Category: Misc.

Turducken update: the spectacular turkey/duck/chicken dish can be bought here and here. Wanna make your own turducken? This guy did.

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 One Hundred Albums of the 1980’s.”

[Newley: this is where you should insert the link to the article about the prevalence of metafiction in pop culture.]

Float pens are cool.

Dalton Ghetti, a carpenter who lives in Connecticut, carves tiny sculptures out of pencil lead.

Did Mickey Mouse first appear in a 14th-century Austrian church fresco? This sure looks a hell of a lot like the little guy.

“Food for Thought: Dietary change was a driving force in human evolution.”

Mmm, Belgian beer.