Archive for July, 2006



Hodgman on Exotic Food

A lovely ode to New York’s current idée fixe: exotic foods like ‘corn smut’ and chicken feet. By my hero and future lover, John Hodgman.
[New York Mag]

TechCrunch Dating Site Analysis

Nerdy comparision of a dozen or so online dating websites, complete with handy features chart. [TechCrunch]

Sam Adams’ Homebrew Contest

Sam Adams’ “Long Shot” Homebrew Contest. Win and they’ll distribute your beer. [SamuelAdams]

Uber Tap

The Uber Tab, a three-way keg tap with foot pump. [UberTap]

Badass RV.

Ignore all the too-hip Valley shlubs and exxed-out party trash in search of a novel bit of turf on which to bruise their knees—Burning Man is dress rehearsal for the apocalypse. When the god-aliens wake up from their cat nap and decide to see what happens when they turn the ant farm upside down, some [...]

Founded in 1912 in Memphis, Dyer’s Hamburgers has one dubious claim to fame: They’ve been using the same vat of grease for ninety-four years. See, Dyer’s doesn’t cook their hamburgers on a grill, instead dropping the hand-formed patties into the roiling runoff of the thousands of burgers that have gone before.
When Dyer’s opened up a [...]

Manliness Book

The most exotic thing we’ve eaten in the last few weeks was a tiny crab at a sushi restaurant, plucked from a leaded glass bowl we thought was for decoration, hit with some sort of torch or flash steamer (we missed that part), and placed before us whole, eyes, legs, claws, and all. It was [...]

Get it? Because it’s eggs? Yeah, so it only took us about five seconds to come with that clunker of a headline, but we don’t get paid tens of thousands of dollars to write advertising copy like the chuckleheads who’ve scripted these punchlines to be inscribed via laser onto your hard-earned eggs. In case you [...]

Worst RPG PnP Deaths

New Porsche Targa

The new Porsche 911 Targa 4 is looking lovely. [Flash Site]




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» Seems Jack Daniels is kicking some butt, profits are up and even their unsavory looking drinks are selling.  # 2

» The Royal Bacon Society is a fancy, fun blog all about you the Dethroner reader’s favorite food: Bacon. # 1

» Evidently a fan of Ebert’s is trying to help Mars breed the supreme race of M&Ms.

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them breaks and splinters. That is the “loser,” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.
M&Ms prove Darwin was right Thanks Ryan  # 0

» Baconpig. Zenith of mankind’s porcine proclivity or just gross? You be the judge. Don’t miss the Pig Butchering Guide in T-shirt form. # 0

» A man wants to know if jerking off into his guppy tank will cause his fish any harm. Just don’t forget to cuddle, I say. [StraightDope.com# 1

» An Atlanta florist is selling the “Broquet,” baskets of amply masculine cactus and carnivorous plants that can be given from one man to another. [BananaFlorist.com via Seth Godin# 0

» What may be my next car, the Mitsubishi Evolution X, goes on sale today in Japan. Next year for North America. [Crave.CNET.com# 0

» I haven’t really dug into it much, but JoS. A. Bank is having what appears to be a pretty major sale, with up to 50% off on Fall items and 70% off on clearance items. [JosBank.com# 2

» Cities collapse due to unsustainable growth? Naw it’ll never happen. We have science. [unsw.edu.au, creationmuseum.org] # 0

» Headline of the Day: “Men want hot women, study confirms” [CNN# 2



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