Link roundup

1. "One of the first American chefs to master French cooking was James Hemings, who just so happened to be Thomas Jefferson’s slave."

2. There has to be some crucial fact left out of this story by Business Week, right?

Fiat’s 22,000 factory workers in Italy assembled 650,000 cars in 2009, while the 6,100 employees at its plant in Tychy, Poland, built 600,000 vehicles.

3. Myke Amend's basically running his own kickstarter with prizes including high-res downloads of his airships, and holiday cards.