January 2010
10 posts
Gnop might be the most austere game you play all week, though not necessarily the simplest: Bit Battalion have (as you’ll follow from the title) turned Pong on its head by giving you control of the ball, rather than the paddle, and wrapped it in light poetic metaphor. The most surprising thing about it, though? That it took 28 years for someone to pull off such an obvious role reversal. Gnop...
Claypot Rice with Chinese Sausage View the complete recipe here »
Though I was determined to buy fish one morning, a display of hanging sausages distracted me on my way to the market. Strings of lop cheung flecked with fat dangled on a wooden dowel. Beneath the sausages, sections of smoked pork belly with skins still attached were piled in a large bin. Smelling the sweet, porky aroma of...
Sometimes the humane society and Peta don’t know whats best for animals.
From A Hamburger Today “A burger worth eating is worth eating plain.” [Flickr: blmurch] For the better part of my hamburger eating life (which is the better part of my life as a whole) I put ketchup on virtually every hamburger I ate. It was only when I started looking at the hamburger beyond my home in New York City that I realized that ketchup was far from ubiquitous on hamburgers,...
“In this fraternity…the world was divided into those that had it and those who did not. This quality, this it, was never named, however, nor was it talked about in any way. As to just what this ineffable quality was…well, it obviously involved bravery. But it was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life. The idea seemed to be that any fool could do that…No, the idea...
From A Hamburger Today “A burger worth eating is worth eating plain.” [Flickr: blmurch] For the better part of my hamburger eating life (which is the better part of my life as a whole) I put ketchup on virtually every hamburger I ate. It was only when I started looking at the hamburger beyond my home in New York City that I realized that ketchup was far from ubiquitous on hamburgers,...
From the same folks who brought us the excellent Letters of Note comes Letterheady, a collection of interesting letterheads. Includes letterhead from Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler, and my favorite: Robot Salesmen Ltd. Tags: design
Honey...?
wife: honey, why is this shirt so tight now?
me: um... I shrunk it... when I did laundry. (bam, two for one)
