Champagne Glasses And Breasts Was the flat Champagne glass modeled after Marie Antoinette's Breast? Short version: no. 

The Origins Of Scrumptious A look at the history and usage of the word "scrumptious."

FlickrFan: The Internet's Photos Dave Winer, Internet pioneer, releases Mac software that grabs photos via RSS and puts them where you want.

Marilyn Manson Sings About The Food Pyramid An animated version of the goth icon sings about the food pyramid. It's as weird as it sounds. No, wait: It's weirder.

Declutter In 30-Minute Chunks Good Housekeeping offers quick tips for decluttering your home, each of which takes 30 minutes.

1879 Tasting Note What did tasting notes look like 130 years ago? Sort of what they look like now, except for the medical benefits.

Airport Security Not Helping A new study determines that there's no proof that airport security has accomplished anything.

The New Yorker's Food Covers A slideshow of various food/drink covers that have graced the pages of The New Yorker.

Government Docs To Go Online The announcement of an initiative to put 60 million pages of government documents online.

ARGs And Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor used an alternate reality game to advertise and tell the story behind his new album.

Info Overload To Be 2008's Big Problem Some analysts say that information overload will reach critical mass in 2008.

Breaking Up With Scrabble Word Finder A Scrabble Word Finder addict cuts off her dealer in this amusing Wired piece.

Bell-Ringing Math [PDF] A paper about the mathematics of bell-ringing permutations.

What Waterboarding Feels Like A horrific account by one reader who puts himself through waterboarding. This is common practice among US interrogation officials.

Math And Traffic Jams Some English mathematicians unravel the mathematics of traffic jams.

The World Of Whiffle Ball A piece about hardcore whiffle ball players.

Prank Accomplice On eBay Buy a chance to confoud your friends with raving-lunatic postcards from Poland.

Mark Morford Gets A Wii Chronicle columnist Mark Morford recounts his Wii-buying adventure.

Keri Smith On Blogging Keri Smith of Wish Jar ruminates on what blogging means and represents for her life.

Debunking Medical Myths Doctors examine well-known medical myths and find them lacking.

Blogs Vs. New York Times: Winer Vs. Nisenholtz Who won the 5-year bet about blogs rising above the New York Times? Wikipedia.

How Stuff Works Neat site that explains how all sorts of things work. 

Looney Tunes Cartoons At iTunes Buy classic Looney Tunes episodes from the iTunes store. (Link is to the iTunes store.)

Wines For Christmas Occasions SF Chronicle staffers tackle the subject of the best wine for your Christmas tradition.

Bibliographies And Research Aids Galore The Library of Congress' list of subject bibliographies and other research aids.

Ruhlman Defends Francophilia Michael Ruhlman defends his choice to make Elements of Cooking Francocentric.

Celebrating The Season In MMORPGs How various MMORPG's are celebrating the winter solstice and other year-end holidays.

IGN Conflict Of Interest Does Matt Cassamina, IGN's Nintendo editor, have a conflict of interest, given that his wife is a PR person for Nintendo?

Out-There Ways To Save The Earth Wired recaps some of the more fringe ideas aimed at fixing the environment.

Italy Denies Friday As A Name An Italian family decides to name their baby Friday, only to be told by the Italian government that they can't.

Rainfall In Paso A breakdown of rainfall microclimates in Paso Robles

Saturday Morning Cartoons That Ruled Violent Acres waxes nostalgic about Saturday morning cartoons that actually had plots and depth.

The World At 3am Kate writes a contemplative, non-food post about the early-morning world.

Humorous Wine Terms First Crush offers part 1 of a guide of humorous wine terms you won't find anywhere else.

Zen Guitar Hero A Best Buy shopper watches a demo kid nail the hardest song in Guitar Hero III

Peggle: Now For The Mac (and iPod) The critical fave Peggle comes to my home's platform.

American Dietetic Association's Corporate Tie-Ins CHOW links to an article about the American Dietetic Association's questionable corporate affiliations.

Sculptures Done In Meat Everyday objects, sculpted out of meat.

WBW 41 Announced: Friulian Whites Jack and Joanne choose Friulian whites as a theme for the next WBW.

Review Of Chrononauts Greg Costikyan reviews Looney Labs' game Chrononauts

Bowls Based On Map Topology Pick some terrain on the map and have a bowl custom-made to match it.

Style/Substance 20.12 The latest newsletter from the Wall Street Journal's stylebook editor.

How To Spot A Cylon Buy this poster for your home and office so that everyone will know how to recognize a cylon.

