are a funny bunch…They say, ‘This is my son. He’s going to Harvard. He’s going to be an investment banker. He’s going to make $3.4 million a year.’ There’s a Cold War arms race among Asian parents: ‘This is my daughter who finished medical school while an undergraduate and can play Beethoven’s Fifth on the violin with her toes.’ My dad gave up on me long ago, this son who did terrible in school. Now he can throw me back into the ring.”