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Alton Brown on Kitchen Gadgets

Gizmodo has a neat article with Alton Brown where he gives you the skinny on several kitchen gadgets. As anyone who’s watched Good Eats knows, Brown is no fan of  “unitaskers”, kitchen gadgets that can only do a single task. Here’s Alton’s take on the garlic press, for example:

There is absolutely no reason for a garlic press to exist. It is utterly completely magnificently useless.

Check out the rest of the article for some… good reads?

via Alton Brown: Kitchen Gadget Judgment Calls – Yea or Nay?.

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God, I’m old!

“I used to be with it, then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with, isn’t it and what’s it seems weird and scary.”

– Grandpa Simpson

So I was skimming over an article in the Daily Mail about Pixie Lott, Britain’s latest pop tart and the heir apparent to the “Brit Soul” crown once Amy Winehouse dies (tick tock, tick tock!), But then I came across this line in the story:

“I was inspired by Christina Aguilera, who started out really young.”

Great. So now we’re two generations away from “my music”? Ya know, it made me feel a bit old, but mostly proud, to hear people like Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani, and Christina Aguilera say that they were influenced by Madonna. But now those singers have influenced another round of newer singers? So it’s now Madonna > Christina Aguilera > Pixie Lott?

Intellectually, I knew this was going to happen… but it doesn’t make me feel any better about it. I at least wish my friend Richard were here… that way I wouldn’t feel alone:

Statler and Waldorf

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Randomness

– A hilarious Twitter feed from a 28 year-old guy who lives with his 73 year-old father: ShitMyDadSays

– MSNBC commentator Helen A.S. Popkin wonders what’s up with Flickr.

– British customers of Lloyd’s TSB are being charged up to £200/month in overdraft fees… unless they’re Muslim, then it’s only £15.

– America is now exporting hate: Greyhound bus service is coming to the UK.

– For four years, there was a US state called Franklin. Made up of several counties in western North Carolina, it eventually became part of Tennessee.

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A molecule, photographed

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, pictured for the first time ever, the “detailed chemical structure of a single molecule”:

pentacene_anatomy

Apparently, some IBM researchers in Zurich used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to create the image shown above. Their version is like a tuning fork: the fork is vibrated, and one of the tines is placed near a molecule. The amount of vibration recorded on the other tine is then recorded, and by carefully repeating the process, an image of the molecule is formed. While carbon nanotubes have been photographed before, this is the first time that the actual chemical bonds have been photographed.

Learn more here.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30

  • Lisa loves fabric softener! #
  • It's about time my illegal download of "Mad Men" came around! Thanks for nothin', Internet! #
  • "She broke my heart in the trailer park…" #
  • And the people of Chappaquiddick are now safe… #
  • "haha… kitty wins!" #
  • Remember folks: Ted Kennedy KILLED a woman in 1969. #
  • "The last person as wrong as you are was Neville Chamberlain!" #

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More fun with Bawlmer

Saw this on a the Bawlmer Sun’s “Ravens Insider” page via Twitter:

Early in training camp, three-time Pro Bowl linebacker/defensive end Terrell Suggs goaded the reigning champion Pittsburgh Steelers by wearing a black t-shirt that read, “You Bet Your Sweet Ass I Hate the Steelers” on the back.

Well, cornerback Frank Walker showed off his own Steelers-themed apparel this morning and the sentiment was similar in tone.

Walker wore a black t-shirt that had “Hey Pittsburgh” in big yellow letters and a Raven extending a purple middle finger.

What’s funny about it are the comments from Ravens fans:

– “Hey Frank, don’t worry about the Steelers until you stop getting burned off the line. You suck.”

– “hopefully frank walker will be wearing his t shirt and watching from home in November, rather than being on the field making ben rothelsburger look good.”

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