What Went Wrong With The Farm Bill Ethicurean hosts a post by the Center For Rural Affairs about the tragedy of the recent Farm Bill votes.

Owner And Contractor Feud Over Found Money A contractor finds money in the walls of a house and claims that the owner should hand it over to him.

Common Errors In English Usage A massive list of common usage errors in English.

Beyond Monopoly: Great Boardgames Wired's Lore Sjoberg offers a gift guide of good boardgames.

Sean Makes Cassoulet My friend Sean describes making cassoulet ... with several of my other friends in attendance. Where was my invite?

XKCD On Catching Flies Why do I feel like he actually did this experiment? And why do I feel compelled to repeated it?

Rowan Atkinson And John Cleese About Beekeeping Don't drink any water as you watch Rowan Atkinson interview John Cleese about the wonderful world of beekeeping.

Anatomy Of A Champagne Bottle Pictorial tour of the features of Champagne (and similar sparkling wine) bottles.

Parducci Petite Sirah: Better Than Raid A new winemaker uses cheap wine to ward off ants.

The Year In Media Corrections Regret the Error's list of top media corrections of 2007

Board Games At MIT MIT hackers put up board games -- large and small -- around campus.

Why Pregnant Women Don't Face Plant Scientists think they've figured out how pregant women's bodies stay balanced despite the big load up front.

The History Of Woot Lexicographer Grant Barrett looks into the history of "woot," Merriam-Webster's word of the year.

Bill Murray's Last Line In Lost In Translation Digital processing reveals Bill Murray's whispered line to Scarlett Johanssen in Lost In Translation

Gourmet vs. Bon Appetit - Cookbook Showdown Bookslut contributor Melissa Lion pits the massive cookbooks from Gourmet and Bon Appetit against each other.

XKCD Describes Nerd Sniping How to take down nerds from afar.

Board Games Are The Next Video Game Fads At least some analysts think that the next big video game fad will be digitzed board games.

Experimental Cuisine Collective The website for a group focused on experimental cuisine. The name suggests Oulipo as an inspiration.

In-Jokes In Pixar Movies an attempt to catalog all the in-jokes in Pixar movies.

Press Releases As Tech Journalism Fake Steve Jobs (Forbes correspondent Dan Lyons) continues his discovery of Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' re-use of press releases as real journalism.

Organizing A Home Library An in-depth look at one family's attempt to regain control of a 3,500-book home library.

Valleywag's Guide To Hippy Tech Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag offers reality checks on "hippy tech" such as hemp, biodiesel, and more.

eBob Closure Debate Forum thread about oxygen and closures.

Perfect For Chanukah: Ham? Balducci's advertises boneless spiral ham as "Delicious For Chanukah"

Kate Misses Food Blogging's Golden Age Accidental Hedonist Kate Hopkins laments the "good old days" of 2005, when food 

Super Mario Galaxy Secrets Gametrailers.com offers a video guide to some of the hidden tricks in Super Mario Galaxy.

Time Hackers Time geeks build cesium clocks to prove relativity.

Guide To Working Geeks Inc. has published a not-entirely-condescending guide to geek work culture.

The Ethics Of Book Reviewing The National Book Critics' Circle blogs the results of a survey on the ethics of book reviewing.

Ignore This Snack I'm testing new functionality.

Don't Mis-sing The Croat Anthem

Local Not Always Greener?

Tastebook: Self-Publishing Cookbooks

Dating For The PR Besieged

Firefly Lives

Sex And The City Trailer

Food Prices Keep Rising

When Movie Was A New Term

Funny View Of Mondavi Ads

Yahtzee On Assassin's Creed [offensive]

Wonder Sauna Hot Pants

Domestic Absinthe

Henry Wants Chickens To Die

Twitter As Rude Metaphor

The Future Of Reading

Rillettes De Chanterelles

Posts Are Not Blogs

Good Post On Less Common Tenses

The Decline Of Book Reviews

Google Whacks PayPerPost Blogs

Useful Twitter Bots

Snooth (Wine Meets Social Networking): Fail

Writing Stories For Games

How To Steal Guinness

Game Critic Fired For Bad Review?

Games Magazine's Games Of The Year

Report Censoring Forum Moderators

Review Of Ticket To Ride

Rachael Ray Paper Doll

Good Board Games For Gifts

Style/Substance 20.11

Does Your ISP Block Bittorrent?

Top 10 Food/Drink Hacks

Dennis The Menace, A La Jane Austen

Is Black Friday Doomed?

