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For those of us who live here, the expense of New York City is something we’ve long since adjusted to. Designer tank tops for $140, truffled hamburgers for $150, studio apartments renting for upward of $3,000 — even in the midst of recession, these things seem somehow normal, the price of admission to the greatest city in the world. For visitors, however, these can be seriously intimidating numbers. Even if you’re not aiming for high-end Manhattan indulgence, the basic costs of lodging, transportation, food, shopping and entertainment are the most expensive in the nation. But there’s an easy way to bring the price of a New York vacation down to earth. It’s called research. - Mike White

"This makes me want to ride the tram." - Mike White

"The Culinary Institute of America has a website called CIAprochef.com. Starbucks Foodservice has created some instructional videos for the CIA, on how to properly prepare espresso and espresso based drinks. If you’ve ever wondered why espresso drinks in restaurants are generally awful, these “best practices” are where I’d start." - Mike White

See the evolution of the 10 different varieties that we have planted in our farm, from seed to cherry - Mike White

wow. he seems to have an axe to grind. WHAT DID YOU DO?? - Mike White

Friendfeed does it. In real time. - Mike White

they did. check it again. - Mike White

"the addiction to junk food was so strong that the rats were willing to get shocked in the foot just to get more junk food" - Mike White

Poor Nick. Should have paid his bills... - Mike White from Bookmarklet

oh... - Emily Oak

he texted me a little while ago, said he was doing okay...but definitely worried... - Mike White

"While decidedly a great burger, and already one of New York’s best, it’s not as juicy and cohesive as its Shake Shack rival, and its construction can err, depending on the night and the cook, on the wrong side of floppy." - Mike White

"we have achieved a level of collaboration with ECX that should allow for further advancement of our interests" - Mike White

that was fast...Nice post. - Mike White

http://gizmodo.com/5385446... - Mike White

so sad... - Mike White

I'm headed there today. Thanks for the tip! - Mike White

http://friendfeed.com/aweissm... - Mike White

Apparently La Mill (in LA) has exclusive import rights for Hario. Edwin is unfortunately, just a distributor. - Mike White

Ben's method is my favorite, and a lot easier than he makes it sound. - Mike White

flic.kr will be supported in the next release of Birdfeed. - Mike White

I don't think it's that interesting (so far). The live music location service is interesting (how do they know, exactly?). But all the other info can be found in google maps. Where's the foursquare type interaction (and reward)? - Mike White

Downloading. Thanks Robert! :) - Daynah

"About HARIO GLASS JAPAN: Hario Glass has been around since 1921 and is known to be one of the greenest glass manufacturers in the world. Hario does not use any lead in their glass and is proud to be a pioneer in minimizing their carbon footprint as developer of Japan's first "direct-current-passage glass-melting furnace". This makes for a pollution free plant that is emitting neither CO2 nor dioxins. This is one of the few glass plants of this size in the world that has NO smoke stacks exiting the building. What makes Hario Glass distinctive or better than other "Heat-resistant glass"? First of all a heat resistant glass is any glass that can go back and forth from high to low temperatures quickly with out damage. With this as a base HARIO set out to improve upon this by both creating a product that can go to further extremes and do so quicker with out breaking. This has placed Hario as a global leader as the first to produce such a hard glass now known as "HARIO 32". Its chemical... more... - Mike White from Bookmarklet

Oh shit! You added me! - Mike White from iPhone

yeah, it includes some legacy beards. - tonx

Love it. Great idea. - Mike White from iPhone

I just added MMS to my jailbroken iphone 3g with 3.0 using Terminal. No 3.1 required... (congrats to you!) - Mike White

Seamus? I know it's you. - Mike White

The drinks at Rye are better. - Mike White

The Richardson is very delicious indeed. I need to do a full Williamsburg bar crawl soon. We should organize this. :) - Lush Life from email

You're being censored by twitter. No updates are showing. Must be porn related. - Mike White

and to Nolita. Mulberry and Prince. - Mike White

"Dead-end jobs in the same coffee shop"?! Ha. They were dead-end jobs in DIFFERENT coffee shops (I refused to hire Miles). - Mike White from Bookmarklet

although DANA did work a short stint behind the bar... - Mike White

Thanks James! I just might take you up on that offer. I'm very good at moving heavy bags filled with beans. I'd happily earn my keep with manual labor ;) With JB headed over there, I'll miss her too much to wait until WBC. That means two trips to London for me. Sweet! - Mike White

Awww...my BFF's! - Mike White