Swans on Tea

How to revive dry Play-Doh
After months of tinkering, I have discovered the best and easiest way to restore dry Play-Doh to its perfect state (besides Hasbro’s former suggestion that you buy a new can).
Several decades too late to help me, which I assume is everybody’s first concern, but good to know nonetheless. Tinkering [...]

Annoy and upset in ten (expensive) moves
Sex
Once you’re having carnal relations with someone it’s a fair assumption that you already approve of each other to a high degree. Don’t let that fool you into believing there is no room left for upset. There is a little known companion volume to the Karma Sutra which lists [...]

Flickr: Eisenhower Interstate System in the style of H.C. Beck’s London Underground Diagram
At least this map isn’t quite as distorted as the DC metro map, but I see e.g. it has Schenectady closer to Syracuse than Albany, and the route from Albany to Boston as a straight line, as one should expect of a [...]

A better way to tie them?
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Also: Lacing variations

Amazing Paper Airplanes: ALCM-Straw Cruise Missile

Travel has become difficult. Last year, a bureaucratic snafu not only denied me a trip to a conference in Hawaii, but it happened late enough that it kept me from scheduling an alternate trip to DAMOP. I spent the last week with the flu, which forced me to cancel a long-weekend trip to [...]

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Where The Buffalo Roamed
As I hurtled down the highway, a pair of golden arches crept over the horizon, and the proverbial lightbulb smacked me in the forehead. To gauge the creep of cookie-cutter commercialism, there’s no better barometer than McDonald’s – ubiquitous fast food chain and inaugural megacorporate colonizer of small towns nationwide.
If you [...]

The baked bean index and other economic indicators
Many more in the included links.
This does not include* any mention of the vendor gift index; Tuesday’s Lab Snacks included mini Lorna Dunes. They were tasty. (He who opens the package gets first choice). And it was a partial order, so possibly more to come.
*UPDATE: [...]

Uncertain Principles: Using Analogies on the Internet Is Like Doing a Really Futile Thing
No matter how carefully you set up your analogy, somebody will come along and interpret it in the most stupidly literal way possible, find some tiny point where it fails to correspond perfectly with the actual topic of discussion, and decide [...]

Monty Python Reuniting for 1 Wild Night in New York
Best of all is the reunion itself, which brings together the five surviving Pythonites (Graham Chapman died in 1989) for the premiere of Almost the Truth. Following the Oct. 15 screening of the documentary at Ziegfeld Theatre in New York, Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry [...]

Flickr: Mythical Creatures
In Venn diagram format.