Afternoon Snack: In the latest installment of The Perennial Plate, entomophagy expert David Gracer lays out a thoroughly convincing case for why we should be eating more bugs.
[seriouseats / twbe.]
Early Bird Special: Mondays, amirite? This coastal cliff face in Cornwall knows what I’m talking about.
Funtivity of the Day: Suck it, dominoes: All the cool kids are constructing stick bombs.
See Also: Stick-bomb building tutorial.
[bestofyt.]
Morning Fluff: This cat has a really negative attitude.
[sayomg.]
Bad Lip Reading of the Day: Bad Lip Reading somehow manages to make GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry sound halfway coherent.
[thd.]
Explainer of the Day: At a campaign event in Andover, Mass. last month, Harvard law professor, consumer advocate, newly christened Scott Brown challenger, and all-around awesome person Elizabeth Warren clearly and thoughtfully slams the suggestion that taxing millionaires and billionaires at a higher rate is “class warfare.”
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
Bam! First female president.
[wapo.]
Culture Shock of the Day: Though they enjoy being photographed, many Mongolian nomads have never seen a physical photo of themselves.
Enter: Teenagers Vanessa Hollander and Wilson Philippe, who recently went on a ten-day motorcycle tour of the world’s most sparsely populated country, bringing their Fuji Instax Mini with them.
[E]ach person photographed really prized and protected his or her polaroid (fearing that we wanted to keep it), and barely let us see it when it was developed! the children automatically stored it away once we showed them what was the very first picture of themselves. it was a really great and humbling experience and showed us how much just one photograph can mean to people who have never had one of themselves.
Ojai Valley Taxidermy TV Commercial of the Day: Is this the greatest local ad spot for taxidermy services ever produced? YUUUUUUUUUP.
[reddit.]
Stop-Motion Short of the Day: Dutch artist Johan Rijpma’s sticky stop motion “Tape Generations” took some six months to tape, with each “composition” taking over 12 hours to put together and break down.
[mefi.]
Mashup of the Day: From the promising-sounding just-launched YouTube channel cookiewaits comes this glorious meant-to-be-mashup featuring Cookie Monster singing Tom Waits’ “God’s Away on Business.”
The cramazing concoction’s creator says:
Tom Waits sometimes sounds eerily like Cookie Monster. Not that I mind! I happen to love Waits and his carnival barker’s growl!
YouTube Comment of Note: “Have you ever seen Cookie Monster and Tom Waits in the same room at the same time?”
[presurfer.]
