Car-share cuts need for street parking – SMH – Good ammunition for the next time car owners start bitching about spots being given to car share schemes (such as GoGet, which we belong to). Every share car on your street is replacing twelve cars that might otherwise be fighting over that space – and yours.

Cat Tunnel Couch Has Hidden Tube for Feline Companions | Designs & Ideas on Dornob – Have I blogged this before? I feel like I have. Anyway, I do not think this would solve our “cat vs. couch” issues. Our cats do not like to go into tunnels. Our cats do love to shred upright fabric-covered surfaces. I need a couch made out of chainmail.

The Dean + Sexy Unicorn Go-Go Dancers = Exceptional New Community Pic – *blink, blink*

Ask a Korean!: The Obligatory Gangnam Style Post – Interesting. He doesn’t really agree with that whole “subversive commentary” angle on the video. It apparently really is just a silly dance song!

Did Blowing into Nintendo Cartridges Really Help? – Mental Floss – Huh. They say no. But I say it DEFINITELY made a difference. Also, I am still envious of my friend Steve’s top-loader. I played that a lot senior year of college…

Ride to Work 2012 is scheduled for October 17. I hope my knee is recovered enough that I can participate!

“Foodies are the new hipsters” – That’s fine. I’ll admit to being a foodie hipster wanker; guilty as charged there. But I adamantly deny that anyone anywhere has actually used the term “foochebag.” Just – no.

Life is good. Last year we got to eat at Momofuku Seiobo, and this year we’re trying out another of the world’s best: Grant Achatz’s Next Restaurant in Chicago. My friend Kel tipped me off on Saturday that tickets were on sale for the next menu, “Keiseki”. (Achatz has pioneered theater-style ticketing where you pre-pay a set fee and everything is included. Each “menu” is specific to a particular time and place. Keiseki, as you might guess, is Japanese.) As we’re going to be there around New Year’s, it was an opportunity I couldn’t refuse. I bit the bullet and bought us two tickets for December 29th at 10pm.

Ho-Hum to Wow! in Gimp – Ahhh, I wondered if the Gimp had access to the LAB color space. Very cool.

Totally agree with io9 on this one: the trailer for Wreck-It Ralph looks great! There better be a Ms. Pac-Man cameo in there somewhere…