Quote of the day: "Children who are developing on a typical development track actually tell very unfunny jokes, so we have provided that facility for non-speaking children as well." That from Dr Annalu Waller, a researcher on the System to Augment Non-speakers’ Dialogue Using Puns (Standup), as reported by the BBC.

A walking tour of Oxford featuring scientific landmarks!

I have only browsed as far as the soups, but the recipes in the 1902 cookbook With a Saucepan Over the Sea sound really good. Now I’m hungry!

This has been passed around at work, but I’m a little leery of cooking methods that might leach complex molecules into my food. I wondered if oven bags might be more appropriate to the job, but Alcoa has anticipated me, and gives a firm no.

And while doing this research, I ran across tasty Cajun side dishes in boil in bag format.

UPDATE! Seal-a-Meal bags! Really!

Make pictures all pixellated so you can knit them up.

You should Make some stuff. Also, you should Craft.

Afrigadget, is a site with neat technology appropriate to Africa.

Street Use, a blog on how people really use things, or squodge them together with other things to make them better.

Seems a little meta, but you can rent a place that someone else is renting. OK, it’s just short-term sublet type deal, of neat vacationy places.

Spamusement is comics inspired by actual spam subject lines. It is, as advertised, actually amusing!