Thing I did not know: Seattleites eat their hot dogs with warm cream cheese!

Update: More wacky hotdogs from Seattle:

At Po Dogs on Capitol Hill, hot dogs get an inventive makeover, including the Wasabi Egg-Roll Dog and the PB Dog, covered with peanut butter.

Looking forward to visiting 3 Fish Studios at my earliest convenience, and probably buying a print, and probably taking a class…

Enjoyed this comment by Jeffrey Stevens on part II of Mike’s The Two-Lens Kit:

Personally I think 2 lens kit’s are so “early” 21st century. I personally would use 4 Pentax KX’s. One in Blue, Black, White, and Red. 4 Primes, 15mm Limited(on the blue body), 21mm Limited (On the white body), 40mm Limited(on the black body), 77mm Limited(on the red body). The four bodies cost less then 1 D700 and weigh only slightly more then 1 D700 with grip. The 4 lenses weigh less then the 24-70 AFS. Need a wide shot, grab the blue one, want to walk around, grab the white or black. Portraits, grab the red body. Going for a job, well all 4 fit perfectly in a Think Tank Urban Disguise 40.

I’ve used the 35mm macro on my K-7 exclusively (for almost a year now), and though I originally thought I wanted to complement it with the 15mm, lately I’ve been thinking the 21mm is probably more my optimal focal length for APS-C (and is lighter to boot). Or another way of thinking about it: 35mm for indoors, 21mm for outdoors.

Who would have ever thought we’d be reading this headline: Apple overtakes Microsoft as biggest tech company

Long exposure hacks: Night-time HDR stacking

It’s hard to believe that of the five years Federated Media has existed, I’ve worked there for four (well, officially next month): Five Years In One Place, An Appreciation

Whoa: Newspaper Club

We’re building a service to help people make their own newspapers.

Very neat video of frazil ice in Yosemite

Note to self: Magnolia has scotch eggs

First watch this: Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht

Then read this: Public Bikes Aims to Get San Franciscans Out of Their Cars

Ten years ago, Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, visited Amsterdam. After days spent wandering the cobblestone streets, he was left with one prevailing observation: The city was dominated by bicycles.

A reported 120,000 SF residents (16 percent) regularly commute on bicycle—paltry compared to Dutch numbers. Forbes aims to change that with his newest venture, PUBLIC Bikes.

One thing to keep in mind: The Netherlands is FLAT.

Oh the irony! 75th Annual Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival

You have to watch the video: Bacon & Eggs PANCAKES!!!

Two fun articles from the NY Times: The Slow Route to Homemade Pizza and Growing Vegetables Upside Down

This concept (especially the name for it) just recently entered my awareness: Pigovian tax

“Omnivore’s Dilemma” in short-form: Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler (from 2008)

yum yum in French is miam miam

To read later: Quantum of Deployment (via Andre)

Terrie on the Milk Line

Goodbye Flash, Hello WebM

Paged back through the whole thing: Shit My Kids Ruined

Finally watched Sal Khan at Gel 2010 (sounds like Khan Academy is going to rank right up there with Wikipedia as truly worldchanging—thanks to the internet)

Fun map: Paramount Studio map of California’s geographical facsimiles (via Matt Haughey)

To read later: Bill Bryson: The secret life of your home

To get or not to get: A Field Guide to Typestaches

Neat video: Cool Hunting: Mast Brothers Chocolate

There’s the easy way, and then there’s the Mast Brothers way. We decided to have our beans, from point of origin, from the Dominican Republic, from Brazil, we’re going to have them brought here by sail.

(via Tralalère !)

I’m not usually all gaga over baby animals, but this is really too much: Meet the sloths

To check out later: Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River

This looks so awesome: Yosemite High Country Backpack Expedition and Photography Workshop

This may make you cry: Q&A by StoryCorps

Thank you for this internet: Jim’s Pancakes (file this under: makes me want to have kids)

Cool! view to corrupt

each time you view this page it writes a portion of your IP address to a random location in the image shown above

Worth reading: Interview with Shawn Brauch of Pen & Pixel Graphics (or in video format: British TV personality Louis Theroux visits Pen N’ Pixel Design Studios) (via Ivan)

This is perfect: BP T-Shirt

Just freaking amazing: Smoking Car to an Arrest in 53 Hours

But we can’t lose sight of the effect that our country’s acts inevitably have on others:

For months, terrorist groups have pledged to exact revenge for the Central Intelligence Agency’s campaign of drone strikes in the Pakistani mountains.