So, for the first time since 1999, Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest was won by an american! Joey Chestnut (for real? What an awesome name for the american winning back the belt!) at 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes vs a measly 63 for Takeru Kobayashi! Kobayashi, despite having a wisdom tooth pulled and diagnosed [...]

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No it isn’t some new tactic by Green Peace, arms manufacturer British Aerospace (BAE) has decided to go green with things like reduced-lead bullets and recyclable explosives. I’m sure that will be great consolation to all the people shot and blown up by said green weapons. Those fronts seem a little, well, contrived - I [...]

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Spring has sprung (again) in the city! Yay!
Well, we all know that the Simpsons movie is just around the corner. In a fit of branding genius, several 7-11’s are turning into Kwik-E-Marts. New York’s is showing up at 345 w. 42nd street! If you don’t happen to live in NYC there’s still hope, here’s the [...]

Categories: breakfast links · nyc

I never thought I’d say this, but one of the coolest things I’ve seen in awhile is, apparently, in Arkansas! The Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, to be specific. It’s this crazy chapel made of local timber, in the midst of a grove in the forest, it’s very glassy, so seems open air and blends [...]

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It’s a tale as old as time - Skaters and the Cops. Apparently June 21st was Go Skateboarding Day, which is what a few teens did in Hot Springs, Arkansas. A cop seems to have taken exception to their activities (which it seems to me that they often do) and started arresting and manhandling them [...]

Categories: breakfast links · the future · web2.0

Ok, I know yesterday was iPhone day, but apparently today Apple let the review embargo lapse so now there’s tons of hands on reviews from big media. Check out Gizmodo for a bit of a roundup and Netly News for a review of the reviewers. (fakesteve’s take on Mossberg’s review is pretty great.) Ok, that’s [...]

Categories: breakfast links · nyc · travel

Monday’s art.
So this kid in Birmingham climbed their crazy Selfridges building and posted the video. Now he feels like he’s going to get into some trouble so he’s apologizing and taking down the video (the link I posted, was someone re-uploading it). The paper was comparing him to Alain Roberts, but really it isn’t even [...]

Categories: art · breakfast links · sci-fi

So the good folks at YouGov have surveyed 2,091 adults to find out the most irritating words that the internets have spawned. The top two are also at the top of my list - folksonomy and blogosophere. Ugh. Lord do I dislike those words, although sadly I use them because what’s a poor blogger to [...]

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We all know that the interwebs are where stupid crap lives. Nay, more than lives, prospers. So here’s the latest specimen I’ve come across - this dude has decided that he’s going to count to 1 million, put it on the internet and sell advertising and t-shirts. If all goes well and he doesn’t go [...]

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It’s only 10 days till iPhone and it has already received its first upgrade! That’s a right! Now your $500 or $600 is going to get you more than it was. Apple has juiced up the battery (and it would seem optimized the hardware because different usages have gone up different amounts, proportionally - [...]

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