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