Hey, don't touch that phone!

If you feel like takeaway, but are sick of Pizza Hut or Dominos, I can understand. That's pretty much the only takeaway we get too, because I can order it online. There is an alternative though.

Menulog Restaurant Delivery Guide is Australia's largest restaurant guide, with over 20,000 restaurants, 1,000+ of which offer online ordering of home delivery . Unfortunately for me, none of those are close enough to my house to deliver to me, but for people who aren't in my small outer suburb of a sprawling hick town, there are lots of choices.

And for all those of you, who haven't used the site before, you can get $10 off your first delivery order using this voucher code: CAF7D6
Available for participating restaurants only (which display the “accepts vouchers”) sign for a minimum purchase of $20. Valid until Dec 31, 2010

In the spirit of honesty, I will tell you that I've never used this site before, so I can't attest to how good it is, but I have heard of it, and looked at the options for my suburb before they sent me this voucher. Maybe it's useful, maybe it's not, but anything I can offer free for my readers I'm happy to pass onwards.

Bort, bort, bort!

Unhappy Hipsters.
Because it's funny.

And because everyone needs new timewasting sites on the internet right?

'They do it with mirrors'

Interactive Art of Daniel Rozin

These are some seriously cool mirrors. You wouldn't want to use them to shave in though!

All badger scenes fully restored!

More Badgers

Mushroom, mushroom!

Badgers

An oldie but a goodie. I used to use this to get Master Six to eat his dinner when he was not yet old enough to feed himself. Except then it was Potato, tato, tato, mushroom, mushroom... varied of course by what was actually on his plate!

You are my sunshine...

My Only Sunshine, a short story by Emily Skaftun. Taken from the webzine Flurb, issue #8.

I have no idea where I came across Flurb, or who told me that this story in particular was a stand out, as it has been sitting in my "later" bookmark folder for quite a while. (My "later" folder is for all those interesting, but off topic links I know I will forget to get back to if not bookmarked, or sometimes just everything open in my browser when I realise it's after midnight and I need to go to bed!)

It's quite possible that this came via BoingBoing, or perhaps Neil Gaiman's facebook page, it does seem a bit Gaiman-esque.

It doesn't really matter where it came from, it's a great little story, and it won't take too long to read either.

Three is a magic number...

Guess your Number

A little .swf to keep you entertained on this Lazy Dinner Night.

6 Truths of Life

1. You cannot touch all your top teeth with your tongue.
















2. All idiots, after reading the first truth, will try it.









3. And discover that the first truth is a lie and feel superior because they can do it.











4. You're smiling now because you're an idiot.











5. You soon will forward this to another idiot.










6. There's still a stupid smile on your face.








I apologize about this.







I'm an idiot too and I needed company.
Thanks to Carol at No Reason Needed for spreading this little bit of idiocy. :D

Art to make you happy...

Color Me Katie makes me happy at least. She is a street artist/photographer in Brooklyn, who has some really fun ideas about making people smile, and interior decoration. :D

I thought this also fit in well with this month's NaBloPoMo theme, which is LOOK UP.

Rainbow Bookshelf

An awesome library from user chotda, who has some gorgeous pictures of the rest of her house too. I wish I could have a bookshelf like this, but I can imagine it might bug me. I know for sure it would irritate DP no end, as he'd never be able to find anything, nor know where to put it back. Perhaps we could trial it though, it's not like we have any sort of order now, except for sticking series in order, and grouping books by the same author next to each other, most of the time.

Maybe when we get the bookshelves refinished and attached to the walls, DP might let me try this out, if only to get a photo of what it looks like. It would be very good incentive to finally pick an order and go with it, having them all mixed up like that!

(found on freshome, via Young House Love)

I thought this was an apt lazy dinner night post, since this month's NaBloPoMo theme is LOOK UP. That, and I can't resist anything rainbow.

