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How do our friends show their love? By introducing us to great new music like Marina and the Diamonds, that’s how!

Via jesthered.

Bonus video with throwies after the jump!

Q: How do you keep people from carving their names in your bathroom wall? A: Clad everything in diamond plate steel.

Reece Ward has created this R2 Unit Owner’s Workshop Manual t-shirt in the classic Haynes Manual style.

Via Laughing Squid.

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From the passiveagressivenotes.com Flickr feed, via Richard Kadrey’s twittery, via the Fake Michael Bay.

Over on feigning interest, The Tall One has started what I hope will be a long series called Food Snob. Quoth he in episode #2:

Part of being a healthy food snob is decorum: the white tablecloth, the heavy silverware, the white china plates. Somehow, it makes your meal taste even better. But in “these times of economic hardship” — or as I like to call it, “The Suckage” – going out for a meal in that kind of proper environment can easily set you back a minimum of $75 for two. And it’s unheard of to make that kind of space for dining when you’re chowing down at work in a cubicle, eating last night’s leftovers. The solution? Head to your local small housewares shop or BB&B and pick up silverware singles for $1.49 to $3 apiece and a nice plate or bowl. You can even find some inexpensive cloth napkins. It will add affordable flavor to your leftover roast and add a taste of civilization to an often uncivilized work day.

That’s some good advice right there. Read more at his blog: Food Snob #1 and Food Snob #2.

St. Bernardus ABT 12 Coffee Toffee float

Quoth L.A.’s most informative sybarite, Caroline on Crack:

Guess what? BottleRock in Downtown now serves BEER FLOATS! Just this week they started selling hand-made ice cream from Milk Creamery to serve as dessert to Jared Levy’s formerly of Blue Velvet and Providence fine cuisine so they thought, why not beer floats? Why not, indeed! And what makes this, dare I say, better than the Golden State’s float is that not only is it $7 as opposed to $8 but you have your selection of beer-ice cream combos to choose from.

• Old Rasputin Cherry Bomb Float
• Allagash Curieux Vanilla Float
• Ommegang Rouge Cherry Bomb Float
• St. Bernardus ABT 12 Coffee Toffee Float
• OR mix and match your own!

How did BottleRock come up with these fantastically inspired combos? Lots of experimenting and taste testing every combo possibility by Jared, beer guru Alex Macy and the kitchen staff. I want that job!

If you’d rather just have the ice cream, you weirdo, it costs $9 for three scoops and there are only three flavors: vanilla gelato, espresso toffee and fresh cherry sorbet. So Golden State is one up on the fact that they have more ice cream flavors and that it’s Scoops to boot.

Read on for more details from Miss o’Crack: BottleRock Downtown Now Serves Beer Floats.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and pack my extra large spoon.

"The flavor of the jawbreaker’s yellow layer is not optimal," @badkittyx opines.

@badkittyx loves her some pretty jawbreaker. Maybe a little too much.

Rule 34. It’s a poser.

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When I was your age, there used to be telephones here that were acutally connected to the phone company by *wires!*