LifeGem

Turn your deceased loved ones into jewelry!

http://www.lifegem.com/

Teenage Mutant Ninja Monkey

A fluorescent rhesus monkey, from a National Geographic article about glowing animals. This little fella had a green fluorescent protein introduced into his DNA to help scientists study Huntingtons Disease (aka that thing the hot chick on House has). You can see more here.

Readability

I've been using it for awhile and thought I should share it with you, my one reader (hi Pete!).

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Readability is a free product from the folks over at Arc90. Click a button, and all the pesky, distracting advertising on the page you're reading disappears! Literary magic! Let me tell you, reading the Times online has become an infinitely more enjoyable experience since I discovered this little gizmo.

Before:

After:

Kisses,

E-mily

Dance, Petunia, Dance!

http://www.squareamerica.com/bm16.htm



I am OBSESSED with these animated gifs of stereo cards. so OBSESSED that I am seriously considering the purchase of the new beam splitter for digital Canon EOS cameras. And getting my MFA at Yale. Hahaha. I can't believe I thought I was up too late, because it's 2:30 am and I am clearly dreaming.

Maybe I'll let myself buy one in celebration when I have a real job again -- if I have a real job again. Oy. Bedtime.

Midnight Snack

microwave cake, via Alice's Restaurant (but, in truth, via my craving-induced google search):

http://aliceaudrey.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/microwave-cake/

I topped mine with peach preserves and confectioner's sugar. Tasty as it was, I cannot recommend this topping; I accidentally inhaled the powdered sugar, waking my roommate at 1:30 am with a coughing fit more cacophonous than the 4th ave street noise.

In case anyone was wondering, I survived.

It's a pretty terrible cake. But when you sleeplessly thrash until the birds sing, overwhelmed by the seeming impossibility of launching a career in this economic climate, and you have nothing sweet to eat because you're convinced you will lose the 10ish pounds you've gained and that shelling out a few bucks for something you can make at home is foolish, it hits the spot.

100 points to someone who can offer me a superior microwave cake recipe (using a mix and/or chocolate doesn't count, because I don't keep those on hand).

200 points to anyone who prevents someone with a superior microwave cake recipe from telling me about it, so I stand a chance at losing said weight without my wallet-crunching gym membership.

Blogging is like farting in public...

...so I naturally ran away for a bit after the first one. But now that the initial embarrassment is over, I'm BACK. I'm also thinking about using this to keep track of visuals that I like. Mmhmm.

Today's tasty link treat: Triptrop, via Swiss-Miss:

http://www.triptropnyc.com


Type in an address, and the site will produce a map of how long it will take you to get everywhere in the city! They remind me of weather maps, which reminds me of my deceased meteorologist grandpa Harry. RIP, Harry.