Clothes, gewgaws, and other passing fancies.
It’s called Mario Batali Voice:
“There are a few noisy assholes who don’t like [brussels sprouts] and complain about them publicly, and through these outbursts they have the whole world convinced their opinion matters. They’re the climate-change deniers of food. Sprouts are delicious. Only an asshole doesn’t like brussels sprouts.”
Via @Francis_Lam.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. Original.
Requested by several, including mayor-tusks, stridingdirty, the0r4ng3 and laserdinosaurs.
"Socks inside of shoes; it’s that simple."
Style Tips for Men, courtesy of The Onion (via putthison)
(Source: putthison)
"Money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood."
Happy holidays indeed.
Three things to know about our new Wood iPhone Covers:
1. They are not cases, and therefore offer the thinnest protection without disrupting the iPhone’s sleek design.
2. They are made from real wood, bought and laser cut locally.
3. They are not stained. The three colors you see are the natural shades of purpleheart, bubinga and padauk wood.
If I had an iPhone, I’d be all over it. They’re only $15, too.
Thanks to Andy for the heads-up.
But only thanks to the dread lords of Capitalism and Commerce:
it’s quite impractical—nearly impossible—to make a cheeseburger from scratch. Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in spring and fall. Large mammals are slaughtered in early winter. The process of making such a burger would take nearly a year, and would inherently involve omitting some core cheeseburger ingredients. It would be wildly expensive—requiring a trio of cows—and demand many acres of land. There’s just no sense in it.
A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not.
More here. Via Ezra Klein.
Via Giz, this is a pretty cool speaker concept, even if I doubt the local glass-cutting thing would make it to market.
