Via Boing Boing comes this from the Virginia Tech geology department: “East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast.”
So that explains that. My first earthquake, for what it’s worth. And I started a new medication yesterday so my first thought was, “Well this is a weird side effect.” Then everyone else was all, “what the hell was that?”
Honk if this isn’t the awesomest thing you’ve seen today:
More here and here. Via Andy Hutchins.
The wiener war began after Northfield-based Kraft allegedly ran ads claiming “Oscar Mayer Jumbo Beef Franks beat Ball Park and Hebrew National in a national taste test.”
Downers Grove-based Sara Lee said the ad and similar promotions that ran in magazines, stores and on the “Wienermobile” were misleading and based on an allegedly flawed taste test that didn’t include condiment or bun choices, possibly affecting flavor.
Kraft denied the allegations and filed its own lawsuit against Sara Lee, alleging that the company was misusing an out-of-date ChefsBest award to promote its hot dogs as “America’s best franks.”
I’m not sure I’d ever choose either to be honest. I’m a Boar’s Head man because I keep my hot dogs classy. And drenched in ketchup.
Via Tom.
I am on the road today. Here’s the second part of a Twitter Q&A.
Wait do you mean have dinner with people from history or in history? Because if I could have dinner with three people in history, I’d bring three of my buddies back to the Jurassic with some sort of large firearm and feast on some dinosaur.
But then I guess that’s pre-history, plus I’m being a jackass. I know what you mean, and despite how often I’ve heard this question asked I’m not sure I’ve ever come up with a set answer. So let’s think about this.
For one thing, if this isn’t just about bragging rights (I had dinner with Moses, bro!) and I want the conversation to be at all interesting, everyone at that table is going to have to speak modern English. That narrows the field.
Plus it’s a big guessing game, basically picking people based on their public legacies without having known them privately. Little did you know before you sat down for a meal with him that Abe Lincoln had an atrocious, uncontrollable gas problem. It could be!
So with that caveat stated, I’ll say Charles Darwin, Miles Davis and Kurt Vonnegut. How could that be boring? Worse came to worse we could talk about Darwin’s beard.
Well, duh. Especially, Colbert even if he doesn’t know as much about the Mets or baseball. But R.A. Dickey being interviewed by just about anybody is awesome to watch. The guy has interesting things to say.
Fort Worth police recently got involved in a strange low-speed chase with a forklift….
“When we passed him, the guy was standing up chugging a beer and threw it at the cop car behind him,” Lowery said.
Police finally arrested 43-year-old Timothy Raines on Interstate 30. He was charged with a list of crimes including theft, aggravated assault on a peace officer and driving while intoxicated.
– Lari Barager, Fox 4 News Dallas Fort-Worth.
Here I thought Tim Raines was coaching somewhere, and a bit older than that, and not the type of guy to joyride a piece of construction equipment down an interstate with the law on his tail. But then I suppose it takes all kinds.
Honestly I’m surprised we don’t see more stories like this one. People leave the keys in forklifts and other awesome-looking pieces of heavy machinery way more often than you’d think. I know because I always check, and then when I see the keys I’m always tempted to take that sucker out for a spin.
TedQuarters does not endorse forklift theft, intoxicated driving, or endangering people and dogs.
Anyway, here’s the YouTube video. It’s not quite as entertaining as you’d hope, but it’s got a good Cloverfield-type feel to it. Language not at all safe for work:
Via Scott.
With the help of Kickstarter, author Amber C. Jones is going to publish a scratch-n-sniff book for children (and New Yorkers) highlight the city’s wide array of aromas. She raised over $20,000 for New York, Phew York, which will include scents such as: garbage, pizza, hot dogs, sewer steam, fish, peanuts, horse manure, shish-kabobs, smoke, bagels, and we assume maple syrup, among many others.
People from outside New York City often joke about New York City smelling foul, but I find that it’s mostly a surprisingly pleasant-smelling place. It depends on the neighborhood obviously, but in most areas the aroma of street meats and those Nuts for Nuts carts overpower anything less desirable. I hope this book reflects that.
Also, the nuts from those carts aren’t half as good as they smell.
He said that European colleagues still tease him about finding success here, among diners whose palates are corrupted by ketchup. The low prestige of ketchup hits Mr. Andrés hard.
Now he is on a quest for redemption. He (and a few other chefs and entrepreneurs) are challenging the hegemony of the red, corn-syrup-sweetened product. “It is time to embrace and celebrate ketchup, not be ashamed of it,” he said.
And so his new pop-up restaurant, America Eats Tavern, has a separate menu of traditional ketchups, made from local and foraged ingredients and served on everything from fried chicken to bison steak to hot dogs. (Some, it should be noted, consider ketchup on hot dogs an abomination.)
The Grey Lady is on the TedQuarters-led effort to destigmatize ketchup, only the article somehow fails to mention this site, plus I never knew ketchup was stigmatized until a couple weeks ago.
Seriously though this place apparently has eight ketchups on the menu.
Jon Mooallem’s investigation into the invention of the high five is way better and way sadder than you’d expect. Definitely worth a read.
If you haven’t noticed, this site looks a little different this afternoon thanks to the work of Adam Rotter and Matt Cerrone. We’re still working out a couple of the kinks that are particular to a non-team specific blog like this one — for one, removing the byline from every post. But for now the change should fix some of the problems several of you have reported loading the site in Internet Explorer.
Via Josh. I’ve found this reproduced various places but none of them note the original source. Can this possibly be for real? Did they do a follow-up story on the destruction of the hat?
Tedquarters 