Papabubble comes to NYC! No, it has nothing to do with that. It’s apparently a super fancy candy store that makes it’s candy on premises. I guess it’s kinda like Dylan’s Candy Bar, but way, way, waaay more expensive. Gothamist gives the scoop. I wanna try some.
You know what else I love besides candy? Quizzes. [...]

Categories: breakfast links · quizzes · the future

Labor Monday needs some celebratory art.Well, not much posting today because of the holiday. But don’t stress it - you’ll live longer. In fact, if you’d like to know just how long you’ll live here’s not one but two tests (both via mefi) that will boldly tell you exactly when the jig is up for [...]

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Ok this is pretty awesome - turns out in Mexico City a top police sniffer dog was stolen while he was being checked into a plane. That’s right, he cost one druglord a few too much and he got the dog stolen - Rex IV was replaced in it’s cage by a puppy (which was [...]

Categories: breakfast links · quizzes

For you lovers of those old soviet propaganda posters, I’ve got the site for you. A Soviet Poster A Day proposes to post a poster every single day with a translation and a little (or a lot) of commentary. It’s pretty darn great. This beauty to the right has the phrase “all world records must [...]

Categories: art · breakfast links · quizzes

So you know I like online quizzes and the like. So here’s one that’s kinda like a cross between the ol’ standby “Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer” (which is pretty awesome) and the open endedness of a hotornot. It is…. Designer vs. Developer.
I did a bunch and only got about 2/3 right. It’s all [...]

Categories: quizzes

Art, like monday, follows sunday.
Dig it, the Consumerist has posted 22 Confessions of a Former Dell Sales Manager an article that proposes some interesting tidbits as well as tricks you can use to get the best deals out of Dell. Like going with Small Business instead of Home Office to get you better tech support [...]

Categories: art · breakfast links · quizzes

Aiight. You know I digs me some online tests, especially the kind where you get some kind of numeric grade at the end. I also have been wanting to play that nintendo DS game Brain Age, so I could see how old I am, right? Enter lumosity (beta) - which tries to measure your cognitive [...]

Categories: quizzes · the love

I guess that’s good. Although, I’m beginning to notice a streak here… on the heels of the last Ok Cupid test I took in which I discovered I’m a pure geek, I now find that I got a 58 on my nerdiness score on the Heroes Personality Test (care of max hubris).
In fact I scored [...]

Categories: quizzes · sci-fi

Ok, let’s see - if you’re a canon guy and like reading long comparison reviews of lenses check out the 70-200 IS Showdown and Mid-Range Zooms.
So, I like taking quizzes on the intertubes. Every now and again I find alink to an online Myers-Briggs test and feel compelled to take it. I’m [...]

Categories: breakfast links · photography · quizzes

Ok, a poster pointed out to me that onnyturf has this awesome map of nyc with subway overlays. It’s quite nice - the main problem is that it doesn’t have the cool mobile app.
And in some good government news, Minnesota House Bill H0224 which creates a poet laureate position in the government was written in [...]

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