In my latest Publishers Weekly column, I explain why I'm not even going to try to sell downloads of the audiobook of the my forthcoming experimental short story collection, With a Little Help: Apple won't carry it without DRM; Audible won't carry it without an abusive EULA; and all the major digital... More.
Improv Everywhere travels back in time to 1971, or mind-lock virus? (Via Arbroath)
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On the website of sculptor and mathematician George Hart, there are step-by-step instructions for how to craft a Möbius strip from a single bagel. I like his thoughts at the very end of the instruction process:
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Police report that Alfonso Frank Frazetta (above) was caught red handed stealing 90 of his famous father's paintings. They said he and an accomplice had broken into the Frank Frazetta museum in rural Pennsylvania and were loading the paintings, worth $20 million, into a trailer.
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The Petri cookies are cute. Although technically, agar is edible -- apparently the Japanese eat flavored agar much like the West eats flavored gelatin -- you could imagine a Petri dish treat that used real agar instead of cookie dough...
Those petri dish cookies are actually an interesting abstract design, until you realize what they represent. Yeah sure, "agar is [technically] edible", but do want to eat whatever is growing on it? Ewwwwww.
Ditto the weird Petri grossness.
Other than that, she is the perfect woman.
I'm a scientist (though not made of gingerbread) and I've never worn a white coat in my life.
This is what physicians wear to make themselves look like real doctors.
The petri cookies are a cute idea, but every time I look at a representation of a petri dish, I can smell a combination of agar and fetal bovine serum that's been steaming in a body-temperature bath for days--and it's been oven ten years since that experience. DO NOT WANT.
Major yuck moment. When I saw the cookie, I went "grghuuuuughoooooarg". I'd eat it, but my visceral reaction was THAT'S NOT A COOKIE, IT STINKS AND IS DANGEROUS!!!1!
Agree on yuck vs. coolness.
I could never eat anything in/from lab. One of the professors used to use salt from lab for her popcorn, and even though it was likely purer than the anything from the grocery (though it did not supply iodine, a necessary nutrient) the wrongness was perturbing.
You could also do "chocolate agar" cookies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_agar
mmmm, lysed sheep blood cells....
Agar agar is principally a foodstuff. I made desserts with it when I was a vegetarian.
Yes! Those plates are awesome. How about some clones with blue and white colonies?