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How to Organize and Cook Holiday Dinner for a Crowd (42) using Spreadsheets. Just one of the many geeky Thanksgiving tips from Instructables. (via Metafilter)
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Scientists reveal that long-lasting romantic love is possible, at least according to brain scans. And all this time we assumed some people were lying to themselves for the sake of the kids.
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Mark Johnson traveled the world to record musicians all performing the same song, Stand By Me. The result is entertaining, uplifting, and totally cool.
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Making Visible Embryos. Eight sections of this site detail the history of how we came to understand and illustrate unborn humans. (via Bioephemera)
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Saturday night, Space X fired up all nine engines, burned half a million pounds of propellant, and scared the daylights out of the locals. “Space-X shook the T-Bone off the grill hit my dog on the head, he thought I smacked him, he bit my ankle.”
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Watch the birth of a tornado. It grows tall and strong and then wanders off in search of a trailer park to destroy.
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Six Manly Ways to Prepare Turkey. If you want to be super manly, shoot a wild turkey, marinate it in whiskey, steam it with beer, stuff it with other animals, wrap it in bacon, and deep-fry it.
I really loved that Stand by Me video. It was a lot better than I thought it would be.
posted by JD on 11-25-2008 at 3:56 am
My wife has always organized our thanksgiving and christmas with spreadsheets. We typically have between 30 and 40 people.
posted by Jason! on 11-25-2008 at 10:38 am
That stand by me video was incredibly moving to me….we aren’t all that different after all are we???
posted by KiKi on 11-25-2008 at 12:43 pm
Booooo-urns! We have to wait until 2009 to get a digital download of the stand by me song.
Miss Cellania could you please make a note to bump the link when it becomes available?
posted by Jason on 11-25-2008 at 5:29 pm
I organize everything using Excel (I’m an accountant)!
posted by Dawn on 11-25-2008 at 7:08 pm