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Desserts continue the theme of luxurious simplicity, honest-to-goodness classics served in a refined environment. There’s ice-cream by Christina’s of Cambridge, pastries by an in-house dessert chef and New York cheesecake bought in daily from Brooklyn. The highlight, however, is the Banana Split, which serves two or more. This isn’t your typical HUDS Sunday sundae: here, the banana is dipped in milk and white chocolate, and comes with an array of toppings ranging from cookie to coconut shreds to make-your-own moment of the sublime...
...outside a Brooklyn bar, and a bunch of guys are standing around admiring the new Mustang GT. "The old one lost its buzz," says a kid circling the car, asking about its engine (eight cylinders), power (300 h.p.) and torque (315 lb.-ft.). The Mustang is an American icon, with more movie cameos, hot-rod clubs and fanzines than any other vehicle. Ford has sold more than 8 million since the car's debut in 1964. In this scene, though, nobody cared about that stuff. "Steve who?" asks a guy who never heard of McQueen or the green fastback...
...mininotebook from IBM). It's just like jumping online at Starbucks, and it lets me go wild multitasking--catching up on e-mail and otherwise staying productive while in transit. Rarely am I trapped at a coffee shop, concerned that my workday is slipping away, but the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway can kill an entire afternoon...
...Maybe not with prepaid cards, but, as Stalter says, the technology is way ahead of the applications, and over time alternative revenue sources are going to come crawling out of the woodwork. I thought of one myself, when I got back from Spokane. Parking in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., is so tight, it took 45 minutes of circling the block before I found a space. I spent that time doing a thought experiment: What if Vivato lit up my neighborhood with wi-fi? Then you could have curbside sensors that page your car the instant a spot opens...
Apparently the game is played just slightly differently in Brooklyn...