Posts Tagged ‘great sites’

A complete history of the first time things happened

Oh, now I’m a happy boy. This is the sort of stuff you could lose years of your life to… The First Time News Was Fit To Print is a compilation of the first mentions in the New York Times of famous people, places, things and terms.Sound dull? You need to get out more…mental_floss magazine - Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix

The human condition, captured in vegetation

Figures carved from foodThank you, Bears and Buds. I wake up on a Saturday morning, wanting to put my head in the microwave after The Bastard Week From Hell. So I pick up my Mac to catch up on web-based comings and goings, and there’s this. Vegetables. Cut into the shapes of animals. This is what life’s about - accurate depictions of hamsters hewn from potatoes.