Sure the New York Times' Kim Severson is live-blogging her Thanksgiving. But is she offering a live cam, Twitter updates, a Flickr photo pool, weather reports, and temperature readouts from the turkey smoker? Didn't think so. Meet Turkey Tracker....
Continue reading »
Is the IT guy more likely than average to get his fingers caught in the mousetrap? Wired magazine has asked its readers to vote on whether nerds like cheese more than most people. There's no way these results could possibly be objective, considering the magazine's readership, but so far the poll indicates that cheese, with all its enzymes and microbes, is more of a nerd thing. What's your verdict?...
Continue reading »
Editor's note: This week, it's, like, omigawd, totally '80s for our daily In Videos segment. Big hair, breakdancing, and before-they-were-big celebrity commercial appearances to the max. So kick back your fat-laced high tops and take a chill pill. —The Serious Eats Team What better food tie-in could you have with popular icons of nerd-dom than artificially colored, diabetes-inducing breakfast cereal? You've got your Pac-Man Lucky Charms knock-off, your C3POs that look more like conjoined Cheerios than anything Star Wars related, and the pseudo-amorphous fruit-flavored blobs of Super Mario Bros. cereal. Watch the crunchy, vitamin-enriched fun, after the jump....
Continue reading »
