Kringle 2.0

A recipe for a delightful German pastry.

Hacking Kringle

I always assumed that tinkering with my grandmother Alice’s Kringle recipe was akin to remixing Thriller — it’s never going to be as good, so why would you?

The Aspiration Manifesto

This is written by Allen Gunn and co. at Aspiration, an organization that helps nonprofits make better technology decisions. I love this thing. I send so many people to this page, that I wanted to post it somewhere with slightly bigger type.

Jonathan’s reading list, Winter 2012

At a recent event featuring a great many people smarter than me I asked for recommendations on amazing books to read in the upcoming winter.

Etsy.com publishes real names and purchase history of buyers

Last week, crafting marketplace Etsy.com published the real name and purchasing history of their buyers to the Web. These purchases include sex toys, gay literature, drug pipes and other presumably private transactions.

Making Media Connections 2010

One of my favorite events in Chicago: an entire conference devoted to training nonprofiteers on the subtle arts of communications.

City Camp!

Incredibly useful and interesting people at City Camp. Photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46866170@N07/sets/72157623151929275/

Jonathan on Chicago’s WHPK – Ministry of Truth

Got a chance to talk about Global Integrity, corruption and Chicago with WHPK’s Mitchell Szczepanczyk.Thanks to Mitchell for setting this up. MP3: Here’s the interview. Navy Pier image by StuckInCustoms (cc by/nc/sa)

New Hotness: Local Integrity Initative Goes to Scale

Some 10,000 local assessments of city and regional politics in Argentina, Ecuador and Peru. Aw yeah: fresh data. Latin America Local Governance Toolkit: Assessments from Argentina, Ecuador, Peru

Captain Kirk is climbing the mountain.

This was so important to me, I share it here.