Given that it’s that holiday season where one has a built-in excuse to randomly bake all sorts of yummy goodies, I suggest the blog people to point their ‘tubes over to the Stamford Museum & Nature Center’s first annual Visions of Gingerbread: The Sweetest Architects holiday exhibition. Some impressive stuff, especially the gingerbread rollercoaster:
I don’t know how many of you are BSG fans, but I found this very amusing:
I tried to embed the video using the HTML code, but I couldn’t get it to work. Any suggestions?
[Update: I fixed the embed. -mbh]
Speaking of Glenn Beck, I point the blog’s attention to Dickipedia – if you’re not already aware of the site, it’s an entertaining, if mean-spirited, bit of time-wasting.
It’s not completely worthless, however, as there’s a good bit of history to be learned. Many of the Dickipedia luminaries are old white men, and as such have had many/several decades to sweep their misdeeds under the rug.
some highlights:
[Ronald Reagan] was nicknamed “The Great Communicator” for his uncanny and unique ability to communicate to the average person the need to kick single, black mothers off welfare.
and
Beginning in 1969, Rupert Murdoch began acquiring, then systemically destroying the journalistic integrity of, several large British newspapers, including “News of the World,” “The Sun,” “The Times,” and “The Sunday Times.” Along the way, he also managed to spark several violent strikes by British print unions, and collude with high government officials to illegally quell said strikes.
It’s not all old white men, the web site also takes on entertainers, sports stars, and even institutions… check out the Olympics entry.
He’s refusing to answer questions about whether he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. I assume he didn’t do it, but why won’t he talk about it if he’s innocent?
Go to http://gb1990.com for all the details.
Update: Glenn Beck apparently now controls the domain DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com. Why would you want to have a domain like that? Specifically, why would you have that domain and not be willing to talk about it? Is it because he’s not innocent? I think he needs to address the issue.
And cooking in my little apartment hasn’t been a huge priority, mainly because I’m spending 14 hours a day in my office. However, Kirsten and Sarah were here for the weekend and we discovered something very odd…
My stove has retarded knobs. Or at least the person who designed them was somehow wrong in the head. I would naively expect knobs to be labeled something like “1, 2, 3, 4, etc” (going up to 11 of course) or “low, medium, high”. Something with some logic.
The knobs on my stove go “low, first, second, third, high”.
I’m going to go home now and make some ramen. I’m thinking that I’ll do it in second.
In honor of 20 years of Simpsons (holy crap, really?), the November issue of Playboy is going to have Marge on the cover, posing with a bunny chair and little else:
No word on how much of Marge will be shown inside the issue, but “it’s very, very racy,” said editorial director James Jellinek, adding “she is a stunning example of the cartoon form.”
Evidently Hefner’s enterprise is worried that young people don’t like porn?
“We knew that this would really appeal to the 20-something crowd,” said Playboy spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey.
Apparently the Simpsons issue goes on sale in newstands next week, but subscribers to the magazine will find their copies “have a more traditional live model on the cover.”
