[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7TwqpWiY5s] Google hosted a talk with Conan O'Brien (and a surprise guest!).
70 facts you didn't know about Marvel.
11. The word "sex" was concealed in the illustrations of New X-Men issue 118 at least 18 times - one almost every page.24. Marvel once owned the rights to the word zombie.
26. The writer Tom Wolfe once appeared in the pages of the Incredible Hulk.
An unusual 100 meter long and 5 meter high waterfall wall made of (hopefully clean) toilets, sinks, and bidets was built for some ceramics fair in China. View more photos of the insanity here.
Ena Macana's China Collection features a line of jewelry and accessories using toys made in China.
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I can't seem to locate the origin of this popular photograph that went viral few months ago. Anyway, don't forget the first step: Cut a hole in the box.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b60OZhrTB6o] When Moye shared this promotional video of a shovel developed by the Chinese military, my immediate thoughts were 1) this sounds like the most boring YouTube video ever; 2) Moye is where unfunny happens; 3) it's past midnight and I've seen everything else on the Internet, so I might as well watch this dumb shovel video. It turned out to be the most amazing 8 minutes, 47 seconds of my life. As one YouTube commenter said, "better than ipad!!"
I'm filing this under "WANT."
Upload any mp3 and add more of what it's missing: More cowbells and Christopher Walken, obvi. Here's Build Me Up Buttercup with more cowbells and Walken.
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Someone added a ring to this tree in Williamsburg's McCarren Park. I guess NSFW can also mean not-safe-for-wood.
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This useful guide with illustrations of 150 different types of pasta would have been immensely helpful to me the first time I tried to make farfalle with gorgonzola, a recipe that Munibhen sent to me during my short-lived period as an aspiring chef, because when I got to the grocery store to buy the ingredients, I realized I had no idea what farfalle looked like.
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I'm absolutely drooling over Del Posto's new 100 layer lasagna.
Yes, that’s 100 layers: 50 practically transparent sheets of handmade pasta, alternating with 50 layers of sauce (Bolognese, besciamella, and marinara). Each 80-portion pan has to go into the oven by 1:30 P.M. every day. Otherwise, it doesn’t have enough time to cool and coalesce by dinner and completely collapses when you try to slice it. It takes three kitchen stations and many hands to put it together. Skewers hold it in place while it sets. You need a special spatuala to serve it.
This is why we're fat. And I'm okay with that so long as it involves 100 layers of lasagna.
Last Friday I spotted this bicycle in the Lower East Side. I thought it was quite knit.
You'll never be under-dressed for a uptown dinner party with these tie napkins.
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A If you don't already know, the Shake Shake burger is practically a religion for some New Yorkers. One blogger at Serious Eats reverse engineered the burger, including the all important special sauce.
I walked back into the restaurant, went straight up to the manager, and asked point blank: "Is the Shack Sauce a secret, or can you tell me what's in it?" A little laugh, and then, "It's mostly mayo, with some ketchup, mustard, a few spices, and pickles blended in."
New York Magazine recently sat at a table with Bill Murray during a dinner at Tribeca Film Festival and shared the following little known facts about this actor.
- He will commit to memory the name of everyone at the table, making introductions each time a new person sits down.
- He will make friends with the waiters and give them nicknames. “Handsome” will now be your server.
- He will intentionally mishear offhand comments you make about the food and repeat them endlessly. You say, “seafood,” he hears “zebra.” You call the roasted carrots “exciting”; he hears “Poseidon.” As in, “Zebra! I never get to eat zebra! Want some zebra?” or “Have some Poseidon. Some Poseidon. Some Poseidon.”
He's good at remember names because he's already met you a thousand times over. DUN DUM DUMMMM.
Read rest here.
A new streaming mixtape every Friday at Friday Mixtape. Great set it and forget it music. [Hat tip: @aderricks]
Lunch was delicious today.
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Tom Sachs' (previously) Chanel branded guillotine.