Turducken update: the spectacular turkey/duck/chicken dish can be bought here and here. Wanna make your own turducken? This guy did.
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Space elevator plans
Another great link from my friend Colin: plans are under way to build a space elevator.
My holiday season will simply be incomplete unless I’m somehow able to sample the turducken (New York Times; free registration required). God bless American ingenuity. (Thanks to Colin R. for this exceptional find.)
Top 100 albums of the 1980s
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Float pens
Float pens are cool.
Pencil lead sculptures
Dalton Ghetti, a carpenter who lives in Connecticut, carves tiny sculptures out of pencil lead.
Mickey in a fresco?
Did Mickey Mouse first appear in a 14th-century Austrian church fresco? This sure looks a hell of a lot like the little guy.