Google Goes For Renewable Energy

Clark Smith Defends Wine "Manipulation" 

History Of Cherry Pepper Shooters

Workplace Hazing

Food Pairing Charts

Harold McGee Tastes Rare Apples

Branching, Designer Decanters

3 Pound White Truffle

Soup Swaps

12 Most Influential Online Videos

The History Of "Footprints"

How To Buy Wine At Auction

Ireland's Ancient Breweries

Vodka! In A Stapler!

Custom Sharpies

Peter Does Salt Pork And Quail Eggs

Berkeley Breathed Reveals Gay Character

IGN's Top 100 Games

America By Air

Food Blog Awards Approach

Writers' Blogs Help Move Studio Execs

Celebrities Crossed With Star Wars Characters

Pillage The Village Review

Brian Wansink And Nutrition Policy

Guitar Hero Cover Is Too Good

Grammar Girl "Cooks"

Ugh. What Girls Hear On Xbox Live

How To Assemble A Party Cheese Platter

"Studio Exec" Visits The Writers' Strike

Mr. T Is A Night Elf

Penny Arcade On Facebook

10 Things To Do Instead Of Shopping

Relationship Diary a la Zagat

The True History Of Thanksgiving

BSG Tourism

Wine Cookies

Wired Reviews Rock Band

Offset Cheating Costs

Takedown Of A Snotty iPhone Owner

Carved Crayons

Gitmo Bay Manual Leaked

2-Bottle Wine Luggage

Animal Crossing Tragedy [sniff]

Recording SMG's Music

The Other Alice In Wonderland

How To Hack A Soda Machine

Why Are People Jerks Online?

Who You Gonna Call?

Texting For PC Users

Ratchet Corkscrew: Expensive And Useless

Easy Tip-Fraud Detection

What Your Quote Marks Say About You

My Alma Mater Does Me Proud

Dinner With Frank Bruni

Criminal Profiling = Cold Reading

No Seaweed In Seaweed Clothing

Why Writers Get Residuals

Glossy Mag Turkey Shoots: Exposed!

Review Of BSG:Razor

Profile Of Randall Munroe (xkcd)

Rebut Global Warming Skeptics

Videogame Or Video Game?

How Many Episodes Left If Strike Continues?

Writers' Strike On Twitter

Grokking Nerds

All About Induction Cooking

Locavore: OUP's Word Of The Year

Profile Of Vince Clarke

World's Most Expensive Videogames

Marriage Proposal, Halo-Style

Grammar Girl On Interviewing

How Big Is Your Starship

The Oil Crisis Is Here

Eco-Entertaining

Yelpers Like The Desert

Super Mario Galaxy Review

Building Fruits De Mer Platters

Letter From Hollywood

Good Advice For Freelancers

It's An Oven And A Fridge

David Lebovitz Declares ...

What's Inside Nyquil

Pac-Man: The Text Adventure

Grammar Questions For The NY Times

USPS Hates America

Halo 3 And Suicide Bombing

Bagel Screwdrivers For All Sizes

Xmas = Consumer Gluttony [offensive]

Twitter Doesn't Delete [offensive]

Gorey Meets Star Trek

The Face Of CPR Annie

The 50,000 Euro Corkscrew

War On The Unexpected

Whedon And Dushku, Together Again

Jack O' Lanterns For Geeks

Step Gingerly, PR Folks

AppleScript 2.0 In Leopard

Andrew Keen Is Still An Idiot

The Vitovska Grape Of Friuli

Recipe: Salted Water For Boiling

Grass Station: Webster's Word Of The Year

Karen Ondracek, Casa Sugar's Artist Of The Day

Optimal Overhangs For Books

Reggie Fils-Aime Of Nintendo

Board Game Price-Fixing

Gary Paul Nabhan On Eating Local

Unclutter Your Blog

Dear Mr. Bittman

How To Kill A Holiday Party

A Post Is Not A Blog

Sneaky Cooking = Bad Idea

Bosch Meets Bologna

Style And Substance 20.10

Essen 2007 Game Show

Balloon Dog Anatomy

Cask-Aged Beers

Suburban Mom Counterterrorist

Lemony Snicket And Expensive Wine

NYTimes In Outline

Your Nose Knows Wineglasses

Giant Snails Overrunning Brazil

Haddock On Online Reviews

Report On East German Wines

Hack Your HP Printer

"Cougar" Hunting

Weird Canned Foods

Urban Farmer Smackdown

How To Opt Out

Intro To Library Research

Grass Fed Meat Gets Teeth

Store Small Kitchen Packets

Wineglass Drying Rack

Best Intro Book To Your Field?

