OOOOOOOwwwwwww, I'll quit whining about my toe. 

Cool fishtank 

Ice from water on Mars. 

More Wine Please

For the first time since the Gallup Poll began keeping track in 1992, more Americans say their alcoholic beverage of choice is wine, not beer.

a busted toe, the series, part 4

not as swollen, but still pretty 

My true worth

"Pappa, jag älskar dig mer än min filt."

translation: "Pappa, I love you more than my blanket."

apropos toes

Tyre recycler Paul Beech, 34, won his third title by scooping the World Toe Wrestling Championship at the Bentley Brook Inn, Ashbourne, Derbys.

Beauty and the beast at the beach 

a busted toe, the series, part 3

this afternoon 

a busted toe, the series, part 2

last night 

a busted toe, the series, part 1

yesterday afternoon 

Click Here to see what she looked like after. 

Thousand Year Old Eggs

So you take some perfectly good duck eggs, cover in a mixture of ash, lime and water or tea, then after you bury them in the ground for about 3 months you have century eggs, or thousand year old eggs ready to eat. Lulu brought some in the other day. They look horrendous and don't smell very good, but it tastes very much like a hardboiled egg, with a curious aftertaste.

Weird-Food.com has more things you might want to try eating. 

real sms alert sent to DC govt workers

From: DC Text Alert [mailto:alert565@alert.ema.dc.gov]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:08 AM
To: DC Text Alert Users
Subject: Message from Alert DC


Due to the events that have occurred in London, the national threat level has not changed.

Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode announces a 2005/2006 world tour.

Nickes vin tips : Nic's wine tips

In an ongoing effort to minimize the beer belly I'm drinking more wine. I'm by no means an expert, my motto: "if it tastes good, drink it."

My recent favorites are: for whites Giesen Sauvignon Blanc

for reds Clos Robert Cabernet Sauvignon 2002 (the link goes to a review of the 2000)

Am also very skeptical about this tool, but apparently it works as advertised.

Darth Tater 

Big Bug 

Make Music

With this cool flash app

Hannah and the flag in Nat's glasses 

Sparklers for all 

Cool program called Autostitch to create panoramic shots. 

Funny google

Go to Google.com and search for the word "failure", press the I'm feeling Lucky button for added effect.

Bubble Boy 

pi memory record broken

Akira Haraguchi, 59, managed to recite the number's first 83,431 decimal places, almost doubling the previous record held by another Japanese.

He had to stop three hours into his recital after losing his place, and had to start from the beginning.