“Cold sweat” ice cream contains 3 types of peppers and 2 types of hot sauce – “[A customer] said it tasted like ‘fire — with a side of fire.’”

Amazon.com: Pulltaps Classic Bronze Corkscrew in a Gift-box: Home & Garden – the best corkscrew I’ve ever used. I use the basic $10 version; this is an upgrade.

YouTube – (2008) Be Kind, Rewind Trailer – this looks great.

“Formal education slows down our process of growing up.” – makes sense to me, anyway. Most of the “growing up” I’ve done happened outside of school, when I had to make my own decisions. A commenter adds some positive spin though: “[It] is partly designed to remove young people from the labor force for a…more

The “Vomit flashlight” – A flashlight that strobes and throws patterns that incapacitate viewers. “There

Marginal Revolution: The Persistence of Poverty – “If pains and troubles are high enough, extra pain and trouble just isn’t so bad. You hardly notice it. But that overturns standard economic assumptions of diminishing marginal utility…”Getting tough” with the poor through policy is more likely to backfire than succeed, as it just encourages more mean-reducing,…more

Watermelon steak – roasted for 2 1/2 hours…

YouTube – Barry Bonds #756 – what it was like in the stands, four rows from where the ball landed. Chaos.

Cooling big buildings with ice – “Credit Suisse’s Trane-designed system in the Met Life tower freezes water in tanks at night, when power demands are low, and pumps chilled air via fans by day as the ice melts.”