Just some more lazy linkage…
First, two found at Nag on the Lake (and she’s got a lot more so go there, okay) Libraries of the Rich and Famous. OMG! I want Rod Stewart’s library. (By the way, I really hate when I click on a picture to make it bigger and the “bigger” version isn’t any bigger.) Also, Greta Garbo’s library looks like it might be my style, though very little of it is shown in the picture.
Popular Foods By State. This one you can click on and make bigger but not as big as I would like it to be. So the most popular food in Oklahoma is fried okra? That’s okay, I like fried okra but I would have guessed something else. Not sure what. I wonder how they got their information. And what is that thing on Minnesota? Never mind. I’m not sure I want to know. And Utah… green Jello? Really? Of all the thousands of possible favorites the most popular food in Utah is green Jello? Oh wait… bigger map here.
Philosophy Bro summarizes the great philosophers in modern English. “Modern” as in lots of profanity. (via)
Steampunk Haute Horologie. In modern English: really damned expensive wristwatch but it’s fraking awesome.
Fairy Tale Architecture – lots of really cute and unusual houses. I want… I want… several of them. And I want to tour all of them.
January 13th, 2011 - 7:27 pm
The popular foods by state map really seems to be the foods most commonly associated with the states, not necessarily the most popular. I’ll bet the vast majority of people in Montana would never think of eating Rocky Mountain Oysters, for example. Though I have heard about the Utah = Jello connection.
January 13th, 2011 - 10:10 pm
When you go on a tour of those houses, take me with you!
January 14th, 2011 - 8:50 am
Peter, that seems to be the case with most states, which makes Oklahoma still puzzling. I had no idea that okra was associated with Oklahoma. But wait…
[googling]
Ah ha. Here it is. A list of state foods. Corn, black-eyed peas, cornbread, pecan pie, strawberries and watermelon (oh the shame!) but no okra.
Of course those are just the foods that the state legislature wants people to associate with Oklahoma, which explains how watermelon came to be a vegetable instead of a fruit.
January 14th, 2011 - 1:48 pm
Hm. Watermelon classified as a vegetable? That might explain why some of our students have so much trouble with botany…
January 14th, 2011 - 6:34 pm
Your failing botany students probably have a future in politics.
January 14th, 2011 - 6:42 pm
Hamburgers for Connecticut? They’re no more popular there than in any other state, and the legend that a New Haven diner invented hamburgers around 1900 is just that, a legend. Steamed cheeseburgers might be a better choice, though they’re popular in just a few towns in central Connecticut. Election cake* is one Connecticut-only food that comes to mind, but it’s pretty obscure.
And why pizza for New York? Buffalo wings would be a far more appropriate selection.
* = a fruitcake traditionally baked on, and only on, Election Day