This flowchart about learning how to cook from webcomic xkcd is a pretty accurate representation of what happens when I try to learn how to cook something. ...Sigh. More

You know, in all this time I've been casually reading the webcomic XKCD, I've been missing out on an important element of Randall Munroe's jokes — the hover info when you mouse over the image. Wow. It's like a whole new world has opened up to me. Here, in the hover text of this comic, Munroe says, "I am firmly of the opinion that if something doesn't have a year on it, every time the expiration date rolls around it is good again for the two weeks preceding that date." Or he—or his stick figure stand-in here—could just check stilltasty.com. [via Cold Mud] More