From A Hamburger Today Editor's note: Burgermeisters! Here's another excerpt from George Motz's book Hamburger America. George and his publisher were kind enough to allow us to run them here, along with George's beautiful photos. Eat up! Nestled in the rolling farm country of western Oregon, a short distance from Portland but a world away, sits a restaurant and bar that amazingly turns out over one thousand burgers on a busy Saturday. The restaurant is the comfortable Helvetia Tavern (pronounced Hel-VAY-sha) and is way out in the country. Regardless of how far it is from anything, burger lovers gladly make...
Several readers have e-mailed me and asked for instructions on how to take their HD YouTube videos and embed them elsewhere. As I mentioned before, this isn't an officially sanctioned feature, and as such, the embed code you get on these video pages will still yield the lower-quality, non-widescreen clip. Needless to say, this is completely unacceptable. The good news is that you only need to make a few changes to the stock embed code get the job done. Here's what to do: Step 1: Copy this code and paste it to wherever you intend to embed the video:...
In a post yesterday about TONY's Essential New York Food Quiz, The Feedbag objects to the description of knish-maker Yonah Schimmel as a "potato-pie pro," wondering: "Are TONY readers really that estranged from their own city that they don't know what a knish is?" Thousands of vendors once roamed the streets selling knishes with mustard and salt, long before Chowhounds picked every bone in the outer boroughs clean, and long before the Vendy Awards. Knisheries have all but disappeared; Schimmel's is one of the last brick and mortar operations left standing. The man seen here, Ruby Oshinsky, sold his famous...
To honor the Citröen 2CV’s 60th birthday, fashion house Hermès created this special edition for the Paris Motor Show. While we weren’t impressed by the gaudy crime-against-taste that was the Bugatti Veyron Fbg par Hermès, the more pedestrian (or equine, to be more correct) 2CV strikes a chord with us. The leather and cotton canvas added to it accentuate the timeless lines and paired-to-the-bone interior, two things most modern cars are missing. The full release follows the jump. 2CV HERMÈS, A TASTE OF LUXURY The 2CV celebrates its 60th birthday during the Paris Motor Show, on 7 October 2008. To...
You’re the king of the Golf course and you’ve got all the latest gear, including twenty pairs of awesome plaid pants. How do you take it to the next level and maintain your dominance over all the other rich old farts? One way may be to pull a gold putter out of your bag and blind them with it. You are gold baby. So Golf with gold. It’s a putter dipped in 24 carat gold, the same way you were dipped in wealth as a baby. The finishing touch is the diamond-studded Sayn logo on the head of the putter....
Filed under: Fun, Time-Wasters, web 2.0 Bored? Feeling creative? Why not head over to Mr. Picassohead and throw together a 5-minute masterpiece?Mr. Picassohead is a simple Flash collage app that lets you put a cubist spin on drag-and-drop image creation. Pick a face, scale it just so, and then start adding your elements. It's ridiculously simple and yet somehow strangely gratifying.Abstract shapes are included, and you'll need to make use of them to add color behind object like eyes and ears. Changing their color only alters the outlines. When you're all done, be sure to add your signature for that...
This is so very cool — V Eight, the guys who renovate and restore Jensens, then load them up with LS2s to create the Jensen Interceptors S, are planning to build the limited-edition, restyled, high-performance Jensen Interceptor SX beginning in 2010. Only 25 copies of the Interceptor SX will be produced, but those few will be a solid block of awesome. Starting with an original Jensen Interceptor, they plan to strip the body off, update the styling, create an all-new interior with more leg room, and, as a finishing touch, drop a 620 HP GM LS7 mill under the bonnet....
Forget cell phones that can play music, take pictures and occasionally make a call, this cell phone system controls your car. It can thwart a car theft by stopping the car in its tracks. The Block & Track anti-theft system was invented by 18-year-old Morris Mbetsa. The self-taught Kenyan inventor created the system that uses a combination of voice, DTMF and SMS text messages to issue commands to your car’s electrical system. If someone starts your car, the system will send a message to your cell phone. At that point a message can be relayed to the car, issuing...
