Red lentil daal. I could eat this stuff every day.

Sorry guys, we parked Gunther (German engineered, Mexican built) in your lot (it was snowing and we were bereaved.)

Amazing stuff!

I don’t know about you, but a future without URLs and without the infinite organicity of the web frightens me. It’s not that I know what we’ll lose by removing this artifact of one of the most generative periods in history — and that’s exactly the point! The URL and the ability for anyone to mint a new one and then propagate it is what makes the web so resilient, so empowering, and so interesting! That I don’t need to ask anyone permission to create a new website or webpage is a kind of ideological freedom that few generations in history have known!

via factoryjoe.com

The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is good mid-winter browsing.

Dome A or Dome Argus is an Antarctican plateau located 1200 kilometres inland. It is thought to be one of the coldest naturally occurring places on Earth, with temperatures believed to reach -90 °C.

Making myself feel better about Toronto winter via en.wikipedia.org

Respect for elders may be universal in primates:

This is the first time scientists have shown systematically that primates other than humans pay special attention to the voices of their elders, and it suggests that respect for elders is part of our primate heritage.

via newscientist.com

These artful Japanese websites are inspiring: full screen images, div overlays, jquery; they almost make me not hate Flash.
via woorkup.com

Back home after the holidays, and sick (as usual.) Michelle fixed me up with homemade soup.