What the hell?

Darpa funding for immortal organisms with a kill switch built in? Link thanks to Bill. Thanks, Bill!

Happy Valentine's Day?

I love reading Serious Eats, a terrific foodie blog. I also love reading -- often, in peeks from between my fingers, with my face screwed up in horror -- the recurrent feature "The Nasty Bits," featuring an exploration of all manner of appalling offal.

In case you're wondering what's in this article, well, it's beef penis. As I understand it, it's eaten for medicinal reasons more than culinary ones, so it was funny to see how someone reacted to it, culinarily.

Read from between your fingers, screwing up your face in horror.

Axecop and Unibaby!

A comic. For you. Written by a 5 year old, and illustrated by his adult brother. Brilliant.

I cannot recommend enough that you click "episodes" and read them all. And then -- and then DO go read "ask Axe-Cop," because that's where the comedy gold lives.

Shut them ALL down! [NSFW warning on links]

Hi all.

Following links from OTHER links from a friend's blog, I found... well, Star Wars burlesque. I should love this. But it's just horrible.

These links are NOT SAFE FOR WORK. And I promise you cannot unsee Jabba, as advertised.

Sweet, sweet solvency

Checks have started to arrive from the gub'ment. Evidently making a call to the complaints department at the EDD and telling them you will soon be reduced to eating shoe leather, even though you know your claim decision has been reversed and should now be upheld, works. Because they mailed them out TWO DAYS after I made that call. And of course a representative hasn't called me back yet... wanna bet me they never do?

I can afford the $1 for a "gentleman's bet" now. Except gambling is illegal so let's bet something symbolic, like a cake recipe.

Speakin' o' cake, I submitted to demands from our January birthday crowd (Rob, Dave, Micah) to make fawncy chocolate lava cakes with creme anglaise and (for everyone except Dave, who hates fruit with his chocolate dammit) macerated berries. And nomnomnom. Want the recipe, folks? If so let me know and I'll dig up the recipes and stuff. You will use a lot of eggs on it if you make it. That, I know.

...er... what else... oh yes, I've been knitting chain links of wool yarn for a slightly edgy "necklace" scarf (there are patterns all over the internet, but it's basically "cast on 21 stitches on 3 dpns, use 4th dpn to work 7 rows in stockinette, cast off, weave in ends, and tug gently to get stockinette to roll up. Then insert link into the next link you cast on and repeat ad infinitum. Felt when done." They look bootiful. Yarn life, boy-ee!

And I'm always behind the times on the Internets, but for God's sake go discover Leslie Hall if you're like me and behind the times too. Because she's hilarious. And good for her and her gold spandex. "Work through the pain!"

And because that reminds me that Dave mocked me earlier for being behind the trend on the Internets by a couple years, and because you may be too, I figured I'd share this glittering gem: Incompetech, home of any frackin' kind of graph paper you might care to customize and print out at home. Ahhhh, nerd Mecca.

Be good to each other. Love you folks.

Group guest post at Perfume Smellin' Things - top 10 of Winter and best of 2009

Go see!

Effing Awesome. Also, Seussical.

Look! Dinosaur colors revealed.