Display your foursquare checkins on Google Maps the easy way:

1. Visit your foursquare feeds page. Right click the KML link and copy it to your clipboard (don’t download it).
2. Visit Google Maps and paste the link you copied into the search box. Hit enter.
3. There is no step 3.

I’m still obsessed with The Awl’s abortive semi-series of conversational, profane recipes, so much so that I think all recipes should be written that way. So I’m going to.

1. Brown a butt-ton of mushrooms, like a pound and a half, in butter (or olive oil I guess but WHY DO YOU HATE FLAVOR) over medium heat. Make sure you salt and pepper them, duh.
2. Put some chicken (or veggie) stock, garlic, basil, whatever you want in there with those sumbitches and cover them, reduce to low.
3. Boil some pasta, then drain it when it’s done.
4. Pour the mushrooms, pasta, a pint of ricotta cheese, more salt and pepper, and some parmesan (oh, say, two cups… to start with) back into the now-empty pasta pot. Stir it up. Add some of the pasta water if the ricotta wants to be all clumpy. Which it probably will.

Now eat it, it’s done. You have nothing but a pan, a pot, and a spoon to wash later, congratulations.

Remember the hoverchairs from Wall·E? Pretty much that.

A “comparison between the number of user generated references to ‘pizza’, ‘guns’ or ’strip club’.”

That big dot of yellow, representing strip clubs, on the border of South Carolina and Georgia? That’s Aiken county, where I grew up.

Yeah, I have no idea either.

Stupid Fight – The Awl vs The New York Times.

Update: not surprising, given nytimes readers’ limited vocabularies.

Was wondering if this was even possible, and as usual when I wonder about something Android-related, someone has already done it. Awesome.

I could give a shit about the iPad, but Yay! Greg Knauss wrote something. His certainty regarding his main point is hilariously misplaced and he used the wrong “it’s” once, but Yay!

You’ve probably seen that video demonstrating Photoshop CS5’s upcoming ‘content aware fill’ feature. This is a shot-by-shot remake, using features which are already available, for free and Free, in The Gimp. I find this hilarious.

Duh? I seem to recall a study from many years ago saying the same thing, but as is the way of these things, I now can’t find it.

Anyway, the interesting thing about this article is what it recommends instead, the “leg drop,” which (though I’ve never heard it called that) is what I’ve been doing for core exercise for a few years. It can very easily be done while you’re watching TV, which is important since that’s pretty much the only time I ever get any exercise.

The description they give of the activity is succinct and accurate: “lie flat on your back, with your hands at the base of your spine for added support. Raise your legs up at a 90 degree angle, then slowly lower until they’re only inches from the ground. Repeat until your stomach burns and you want to throw up.”

In shocking news, Wal-Mart is still evil. Their commitment to energy efficiency and exploring renewable energy sources has done a lot to greenwash their image with the general public, but as a business their first and foremost goal is still to screw you.

Tiny chart sums it up pretty well. I keep wishing more people paid attention to the farm bill, or were even aware of it. Our own goddamn tax money is killing Americans in droves.

Short answer, yes.

“There are aspects of the food industry that are reminiscent of tobacco — the sowing of doubt where there’s no reasonable doubt, funding of front groups, use of so-called experts, claims that new products which are safer for consumers are available, and the claim that they are not marketing to children.”

In which he “calls for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.” Not the best public speaker, but he’s not saying anything that isn’t both true and vitally important. He’s becoming the de facto public face of this movement, what with his TV show and all. Not sure how I feel about that.

Is it bad that my first thought, before even “Hey, South Carolina has Culture!” is “oh what is that going to do to those gorgeous floors.”