WBW 38 Wrap-up

Can You Be Too Liberal?

A Better Way To Judge Wine?

Make Crystal Clear Ice

"It is I" vs. "It is me"

Ze Frank's Social Networking Song

Collecting Fantasy Movie Props

Fergus Henderson's Playlist

Make Your Own Soda Water

Classical Music Tropes In Film

Grammar Girl On Formatting Hyperlinks

Is The Net Good For Writers?

Beware The Rangen!

Possessive Of Maitre D' ?

Addictive Web Game: Avalanche

What The Times' Portland Piece Forgot

Octopus Squash Sculpture

Linguine Con Sarde

Summer Udon

A Fixie Of Hipsters

Chris Cosentino = Iron Chef

Forensic Genealogy

Heritage Foods Selling Goat

How To Buy Bar Supplies

Pairing Wine And Mexican

Tog On The iPhone

Pinot Noir's Genes = Lots Of Flavor

Knives With Extra Functions

Clark On Screwcaps

How To Negotiate A Roundabout

Find Good Cafes Near You

WSJ Style And Substance, 20.9

Docking Pork Bellies

Puzzles As Pain Relievers

Drunk Idiots On Long Island

Stealing Kids' Pics For Orkut Profiles

MIT's Halo Prank

Amazon's MP3 Store

Guide To Gadget Symbols

Gadgets And The Environment

MIT Fudges Some Numbers

Violet Blue On Tyra Banks

American Beef Cuts

Social Networks, Not Social Graphs

Guide To Laundry Symbols

Bio Of A Dictionary Collector

Animal Vegetables

LOLCats Meets PostSecret

Bio Of A Japanese Vending Machine

Mmm. Sangrita.

Hopefully, Grammar Girl Is Hopeful

Say Good-bye To Hyphens

All Of Heinlein Online

The First NYT Restaurant Review

San Diego Mayor Comes Out For Gay Marriage

Is Apple Just Greedy?

How Not To Market A Camera Drone

Big Fruit = Little Nutrients

Pollan's On The Table, Now Free

Test-Driving The Pain Gun

Why Is Bob Herbert Boring?

George's Santa Claus Machine

Homebrew Homebrew Maker

Dubious vs. Skeptical

Sean On Pistachio Ads

Urban Farmers Beyond Novella

Weird Nostalgia Of The Future

Jack Teaches Chow's Daniel Duane

Homemade Bread And Butter

Eatwell Faces Fruit Fly Fears

Experimental Cuisine Supply Store

Happy Birthday, :-)

NYT Opts Out Of Times Select

WI Dairy Farmers Diversify

The NYT And Blogging

The Best 100 Hobby Games

Who Pays For Wine Mistakes?

Book Critic Reviews Bioshock

Pronouncing Caramel And Vanilla

Citroen Rubik's Cube Ad

Translating Jules Verne

The Toblerone Bear

Grammar Oops Photos

Wii Wants Voice

Angel, Season 6

You Can't Say That On Television

Dining Alone With A Book

In Praise Of Muscat

Cooking Tongue

The Press Release That Pissed Me Off

iPhone! Vs.! Blackberry! Fight!

The Beer Belly Myth

Women Don't Want Pink Cellphones?

Oakland Crimespotting

Josh Is Back

Best Practices For Web Designers

Opening A Restaurant 

All About Venison

The Origins Of Sour Beer

Tales Of A Pig Slaughter

Rightmost Digits Affect Perception of Discount

Quick And Dirty Goes Pro

Good Vibes Needs A Helping Hand

Making A New Kilogram

"Journalist" Demands Free Food

Dashboard Baking

The Living New Deal Project

Plant A Tree For Every Book You Read

Rigging Basketball And Security

Cranberry Morphemes

Buttered Popcorn And Consumers

No Love From Chino Ranch

Daily Game Reviews

The New iPods

Russ Parsons On American Agriculture

Basil Wolverton's Cartoon Sounds

Mark Morford's Hate Mail

Freezer-Cooked Eggs

Hating On Truffle Oil

AVA Approvals Suspended

Library Of Cheese

DRM For Non-Geeks

Drinking Without Driving

Pavel's Puzzle Blog

Stunning Butterfly Picture

Buttered Popcorn And Poison

Vinegar Pie

The Ultimate Action Movie?

