fancy fast food (a food humor blog)

it is not a particular article, i know, but this blog is an entertaining web log all about transforming fast food into fancy food

it made me laugh but it also made me feel a little queasy. however, it is fun to look at the progression pictures and i think that it is ingenious.

also, from that link you can go to his travel blog. 500+ days going around the world. sounds uh-mazing.

Magnetar

Ok, this is a podcast, not an article, but does a great job explaining banks betting against their investments, here. If you prefer an article, it's here.

Pornography for the Blind

Tactile Porn

my thoughts: in my opinion, people who watch porn crave a type of evocative, sex-driven, visual expression. when working at my dad's video store one summer, i observed many of the members of the neighboring deaf community rent both explosive action movies and the cruder types of porn, which i imagined was due to their lack of auditory sense and, thus, their cravings for something more.

i wonder if the visually-impaired crave tactile nudity the same, sex-driven way that porn-viewers crave visual nudity...

A New Anti-depressant

Medical shrooms? What do you all think about this??