October 10, 2009 @ 1:37 am
The image above is courtesy of Pierre Smack’s side project called Karmaparrot.
I haven’t been keeping up with Tumblr developments lately and so I’ve missed this one entirely, but the theme he’s using on his Tumblr is the lovely Esquire Theme created by Matthew Buchanan.
September 24, 2009 @ 6:02 pm
Stephen Von Worley over at Weather Sealed created this amazing visualization of McDonald’s locations in the United States after going on a road trip this past summer. He wanted to see how far he could get from the franchise establishment in any location in the contiguous United States. His research led to this image which shows that no matter where you are in the US, a McDonald’s restaurant really isn’t that far away.
He says:
As expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid. East of the Mississippi, there’s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of meager gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia.
For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern Oregon, the rugged wilderness of Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains, and the conspicuous well of blackness on the high plains of northwestern South Dakota. There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer.
Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!
Great work Steve!
April 14, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Wow, this could very well be the world’s dirtiest McDonald’s restaurant. It’s located in Adelaide, Australia. [via]
I wonder when McDonald’s is going to pick up on this video and start laying the smack-down on the manager there.
October 13, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
The New York Times Magazine was able to get the pain-in-the-butt chef, Kenny Shopsin (of Shopsin’s General Store restaurant), to actually talk about his restaurant on camera. Kenny then explained the idea behind his famous macaroni and cheese pancakes and how the recipe first came about (blame somebody’s indecision).
Anyway, you probably won’t be able to get a seat at Shopsin’s General Store, so just follow this recipe from Kenny on how to make macaroni and cheese pancakes.
August 28, 2008 @ 9:11 pm
I made this.
But don’t let that deter you from going to Ariyoshi and having a meal there. It’s quite good.
