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On the theory that you can find anything on the Internet . . .
I googled “Random Recipe Generator”.
No, you won’t find inspiration for dinner at this site, but you will find recipes for Anchovies Creme Brulee, Pizza Style Mangoes, and this beauty — Horseradish Sauce Bake:
Horseradish Sauce Bake
Serves 2
You will need: 80ml horseradish sauce 4 spring onions 2 bananas
Instructions:
eat the spring onions
eat the bananas
whisk the horseradish sauce
go down to the pub
My random recipe was something called “Raisins Salad.” I must admit, I never would have thought to combine raisins, asparagus, self-rising flour, and Greek yogurt.
I’m just a little confused on the direction, “Barbecue the flour.”
D.
Your morning dose of cool
In the process of answering the question, “How ancient are squid?” Karen and I found the Tree of Life Project. This site aims to provide information (and images) on Every. Life. Form. Even questionable life forms, like viruses, which are truly bizarre things when you get right down to it.
I’m always interested in the weird stuff, so I was happy to see one good article on the Archaea and some good links on Placozoa (the guys who fight with sponges over the title of Most Primitive Animal). And oooooooh aren’t water bears so cuuuuute I jus’ wanna snuggle uppawumpums oh who’s a naughty tardigrade you are!
And now for something completely different: our latest timesink at Chez Walnut, 5 Second Movies by That Guy With The Glasses. Many sparkling nuggets here, but we particularly like The Godfather, Fargo, and Brokeback Mountain. Enjoy.
So . . . where have you been wasting your time lately?
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Tiny world
This last Thursday’s Thirteen introduced me to the world of Lego Vignettes, or vigs for short. Vigs are scenes built from Legos, typically on a small base. I presume the size constraint provides one of the main challenges.
The VignetteBricks blog features vigs from different creators and also provides an extensive links list. From that list, I found this disturbing vig from the Brickshelf Gallery:
My mother is always reminding me how artistic I am, just because I did well in high school and college art classes. (Yes, that’s what moms are for.) I suppose I could exercise my talents here; after all, my son has about a billion Lego bricks scattered about the house, and a google search for “erotic Lego vig” failed to reveal any vig-artistes with my unique set of interests.
Live-blogging tonight, and I’m going to shoot for 7 PM PST. Also, if I get a chance, I’ll review Chapter 2 of the Idiot’s Guide to Getting Girls — and this chapter truly is for idiots. Stay tuned.
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Green Acres extra available for bar mitzvahs, bachelorette parties
. . . and he’ll clean ear wax, too!
Wandering the ‘net looking for a pic of child actor Johnny Whitaker, I found Genesis Creations Entertainment’s Celebrity Bookings list. Now I’m a kid in a candy store. Who knew Lisa Loring (Wednesday Addams) was this hawt?
Add to the hawt list Erin Murphy (Tabitha from Bewitched); and I have no idea who Ivonna Cadaver is, but I dig her look.
For you hetero girls, look no further than Brandon Cruz (Courtship of Eddie’s Father). But since he’s surrounded by screaming 13-year-olds, you’ll have to lust after Potsy instead.
What if yesteryear’s stars aren’t good enough for you — what if you want yesterday‘s stars? Book Fergie and Keven Federline through Esterman.com. Esterman has Ron Jeremy, too — you’ll have to watch the vid for a while to catch Jeremy playing with his pooch.
His dog. Jeez.
D.
The Interniche
You know one of the neatest thing about Teh Intertubes? That wonderful glow I feel when I discover a place born of obsession, an idea developed from infant twinkle to dazzling star.
A place like Jump the Shark.
What’s Jump the Shark? It’s a site dedicated to a specific moment in the life of a television show: the point at which a program left its peak behind and began its stomach-wrenching downward plunge.
The name derives from an episode of Happy Days: Fonzie, water-skiing in the Pacific, literally jumped a shark. This (according to site founder Jon Hein) was the beginning of the end.
Jump the Shark spotlights a host of common themes. There are only so many ways you can jump the shark, apparently: a different actor steps in to play the same character (think Darren on Bewitched), the cute little kids on the show hit puberty (Leave it to Beaver, anyone?), a winsome li’l child gets introduced (Scrappy Doo!), a Movie is made, and so forth. Jump the Shark also claims that some programs never jumped the shark: X-Files, The Simpsons, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and one or two others. I beg to differ on MASH, but a site like this lives and dies on public opinion, and I’m only one vote.
And that’s the other cool thing about Jumping the Shark: public input. You can vote on these questions all night long and you’ll barely scratch the site’s surface.
A whole website devoted to the beginning of the end. I’m so impressed with this, I’m giving this post its own new category: Interniches, websites that fill remarkably narrow niches.
Any other candidate Interniches?
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