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.

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.

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.

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.”