January 2010
26 posts
December 2009
29 posts
The Daily Show presents Decade in Review →
One three-minute video for each year. In case you’d blocked out anything from this decade, it’s ALL THERE. Gah.
Gourmet's Favorite Cookie Recipes: 1941-2008 →
Help! Where do I start?
Teabagger Worried His Magic Prayers Made God Kill... →
Just … wow. (Thanks to FB pal Boone for passing this on.)
“‘Yesterday on the street I passed the 100% perfect girl,’ I tell...”
– Haruki Murakami: On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning
“The deal with fish oil, I found out, is that a considerable portion of it comes...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - A Fish Oil Story - NYTimes.com
“Among many birds, of course, eggs are oval rather than round, a trait that biologists attribute to both the arduous passage the egg makes through the avian oviduct, and the fact that oval eggs roll in a circle rather than a straight line and thus are less likely to fall out of a nest.”
From a New York Times article that’s mostly about circles and partly about circles in art...
Is it a grand gesture to anonymously give a woman... →
Perhaps one of the oddest questions I’ve seen on Ask Metafilter (and yes, the asker gets an earful).
Laura Barrett: “Robot Ponies”
(via...
