Archive for Common Food

413 Red Lobster Biscuits

So the urban legend traveling around the web right now about a man who lapsed into a coma after eating 413 Red Lobster biscuits is just that, an urban legend. Whenever I hear about Red Lobster’s biscuits I can’t help but think of the Boondocks episode. Skip to about 50 seconds in.

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I got deja vu making this post

Astute web-based readers of this site we’ll notice we’re using tags now on some posts. This is very exciting, no? No.

Super Soakers
Squirrel fishing
The Exotic Birds of Brussels
Name Three Germans
Portraits of Grandmas and Their Cuisine From Around the World
Luke Perry’s garlic-fried steak
Eventually you will be dead but today you are not
10 Creepy Video Game Urban Legends
What’s Dylan Grillin’?
Boards of Canada / Noam Chomsky
DJ Lobsterdust – Queen vs. Satan ft. pastor Gary G. “It’s fun to smoke…”
Top Ten Classical-Music Samples in Hip-Hop
“Yeah, no.”
The $20 Theory of the Universe
Cow Tools: Revisiting a Comic Masterpiece
Round Barns and Covered Bridges
Shed of the year 2013 finalists

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Stuff My Friends Share Online

Dan’s stealing my thunder with his thrice-daily links.

Previously unreleased version of Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer”
Doodle Music by Vi Hart
How and When Metals Fail
Window Socket
NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it’ll start with pizza
CDC Current Outbreak List
The tragedy of the “healthy eater”
Coffitivity: Bring the coffeeshop to you
Evaluate synthesized speech
If Language Weren’t A Commons
Crowdsourcing verbs’ semantics
Building an open-source map of the world’s languages
The Jetting Penguin

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Civilization – What is it?

Was Marina Chapman really brought up by monkeys?
College campuses provide luxuries
Damanhur
Biker-druids, Stonehenge and the Battle of the Beanfield
National Geographic Trove
Modern art has partially been a CIA plot
Cortex – L’Enfant Samba
Permanent Vacation dance scene
bedroom artist(?) Oscar Scheller phones in album cover
the “extra fancy” knob
pocket Etch-A-Sketch hack
Microfiction
F bomb paperweight
Learn To Say F**k You To The World (animated short)
Good Girl Art
Unseen photographs of a legend that never was: Vivien Maier
Patricia Piccinini sculptures
Out of sight out of mind from ACiD productions
Steak, blood, bloody steak, steaky blood
Revisiting the Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald’s Burger That Just Won’t Rot

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Pants, pasts, PETA, PointCast

What a crazy week. Here are some links about fun things and maybe some not-so-fun-weird things. Keep thinking.

Classy Readings of Terrible Fan Fiction: in the kongs banana hored
Philadelphia MOVE Bombing Still Haunts Survivors
Anti-drug PSAs
What we learned from the movie Hackers
Yak Bak and Talkboy
PointCast: The Rise and Fall of an Internet Star
National Geographic airs video of first commercial cellular phone call
Gratuitous user interfaces
Pictures of Hipsters taking Pictures of Food
Mad money in the garlic black market
Bond: Explosive (from Classified [US Version] )
PETA Kills
A guinea pig’s inner ear can power a radio transmitter.
The Afronauts
Soweto & Sowebo comparison photoset
Magritte on Words and Images
Erik Johansson
Her Secret Past
The rapper who inspired James Franco’s “Spring Breakers” character
A Three Year Prison Term for Saggy Pants?
Hi-Vis Fashion
Reporting things on Facebook: is it worth it?
This image should not be seen by the whole world

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If you’ve got a spare washing machine

One of these days, I’ll be able to file one of these posts that uses all the categories that you see under “Sorted Son”.

Guess my word!
Statistically improbable phrases
Heaven Will Protect The Working Girl
Please Don’t Quit Your Day Job
“I would be happier if I rode my bike more.”
Reverend Alicia
Monkey Versus Robot
Autechre & The Washing Machine
Street food, literally
Underberg
Pantone Pairings
Color studies
Long Exposure of Francesca Woodman (NSFW)
15 nations under a groove
House-specific real estate songs
Pizza dance ad story
“Give me a dollar, or I’ll spit on you!”

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