The original TV chef, swiller of wine, world traveller and entertainer, Keith Floyd, has died. The Watson family used to watch Floyd On Fish/Food/France/Britain/Oz/Spain etc. every week. A bottle of the good stuff in remembrance.

Learning maths through grocery store checkout lines. 48 seconds extra per person/transaction and only 2.8 seconds extra per item.

If you liked the McLaren F1 you will like the McLaren MP4-12c.

From the Lindenbergh ransom note to Darwin’s early thoughts on natural selection, Letters of Note is a fabulous blog.

Nice to see the Glenilen farm website is almost as nice as their cheese-cake.

Philadelphia libraries are closing due to lack of state funding.

TypePad just announced support for real time feeds via PubSubHubbub. It is so simple there is little reason not to enable it on feeds you control.

I don’t care how fast modern Bugatti’s go, they look overwrought. Four doors of super-fast gauche.

Little Red Riding Hood is a lot older than we thought. Possibly more than 2,600 years old and originating in Iran with African precursors.

“This is a spectacular object, this scoreboard. It cost, by itself, twice as much to build as the previous Cowboys Stadium… …Its display capacity is equal to 4,920 52-inch flat panel televisions, and it is illuminated by 30 million pulsing light bulbs… …But the devil, as they say, is in the details. As Trapasso’s otherwise ordinary kick neared its apex, the ball ricocheted off the bottom of the screen and dropped to the turf like a duck shot from the sky…. …Someone hung the damn scoreboard too low.”