Daft Punk is two robots pretending to be middle age French guys pretending to be robots. I mean, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo is obviously a computer-generated name.

I was curious about the two letter genus abbreviation, and it looks like it’s specifically a mosquito thing. Just a guess, but I figure it’s simply to avoid confusion between Aedes and Anopheles.

Don’t forget about the competition, “Pyst.”

“Bread cheese” is a translated name for a Finnish cheese called leipäjuusto. However, yes, it is fairly similar to other firm cheeses that are resistant to melting like halloumi, especially since most versions of these types of cheeses as sold in the US are going to be exclusively cow’s milk, whereas in their native…

The Prince of Wales.

Admittedly, if present conditions in the solar system were such that a 100-quintillion ton ball of iron suddenly reversed its direction of motion, some problems on Earth might be expected as well.

Shouldn’t have let Daisy Buchanan drive.

Chemical & Engineering News happens to have a nice graphic up now about the chemistry of these natural dyes: http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i15/Periodic-graphics-Dyeing-Easter-eggs.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=CEN

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 160 kilometers per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit.

It’s miles per gallon- if you are burning gas but not moving at all (i.e., idling), your mpg is 0. Also, I believe EPA mpg figures are rounded to the nearest whole number, so anything less than 0.5 mpg would be reported as 0.  

1 city/2 highway/0 dragstrip

In the source paper, it is stated that the sweetener (acesulfame-potassium) “is completely absorbed and excreted exclusively in the urine.”

-Don’t drive tired. Younger self, you were a fairly safe and cautious driver overall, which is why it’s so infuriating that you were such an idiot about this.

I think the official name for this color is Japanese Rusting Green.

The roof was designed to withstand the unbearable lightness of being, not the unbearable heaviness of 16 inches of snow.

Malachi was said to be staring forlornly at the weather report for Donner Pass, asking out loud, “Can I ball or not?”

If I buy this town, will it include that one crazy guy’s house that’s full of land mines and booby traps that release giant scorpions? If so, sold.

Moen Presents: The Elizabeth Bathory Collection.

Phone number? Job offers for Tomsula generally involve hobo code sprayed on the sides of boxcars.