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If you already know who Alton Brown is, I assume you have been in mourning since the demise of Good Eats and will want to proceed immediately to the videos below. Please, enjoy.

If you do not know who Alton Brown is, 1) you poor thing, and 2) Alton Brown is the most fantastically geeky TV chef whose show, Good Eats, ran for something like ten seasons, during which he tried to answer the question of The Single Best Way to cook anything and everything, using science, sock puppets, strange MacGyvered kitchen contraptions, and some incredibly corny sketch comedy. His show ended several years ago, and the world is much the worse for it. But, since then, Alton has been doing a stage tour and, occasionally, posting some really great YouTube.

I give you, Champagne Saber Time:



Oh yes.

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First:
Snow!  Well, ok, flurries.  That didn't last long and didn't stick.  But still, there were white fleck-y things in the sky, and I WAS OUT IN THEM!  Huzzah!

Second:
stick_poker , who is henceforth my personal hero until such time as I come across the next thing that literally makes me *gleep* with delight, has discovered something in "The Eleventh Hour" that everybody else missed.  A bit of a joke, if you will.  ( Unrestrained glee under the cut. )

Third:
Stephen Fry twitted the following article about the role of comedy and its importance and why the modern novel is dying from an angst overdose and I think I am in love with it but am having far too many thoughts about it to say anything coherent now, so I'll just leave this here: Divine Comedy.

Fourth:
A bit by the by, but since I was posting anyway: I think this is the funniest xkcd we've had in a long while.