Foods That Will Win the War and How to Cook Them, from 1918 advises:
1. Buy it with thought
2. Cook it with care
3. Serve just enough
4. Save what will keep
5. Eat what would spoil
6. Home-grown is best

Don’t waste it!

If Weird Al‘s math is right, on Ted’s 1275" tv, Robert De Niro’s mole would be only about six feet wide.

Hey, look! A portable office, only 1.5 Tatami! From the people that brought you a slightly larger portable room.

Bobby Fischer, paranoid recluse and former world chess champion, has been granted Icelandic citizenship (presumed to be a show of gratitude for Fischer’s role in drawing international attention there in 1972 by defeating Boris Spassky in Reykjavík), leading to his release from Japanese detention.

I hadn’t ever seen the "Don’t" sign (symbol of universal hatred over a plain blue field) before we were in Iceland, and I finally decided it must mean "no parking," since I believed a plain blue field meant "parking okay." I had to take the BBC Roadsign Quiz to find out I’m wrong.

Joss has signed up to write and direct Wonder Woman!

My initial reaction to the headline " Last Star Wars to be ’emotional’" was "Oh, right, because that’s what he’s good at." But, y’know, I seem to remember American Graffiti being genuinely moving in parts. But reviewing his oeuvre on IMDb makes me wonder if maybe it’s just that I haven’t seen AG in a long time. Or maybe it’s that AG had actors in it.
Either way, it’s a sad day when George Lucas is aspiring to be James Cameron.

No Free Lunch is a doctor-to-doctor campaign to reduce the influence of drug company representatives on their work. As far as I know, we don’t have any medical personnel in our readership, but if anyone wants to get rid of drug company pens, we sure could use some extra pens where I work.

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, the next Yellowstone Supervolcano is 40,000 years overdue. Give or take. The last one left a crater within which Tokyo would fit, and the effects sound about the same as the dreaded nuclear winter.

Way back in 1899 (revised 1903), John Cotton Dana wrote in A Library Primer (now available online!):

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