Catching up on things after a bit of a hiatus.
The Footnotes of Mad Men (via Kottke).
Corona saves a man’s life by being gross (via @BoingBoing ).
Kenji Lopez-Alt reverse-engineers an In-n-Out burger . He also recreated Mickey D’s fries a while back .
Bill Murray gets interviewed .
Slate’s The Wrong Stuff blog has long, expansive interviews with Ira Glass and Tony Bourdain about being wrong.
And here’s You Are Not So Smart , a blog about… well, being wrong.
And here’s TV on the Radio’s “The Wrong Way,” because it’s a great song!
“When your business manager marries a stripper , that’s a tell.” (Via @brendankoerner )
Slate’s take on Red Dead Redemption , AKA “GTA in the old west.”
Another Slate piece, this time on “sin taxes .” No mention of cigarette taxes, though.
Here’s a cell phone photo of The National playing “Lemonworld” at the Electric Factory:
I’d also recommend National Mechanics in Philly. Nice space, good bar food, and a respectable selection of beer.
Still cleaning out some old linkage:
Maryland cops are still arresting people for recording them , even though it’s legal.
In Ohio, cops can now give you a ticket based on their guess of your speed . Unfortunately, Youtube has no clips of Chief Wiggum saying “That’s some nice work there, boys.” (HT: Radley Balko )
Ezra Klein’s guest-blogger Mike Konczal on the “romance of the public domain .”
Want to learn how to make gyros ? You should, because it’s delicious.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 made orbit, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to do so.
Going to see the National in Philly tomorrow, so here’s “Bloodbuzz, Ohio,” from High Violet .