Category: Hobbies and Projects

First, let it be known that I love cilantro. But there is a rather silly and fun site out there: I Hate Cilantro– a self-proclaimed “Anti-cilantro community.” Included in their riotous testimonials and whatnot is this gem of a haiku: verdant enemy lurking in soupy repose striking the naive I know a good handful of [...]

Wikiffiti — stickers that read [citation needed] – Boing Boing Sometimes clever things are actually pretty funny. (tags: clever funny)

My Daily Bread | The Fresh Loaf I’ve heard from a good source that this makes bread that tastes like Grand Central’s como bread. Must try! (tags: recipe bread baking food)

Wikipedia:How to edit a page Wiki markup reference. Yeah, real exciting. (tags: wiki markup reference) Weather Bonk – Live Weather, Forecasts, WebCams, and more on a Google Map (World ) I should check this out more in-depth. Lots of data here, possibly ugly interface. (tags: weather reference)

Rock Pictures It’s me! Do you recognize me? My friend Julia’s dad, LaMar, makes amazing mosaics from rock. (tags: me friends rocks art)

CommandShift3 – It’s like Hot or Not for web design Web design: cleverness rating high. (tags: web)

The Issue – The Blog Newspaper Interesting: A newspaper format for good blog posts. Nice layout, interesting content. (tags: blog news)

Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tus… by Bill Buford It’s easy to read, full of unusual stories, unusual people and gastronomic adventure, but it makes you feel weird. You see, those chefs you worship–you watch them on the Food Network, you buy their [...]

Trading Goddess Stock Blog!: A Friendly Reminder from EBAY (tags: funny) Guerrilla clockmakers fix famous Paris clock – Boing Boing (Few days old). OK, if I had my ultimate dream lifestyle, it would be being A MEMBER OF THIS ABSOULTELY FREAKING RAD CLUB. (tags: awesome france) The 10 Best Books of 2007 – New York [...]

After a few years of scouring the internets for the ultimate, lifelong reading list toward which I could strive, I have failed. Every book list is missing something: the 1001 Books to Read Before you Die is only novels, other lists are weighted toward philosophy, Greek classics, science fiction novels. And what about those award [...]