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Kind of weird: my diet log for yesterday shows that, without intending to, I ate foods in order of descending calorie count. There are 3.6 million different ways I could have eaten the exact same stuff!

This is a tank in Downtown Dekalb.

Me and my friends occasionally joke about an item being “not-something”, especially in Exalted. Infallible messenger is a “not-cell-phone”, that fire powder stuff is “not-gunpowder” and so on and not-so-forth. We’ve been known to call various politicians “Not-Daley.” So my jaw hit the floor when I found out that “Not/Starch”, “Not/Sugar”, and “Not/Cereal” are all apparently real products:

not/Starch works in hot or cold recipes. You don’t have to dissolve it like you do with corn starch – corn starch and flour can get lumpy and stringy. not/Starch will stay fluid and smooth – even if they are stored in the fridge or freezer.

They really named it “not/Starch”?!?!?

I wrote this to deal with the weird, weird way that PHP handles variable variables and arrays:

eval (“\$item_to_make = &$item_to_make;”);

I think it’s the ugliest thing I’ve ever written.

Yay, I’ve lost some weight:

I’ve been listening to remixes of Linkin Park’s “Numb” on YouTube. I like Linkin Park, and I like most of the remixes, but I just have to say I’m reminded of Unskippable on Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil.

…it filters through.

Oh Wise Wikipedia, what is the last page of the internet?

Heard this song by And One at ACEN’s Khaotic Kouture fashion show. It’s ominous, if perhaps just a bit silly.

Found: The weirdest recipes on the Intertubes: Bert Christensen’s Weird & Different Recipes.

I wouldn’t eat most of these no matter how much you paid me. But I am interested in making the Chicken Noodle Pistacio Pound Cake.

Capital Day.

This one is even stranger than the last:

I understand why this picture was taken this way, but not why it published instead of being thrown out. Ok, so the emphasis is on the Marines and not on Obama, and that’s why they’re in focus and he’s all blurry. That makes sense as far as it goes, but then, why is he in the center of the picture? Even if the original photo turned out that way, why not crop it, at least to make it look good and match the caption? Weird.

I assume this picture of Obama that I saw on Yahoo mail, from the AP, is also someone’s idea of a joke. Pictures of Presidents in front of the Presidential Seal are nothing new, but this one was lined up, well, “perfectly.”

The original AP story can be seen with a larger version of the picture.

Edit: Of course, when this happened to Bush, it was clearly a sign of evil conservatives run amok.</sarcasm>

Update: They updated the article with a picture from a different angle.

The following “recipe” currently appears on cans of Dinty Moore Beef Stew. I assume it’s somebody’s idea of a joke:

….

Heat stew as package directs. Slice each roll horizontal in half. Spoon stew over bottom halves of each roll. Place tops over stew. Slice sandwich, if desired, and serve. Serves 1-2.

Seen on The Economic Way of Thinking, the blog From ABBA to Led Zeppelin:

Based off of the James Hetfield lyricsin the song Master Of Puppets, describe why someone would continue to engage in behavior that is self-damaging, expensive, and time consuming.

My brain hurts, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the question posed.

Found this song by YouTube’s audio swap feature. It’s pretty cool.

I decide to go to the zoo today as part of my 2009 Explore & Create theme. The bus ride there was more interesting; they had Zoo Lights going, but the entire experience struck me as kind of thrown-together. Anyway, here are some pics:

The very first pic is of a memorial to David Kennison, supposedly the last survivor of the Boston Tea Party. I found a better pic (you can zoom in on the text) with more information online. The zoo’s “farm” area is actually in the background. The next picture is the only really “good” one of the Zoo Lights display that I got. That is the most demented octopus I’ve ever seen. The rest are animals I saw. Overall, I think zoo trips are much cooler when you’re a kid, and definitely more of a summer event.

Found this on Rotten Tomatos. It almost seems like it was custom-made for SpaceBattles:

This page at NutrionData states the obvious:

Sugar has sugar in it? I never would have guessed…

1985—Madonna’s tumultuous love affair with noted Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith finally ends after a loud public spat about the merits of heterodox institutional economics
- “Madonna’s Rocky Romances,” The Onion.