Category — Cool Stuff

Taste-tests of crazy Asian drinks: “Xeni Jardin:
Comrade Todd Lappin says, ‘A friend just sent me this link to a site that offers hilarious taste tests of unusual Asian canned drinks. Take, for example, this review of basil seed drink (which, BTW, I happen to enjoy, despite the fact that it is indeed sort of like drinking sweetened tadpole larvae).’

‘Basil Seed Drink with Honey may just be the epitome of non-thirst-quenching drinks. Mmmm… very sweet, with nary a bit o’ liquid. Instead, the tongue is met with an onslaught of slick gelatin capsules that, through a nefarious mixture of slipperiness, honey, and yes, sheer numbers, forcefully override the throat’s core instinct not to swallow tadpoles, or chilled vomit. And yet, I can’t say it wasn’t fun. Yes, yes I can.’

‘Though I don’t always agree with their evaluations,’ Todd says, ‘I am personally grateful to the intrepid souls who compiled this resource, if only for their candid review of Grass Jelly Drink, which even I have not yet mustered the courage to sample.’
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for some odd reason…. i like to read things like this and the bad candy site….

Sandbag shelter wins architecture prize: “Mark Frauenfelder:

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cooool

You are a Maine Coon! You are larger than life, a
gentle giant. You are independent, but very
affectionate with your friends and family.

Max – from Dark Angel

Who’s Your Inner Bitch?
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paper+glue = fun

Hellacious Riders: “3. We are the only site on the internet to offer for free 1 terabyte email accounts that includes 500 megabyte attachments with POP3. Your email account can store 40 million emails, games, videos, MP3s or pictures on our solar powered systems.”

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and people said it would not happen.

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caution… may cause laughter.

Hundreds of free 1930s Sherlock Holmes radio drama MP3s: “Cory Doctorow:
The Sherlock Holmes Society of London has hundreds of free MP3s of Sherlock Holmes radio plays from the 1930s — amazing!

Link

(via Ben Hammersley)”

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coooolllll

The New York Times > Science > With Great Beer, It’s All in the Rocks (and That Doesn’t Mean Ice): “When commercial beer making started in the 19th century in Europe, brewmasters came across a problem similar to those experienced by the Andean brewers, that the beer spoiled easily. Yet there were places that were exceptions. Burton-on-Trent in England was one, a small town that had more than 30 breweries, producing a style of beer called pale ale or English bitter.”

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nice little article on beer and geology

Ten Things: “Ten Things Women Should Know About Men”

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