It’s hyper-infectious, ubiquitous, and we don’t know what it does. Maybe we could use it as a gene delivery service. Bonus phrase: Nanette van Loon.

Apparently a French 75 is made with gin, while a French 125 is made with brandy. Both involve champagne, ice, sugar and lemon. Your alcohol research fact for the day.

Do you want to write a book? Sure, we all do! Here are a few suggestions for topics that are currently not covered well in the world of books that are actually in print (updated as I think of stuff):

Boat and RV upholstery projects

Good tattoo ideas, including the meaning of mysterious symbols and characters

Phrasebooks and foreign language dictionaries aimed at eating in restaurants (see Chowhound’s translation card, we need more of this!)

Baby names in Vietnamese: specifically, American names with their meanings explained in Vietnamese.

Heeey, Nazis hate American libraries!

Northwestern U. has a lovely archive of US WWII posters. My other favorite source for such lovelies is the National Archives collection Powers of Persuasion.

A wonderful archive of historic home-ec books! *Swoon*

Things that it would be nice to have growing in my garden, if I had a garden:

mint

rosemary

basil

thyme

strawberries

lavender

coriander

flowers

I’ve often heard of the top ten stolen cars, but here’s the whole list. I don’t think that it’s actually the best way to justify your purchase of a Boxster: your spouse may encourage you to buy a Eurovan instead.

Yahoo has a listing of their news photos by most emailed, most viewed, and a best rated system. Memepool is highlighting a guy who’s trying to make a comic strip out of every day’s top 3, but he seems to be having a tough time of it. I think that the top emailed pictures are another way to look at what people are interested in, like blogdex. Warning: you may or may not want to peek into people’s souls.

An excellent review of a comic book– that is, the review is really neat, the comic was apparently stupid.