Photo: Flickr user lifeontheedge

Saturday, March 18, 2006

The best and worst U.S. presidents. (Though that survey is a couple years old...)

Conveyor belt sushi is a sushi restaurant where the plates with the sushi are placed on a rotating conveyor belt that winds through the restaurant and moves past every table and counter seat.

Friday, March 17, 2006

The Luther Burger is a bacon cheeseburger which employs a glazed donut (such as a Krispy Kreme) in place of a bun.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there ... "

-- Weegee's caption for a completely black photograph in 'Naked City'.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Chandigarh is regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in India.

Friday, March 10, 2006

I voted against the proposed redesign of the main page. Clutter is what drives people to Gollum.

Sparse rumors: Google/Wikipedia partnership?

The story of a glowing rod and its travels (and how it killed 1980s Brazillians who didn't know better). (Category:Radioactive waste)

Unwiki displays recently deleted wikipedia articles.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

A protologism is a word that is created and used in the hope that it will become widely used and an accepted part of the language. (Check out the wiktionary list.)

Grok. Spime. Goomba. Björk.

Saturday, March 04, 2006

An alternate reality game deliberately blurs the line between the in-game and out-of-game experiences, often being used as a marketing tool for a product or service.

Friday, March 03, 2006

Gadsby is a novel by Ernest Vincent Wright, written around 1939. It is famous for not containing the letter 'e'.

List of problems solved by MacGyver