LinkTH [was metaLTH]

Hello! Here’s a place for food related links that are, perhaps, not worth their own thread.

Please add links, comments, or ignore as desired within guidelines.

-ramon

So ... what's the point of singling out these links as opposed to just posting links as we always have?

I think many links deserve their own thread and should be up for serious discussion. (Say the recent Sysco article). Others are one-offs -- look for your amusement and move on. Having these all in one place could also make it easier to delete the old.

I've found myself at times in the past defending links I've posted as if I authored them. I vet nothing in this thread. Let the reader beware.

Many people never click on links. Others will only click if you sell it with a witty summary, which takes more time. Link loathers stay away! This is meant to be quick, easy, and fun.

More to come, I think ...

Although Metafilter, at least, is interesting at least in part for the discussions and the personalities...

Still, as an occasional poster of linkish things that don't generate much discussion, I think there might be something to this idea.

Too bad phpBB doesn't have a del.icio.us plug-in. I use it for this kind of feature -- here are my food bookmarks...

Magnolia, a competitor to del.icio.us, does have specific group features. If any LTHers use it, let me know. I find it kind of slow and haven't seen any reason to prefer it to del.icio.us, but if I had a reason to try out its group features, that might be interesting, for a few minutes, at least...

I'm giving it a try

Fark:
123lb hamburger
Krispy Kreme’s new whole wheat donut
First Wendy’s to close March 2

Metafilter:
The beer launcher
The way of the truffle
I love sandwiches
Foolyoo: flash game with eventual vegetable slicing

Linkfilter:
Locust eating
Decoding the 39 ingredients in a Twinky
Rum a perfect fit for isolated, 18th century Albany
Rabbit meat

-ramon

Oh yeah, must have video for the kids

Metacafe:
Making Wasabi the Japanese gameshow way
Sharks eating seals
Funny oleo ad

-ramon

Probably should have thought more about quality than quantity. Perhaps LinkTH is a better name? Suggestions for improvement and other lists encouraged.

Drudge retort
FDA tests less food

Metafilter
Excerpts from Cooked: From Cocaine to Foie Gras

linkfilter
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6397001.stm] ‘early man’ couldn’t stomach milk
[/url]

digg
Coca-Cola redesigns cans
giant ocean sunfish

monkeyfilter
C for Cookie (video)

metacafe
Very fast food (video)
Spooling pasta in a burka in Iran (video)


google
green peeps for St Pats Day
KFC asks Pope to bless their fish
this weeks Hmart ad
dog food doesn’t taste that bad
Food Bash (flash game)

-ramon

Ramon wrote:Coca-Cola redesigns cans

This story is incredible.

"We live in a world where we make choices every day and 'The Coke Side of Life' encourages people to make those choices positive ones," said Marc Mathieu, senior vice president for carbonated soft drink core brands, marketing, srategy and innovation. "This new campaign invites people to create their own positive reality, to be spontaneous, listen to their hearts and live in full color."

And the difference between the two cans...

Metafilter
Cat food promoted by Rocco DiSpirito

Fark
Beer-vangelism
Secret menus at fast food chains

Linkfilter
Branding effects taste of beer
Noodles in Asia (excellent)

metacafe
fast food in Taiwan (video)

google
McDonald’s flash game

-ramon

germuska wrote:Magnolia, a competitor to del.icio.us, does have specific group features. If any LTHers use it, let me know. I find it kind of slow and haven't seen any reason to prefer it to del.icio.us, but if I had a reason to try out its group features, that might be interesting, for a few minutes, at least...

So, I decided to go ahead and create an LTHForum group over at Ma.gnolia

Frankly, it's still pretty clumsy to create bookmarks and assign them to groups, but if any folks here are interested in trying out this new technology and sharing interesting food links, check it out.

This is by no means intended to dissuade Ramon or anyone else from posting quick links here -- Ramon, maybe you should rename the thread to "lightning round" MetaLTH sounds too much like it belongs in Site Chat.

