Earlier, someone in the office was playing some jazz that sounded uncannily like the opening music in Manos: The Hands of Fate. That is all.

Do you like Penn & Teller? Do you like the book World War Z? Perhaps you will enjoy this short film.

Ok, I clicked on the link to find a goofy web site for a project, but a spray dispenser for pancake batter is actually a really good idea: because you can make a single pancake just for yourself every morning for weeks!

Airborne, the anti cold preparation, has not admitted that it can’t actually prevent or treat colds, but is now refunding money! That sure took a while! So one only has to live through 9 years of coworkers enthusing about a cold nostrum with no possible mechanism to do what it says it does. Unfortunately, I think homeopathy is still protected from legal action for ineffectiveness by grandfather clause.

The Chicago Tribune has an interview with Tim Gunn about the just-completed Project Runway season, in which Tim dishes way more than I would have expected.