Why I Was Late for Work This Morning

It's all due to these guys:

More great pics and a review here.
I would come up with some lame pun like "at least I have an excuse from The Boss", but I'm too tired to attempt to be funny.

Dispatches from the American Owl Restaurant

and other random links.
Yes, Beijing has a Hooters. Enjoy the world's creepiest guy at 1:25. You find Hooters too bourgeois for your sophisticated taste? Prefer skinny jeans and obscure crappy bands? Prepare to get taken down a few pegs, hipsters.

An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning.

Yikes. It gets more scathing after that.
Plus, a study noticed an inverse relationship between beer drinking by scientists and getting published. One of my old bosses certainly was a good example of this.
If wine is more your style, you could always start a fake restaurant stocked full of low-rated wines and still get Wine Spectator's award of excellence.
And, don't worry, sometimes you don't even need to be a researcher to get noticed by scientific publications. Occasionally, just being attention-whoring hillbilly cut-rate Barney Fife wannabes will get the job done. And finally, with college football season on us, let's look at the (debatable) reasons why college football is way better than the NFL.

The Coolest Thing I've Read All Day

Julia Child. Affable cookbook author, television personality and foodie icon was a spy in the 24,000 member OSS.