Oh yeah, also, if this gets any legs, there's a direct link to anything people contribute to the Magnolia group:

http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/LTHForum/bookmarks

Puck sickens diners

-ramon

anti foie gras alderman faces runoff

metafilter
No amuse bouche for you

fark
Granny finds grenade in groceries

The StumbleUpon extension to Firefox does something similar ... kind of like "Feeling Lucky" in Google.

https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?q ... pp=firefox

Does that mean give up or use the extension to cull links? Perhaps those apt to click on links already know how to pick out their own? Some of us don't even know what say RSS stands for.

-ramon

I certainly don't think you should give up. If this experiment is working, rock on. I've seen some interesting things in your links.

If you were to use the StumbleUpon system (or Magnolia or del.icio.us), most LTH'rs wouldn't see that stuff, unless a critical mass of us started using one of those services.

Maybe we're cluttering your thread with meta-meta commentary. Me, I'm just curious about these various services and many of them are primarily interesting when other people you know use them.

(On the other hand, if you're doing this as much for yourself as anyone else, the browser plugins for all three of the aforementioned make it much easier to casually track links like this than coming to LTH, logging in, finding this thread, and making a post...)

Ramon wrote:
digg

giant ocean sunfish

-ramon

Very cool. I can remember seeing a drawing of a sunfish in a Time/Life book when I was a kid, and I think they have a model of one at the Field Museum, but I had no idea they got so huge -- or that their brains were so small. Fascinating link. Thanks.

Ramon wrote:Does that mean give up or use the extension to cull links? Perhaps those apt to click on links already know how to pick out their own? Some of us don't even know what say RSS stands for.

-ramon

Stumble gives you a button to find a related page that's been well-reviewed by other Stumble users. If you like a site you're referred to, you can click on the "I Like It" button.

Cynthia wrote:

Ramon wrote:
digg

giant ocean sunfish

-ramon

Very cool. I can remember seeing a drawing of a sunfish in a Time/Life book when I was a kid, and I think they have a model of one at the Field Museum, but I had no idea they got so huge -- or that their brains were so small. Fascinating link. Thanks.

I saw one of these up close and personal during a dive off the coast of Palm Beach back in the 80's. It was an impressive sight! Somewhere I have some pictures I snapped, but it would take a major archaeological expedition to my basement to find them in a timely manner.

pics of bees
Diet Pepsi Max
sticky rice with mango recipe (video)
John Lennon and Chuck Berry teach cooking (video)

-ramon

The Budget Wino
delicious cat’s milk
pot candy
food loaf
NASA worries about wasabi
shark grabbing a quick bite (video)
making noodles (video)
pet turtle trying to catch goldfish (video)
McVideo game (flash game)

(linkfilter, metafilter, fark, metacafe, google, youtube)

-ramon

Ramon wrote:John Lennon and Chuck Berry teach cooking (video)

THE oddest thing I've witnessed in a very long time.

YouTube is the finest thing to emerge from the Internet, ever. It boggles that Yoko is an artist, but can't figure out how a rolling pin works.

note the slight cringe in chucks face when she starts cackling/warbling over his and john's vocals. he's seen it all, but that was asking a bit to much.

sorry if the above appears out of context. forgot to mention that if you go to the you tube page, just to the right of the cooking class is another couple of them playing on that same show. they actually cohosted it for a wk.

David Hammond wrote:

Ramon wrote:John Lennon and Chuck Berry teach cooking (video)

THE oddest thing I've witnessed in a very long time.

Well, don't be confused because then when someone eats this they'll feel that way, too.

highly potent antibiotic may soon be used in cattle
ode to chicken fried steak with recipe
Duetsches Bratwurstmuseum
this weeks H Mart ad
great Mars bar billboard
eating live baby rats (video)
easy caramel from concensed milk (video)
Unwrapped on giardiniera (video)
Monty Python restaurant sketch (video)

(linkfilter, digg, metacafe, youtube, google)

-ramon

Medieval Cookery (via The Kircher Society)

hot pot how-to
Cooking Mama for Wii
Puerco Pibil recipe (video)
Filthy Food (video)
classic Moo & Oink commercial (video)

-ramon

human genes in our food
Kanye spends $3900 on take-out
pierogi sales fall
fried chicken at Wal-Mart
holy drinking water
Indiana Jones of beer dies
the spice whisperer
classic animated German sausage commercial (video)

-ramon