Droolworthy

Uncle Phaedrus, Finder of Lost Recipes, can tell you how to make Fudge, fruitcake, pickled eggs, diabetic, food allergy and other special diet recipes, Chinese Walnut Chicken, Moustakouloura, Kashk Bademjan, Tropkapfen, Zweiback, Coquilles St. Jacques Crepes, Croatian Hrstula, Strawberries Romanoff... the list goes on and on, and we haven't had dinner yet. Warning to ye of delicate aesthetic sensibilities: get past the loud, clumsy site design, there's plenty inside that's well worth the trip. [Via Rebecca Blood]

Lad lit

At McSweeney's, Wendy Molyneux tells you how Maxim's would do the classics. A sampler:

A Tale of Two Cities
Two identical dudes fall for the same chick. The chick is none the wiser that there are two dudes, so they can both get the chick and get a little action on the side. Was it the worst of times? No way, it was the best of times, dog.

Holy comic book, Batman

Rohit Gupta of Apollo Bunder Comics writes in to tell us that Mid-Day has finally got his SOS (Special Officer Savant) strip online. This is the second story in the series, The Towers of Silence. We'll let you know if he manages to get the first story up as well.
And more in Indian comics: thanks to Putu, we can point you to the Pavitr Prabhakar Preview. That's the desi Spiderman, for those of you who are out of the loop.

One more for our wish list

Check out the Oakley Thump. And don't be deterred by that horrible name. It's an MP3 player built into the arms of a cool pair of shades. Transfer your music by USB connection, and you're good to go. The earpieces flip up so you can, say, take a phone call, or drive without wrapping yourself around utility poles. It even lets you flip the dark lenses up, so you can keep listening indoors.

The Singh and i

Amardeep Singh would like to know if you have a better caption for this picture of our PM about to shake W's hand.

Time flies when you're having fun

While we go find a can of tuna to send to Putu the cat as a token of our fawning gratitude for pointing out this link, you go feast you eyes on Rolling Stone's 50th Anniversary of Rock picture feature. Pause for a second, though to consider this. Fifty years? Already?

Coupla shots, anyone?

The General who invented the AK-47, which is believed to have caused more deaths than the Hiroshima atom bomb explosion, has lent his name to a new vodka. Not surprisingly, the world's sub-editors are having a ball churning out witty headlines. Erm, yes. We know.

You keep your nouse outa my business

Here's the latest in Perceptual Vision Technology (in English, "the computer 'looks' at you and figures out what you want it to do"), the Nouse.

Do you have US$ 1900 that you want to give us?

You must see Stuart Goldenberg's cartoon take on the iMac G5. It comes with the NYT's rather tardy look at the lust-provoking machine.

Class, discuss:

Drop by Seth Godin's post on who you know as opposed to what you do. Here's a quote:

In a world where things are viral, you're more likely to succeed with passive networking (strangers recommending you) than the old school active kind. In other words, make great stuff, do your homework, build your audience and when you've got something worth talking about, people will talk about it.

So you know who you are in this blog's plans for world domination, right?
And while you're there, see the preceding post on Lies to protect the status quo

1. Canadian pharmaceuticals are dangerous
2. Piracy is killing the ongoing creation of music and movies (notice I didn't say anything about the movie and music businesses)
3. Dental work lasts forever
4. A bottle of Evian is dangerous to airline security and must be surrendered
5. The Microsoft monopoly pays dividends to all users (like IE, for example)
6. You can’t start a business without venture money or a big bank loan
7. Working hard for your boss and following instructions is the best way to get ahead
8. We need to spend taxpayer money on support for traditional factory farming
9. It’s impossible to make a fuel efficient automobile Americans will accept
10. Who you know is more important than what you do

We'd probably change that first one to "Drugs made by anyone other than US-based pharma giants are dangerous." And, based on what we hear, add another "Outsourcing will kill American industry." Got any more suggestions?