Monday, September 8, 2008 | by nathan

Weekly Reader: 8 September 2008

8 September 2008

100 Things You Should Eat Before You Die

By my count, I’ve had exactly 51 of these things, though some of them, like "Whole Insects" and "Big Mac Meal" are off the table, as far as I’m concerned, forever. How many have you tried?

Pleo

Okay, so, when I was a kid, we had Legos and G.I. Joes but most of the time, we just played out in the yard, with sticks and rocks and dirt, and our imaginations. Now, the kids have Pleo, a lifelike dinosaur that can learn and, by all appearances, love more perfectly than human beings can. Which is why the possibility of me ever having children just went down a whole lot.

The Itch

This story at the New Yorker really hit home with me. Ever since I had my scalp sliced open by a broken window in 2002, the top of my head itches almost constantly, and at times, it’s everything I can do not to scratch it in much the same way the woman in this story did: until it comes right open. A long read, but an absolutely fascinating one.

The Douchiest Phone Message In History

I’m 90% certain I went to college with this guy.

Telemegaphone Dale

"Telemegaphone Dale stands seven metres tall on top of the Bergskletten mountain overlooking the idyllic Dalsfjord in Western Norway. When you dial the Telemegaphone’s phone number the sound of your voice is projected out across the fjord, the valley and the village of Dale below."