Reader: Jan 25, 2012

- That I am yet to have dined at Torrisi or Parm is a crime. This review of 5 dishes at Parm is punishment for my not having supporting the restaurant with my mouth sooner.

- Make an infographic of your weekly spending.

- Favorite quote from Obama’s State of the Union Speech last night: “No bailouts, no handouts, no cop-outs”

- Two churches across the street from each other debate on dogs going to heaven.

- Lincoln Art Exchange gives uninsured artists opportunity to barter talent for health care.

- Gay soldiers booed, republicans don’t comment, Obama criticizes.

- The Oscar nominations. Where the hell is Ryan Gosling on this list??!!

- Thank you Mr. Levitt for this.

- Send in nude pictures, raise funds.

- Celebrating Lunar New Year around the world. Look at all those firecrackers!!

- Ugly Renaissance babies.

- A closer look at Ai Wei Wei. “The artist had become the message and the medium”.

- Awesome writing desks. Too bad I don’t have a place to put them.

- Etsy launches a new monthly event in Brooklyn called Hands-On Etsy.

- Jeffrey Tastes gives a tour of some international dishes in Jackson Heights.

- Yes, we’re living in the Age of Anxiety.

- I need to talk to this Dustin Yellin kid. He bought a giant warehouse in Red Hook and is turning it into a art center.

- Photographs of photographers.

- Great photo series of Ikea objects displayed into colorful and organized works of art.

- Check out works by one of my favorite artists DongWook Lee at Doosan Gallery.

- I have never been schooled in the art of debate, I have always praised my superb multi-tasking skills, but I am beginning to question my need to slow down in the latter and pick up on productive confrontational skills. “I need time to process things. Sometimes a lot of time. And I need to ask for that time or take it for myself.

- The science of willpower.

- 5 myths about being a home-based business.

- 12 career resolutions for you to consider.

- Pretty glasses case!

- Sheena Iyengar’s TED talk on how to make choosing easier. Choice overload reduces: engagement, decision quality, satisfaction.

- SLOTHS!

- Twitter campaign gone wrong.

- I want to take this collage class at MoMA!

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