Playing with Food

I have been reading the Evil Mad Scientist's Playing with Food section and I am just overwhelmed. There is so much fun on these pages,... I just don't know which one to share with you!

There are edible googly eyes, lolly lovehearts with your own customizable messages, circuitry snacks (a nod to my previous life at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering), instructions on how to cook your hot dogs by electrocution, Pacman pappadums, the competitive sport of marguarita stacking, pretzelized pilcrows (the paragraph symbol),...

This is a ten year old boys idea of heaven and, frankly, I'm not too far behind him!

The lovely photo above is of an italian salad, Insalata Caprese, pimped with a little bit of olive to look like eyeballs. When reading the Evil Mad Scientist site's "Playing with Food" section, there is obviously no limit to their imagination. Enjoy.

Pimp your filing cabinet.

Filing cabinets have got to be one of the ugliest mo-fos in the world of furniture. They are definitely function over form. But I have found a technique for covering them with something nice like wallpaper that could turn an eyesore into eye candy. Check it out.

Organics,...

I think it's so important to consider the impact of our waste products upon the earth. We can't just keep doing the landfill thing indefinitely. I'd like to have a compost heap or a worm farm,... in a rental unit a worm farm is probably more suitable than a compost heap. Check out a good summary of both composting and worm farming online here on Moreton Bay Regional Council's fact sheet on composting and worm farming. Nice.