For no known reason, everything interesting this week revolves around food: Cupcake cars grace the cover of this year’s Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog – and it comes with a matching hat! Gummi bear art – you can see the appeal… Laser engraving food – the engraving makes perfect sense, the choice of Rick Astley does [...]

So the idea is this – you insert your old and unwanted gadget, a camera scans it and then offers you money, gift cards, or if it’s totally worthless a tree gets planted. From the sounds of the U.S.News article they think this is going to be last year’s cell phone.  I can hardly wait [...]

It’s surprisingly close to the AMC version – although they stuck to advertising and left out the sexual escapades. I particularly liked the use of the word ‘sycophants’ at the end, toddlers could stand to use that word more often…

For unclear reasons, it’s become hip this year in garden design circles to plant a mini decorative farm in front of million dollar houses in exclusive neighborhoods, a giant pumpkin, some sunflowers, maybe a gourd. Whatever the reason, there’s really only one thing to do with those giant pumpkins and it’s best to do it [...]

Blue walls mean more money and successful relationships (hmmm) Online mouse-generated fractals – wheee! via Neatorama Turtles can apparently be Anglophiles too… New strict twittering rules for athletes – can’t wait to see what the fines look like Why do the British like to study statistics of names? No answer but here’s the latest study [...]

The prime holiday season is upon us and the less common holidays are in abundance: October 3rd- Techies Day – hug a geek! October 7th – Bald and Free Day (best do it now before it gets too cold) October 9th – Leif Erikson Day, eat lutefisk if you dare October 18th – National Chocolate [...]