short and spazzy

Sep 19

Ummm… the copywriter went a little overboard, methinks. “Get ready for action-packed kitchen adventure with legendary superheroes as they battle evil, avenge dastardly deeds and spread cookies throughout the universe. The secret to their superpowers? Home-baked treats made with our Marvel™ Heroes Cookie Cutters.
Equipped with a spring-loaded stamp, the cutters are as fast and accurate as Spider-Man’s web—yet they release the cookies with ease. Use the edges to shape your cookie, and then gently press the stamp into the dough to create imprinted detailing.
After baking, bring your heroic cookies to life with decorations, and let the pursuit of justice begin! Set of four includes Spider-Man, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man.
A Williams-Sonoma exclusive.
© 2011 Marvel™ Characters, Inc. All rights reserved. (via Marvel™ Hero Cookie Cutter Set | Williams-Sonoma)”

“You may also need: Spider-Man Comic Book Cookie Cutters”

Sep 7

Trending on Twitter right now, National Kiss Day, HPV, Things I Did Over the Summer and Schweddy Balls.

Just observing.

Aug 9

Jonathan’s Card is an experiment in social sharing of physical goods using digital currency on mobile phones. I stumbled on the idea while doing research related to my work with Mobiquity related to Broadcasting Mobile Currency.

Based on the similarity to the “take a penny, leave a penny” trays at convenience stores in the US, I’ve adopted a similar “get a coffee, give a coffee” terminology for Jonathan’s Card. (via Get a coffee, give a coffee - Jonathan’s Card)

Aug 4

That’s quite the Dagwood.

(via “The Big Sandwich” - A classic Bearskinrug Article.)

Found via http://www.themorningnews.org/

Jul 18

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There’s one other wrinkle and has to do with people’s taste for salt. Campbell’s soup, for example, just announced yesterday that [they] can’t sell low-sodium soups and so they’re adding salt back. And part of the reason they can’t sell it is that if you’re on a high-salt diet, food that isn’t salty tastes terrible to you. And if you’re on a low-salt diet it takes three to six weeks to get accustomed to being on a low-salt diet, and then everything you eat tastes salty. And so the more salt in the food supply the more salt people need to bring the flavor you associate with salt. That complicates things, too.

So from a public health standpoint, if you want to deal with the percentage of the population that seems to be extremely responsive to a low-salt diet, what you want to do is get the sodium level in the food supply as low as you can. And that makes the people who sell salty food go nuts. And it makes the people who like salty foods go nuts. They think the food tastes bland. And so there are different stakeholders in this system who have very different views, and that accounts for the level of passion, I think, in a situation where the science is murky.

” The Salt Wars Rage On: A Chat with Nutrition Professor Marion Nestle: Scientific American

Jul 11

nedroidcomics:

natazilla:

monday garfield comics

Garf’s got it rough

I don’t even have any words for this. But I love it with all my heart.

Jul 8

austinkleon:

Flannery O’Connor, The Cartoons

Wow, so Fantagraphics is actually releasing a collection of Flannery O’Connor’s cartoons. I wrote about them back in 2007, when I could only find 2-3 images:

Few people know this, but Flannery O’Connor, one of my favorite writers, was also a cartoonist. She started out publishing cartoons in her high school and college newspapers, then tried to publish some in the New Yorker as a way to make money so that she could write her fiction. (That didn’t quite work out.) A few folks have noted that cartooning probably had some effect on writing her style: dig her grotesque caricatures and gift for combining the comic and the serious.

The Guardian has more of the story…what’s badass is that they’re all linocuts!

Sweet! Want!

Jul 5

Those are jello shots -

Knox
Watermelon Rum (1 part)
Watermelon Syrup (1 part)
Lime rinds (4)
Basil seeds (a few)

(via My Jello Americans: What-a-melon)

Jul 4

cream cheese lime coconut basil cookies. on Flickr.

8 oz cream cheese, 2 oz butter, 2 eggs, 2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, about 9 packets of http://www.truelemon.com/true-lime.html, some lime juice, some sweetened coconut, a handful of shredded basil leaves, splash of vanilla extract, dash of baking powder, dash of baking soda, pinch of sea salt. And baked for about 12 minutes at 350 minutes. They should be done just as the edges starts looking golden brown!

sign at Wunderbar on Flickr.

one beer away from telling everyone what i really think

Jun 20

From improvisation and immense imagination innumerable small figures have emerged that produce in their composition with emphasis on details, the question of inspiration. With pen and ink, who lives in Tokyo Japanese has Sagaki Keita from comic-book characters created masterpieces in which joins together precision and doodles on the current art. (via Sagaki Keita | Ignant) (translated from German via Google Translate)

found via Coudal

Jun 18

Am I the only one that opens up a 2oz bag of Skittles and then sorts them by color into lines before eating them? (via Profile for bortwein - Skittles Stats - I must be crazy. EST. April 2009)

Jun 17

“

New-York based Irish novelist Colum McCann has won the world’s richest literary award for his novel Let the Great World Spin.

McCann beat nine other nominees to become the second Irish author to win the €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. Let the Great World Spin uses Philippe Petit’s famous high-wire crossing between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in 1974 as a motif around which to assemble the stories of 10 New York characters.

The novel, which won the coveted National Book award in 2009, was described by the Impac judging panel as a “remarkable literary work”. “[It is] a genuinely 21st century novel that speaks to its time but is not enslaved by it.

”

Colum McCann wins Impac award - The Irish Times - Wed, Jun 15, 2011

Loved everything about this book.

Jun 15

Yep, a Macbook Pro just can’t handle Nyan Cat. (via YouTube - Wheels Of Steel Prototype - Nyan Cat Overload!)

Jun 13

photojojo:

Gummy bearskin rug

This year I’ve been having a lot of ideas around food. Particularly, junk food. This idea seemed funny to me and I knew that I had to try and make it. In the end, I think it looked like something a really tiny person would want to curl up on with a really tiny glass of wine.

This post is by Brock Davis as part of Photojojo’s Show & Tell week.

So cute.