January 2008
Serious Eats: Best Thing Since Sliced Bread →
Continuing the theme of edible tic-tac-toe boards, we bring you Tic Tac Toast. Sure, a pedestrian knife could probably due the grid-carving trick, but how lame! Bread lobbyists, if you’re out there, is this your comeback to a rough Atkins decade? Wooing bread-haters with plastic toys? (Nice move) Low-carb wraps could never provide such a perfect X and O-fighting medium. Bring it, peanut butter....
The FAIL Blog →
This is a site for sharing all things that FAIL with the world. -yatta.
Steve Martin on "Being Funny" - Smithsonian... →
“What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension?” (Damn, that’s funny. -yatta.)
Platinum : The Poetic Table of the Elements at... →
A small excerpt:
Platinum schmlatinum in the morning Platinum schmlatinum in the evening Platinum you are essential to life Your sweet sweet color is grayish white Group ten is where you belong For your chemical properties I long Bendable, resistant to corrosives and heavy, All other elements are engrossed in envy.
-Ellie
Don't double dip.
Dip Once or Dip Twice? - New York Times “A study found that double dipping in a cup of dip would transfer at least 50 to 100 bacteria from one mouth to another with every bite.” - yatta.
Domino's Pizza Tracker →
You can watch your pizza and know when it’s being made, delivered, baked, put into the box (what!?) and delivered within a 40 second acuracy window. Wow!
-Ellie
“When it comes to heaven, one price doesn’t fit all. Reserve A Spot In...”
– You can purhase spots in Heaven for a tiny fee of $12.79, but that DOESN’T EVEN INCLUDE a VIP pass. Heaven is a tough gate to get through, I suppose.
-Ellie
FOXNews.com - Want to Get to Heaven? Gag-Gift Web Site Sells ‘Reservations,’ but Not Without Offending Some - Local News...
“Tweetmeme looks for new content and tracks who else is talking about it. It...”
– This sounds like an interesting new application, and it should be interesting to see which twitts are “first”.
-Ellie
The killer Twitter-tracker just arrived and its name is Tweetmeme
WatchOver 150,000,000 Red Christmas Crabs invade this island every year for mating season. If you don’t like these little guys, don’t come to this island!
-Ellie
TikiBarTV's Johnny Johnny saves a woman's life on... →
Wow. (Last night a vlogger saved my life?) - yatta.
WatchAmazing Young Organ Player Rocks Out Video
The Tumblelist (tumblelog directory) →
(thanks, jamiew) — ridiculousaurus
“Thieves are robbing long-distance coaches by sneaking dwarves into the luggage...”
– Ananova - Dwarf crime a ‘growing problem’
Couple to sue subway over leaked kiss video
Couple to sue subway over leaked kiss video An incensed Chinese couple, videotaped hugging and kissing on a subway platform, plan to sue the subway’s operator after the video was uploaded to Youtube and other Web sites, attracting thousands of hits. The three-minute video of the couple in their 20s was shot in September and uploaded to Youtube and Chinese video-sharing Web sites last week,...
Transplant patient switches blood types
Australian girl’s ‘miracle’ immune switch An Australian teenage girl has become the world’s first known transplant patient to change blood groups and take on the immune system of her organ donor, say doctors. A Sydney-based team describe the case in the latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Now 15, Demi-Lee Brennan received a donor liver when she was 9 years...
Everyblock
everyblock launches (tecznotes) Adrian’s baby EveryBlock launched today, offering locative neighborhood information for San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. They include things like alcohol permits, restaurant inspection reports, craigslist missed connections, filming permits, police and fire activity. No SF crime yet, but that’s something we may be able to help with. I love a site...
thing-a-day.com →
Thing-a-day, is a site in which you register, then create something every day. Registration closes on January 31st, so there’s still time to get in on the group.
-Ellie
I'm Going To Disney World | MetaFilter →
Don’t have enough time or money to visit Disney World? Don’t fret! You can view all the best rides and feel like you’ve been there after viewing this collection of videos. HAVE FUN!
-Ellie
