I'll have french toast with wall honey

A very strange post from bldg blog.
A house that has been invated by bees and now has honey seeping out of it...

Contraband

"These images are from a set of 1,075 photographs — shot over five days last year for the book and exhibition, ‘‘Contraband’’ — of items detained or seized from passengers or express mail entering the United States from abroad at the New York airport. The miscellany of prohibited objects — from the everyday to the illegal to the just plain odd — attests to a growing worldwide traffic in counterfeit goods and natural exotica and offers a snapshot of the United States as seen through its illicit material needs and desires."
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(from NYT via Kottke)

Pitcher of Salami and pigeon medicine are my favorites.

First butter now historic used toothpicks!

i don't know about this...

" NEW YORK - An ivory and gold toothpick once owned by Charles Dickens has sold at a New York City auction for $9,150.

It was being offered by heirs to the Barnes&Noble family and was up for sale Tuesday at Bonhams New York. The pre-sale estimate was $3,000 to $5,000. The auction house says the buyer did not want to be identified."
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What? A healthy cookie obsession is not good?

Santa is promoting an unhealthy lifestyle of overeating, drinking and lack of exercise, says an Australian academic.

Historic Butter ... needs historic scones

Century-old butter found in Scott's Antarctic hut

WELLINGTON (AFP) - Two blocks of butter have been found intact after nearly a century in an Antarctic hut used by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his doomed 1910-12 expedition, a report said.

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i have my own teeth too

was just reading a times article when on the sidebar i saw a personal add for some lady. this is her pitch:

"Why should you get to know AVRO?

I have my own teeth, hair and I'm surgery free. I'm sophisticated, talkative, eccentric, energetic, creative, loyal and fun. I am very adaptable and you can take me anywhere. I love socialising..."

i wonder if dr boy appreciates that i too have my own teeth, hair and am surgery free.