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What more of an intro do you need to this link? Fairy’s Strange Junkfood Tribute: How to Make Fried Oreo Cookies! In trying to find an image to go with this (I purloined them from foodsubs.com ) I googled for images and found that all manner of dogs, cats, rabbits, polar bears, ferrets, and guinea […]

Warning: not for the especially squeamish: eMJA: Myxoedema and a lost wedding ring

You decide. Our own kitty, whom we’ve named Scrappy, ranks a respectable 7.8 on ratemykitten.com. This cat, well, not as much.

Engadget reports on The Wave Pillow, an Internet enabled pillow that connects to a server and checks the waves at a beach that you specify, and then vibrates in time to the waves. Supposedly then, you can decide to either wake up, grab a surfboard and miss your classes, or alternatively roll over, go back […]

Sometimes, you just have to wonder if some kids’ parents beat them too much or not enough.

Bruce Simpson, designer and builder of a low cost, homebrew cruise missile, has posted a rather interesting plea to sell his services. He claims that after the New Zealand government shut down work on cruise missiles, his family has been placed under significant economic stress, and he is how willing to design low cost cruise […]

With many crack federal agents like this, don’t you feel safer at night? Isn’t harassment of people necessary in our post 9/11 world, especially when it happens to them rather than us? I mean the Supreme Court has already given law enforcement an open license to request anyone’s ID, requiring only the flimsiest of pretenses. […]

Lessig had this link awhile ago on his weblog, but I thought it would be appropriate for Independence Day. You can purchase a copy of The United States Constitution and Amendments from Amazon, formatted for Microsoft Reader. Interestingly enough, it’s protected by DRM, so you aren’t granted any rights to redistribute, alter, or even print […]

While scanning the headlines of CNN Money this morning, I found out that Barbie is dating again, this time it’s a hunky Australian. This is just the kind of insightful business coverage I’ve come to expect from CNN. The most precious quote: After 43 years as one of the world’s best-looking couples, Mattel announced the […]

I enjoy an (admittedly waning) interest in the Photoshop contests on fark.com, and recently they ran a contest where the theme was Find Nemo somewhere unexpected. A cute idea, with several ideas that were pretty damned funny. One of the most hilarious to me was this one, which is a spoof of a particular photo […]

I had mentioned this before, but managed to find this gif. You can refer to my previous post if you have difficulty decoding the French.

I suspect that the story surrounding this E-bay posting is a fake, but if not, it’s an excellent justification for the notion that some people just shouldn’t have kids. I’m giving another try at trackbacking to the original metafilter posting, but something is obviously wrong with either my understanding of trackback or the crosstalk between […]

Dug this brief blurb off of talk.origins this morning. From the pages of New Scientist: HERE’S one US company where “freedom fries” surely never appeared on the staff restaurant menu, even when Francophobia was at its height. One of its products is a laptop bag which bears a label in English and French. The English […]

Somehow I missed out that the NSA had banned Furby from entering their Maryland facilities. Can anyone doubt that beneath their furry exterior they are plotting the overthrow of the United States government? Well, perhaps not. But you can hack ’em to do all sorts of stuff, or just go straight for the Furby autopsy […]

In entertainment today, Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears are both battling to play that most challenging of thespian roles: Daisy Duke on the upcoming “Dukes of Hazzard” movie. It appears that Jessica will have spare time since ABC rejected her proposed comedy pilot in which she would play “Jessica Sampson”, a ditzy blonde who joins […]