Library of Babble

Wikipedia oddity of the day
There is a wikipedia for Gan-dialect Chinese. For some reason, the Soy sauce entry features a bottle labelled in Hebrew.

News of the Weird
Werewolf bites vampire: not news.
Vampire bites werewolf: news.

Wee sleekit wines
If you don't like standard wine descriptions, perhaps you'd prefer descriptions in regional dialects of the UK, such as:

“A canny Merlot ableeze wi succulent blackcurrants an blueberries. This Merlot has legs leik a thoroughbred, strong an forward, tha sucks the leif oot of yer palate. Its stowed bouquet is a delight fer yer nose an will leave yee clamming fer moor. This ain ne blash.”

Ahmadinejad may be entitled to invoke Law of Return
If you trust the Torygraph, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's father converted from Judaism (via Spencer Ackerman.

Way down yonder
Hunting for pawpaws.

If anyone knows of a reliable source for pawpaws in Chicago, please let me know. The Seedling people directed me to Oriana at the Lincoln Park farmers' market. I spoke to her three weeks ago, and she said they weren't ripe then but would be next week: I haven't seen her there since.

Liking lichen
I was recently reading Aayi's recipe for chana dal, which refers to a goda masala. That calls for "dagad phool", or "stone flower" (Marathi), described there as a lichen having a "woodsy musky earthy smell".

This is just to say

innerdoggie has eaten
the (stanley) plums
that were in
the refrigerator

Many-tentacled abomination, mammal edition
Behold the Star-nosed mole (so named for being spontaneously generated when the stars are right).

A New Food Fad
I'm looking forward to a fad for tree sprouts. For example, I imagine walking into a health food store, and asking for a maple sprout / hazelnut sprout smoothie.

Indian Hava Negila
Indian Hava Negila, with subtitles in Hebrew and Russian.

Subways at Scale
I'm used to seeing highly stylized subway maps, so I was happy to see a collection of subway maps all drawn at the same scale. I'd never thought about comparative density of subway systems before.

I'm now looking forward to

enf's technique for automated detection of subway stops based on photo densities.

Advertisement