Skyscraper Farms

All Martin Gardner's Books On One CD-ROM

Another Pre-Salting Convert

Hand Harvesting

R.I.P. Alfred Peet

Profile Of SF's La Cocina

Analyzing Wikipedia's Reliability

Improving Readability In Print

Big Wine Collections In Small Spaces

Antibacterial Soap Isn't

Greg Costikyan Attacks Eat Local

Defective Yeti On Hoaxes

Style & Substance 20.8

The First Wii Remote?

How The FBI Spies On You

There Was No First Blogger

At The Tone, The Time Will Be … Gone

Casual Games Bridge Generation Gap

Nerds Go Shopping

NYTimes On The Edibles

Convenience Foods Aren’t Convenient

Cooking For One

Don't Tell Us What To Taste

Most Influential Video Games?

Australia's Weird Beer Law

Neosporin Travel Tote?

Wil Wheaton's PAX Keynote (may offend)

Mapping Grapevine Genomes

Writing For Weekly World News

Haddock On Online Reviews

Gueuze From Cantillon And Hanssens

Save Money On A Tight Budget

Self-Referential Sentences

Lose Immigrants, Lose Crops

Picky Eating = Genetics?

FTC Approves Whole Foods/Wild Oats Merger

Wired Interviews Penny Arcade

Fewest Dropped Calls? Ha.

Color-Matching Coffee/Tea Mugs

Grant Barrett Pwns WSJ l33t Article

Bloggers Doing Journalism: Examples

Banana Cacao Nib Pancakes

Big Metal Swiss Cheese

Interview With Kathy Reichs

Google Sky?

Embed Google Maps

Video Killed The Radio Star

14 Rules For Fast Web Pages

Why Newspaper Restaurant Critics Matter

Garner On Myers On Food Writing

Command Line For Search

Why "Aren't I?" Works 

Summer Reading About Words

Google Gets News 2.0

Tablas Creek On Pricing Wine

Global Conflicts: Palestine

Newspapers Need More Corrections

PETA's Humane Chicken Flash Game

IPP 27 Design Competition Results

Build A Solar Oven

Punish Them With Cuteness

Crunchy Ice Cream

Whence Wine's Black Pepper?

Put Your Dog On A Wine Bottle

Christopher Walken Cooks Chicken

Interview With TSA Head

Style/Substance 20.7

Medieval Bestiary

Crafting Wooden Logic Puzzles

Watermelon With Faces

Wine Meets Online Dating

The 12 Types Of Ads

Pea Salad With Smoked Almonds

Oxford's Corpus: Language Playground

Chefs In Movies: Right And Wrong

Blackle: Energy-Efficient Google

Mickey Mouse Sustainable Farming

Christopher Guest's Intel Ad

Make Your Own Candied Ginger

Schneier On Disaster Planning

How To Be An Inane Blogger

Leonard Nimoy Sings About Bilbo Baggins

The Book Of My Enemy

Mini Golf For Cheaters!

SaltShaker's Spanish-English Food Dictionary

Martha Stewart For Geeks

20 Mouthwatering Movie Moments

Whose Opening Post Is It?

India Considers Prohibition

Country-of-Origin Labeling Goes Forward

Castleberry Product Recall

Low-Sugar Watermelon

Squash Blossom/Jalapeno Pizza

Wal-Mart Doesn't Care About You

Videogame Cliches

Organic Milk Still Growing

Why Alexa Is Useless

The Sad Fate of the Comma

Great Poems As Limericks

How to Really Play Chore Wars

Wine Bottle Grotto

Corn Mazes In Google Earth

What Do You Call Active Seniors?

Google Earth Gets Night Lights

Energy-Saving Rice Cookery

Rice Paddy Art

Bridge-Eye View Of The Bay

Duff 'n D'Oh-Nuts

Mike Steinberger on Mourvedre

Checkers Mathematically Solved - Wow!

How Do Critics Review Books Quickly

Limey Lime Trees Might Be Lindens

Bauer On Food Safety

Tasting Legal Absinthe

Stairway To Gilligan's Island [mp3]

FDA Gives Up On Food Testing

The Great List of Software Laws

Richard Bartle On Virtual Worlds

What's Gelato?

Nielsen No Longer Cares About Pageviews

Video Game Apparel

Moebius Strip Math Unraveled

Interview With Eiji Aonuma

Chameleon Liquid Could Replace LCD

Hey, Look @ The New Yorker

The Unwilling Cook Updates Us

Test Your Wine Knowledge

Hngry: Restaurants In Your Dashboard

Coming Soon: A New Iron Chef

Robber Pacified With Wine

The Food of E3