I have a new Least Favorite Facebook Group: “Yes I am getting my Pharm.D and yes I know I’m in national demand.”

This fellow in Stockholm created a neat “real-world” Google Image Search.

http://wrongdistance.com/?p=1937

James May, host of Top Gear, was fired from Autocar Magazine back in 1992 for hiding a message in their annual Road Test issue. He used the large red drop caps at the beginning of each review to spell out “So you think it’s really good, yeah? You should try making it up, it’s a bloody pain in the arse.” Wikipedia has a scan of the whole message assembled.

You left out the Spanish chorizo (not to be confused with Mexican chorizo) … probably the grossest thing ever. But, in general, the food was way better than here. And fresh. Their culture of daily grocery shopping was really interesting, and made for the best food ever, every night. Unless you had chorizo, of course.

For a few years now, foodies across the USA have been saying that Spanish food is the new high-class Italian; easy to make, yet nuanced and (when authentic) adventurous. I’m here to say that after living in Barcelona for a year, those recipes you see in Saveur aren’t quiet what they serve on the Peninsula. While I miss a lot of things, including Nutella’s much tastier sibling Nocilla and croquetas, the things I do not miss include morcilla, magdalenas, white asparagus in a can and bacalao. For those of you who wish you could still eat Spanish favorites, or want to remind yourself why your stomach is happy to be back stateside, have a look at La Tienda and Despaña Brand Foods.

The St. Louis flood was crazy. Just got back to Galesburg from a nice spring break spent gawking at the flood damage outside the city a township away from my parents’ home. We have pictures. It was, like, a lot of water.

This e-mail is pretty typical for law school. I think what they’re saying is that there will be two-way traffic on the bottom floors of this particular staircase, but the top three floors will be entrance-only, with the exit stairs on the other side of the building. That’s complicated enough without … well, here, see for yourself:

To accommodate a necessary change with internal traffic patterns when the new Library entrance opens later this semester, a permanent partitioning wall is currently being erected at the third level in the north stair tower. (Under the new traffic pattern, the north stair tower will be used for internal access from the third floor to the library collection on floors 4 and 5.) As a consequence, the north stair tower is henceforth no longer available as a means of egress from the upper floors of the law building. NOTE: It is still possible to exit the building via the north stair tower from the second floor.

After 130 years, The Knox Student is finally online! This is the paper that both I and our dear friend @strutting edited while at Knox College. And it would now appear that this makes me officially more awesome than @strutting.

The site, programmed and designed by @mattbaker, is a still in beta form, meaning it doesn’t do much…yet.

The fundamental building blocks of our childhood became digital. What does that say about our generation?

…I kinda wanna build a baby version of my car and glue it to the dash.

Not only is it a fine example of a beautiful typographic poster, a la Breathtaking Typographic Posters (thank you, Christopher), it happens to be ironically close to my current sentiment on sentiments.

Ten points to anyone who can tell me what the type in the bottom left corner says.