Archive for July, 2006
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]
Nerdy comparision of a dozen or so online dating websites, complete with handy features chart. [TechCrunch]
Sam Adams’ “Long Shot” Homebrew Contest. Win and they’ll distribute your beer. [SamuelAdams]
The Uber Tab, a three-way keg tap with foot pump. [UberTap]
Death Ray 3000: Solar-Powered Hot Dog Cooking
1 Comment Published by Joel July 18th, 2006 in DIY, Meat. Share ThisIgnore 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 [...]
Dethroner Destinations: Dyer’s Hamburgers, Home of the 94-Year-Old Grease
2 Comments Published by Joel July 18th, 2006 in Destinations, Food, Meat. Share ThisFounded 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 [...]
Exotic Meat Round Up: Yeeha… Oh God, It Saw Me
7 Comments Published by Joel July 18th, 2006 in Food, Meat. Share ThisThe 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 [...]
CBS Ads on Eggs: Cracking You Up
1 Comment Published by Joel July 18th, 2006 in Food, Meat. Share ThisGet 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 [...]
The new Porsche 911 Targa 4 is looking lovely. [Flash Site]
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