by Chris Barrus
The National Pork Council presents: Pork For Kids!
A Simpsons quote seems appropriate…
Homer: Lisa honey, are you saying you’re never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No!
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad! Those all come from the same animal!
Homer: Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal
…is on April Winchell’s site. Especially recommended are the Hindi Abba covers from Salma & Sabina.
Fellow Webb School alum John Scalzi switched his blog over the MovableType which means: (drumroll) A RSS Feed!
(and thanks for the link)
Long before the current era of pre-fab outlet mall concrete blockhouses, electronics retailer Best Products contracted with design firm SITE to create some fun architecture that messed around with traditional suburban retail looks. Buildings appeared to fall apart, be grown over by trees, have bites taken out of them – anything to make the suburban wasteland look interesting.
Metropolis magazine takes a look and wonders “where are they now”?
Giant squids are no longer king. Make room for colossal squids!
This quote is terrific:
“Now we can say that it attains a size larger than the giant squid. Giant squid is no longer the largest squid that’s out there. We’ve got something that’s even larger, and not just larger but an order of magnitude meaner.”
I love the BBC’s size graphic on that article. “London Bus”… “Colossal squid”.
…is the photo the BBC used to illustrate the point.
And of course leave it to the denizens of I Love Everything to point out that the rooftop picture of Patsy and Stoli can be used with *any* news headline.
Pink Floyd’s audio engineer James Guthrie speaks out about how the just-released SACD surround sound mix of Dark Side Of The Moon came together.
Today’s required reading: Thom Hartmann’s essay, “When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History“.
Go read it right now. I’ll wait.
The New York Freemasons are conducting a recruitment drive to increase their ever-dwindling membership. As part of the campaign, they’re offering a one-day class “compressing the rituals that could take a year to master.”
Via BBC. You may begin freaking out at T-minus 10… 9… 8… 7…
The World Health Organization expert who first identified the mystery pneumonia that has claimed dozens of lives has himself died of the disease, the UN agency has announced.
Dr Carlo Urbani, a 46-year-old Italian and an expert on communicable diseases, had identified Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in an American businessman admitted to hospital in Vietnam in February.
The WHO said Dr Urbani’s early detection of SARS had led to increased global surveillance, enabling the identification and the subsequent isolation of those with the disease to slow its spread.
At least 54 people are known to have died of the disease, and more than 1,400 people to be suffering from it.
Note that 1000 (that’s one thousand!) people are being quarantined.