Sarah Et Cetera

Y’all, you are going to need to be careful with this FfaF. It is big. It is developing its own gravity. It is, as the kids say nowadays, tl;dr. Have fun with it! Yeah!

• A work of art wine tasting bar. Isn’t that interesting? Wow!
• 16-year old Mohammed Altoumaimi solves the problem of Bernoulli numbers, on his own. His teachers didn’t understand his work. But the professors at Uppsala University, in Sweden, near where he lives did. So they offered him a spot there, to continue his studies. He decided to finish high school, first. What a kid!

• The Dead Land:

  At school, as time passed, there were fewer and fewer of us at our desks. The teachers sat shapelessly in their chairs, cane in hand, while we repeated by heart lessons we had already learned about the childhoods of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Yet work in the fields was still compulsory despite the fact that the remaining pupils and teachers were extremely weak. We actually went there not to work, but to glean anything we could find to keep from starving to death.

• Andrew Klavan explains why conservatives are so mean:
  

  Conservatives aren’t really mean or greedy or racist. They just want you to keep your liberty. …. Liberty is harder than slavery. It’s full of risk and unequal outcomes. It requires you to stand on your own and suffer the consequences of your choices. But in the end, it’s the only way of life worth living.

• From Doc, a strange look at a hidden subculture: the keepers of the magic kingdom:

  I couldn’t help thinking that this whole life project of theirs was an absurd waste of time, that there were so many more worthwhile things to care about. Doug relates the history of Disneyland with all the earnestness of a high school history teacher on a field trip to Washington, D.C. But that’s real history: Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves, Congress writing the laws, Martin Luther King Jr. intoning, “I have a dream.” Whether a guy named Fowler did or did not piss Walt Disney off 50 years ago doesn’t matter at all. Or rather, it matters only within the berm, and even there to only a small number of unnaturally fixated fans; it’s all completely self-contained, completely self-referential. Disney and Disneyland have had an impact on American culture that indeed is worth studying, and is studied from all sorts of scholarly angles. But that’s not what interests Doug and Benji and Roger.

• Wendy Ding makes digital art of cute girls and food.
• Not photoshopped! The adrenaline rush must be immense.
• The gross food movement is gross. The snotty comments are hilarious.
• Google’s new post-email “email on crack” is called “Wave.” After the communication in Firefly. Makes the heart go pity-pat.
• Interesting Tetris facts!
• How Twitter’s gonna change it all:
  

  Put those three elements together — social networks, live searching and link-sharing — and you have a cocktail that poses what may amount to the most interesting alternative to Google’s near monopoly in searching. …. Even in its toddlerhood, Twitter is a more efficient supplier of the super-fresh Web than Google. If you’re looking for interesting articles or sites devoted to Kobe Bryant, you search Google. If you’re looking for interesting comments from your extended social network about the three-pointer Kobe just made 30 seconds ago, you go to Twitter.

• The sad but hopeful tale of a coffee shop that burned to the ground, the man who wants to get his topless waiters and waitresses back on the job, and the jerks who are happy at their misfortune.
• Sad, then happy: Semper Fi.

You all always expect the very best bacon.

• Twisted bacon, plus crazy bacon facts!
• Bacon fougasse
• Bacon avocado pizza
• Grilled pears with prosciutto. Which is not bacon, but just take a look at that post and see if you could resist that meal.
• Bacon shoes.
• Top 10 bacon uses. There’s nothing really new here, but at the bottom of the first page, there’s a picture of a woman smoking bacon with some hot side-boob showing.

Wow, this wore me out. Phew!