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These are my delicious links for May 14th:

• Best Signature Ballpark Foods in the U.S. – I can't believe I'm linking to WomansDay. God. But this list, AND PHOTOS, of some of the fantastic dishes you'll find at the country's top major league stadiums will leave you hungry.

These are my delicious links for March 23rd through March 24th:

• I need me some Lucha Keys – Brilliant key holders. Give your keys that same macho, heroic image you strive to achieve for yourself.
• Vintage Supermarket Photos – I particularly like the rack of hats, and all the various font treatments on the signs.
• best of craigslist : Survival Of The Fittest – I never really was aware of the M & M breeding program, and that the Blue M & M’s are genetically weak, but now I know.
• Lego: 52-pound Lego Mon Calamari Star Cruiser – If this 7-foot long model of the Mon Calamari flagship from Return of the Jedi—complete with integrated lighting—doesn’t impress you on first sight, consider this: It uses 30,500 bricks valued at $5,500.The stunning Lego model—created by Thomas Benedikt—was created to scale from the official Lego Star Destroyer, which is an impressive 3,104-piece beast on its own. According to Thomas, the ship was almost impossible to recreate in Lego because of the difficulty of its surfaces: There are no right angles at all.

These are my delicious links for March 11th through March 12th:

• "I Look Straight into Linus' Weasel Eyes…" – Charlie Brown, as done by Frank Miller. brilliant.
• Ski Dump Bathroom. – Now THATS a bathroom. And of course when we're talking about wacky bathrooms, we're talking about one nation, right? Right. A Japanese coffee company, Goeorgia Max Coffee, modified the bathrooms of ski areas around Japan to promote their coffee energy drinks. This is definitely a high-octane bathroom.
• edith zimmerman plays with her food. – Edith has some fantastic photos of her food sculptures. The mantis and tangerine are really good.
• Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels – I was being lazy this morning, and needed a quick way to convert some points into the appropriate EM size. Viola'. This chart helps out immensely.
• New York Architecture Images- black and white new york – Amazing collection of images of early New York. From 1894 on, just a real solid trip down history.
• 100 Free Useful Applications for Mac, Part I | Tools – A nice list, maybe a bit over-the-top, of useful Mac Tools. Some are obvious (Quicksilver, etc,) but there are some hidden gems in there.
• Floorplans of Sit-Com Houses. – By the same guy that brought us the Trilogy Meter, we are treated with another brilliant piece of charting and infographics. This time he's laid out, painstakingly I might add, the floor plans of many sit-com houses.
• Vintage air raid defense posters – In 1938, the Japanese Red Cross worked with government authorities to create a series of posters to teach the public about the new Anti-Aircraft Defense Law, which was enacted in seeming anticipation of air strikes following the outbreak of the Japan-China War (1937-1945). Among other things, the new law required citizens to take protective measures against gas attacks and prepare for disinfection, evacuation and relief.

  These AWESOME posters are the result.

These are my delicious links for March 6th:

• Scanwiches – Mmmm. tasty. Now I'm hungry.

These are my delicious links for March 4th:

• The Cadbury Creme Egg McFlurry at British McDonald's – oh wow. Talk about serious indulgence. I can only imagine the sugar overload of this.

These are my delicious links for December 11th:

• Allan Jardine | Visual Event – A Javascript bookmarklet called Visual Event which visually shows the elements on a page that have events subscribed to them, what those events are and the function that the event would run when triggered. This is primarily intended to assist debugging, but it can also be very interesting and informative to see the subscribed events on other pages.
• Make your own Pruno – Pruno, a prison wine created from fruit, sugar and ketchup, is such a vile and despicable beast in the California state penal system that prisoners can't eat fresh fruit at lunch.

These are my delicious links for December 9th:

• Amazing Fairy-tale cupcakes. – Abbie has created an amazing set of cupcakes based on fairy-tales. Jack and Jill is probably the most amazing, but they're all great.

These are my delicious links for November 25th through December 2nd:

• Top Book Covers of 2008. – I love these sort of lists. I wish there were actually more book covers to see. My personal favorite out of this list is Maps and Legends, by Chabon. It's a breathtaking cover of a book, in three layers. If you ever see it in the store, take a look, it's well worth it.
• 45 Vintage Space Age' Illustrations – I want my jetpack. I want my flying car and robot maid. I want my talking house. Until then, here are 45 fantastic vintage illustrations of those promises of tomorrow.

  I'm not joking about my jetpack. I really want it.

• The Original Winnie the Pooh drawings. – I love these drawings. So simple, so clean, so evocative.
• Foodscapes: amazing food art by Carl Warner – Anyone who can create a believable sea of salmon has my vote. Great photos.
• Top 14 Top Gear Moments – Top Gear is a brilliant show you really should be watching. Here are 14 clips of some favorite moments.
• The International Space Station turns 10 – The Big Picture – Boston.com – As usual, The Big Picture comes through with a gorgeous set of photos of the ISS.
• Alien-like Squid Filmed at Ultra-Deep Oil-Drilling Site – WOW. This is really amazing, in a creepy way. What a freaky looking squid.

These are my delicious links for October 15th:

• Food Art – British photographer Carl Warner specializes in creating foodscapes that are deceptive to the eye — everything in them (and I mean everything) is edible.

These are my delicious links for September 25th:

• 1996 McDonalds Hamburger – A totally fantastic prop to show people on how unhealthy McDonalds can be. I'm pretty sure I want to get a hamburger to show my kids this as well. It's a neat stunt.
• Cathedral Of Light – Skidmore, Owings & Merrill recently completed construction on their incredible Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. If you have been searching for religious -or architectural- inspiration, check out their awe-inspiring cathedral. The stunning structure makes beautiful use of glass, fly ash concrete, and fsc-certified wood, but we were most impressed by its incredible use of natural light.
• In Case of Civil Unrest. – Heh. I love subversive art like this. I would love to see this throughout cities everywhere.
• Monowheels: The Weirdest Transport Known to Man – Monowheel, monowheel, monowheel.