“I dunno. Pigs tend to chew.”

Over at Serious Eats, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt has the most balanced, well-researched look at the ethics of foie gras I’ve read. The short version: ducks eat like a Simpson, so they don’t suffer from the procedure itself, and there are only three (!) foie farms in the United States, all of which avoid the disturbing practices most people associate with foie. That said, you should really read the whole thing (and everything else with his byline).

Also, ducks breathe through their tongues. The more you know!

Linkwad.

To the end of time:

1. 
   Another @BrendanKoerner link: a motorcycle trip across Transylvania.
2. Turns out McDonald’s burgers don’t rot, but neither do homemade ones.
3. Four new Atlas Sound demo albums music wads.

Linkwad.

Catching up on things after a bit of a hiatus.

1. The Footnotes of Mad Men (via Kottke).
2. Corona saves a man’s life by being gross (via @BoingBoing).
3. Kenji Lopez-Alt reverse-engineers an In-n-Out burger. He also recreated Mickey D’s fries a while back.
4. Bill Murray gets interviewed.

How it should be done.

Like this:

Not like this.

Linkwad.

Still cleaning out some old linkage:

1. Maryland cops are still arresting people for recording them, even though it’s legal.
2. 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)
3. Ezra Klein’s guest-blogger Mike Konczal on the “romance of the public domain.”
4. Want to learn how to make gyros? You should, because it’s delicious.
5. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 made orbit, becoming the first commercial spacecraft¹ to do so.
6. Going to see the National in Philly tomorrow, so here’s “Bloodbuzz, Ohio,” from High Violet.