Whiskey and ginger ale, in a can. Not quite as good as Mexican Coke but it’ll do.

I saw these on a WordPress.com blog years ago by chance, but there was no information on the name of the artist. I was telling my coworker Stephane about them last week, and managed to find out who made them. Martin Klimas is the photographer responsible for these amazing shots of sculpture in motion, as well as several newer series that are worth checking out as well.

Reblogged from cozywalls:

I would like to thank Louisiana and Kentucky for the French donut and the distinctly American spirit, respectively.  Without you, this dish of pillowy fried squares of sweet sorcery would have never been possible. Beignets: You can make them from scratch, but Cafe Du Monde conveniently produces a boxed mix.  I got to visit the original Café Du Monde location in New Orleans this past summer. Though it was the afternoon and felt like 100-degrees outside, I still thoroughly enjoyed a plate of fresh french …

A combination of two of the American South’s finest inventions. Sign me up.

We wanted to eliminate the guesswork in locating and installing device drivers for mobile broadband. We did this by working with our mobile operator and mobile broadband hardware partners across the industry, designing a hardware specification that device makers can incorporate into their device hardware. In Windows 8, we developed an in-box mobile broadband class driver that works with all of these devices and eliminates your need for additional device driver software. You just plug in the device and connect. The driver stays up to date via Windows Update, ensuring you have a reliable mobile broadband experience.

The way that Microsoft has built in native support for mobile broadband in Windows 8 is kind of great. The more of Metro I see the more impressed I am, and I hope Apple’s user experience engineers and designers are taking note.

Reblogged from 504ever.net:

Images copyright 2011 by Louis Maistros. For more unusual New Orleans photography, please visit http://louismaistros.com

Reblogged from WordPress.com News:

As we mentioned last week, you can like and reblog posts directly from your reader, which displays a stream of all the updates published on all the blogs you follow from your WordPress.com account. We’ve also brought the reblog button back to the toolbar that appears at the top of the screen when you’re logged into WordPress.com. Note that you’ll only see the like and reblog options while you’re looking at individual posts. For example, you’ll see this on the left side of your toolbar while viewing …

We’ve rebooted our concept of reblogging on WordPress.com, and we think we’ve brought some interesting improvements to the table, giving bloggers a cool way to share things that interest them while protecting authors of original content. If you’ve got a WordPress.com blog take it for a spin — if you don’t, there’s never been a better time to get one. :)

Reblogged from WordPress.com News:

If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader displays all the posts across all the blogs you follow in the order they were published, with the most recent content appearing at the top. You’ll see an excerpt of the introduction to each post, the first image in the post, and thumbnails of any other images that the post …

We’ve been working on this one for a while now! We’ve still got lots of ideas for improvements, but it’s great to finally get to announce it.

Reblogged from The Onyx Plate:

I have a super good friend of mine that is in love with everything Mardi Gras, and I know she looks forward to it every year. Well, this year, I decided to try my hand at a King Cake. I also knew that I would need to get her honest opinion as well since she would be the closest thing to an expert that I had here locally. *smiles* Let’s begin with – What is a King Cake? I think it will be easier if I let KingCake.com explain what a King Cake is to you… “The King Cake is believed to have originated …

It’s almost that time of year!

Raiding my art supply box from 2002 found while cleaning out my office closet. Keeping to use: scissors, wire tools, highlighter, type gauge, and Sharpie that still works(!). Leaving in the closet: bookbinding tools, charcoal, a hundred possibly-used Xacto blades, kneaded erasers, and receipt from the SCAD art supply store.

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The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 40,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 15 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

I’m speechless. I was a huge fan of He-Man back in the day, and never realized how gay it looked until now.

Everything tastes better when made from your grandmother’s handwritten recipe.

Reblogged from Whatever:

Question from e-mail: Any thoughts on the current state of the War on Christmas™? I think it’s about as silly as it ever was, considering that Christmas has conquered December, occupied November and metastasized into late October. To suggest that the holiday is under serious threat from politically correct non-Christians is like suggesting an earthworm is a serious threat to a Humvee. This is obvious enough to anyone with sense that I use The War on Christmas as an emergency diagnostic, which is to say, …

Reblogged from WordPress.com News:

We’ve got a little year-end tradition here at WordPress.com. Every year, we commission an artist to spread some WordPress-themed holiday cheer. For 2011, Caroline Hadilaksono has created a warm and joyful scene that’s sure to get you in the mood for the holidays (and some blogging). We’ve made some desktop backgrounds from her illustration that we’d like to share with you. Here’s to a safe and happy holiday season for all of you, from all of us at Automattic. Large (2560×1830 · 6.4 MB) Small (1280×915 …

Ain’t it Jay? I posted this on Twitter a few days ago, but wanted to put it here for posterity. Yes, I realize I’m a few months late on the joke.

Haribo makes sugar-free gummy bears that are actually good, a discovery that made my day.

Reblogged from VentureBeat:

Electric car-maker Tesla’s second vehicle, the Model S, won’t be available until next summer, but the company is taking a version of its new electric sedan out for a little publicity spin with a North American tour. VentureBeat was among the very first to take the new Tesla Model S Beta for an early test drive, and we can report that it’s a beast. We’ve got photos from our plant visit below, and we’ll be uploading a video soon. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the Model S is already sold out for 2012, thanks to …

I was going to take more pictures, but didn’t have the entry fee(!) to get inside.