They Might Be Giants have a new project out, on CD and DVD, called Here Come the ABCs. Since some recent Flash ads caused me to disable Flash again, I haven’t looked at the site.

Tasty looking Southern Cooking weblog (recently linked on BoingBoing, so traffic may be high) with great recipies and tips. Unfortunately, it also looks like it’s been found by spambots posting advertising. Perhaps some kind soul will help Mary Lou out.

A very cool project at an Australian retirement home– knitting an entire 1950s sitting room! Though those teacups look crocheted to me. Seems like another good use for those bright yet scratchy acrylics.

For no real reason that I can figure, I really enjoyed these titles:
Monterey Gourmet Foods Issues a Voluntary Recall of Mislabeled CIBO Naturals “Portabella Mushroom Ravioli” Due to Undeclared Lobster Meat, a press release from the FDA and

Please Don’t Let my Child’s Behavior Disturb You, a wallet card available from an autism support group.

As noted previously, these kids today are not very bright. In further developments in that field of study, USA Today (that bastion of journalistic excellence) cites a study that found more than a third of high school students think newspapers should get government approval before publishing stories (though the wording I see doesn’t say they believe such approval should be mandatory). On the bright side, more than half believed such approval should not be sought.

Take this piece about the Pope’s flu, for example. It makes me wonder at least a couple things not addressed: Is the Vatican flu as bad as the Kremlin flu (or was that the Kremlin cold, and that’s why the Vatican emphasized that this is the flu and not a cold)? Why wouldn’t an 84-year-old guy get a flu shot (and related questions about whether flu shots work, or if JP2 is a closet Christian Scientist)? What up with that?
Update: now he’s been hospitalized. Not to get too far ahead of myself, but I wonder if they’ll go with the smoke grenades like last time, or if there will be some new white smoke/black smoke technology developed in the last 25 years.

Based solely on the name, I want to hate Lifehacker, but, dammit, it might be fairly cool. I’ll leave the jury out for now.

But since I’m already coughing my lungs out a couple times a day, it’s hard to be all that sanguine about human-to-human avian flu transmission.
When I’m not actually coughing my lungs out, I feel okay, but those couple times a day are not pretty.

Good news: Nicky Brendon has a movie in production. Bad news: It’s starring Adrienne Barbeau. Where’s Love Boat when you need it?

Just another "Good Baptist couple gets porno labelled as The Pajama Game" story? Maybe. My favorite part, though, is "’My wife and I were very shocked but we watched it until the end because we couldn’t believe what we were seeing.’" So, what, they were expecting maybe the topless Italian woman was the accompanying short? Or maybe they couldn’t be sure exactly how shocked they were? After all, "’The film became progressively more graphic,’" so I guess they really did have to watch to the end to find their true level of shockedness.
I guess this demonstrates that there really are some people out there who can’t figure out how to turn off the tv when it presents them with something they (feel obligated to claim they) don’t want to watch. Pathetic, really.