'Bred Crumbs

12:50 PM Yesterday I had the misfortune of experiencing the "Mystery Flavor" of Starburst candy. Packages of the square, pseudofruit sugar chunks now include a colorless variant whose flavor we are supposed to guess to win fabulous prizes. But the mystery flavor is so distasteful that I couldn't deal with having the thing in my mouth long enough to explore it. (Probably my punishment for being [age deleted] and still eating Starburst.) Nonetheless, here are my guesses as to the identity of the Mystery Flavor:

1. Urinal cake
2. Fillet of air filter
3. Grits
4. Bakery frosting with all the flavor distilled out
5. Driveway sealant
6. Spoiled ricotta
7. Overcooked semen
8. Wax sauteed in beet juice
9. Coconut piss
10. Tofu

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09:51 PM In the But At What Price? department -- the National Park Service has apparently heard and heeded the hue and cry, and will put some effort into finding a new home for the artifacts of Musée Mechanique.

But one of the candidates for the new site is Hell on Earth itself, Pier 39.

<shaking fist> Damn you Pier 39, are not the sea lions enough for you?

(A visual footnote I couldn't find before: a photo of my beloved Rice Cake.)

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Ah, here comes something new and interesting: dust storm!

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03:00 PM Why isn't Mrs. Butterworth Lite slimmer than Mrs. Butterworth?

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"Thumbs are the new fingers."

Much as I wish I'd said that first, it was a scientist who authored a study showing that in people under 25, the thumb has become the most powerful digit, surpassing even the index finger. Or, put a stupider way, the thumb has given the index finger the finger. (Link via NextDraft)

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