Some nights you just really have to make macaroni and cheese from scratch. NOM. (At least I cut the recipe in half, and I added sauteed onions in vermouth.)

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Sonofabitch, I'm going to miss this President.

Nice essay here on Why English is so weird.

The NY Times on climbing monster Alex Honnold. At one level, free-soloing can be seen as the ( Read more... )

This has always been my experience: ask people what they need.

Hmm, this is relevant to my interests: A dermatologist talking about the dangers of sunscreen.

I enjoyed this essay about the uses of social media by museums and archives.

Europe has lots of refugees. This essay dispels some of the rumors & myths about the refugee crisis.I love ( Read more... )

This looks awesome, and not that difficult.

Someone on MeFi decided it was time for everyone to appreciate the genius that was Slings and Arrows. Lots of meaty links in there.

Hello, someone figured out that Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane is totally using the wrong accent, forsooth.

So I saw the new trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy. Man, ( Read more... )

Watch this time-lapsed video of the righting of the shipwrecked cruise ship in Italy.

io9 has an excerpt about the making of Time Bandits. I had no idea it was so dramatic!

As many of you know, and others will come to learn, daughters in this society are on the hook for parental care.

Marked for later:
The dark side of Peter Pan.

The ( Read more... )

... just sleeping. And running. And looking for work. And dog-sitting. And so forth.

Some of these links are a little dated, but if I don't post them now they won't get posted at all.

Connie Britton is even more awesome than you thought. She's teamed up with Planned Parenthood to offer a What Would Tami Taylor Do? t-shirt to fund PP programs ( Read more... )

Folks who are into constructed languages may find this article about a complete invented language intriguing. The article goes from endearingly geeky to kinda creepy, as the conlanger learns the uses to which some people are putting his work. Fascinating, really.

Awww, Hark a Vagrant is so lovely. And it really does capture the dynamic of the ( Read more... )

The new Curiosity Rover lands on Mars this coming Sunday, and the event will be streamed live. I hope I can find time to watch it (I'll be traveling for a family thing ( Read more... )

Linked for later reading: the unreliability of eyewitness testimony.

The Mary Sue has some cool images of superheroes photobombing history.

And The Big Picture shows us bicycles all over the world.

Brain Pickings gives us an overview of two hundred years of presidential campaign posters.

Via the Horde: a P.G. Wodehouse quote generator. What ( Read more... )

The Koch brothers have been roundly demonized in the progressive left for their funding and support for many "grassroots" Tea Party efforts. I wonder if the news, reported by Bloomberg (hardly The Nation or Mother Jones), that they have been selling oil-producing equipment to Iran and bribing governments all over the world, will have any effect on ( Read more... )

Natalie Dee has a comment on the economy.

I am not a security specialist; is today's XKCD correct?

And thank FSM, someone has an explanation for why so many restaurant websites suck.

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Wil Wheaton on the end of Eureka.

I got rather spoiled about Doctor Who this morning as I was scrolling through my RSS feeds, so watch out, folks, there's ( Read more... )