If you enjoyed my epic post, Melt-in-the-Mouth Cookies, a brief history, then you’ll be happy to know I’ve just updated it with scans from the newly discovered source of my Grandmother’s recipe clipping

Some choice excerpts from White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code…

The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket.

“The chance to be under the same roof with his kids, essentially to live over the store, to be able to see them whenever he wants, to wake up with them, have breakfast and dinner with them — that has made him a very happy man.”

“I’ll never forget going to work on a Saturday morning, getting called down to the Oval Office because there was something [George W. Bush] was mad about,” said Dan Bartlett, who was counselor to Mr. Bush. “I had on khakis and a buttoned-down shirt, and I had to stand by the door and get chewed out for about 15 minutes. He wouldn’t even let me cross the threshold.”

Mommy, why do people hurt robots? Robot reassembles itself after being kicked apart

Terrie’s hens lay green eggs (we need to find a way to get her eggs, our cheese, and Joy’s sausage together… Sebastopol Quiche?)

Yeah, this is pretty much the best thing ever: Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys (Baby = Roomba)

Discuss amongst yourselves:

If a barfing unicorn needs a unicorn chaser, will the barfing unicorn serve as its own chaser?

Long exposure video… Glowing Cities Under a Nighttime Sky

I dunno, I still think Ragnagnas is a form of Southeast Asian dance…

Carrboro Creative Coworking gets featured on NPR’s Marketplace (via Corey) more here…

Ctrl+Z for unclosing Firefox tabs: CTRL+SHIFT+T = restore last closed tab

I’m going to have to introduce my cheese to Joy’s Sausage

Man oh man, this is too good: Where the Hell is Matt? The videogame edition

A Get Your War On, 8 years in the making: Onwards

I thought Obama messed up!

Several constitutional lawyers said President Barack Obama should, just to be safe, retake the oath of office that Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed.

No way!

Fun read: Inauguration Day is also moving day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Blog post title of the day: The country’s new robots.txt file

Probably the main reason I’d think about getting a KitchenAid mixer: Making Sausage From Scratch

I might respond to this later: Mark Bittman on his recommendations for the 2009 American pantry

Watch $25 travel from London to Cambodia through Kiva: The Story Of A Kiva.org Loan

I love the “outtakes”: Durex’s Get it On commercial SFW?

OMG, there’s a plane in the Hudson! Exhibit A, Exhibit B

I agree with Robin: Yokoo is pretty compelling. I think it’s that weird combination of someone being good at multiple things that don’t usually find a home in one body.

Sometimes I wonder, is xkcd’s humor universally accessible, or is it completely niche? I’m An Idiot

I think I finally am starting to understand shorting now: How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (but geez, what a crazy game investing is)

Love the photo of this Angora goat

For future reference: Writing in the Age of Distraction by Cory Doctorow

Nice collage: State of the DSLR market

This Presidential Motorcade video is fascinating, especially the trailing vans with what appear to be cameramen sticking out of the roofs

What the? it is against maritime laws in the area to board a vessel by force after it has been taken by pirates.

Neat: Abandoned London

Nice, stick it to the TSA:

Transportation Security Administration officials and JetBlue Airways are paying $240,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit against a District of Columbia man who, as a condition of boarding a domestic flight, was forced to cover his shirt that displayed Arabic writing.

Acronym of the day: JBODs (source: Unusual disk latency, via Andre)

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

–Jim Jarmusch

For future reference: GeSHi is a free software library written in PHP that allows syntax highlighting of source code for several markup and programming languages

Dad made the Andersen’s Pea Soup we got him for Christmas. Looks like it made A LOT. I wonder how it compares to his Campbell’s?

Two neat lamps you can fill (with things): Bacchus Table & Bedside Lamp and Atrium Glass Table Lamp