The power of the blog
A short piece on massively collaborative mathematics in the New York Times this weekend confirmed what all of us at Dining@Large knew intuitively: the power of a blog.
I wonder what our group mind should work on. The recipe for the perfect coq au vin?








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Maybe we could figure out where the city's neighbourhood boundaries really are, and what the neighbourhood names are?
Posted by: Lissa | December 14, 2009 2:39 PM
I once saw this item on a specials board at a restaurant: Chicken Cocoa Vin.
Posted by: sraffert | December 14, 2009 2:44 PM
a prefect (or at least proper) coq au vin requires a surly worn out old rooster than can no longer do his regular job.
can we find one of them today?
Posted by: MrRational | December 14, 2009 2:44 PM
I think the perfect crab cake needs some discussion.
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy | December 14, 2009 2:45 PM
Maybe we could figure out where the city's neighbourhood boundaries really are, and what the neighbourhood names are?
It might be easier to achieve world peace.
80 being
Posted by: Hal Laurent | December 14, 2009 2:49 PM
Hal, we can make it food-related by visualizing whirled peas...
Posted by: Zevonista | December 14, 2009 2:58 PM
From the article: By now we're used to the idea that gigantic aggregates of human brains — especially when allowed to communicate nearly instantaneously via the Internet — can carry out fantastically difficult cognitive tasks, like writing an encyclopedia...
Calling Prof. McIntyre...
Posted by: Bucky | December 14, 2009 3:12 PM
Maybe we could figure out where the city's neighbourhood boundaries really are, and what the neighbourhood names are?
Perhaps we can discuss this over dinner at one of Spanish Town's many restaurants.
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | December 14, 2009 3:57 PM
a prefect (or at least proper) coq au vin requires a surly worn out old rooster than can no longer do his regular job.
I was going to suggest Congress, until I saw that MrRational was going for the public school version.
Posted by: Lissa | December 14, 2009 4:21 PM
Lissa, I feel sure I'm missing something, but I thought prefects were mostly found in private schools.
Posted by: Laura Lee | December 14, 2009 5:23 PM
Spelling pedantry as wit?
Surely you can do better. I know the blog warrants better.
Posted by: MrRational | December 14, 2009 6:01 PM
My apologies, MrRational. That was thoughtless of me.
Posted by: Laura Lee | December 14, 2009 7:15 PM
Personally, I think typos and other accidental misspellings can be very funny. I encourage anyone who spots one of mine to make a joke out of it.
34 backwash
Posted by: Hal Laurent | December 14, 2009 7:36 PM
Laura Lee, in England, public schools are private schools.
As the local dyslexic who once wrote that, after her death, Queen Margaret of Scotland was interned at thus and such a cathedral, my eye for absurd misspellings is well-developed.
Posted by: Lissa | December 14, 2009 8:04 PM
Lissa, you will appreciate this one. Two of us were trying to find a hair care product my niece requested from her Secret Santa, with no luck. Her mother explained that it was sold "only in saloons." Uh huh. I found it at "About Faces."
Posted by: Dahlink | December 15, 2009 6:23 AM
Owl Meat! Where you been?
I concur about the perfect crab cake...
Here's my recipe:
1 pound backfin lump
1 egg
1/4 tsp Old Bay
Help it into dollops then fry in butter, turning once. Serve with Saltines. A dab of tartar sauce is completely optional.
ginkgos Leibenfrost (my Korean knife-sharpener name)
Posted by: Cleatus | December 15, 2009 7:54 PM