That’s funny. Milk Crate Jerky Maker is what I call your mother.

MAKE: Blog: Milk crate jerky maker

Andrew definitely gets God+1 for pointing this blog out to me. Despite the fact that I do not read comic books.

Dave’s Long Box: Lame-ass villain #10 – Orca

Sixty Folk-tales from Slavonic Sources Index

This collection of Slavic folktales at first glance appears to have all of the usual suspects of European Märchen. Evil stepmothers: check; plucky youths overcome impossible odds to marry kings’ daughter: check; dimwitted peasants given magical gifts: check.

I felt this might be relevant to someone’s interests.

From one of the knitting blogs I occasionally read, comes a travel story that sounds like something from Andrew:

As usual most abroad do not think I am American until I open my mouth. Lufthansa crews invariably addressed me in German, and in Istanbul was generally assumed I am Italian or Spanish. Ship’s crew thinks I am Jewish, chefs keep advising me which dishes contain pork.

The Panopticon: Notes from Istanbul

The RUR reference is for Andrew, although I doubt he’s checking in regularly from Europe.

Robots turn 85 years old – Engadget

Bungie ponders a Marathon revival – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Zucchini cakes are awesome – Slashfood

Por Nick and Tall, inspired by your handful of latke making sessions. I’m not complaining about the potatoes, but you could expand your repertoire to all sorts of shredded, egged, fried things. For some strange reason I hate the way eggs smell when they’re cooking. I recently learned how to temper eggs (or rather, I did it for the first time recently—its not as difficult as the mac and cheese blog push meme would have you believe). I’m not entirely sure how that’s related.

Boing Boing: Sex in an MRI tube

IMDB reports that Michael Plain is going to “ambassador” (I didn’t know that was a verb) “a plan to revive interest” in geography.

The Movie Timeline

I felt this was relevant to Andrew’s interests. [via. boingboing for non stick purposes.]