More penguins made of food. No scarves. But weird noses. Cute.

Scanning the short recipe, I don’t see the ingredient that makes the cute red scarf on these little penguins. It looks like red bell pepper to me, which would have that nice wrapping quality that scarves have.

I never knew baloney came in loafs. This video from a bbq series is funny in a creepy way, if that’s possible. Via this blog of food videos.

I like green tea, so of course these treats inspired by a by a blogger’s childhood sweet treats called sachima look good to me. I also like what this blogger did to pimp her ramen and that she admitted to making something so beautiful but inedible as this cherry chocolate cake.

disco balls inside the stilettos!

I wonder if this is a permanent structure, or something that goes down after the Olympics. Beautiful.

maybe this is too pretty for a shower curtain. I don’t know.

“You can download eleven charts to help find free food, shelter, medical aid, & help with neighborhood problems in San Francisco.”

“The letter, a foundation stone of American religious liberty and the principle of separation between church and state, is signed, simply, ‘G. Washington.’ Each year, Newport’s Touro Synagogue, re-reads Washington’s letter…The words deserve repetition

Wow. Double wow if he got up that high without a chair or a boost from anyone. I still remember pathetically trying to do pull-ups in junior school.

Beautiful photos of the Beijing building under construction. One caption mentions it was hard to get in during construction to take the shots, and says it took a great deal of good guanxi to confirm. Wonder what that means.

gardening, kitchen, & spa ones too. for us without the babies or baby-making friends.

“supporters greeted their candidate like a rock star when he walked on stage…He wore a crisp dress shirt the color of mint ice cream and a color-coordinated tie, which made him look like an insurance claims adjustor.”

final grand-prize winner in a first-ever Cutest Cupcake photo contest. these were fun to look at, but for most, I don’t think I’d eat all that frosting as much as I like it.

Never heard of rice burgers before. How cool. (Not rice patty burgers. Here the buns are made of squished-together grains of still-whole rice.)

“I didn’t have space to list all the evidence of Clinton’s true ethnicity: The fact that his mother smoked Kools to his marriage to a not especially good-looking white woman.”

the tip contains a link to a .pdf of the place cards that you can then cut out.

Ha. I loved the documentary Super Size Me. I didn’t realize Edwardian food could kill you too.