Insert witty title here... or better yet, email me one, so I can

HOW TO KEEP A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY

1) At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2) Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3) Insist that your e mail address is:
     Xena-Warrior-Princess@companyname.com or
     Elvis-the-King@companyname.com.
4) Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
5) Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.
6) Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."
7) Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.
8) Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
10) Reply to everything someone says with, "That's what you think."
11) Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with the prophecy."
12) Adjust the tint on your monitor so that the brightness level lights up the entire work area. Insist to others that you like it that way.
13) Dont use any punctuation
14) As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
15) Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
16) Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
17) Sing along at the opera.
18) Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
19) Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits.
      Wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is of the opposite gender.)
20) Send e-mail to the rest of the company to tell them what you're doing.
      For example, "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom, in Stall #3."
21) Put mosquito netting around your cubicle. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.
22) Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
23) Call 000 and ask if 000 is for emergencies.
24) Call the psychic hotline and don't say anything.
25) Have your coworkers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard.
26) When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won!", "I Won! - 3rd time this week!!!"
27) When leaving the office, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "Run for your lives, they're loose!"
28) Tell your boss, "It's not the voices in my head that bother me, it's the voices in your head that do."
29) Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."
      And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity....
30) Every time you see a broom, yell "Honey, your mother is here!"

If you have more things to add here, email me at one of the above addresses

Which They Might Be Giants album are you?

Usually I don't post this sort of thing, this is a food blog, not myspace, and I'm not 15 either. But I couldn't resist posting this result for a quiz based on one of my favourite band's albums. And it's a azy dinner night anyway :P


Which They Might Be Giants album are you?

Rolling with ma homies...

Recently, I changed my site design. In an effort to 'clean up' the look of the side bar, I deleted the long list of blogs I follow, leaving only the links to the blog rolls for which widget display is a requirement of membership. Though I don't seem to be getting any traffic from them anyway, so perhaps I should just swap it back.

At any rate, there are blogs I follow, as well as blogs I keep in a folder for times I want to search through things, or want some "extra" food blog reading, but don't follow all the time. I try to keep the list of blogs in my reader down to one length, without needing to scroll the names, but I'm not very good at that. Every now and then I'll do a cull, keeping only the regular posters, and those most relevant to me, and moving the others to my blog bookmark folder.

I thought tonight, instead of my usual inane lazy dinner night link to something kooky online, I'd share with you my massive list of blogs I like (but don't necessarily read all the time! ;) ) Grap yourself a cuppa first, and perhaps consider making yourself a bookmark folder for some of these to get back to later... it's a looong list!

In no particular order...

The food blogs
Sunday Hotpants

The Pioneer Woman Cooks

Here's Something I Prepared Earlier

Nummy Kitchen

But I Had A Tiara

Canela and Comino

Natalie's Killer Cuisine

Dispensing Happiness

Hold The Beef

Mummarat's Nest

Laws of the Kitchen

Culinary Delights

David Lebovitz

Cookie Baker Lynn

What's For Lunch Honey

Kitchen Wench

Notitie van Lien

A Year of Slow Cooking

The mixed blogs
MEL: HOT OR NOT Restaurants and other things in Melbourne

Taylor Made In Oz TalesCraft, and personal stuff

Planning With Kids Cooking, craft, and organising

We miss her picture...

Classics in Lego, a flickr set of classic art pieces, recreated in lego. Pretty self explanatory really.

Opera Dude

Opera dude

I've always loved this quirky flash short from Tokyoplastic.

You can also get Opera Dude toys now too!


Don't forget tomorrow is your last chance to enter Kids In The Kitchen, training our next generation of food bloggers! ;)

Don't you hate pants?

There are numerous photoshop blogs and groups out there, this would have to be one of the more disturbing/entertaining ones.
Nic Cage as Everyone has people send in their pictures of anyone, with Nic Cage's face 'shopped in. While I have a soft spot for the MacGuyver pic, I just had to share this one with you as well:

For more, go and check out the site yourself, I guarantee a giggle or two.


Don't forget to get messy with your young 'uns for Kids In The Kitchen, training our next generation of food bloggers! ;)

Go go Gadget webslinger!

Long, long, ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

You shot who in the what now?

This was hilarious


How to really confuse your party guests

"Major Walsh, it is an event sociologique."

Last Exit to Nowhere

Tshirts advertising products and places from your favourite films.

I'm torn between the Paper Street Soap company (Fight Club) and this sweet Devil's Tower one from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.