…13 grand
a year in the mead­ow­landsb
bored and rural-​​poor, lord, at 35, right?
I’m the best 17 year old ever

In here, though, the yields are oth­er­worldly. “We actu­ally kept a tally of how many cherry toma­toes we grew,” Mr. Tor­cellini said of last summer’s crop. “And from one plant, it was 347.” A trio of cucum­ber plants threw off 175 cukes.

From the NYTimes arti­cle on aquapon­ics. Inter­est­ing read. The waste­water from the fish fer­til­ize the plants, which are grown in gravel, not soil. What’s not to love?

The One That Got Away

Heart­break­ingly beau­ti­ful pho­tos and sto­ries. The pre­vi­ous show­case, Local Fla­vor, is also *very* good. Just make sure lunch or din­ner is a few min­utes away, or else…

I Love Typography’s Google before you Tweet print. How long until some­one makes a t-​​shirt out of this?

Rin­con, Jan­u­ary 16^th, 2010, by Joe Curren.

69 Love Songs, Illustrated

A bunch of Brit illus­tra­tors, writ­ers and comic artists are doing what they do best, inspired by the lyrics of Mag­netic Fields’ 69 Love Songs.

File under: I’m def­i­nitely buy­ing this (if it gets approved, which I’m think­ing it will.)

Once you play James Bond, you can’t do musi­cals! Sean Con­nery would never do a musi­cal! [sings, in Con­nery voice:] ‘The hills are alive … with the sound of PUNCHING …’

~ Craig Fer­gu­son, on Pierce Brosnan’s star­ring in Mamma Mia!

Nah Right » Video: The Avon Barks­dale Story

Trailer for a new doc­u­men­tary on the real Avon Barks­dale. I’m curi­ous about this, since I’m just done with the sec­ond sea­son of The Wire. Should be good.

Fan­boy Super­cuts, Obses­sive Video Montages

At Waxy. Some are mes­mer­iz­ing (every “what?” from the LOST series), some are down­right funny (Sawyer’s nick­names, the one from Scrubs, LOST’s Hurley’s “dude”).