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Like the boss, David Bowie (YouTube) had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra. (tags: music davidbowie brucespringsteen itshardtobeasaintinthecity) (permalink)
600lbs of men. 12 oz. sausage. See a problem (YouTube)? (tags: jimmydean sausage portions food) (permalink)
New at Archie McPhee: Shakespeare head pops. Forsooth! (tags: shakespeare archiemcphee candy) (permalink)
Coffee + carbs after exercise is good for your glycogen. Who volunteers for a study that includes participants first rode a cycle ergometer until exhaustion? (tags: coffee caffeine diet exercise glycogen exhaustion) (permalink)
IcanHasCheezBurger (dot com) is hiring a .Net developer. Before seeing a job posting for their organization, I never thought about the business side of their site. But I suppose they have all the same needs as any other company. I'm imagining their office, with all of its emails, employee policies, and bulletin board notices written in LOLspeak and adorned with cat pictures. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. (tags: lolcats cats jobs) (permalink)
Sean Collins sent high-res pictures of his knotwork-adorned guitar.
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(via Dave Winer on Twitter) Spend 10 minutes watching The Website is Down (YouTube). It's totally worth it. Language NSFW. (tags: bofh computers) (permalink)
Back in aught-eight, we had to move celebrity heads around on trailers, because of the war. (tags: eddiemurphy head terrifying) (permalink)
Devo sues McDonalds. I always thought Devo's Uncontrollable Urge (YouTube) would make a good ad for fast food. (tags: devo mcdonalds lawsuit food music) (permalink)
For those who have been querying: the Mordorcycle got 54.26 miles per gallon recently, but let's not put too much faith in that number. I'm going to continue to monitor it. (tags: motorcycle efficiency mpg gasoline gas fuel) (permalink)
Excellent Batman tees at FCUK. Use the arrows to browse through them all. (tags: batman tshirts t-shirts fcuk clothing) (permalink)
Econbrowser explores saving gas by driving slower. With graphs and charts. (tags: efficiency gas fuel) (permalink)
I made a point of DVR'ing the Michael Symon Iron Chef America ep, and I watched it last night. Ruhlman judged. (tags: food ironchef ironchefamerica symon) (permalink)
Dr. Rick wrote to say the delightful clock in my local pizza shop isn't the only one in existence. He has one near him as well. And he did some research to learn that it was patented, but the patent has expired. So go ahead and re-make one if you want. (tags: food pizza clock patents drrick) (permalink)
I took Ruhlman's advice and made my own mayonaisse. To my unrefined taste buds, I don't see a huge improvement over jar mayo. Certainly not worth the effort. But it was fun to try once. Once. I used it to make chicken salad. (tags: food chickensalad mayonaisse ruhlman) (permalink)
I never realized that Tracy Ullman's hit They Don't Know (YouTube) was a cover of Kristy Maccoll's version (YouTube). Kristy died in a stupid diving accident. (tags: kristymaccoll tracyullman music theydontknow) (permalink)
A delightful clock seen at a local pizza place. (tags: pizza clock tempusfugit timepizza) (permalink)
LOLcanthropy: the ability of a human to talk like a leet kitteh. (tags: lolcanthropy neologism) (permalink)
Seen on Twitter: The Arc of Engineering. Why applications jump the shark. (tags: software engineering computers) (permalink)
Mike R. sends word of TileStack (via /.) -- sort of a new jack HyperCard for the web. w00t. (tags: hypercard tilestack software) (permalink)
I've been on Twitter for a few days now; here are early thoughts. First, I actually like that it's slow and crashy. That contributes to the wobbly and dangerous feeling of using something new and exciting. Also, the suits won't move in and take the fun out of it until it has five nines availability. Second, Merlin Mann is funny. Third, I would have expected more copycats by now. Fourth, Kofno points out that most of my minimalistblog entries are less than 140 characters, so I've got a lot of practice, no? (tags: twitter) (permalink)
Gasoline is no longer cheaper than its inflation-adjusted historical high, so people who have been saying that today's prices aren't really the highest they've been can now shut the hell up. And in about 40 minutes, we'll be paying more for gas than Europe and Japan, so those folks will be able to simmer down as well. (tags: gasoline efficiency inflation) (permalink)
If you find that someone's not understanding your sarcasm, they may be dain bramaged. (tags: braindamage sarcasm likeiwouldeverbesarcastic) (permalink)
Sahara Hotnights and The Unlovables...two grrl bands. Via Histalk of all places. (tags: unlovables saharahotnights music bands) (permalink)
Picnik is a three-fourths decent web-based photo editor. (tags: photos photoeditor tools web) (permalink)
Numbnut? If I knew the spelling bee was this funny (YouTube), I would have actually watched it every year! (tags: numbnut numbnuts spelling spellingbee bee sameer numnah) (permalink)
What the font and
identifont are for figuring out what font you've got on your hands. (tags: fonts utilities tools useful graphicdesign) (permalink)
Ypsilanti (Michigan)'s water tower is unusual. (tags: watertower architecture ypsilanti michigan) (permalink)
Tony Stewart gives his pet monkey to the Louisville Zoo. (tags: monkeys eep nascar tonystewart wildanimalsmakebadpets fendersareforsissys kristadwyer) (permalink)
Ice Cube as BA Baracus in a forthcoming A-Team movie. (tags: movies ateam ba babaracus baracus a-team crimetheydidntcommit) (permalink)
Not a typical lunch today. I saw a gorn and quaffed a Romulan Ale, which tasted like Bud Light dyed green. There was also a guy in a Borg costume walking around, and frankly it was creepy as hell. (tags: borg beer startrek startrekexperience lasvegas nevada quark) (permalink)
I also rode the monorail, which is cool, except that the machine that sells you the pass only gives change with Susan B. and Sacagawea dollar coins. I guess I'll have to turn those in at the bank for real dollars. (tags: monorail lasvegas nevada) (permalink)
The Million Pirate March is this weekend in San Francisco. (tags: pirates arr sanfrancisco california yarr march walk) (permalink)
Look sir, crullers. (Ads maybe NSFW.) (tags: donuts doughnuts starwars stormtrooper breakfast yum) (permalink)
If you've got about 30 minutes to dedicate to the history of pop culture, rock and roll, and -- as it turns out -- nerddom, you should check out Part 1 and Part 2 (YouTube) of an interview with KISS. Tom Snyder got Gene to say "Klaatu barada nikto" and Ace to talk about his RC helicopter....both of those things seem pretty nerdy to me for a rock band. (tags: kiss tomsnyder interview rock rockandroll nerds) (permalink)
Calculate air miles between cities. Useful when you want to know how many frequent flyer miles you'll get for a trip. (tags: air travel airlines frequentflyer miles) (permalink)
Yakima's train depot is now a restaurant. (tags: restaurants yakima washington trains traindepot depot) (permalink)
As I mentioned before, Google's got a code review tool. Looks like it is hitting the streets as Google Code Review. Somebody check it out and tell me if it rules or drools. (tags: google code programming software) (permalink)
Chair (YouTube) that builds itself. via Look At This. (tags: robots chairs furniture self-assembly) (permalink)