From Junk Food Blog:

Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick Chocolate Chip pretty much takes what my wife often eats at IHOP and puts it all on a hand-held form factor.

This packaging reminds me of defecation and eroticism at the same time.
Anyone else find it oddly compelling?

Last night Mr. Orange snuck into WIRED’s NextFest under an assumed name.
Full post will have to wait until tomorrow, but in the meantime we thought this incredibly awesome vision of the future (see below) was a near-perfect embodiment of how blown away he was by the robotic dolphin and the robot with the Einstein head:

UPDATE: That sad tome we saw approaching on the radar a few months ago is out, and the reviews are in. (Well, one, anyway.) The verdict? The author’s a smart dude, but the more he publicly obsesses about his bete noir, the closer he veers toward crazy-cat-lady territory.
Or, in simpler terms (via comparison to […]

Sorry for the lack of …stuff… this week, y’all. Why were we so vacant? Well, sometimes you stumble upon something that - much like the movie in “Infinite Jest” that’s so entertaining that people eschew working, eating, and eventually breathing in order to fill all their time watching and re-watching it - just makes activities […]

Looks like Mooney and another blogger are having some kind of bloggy tryst, Kottke-style:
Ask Kac publicly debates whether or not to spread it for “spongeworthy” Chris Mooney.
UPDATE:
Can you say “Seed Magazine’s Washington Correspondent is a Little Out of His Depth?”

Some scientist in Japan went out a few nights ago and got absolutely hammered. What else, besides karaoke, could possible ensue? That’s right, hilarity! Deadly, deadly hilarity:
Police have launched a frantic search for three bottles of potentially deadly poison lost after a Shimonoseki Mitsui Chemicals official who had been carrying them went […]

Our Kiwi compadre over at Beware of the Dogma tagged us with a Book Meme. Hence all the nonsense that follows.
More Book Memes
From people we respect:
PZ Myers of Pharyngula
JD Stemwedel of Adventures in Ethics in Science
From people we don’t respect:
Brittle Crazy Glass sez The Shadow of the Almighty is the most important book in her […]

Book that Changed My Life
Mable Hoffman’s Crockery CookeryLaugh all you want, you supperating herpes sores, but a man who can cook is a man who is never lacking the company of a fine woman. (And what fine woman doesn’t like a stew cooked for 10 hours straight, until the meat slides right through the gaps […]

Book that changed my life
“Zoobooks.” Without these in my childhood, I never would’ve realized both the vast pantheon of evolutionary diversity or my wide range of options for fulfilling my nascent bestial urges.
Book I’ve read more than once
“The Count of Monte Christo.” I find that at every new stage in life, the messages contained herein […]