(Via Stellar)

I'm not totally sure what changed between 2007 and the other day, except the price, but Russia is again making noise about building a tunnel under the Bering Strait connecting Russia and Alaska. The price difference between 2007 and 2011? $33 billion (from $65 billion to $99 billion). I have a feeling the tunnel will never end up getting built, at least for travelers.

What's really crazy to me, though is, it takes 18.5 hours to get from London to Moscow, but to get to the other side of Russia, Chita, it takes 106 hours. That's wild.

(Via The Daily What and Mike Davidson)

Mythbusters did a segment on what happens when you put a bull in a China shop, but won't let you embed. Click through to see what happens. Then I figured tons of other people had probably tried getting themselves a china shop and a bull and seeing what happened. According to Youtube, though, this is not the case, and it's a damn shame.

There's the unembeddable Mythbusters, the commercial below, and another unembeddable video. That's it. People with money, what are you spending it on? TV shows with budget, what are you spending it on?









(Original vid via DK)

Wikipedia being awesome again. Check out the list for The Simpsons, too.

Seinfeld
* Astonishing Tales of the Sea
* The Big Game by Donald O'Brien
* A Coffee Table Book About Coffee Tables by Cosmo Kramer
* Fair Game by Alton Benes
* Venetian Blinds by Art Vandalay

(Via Stellar)

Unlikely Words posting has been sporadic the last couple months, mostly because other projects have gotten more priority. I've been meaning to post an update on this stuff, and hosting Kottke.org this week seems like a good opportunity. First, other places on the internet you can find me posting most often: Unlikely Words Tumblr, @eatBoston, and @UnlikelyWords.

The biggest project is Eat, a food event and pop up restaurant company. My business partner, Chef Will Gilson, and I have dabbled in a little of everything over the last year or so, but things are going well. We've produced pop up restaurants in the Taza Chocolate Factory on Valentine's Day and the British Consulate among other places. The Bacon and Beer Fest sold out in 2 minutes, and many of our other events sell out in less than a day. Eat at Adrian's is our summer long pop up installation in a restaurant in Truro on Cape Cod. If you're out that way and looking for an amazing meal, stop by. Chris Piascik does almost all of the art for our events and it's excellent every time. Here's me talking about pop ups on Greater Boston. Here are some pictures of our pop up in a hair salon that you NEED to see. And here's an AP story talking about our pop ups. We're having a good time so far, feeding people well, and making them happy though our events and pop ups. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.

East Coast Soul is Boston's best young wedding band. My friend, Dave, asked if I wanted to manage them, and how could I say no to managing a wedding band? I couldn't and it's awesome.

I've posted about Pets Are Superheroes before, but not recently. Chris and I had an idea that pet owners see their pets as superheroes and everyone else should have the opportunity, too. We haven't been able to push this too hard lately because Chris is too busy, but I have faith he'll figure out how to get more superheroes out there.

That's about all that's come to fruition lately, but there are always other things bubbling about. If you came over from Kottke, thanks for checking out Unlikely Words.

Saw this analogy about John Huntsman and the Republican presidential primary field.

Huntsman is like a rapper who isn’t gangsta, doesn’t want to be gangsta, and knows that some of the people making their name on gangsta don’t want you to know that they have problems with “authenticity.” The problem is, Huntsman is like M.C. Hammer—a family-friendly rapper with mass-market dance moves and baggy pants—and he’s certain that, sooner or later, people are going to get tired of all the songs about gangbanging, and what they’ll want instead is … him and his G-rated rhymes and his dance moves and clown pants. Because that was popular before gangsta.

Political calculations aside, the problem with the analogy is that MC Hammer did try to go gangster when he moved to Deathrow Records, dropped "MC" from his name, and released The Funky Headhunter. Young MC went gangster, too, Tone Loc was never G rated, would Kid N' Play work in the analogy?

via Balloon Juice.

This is the best thing of the week, hands down. Tying it to ‪ The Wire, takes it to another level. I'm gaga right now. This is my head exploding.



Wugazi is Cecil Otter & Swiss Andy from MN. They are also my current heroes. Go to their site and download the whole album.

Via Tim Carmody.

Freddy Mercury wasn't enough, so here's ‪James Brown selling ramen.

Via CLiu

I don't want to live in a world where Freddy Mercury isn't allowed to sell you ramen‪.