Best Place to Get Crabs

Not that kind, dirty minds. This is the best little seafood place on the East coast, possibly the world.

Blood from a Petri Dish

This is hot. Transfusions are risky propositions, and synthetic blood just isn't working for anyone. So maybe stem cells can grow us enough blood to transfuse a pint of lab-produced, clean, safe blood when we need it. Now we can all bleed a little easier.

Ice Snobbery? wtf?

For the record: If we invite you over for a drink and you bring your own ice, you'll have to wait till it melts if you want to drink anything.

What is YOUR favorite flavor?

Of ice cream?

Shout out to Chez Nous

One of our favorite things about traveling is finding great food. This weekend, a little place in the Berkshires blew our socks off: Chez Nous Bistro in Lee, MA. Aside from the over-use of what we imagine were locally grow organic red potatoes, this was some of the best food we've ever eaten. And the white sangria to wash it down was perfect for a summer evening on the porch.

Obama Calls a Spade a Spade

Play-by-play of Obama's Berea, OH, townhall meeting, is at Daily Kos, including my favorite line of the campaign so far:

I don't know how they could be making fun of something that experts agree is a good idea. I mean it's like these guys take pride in ignorance! It's like they like being ignorant.

Update: "I'm John McCain, and I approve my ignorance."

Let's Say I Don't Have Enough Money to Buy Something. Should I Buy It Anyway?

IOUSA: The Movie.

Tag/Label Cloud

from phydeaux3.

Photoblog Update

Boston.com's Big Picture (not to be confused with the financial blog of the same name) has some spectacular photos, not just the previously mentioned Large Hadron Collider. See also Notions' Oceans new sidebar.

Large Hadron Collider Set To Create a Black Hole

Right here on Earth. Well, not right here, but in Europe. The USA doesn't do bleeding-edge science like this anymore. The machinery looks friggin' awesome, too.

Q: New Cuil the Next Google?

A: No.

We Cuiled Notions' Oceans and got diddly.

Cool Online Games

Pandemic lets you build a virus that will destroy the world. More at CrazyMonkeyGames.com.

It's gonna take more than that

NBC is primping Jimmy Fallon to replace Conan O'Brien by giving him a series of webisodes to try out his chops. Memo to NBC: It will take more than a webiseries to make Jimmy Fallon funny.

Coupon codes for online shopping

From the BugMeNot people: RetailMeNot.com.

Drop and give me a hundred!

Gonna try this: one hundred push ups. via.

Most Wanted Paintings

The Dia Center for Art did surveys of people in 18 countries, and based on their tastes, compiled universally likable and universally unlikable paintings for each country. Both extremes look pretty bland.

I don't know if it's art, but I like it

Hot stuff from Meera Thompson, BU alumna:


*Actually, we do know. We just love the way Jack Nicholson delivered the line in Batman.

BU Successfully Recruits World's Most Pre-Eminent Profiteer to Faculty

From the BU Daily Free Press: Lawyer who defended Sudan investments to take teaching job