{"id":11284,"date":"2006-11-23T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T11:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/11\/pleasures-of-the-flesh-with-toast.html"},"modified":"2006-11-23T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T11:04:11","slug":"pleasures_of_the_flesh_with_toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/23\/pleasures_of_the_flesh_with_toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasures of the Flesh&#8230; with Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly the smell of slow-cooking turkey meat wafting down the hall is getting to me, and soon enough I&#8217;ll give this laptop a much-deserved break.&#160; But before that, here&#8217;s a wee cornucopia of hopefully interesting bits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sure, it&#8217;s not &quot;Kentucky Fried Turkey,&quot; but this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfc.com\/facefromspace\/default.asp\">insanely huge logo project <\/a>seemed topical.&#160; A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfc.com\/facefromspace\/popup_video.asp\">video<\/a> depitcs the assembly of 65,000, one-foot by one-foot painted tile pieces into one big, smiling Southern mug.&#160; More info <a href=\"http:\/\/maxine-log.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/space-chicken.html\">here<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephotofield.com\/pleasures\/pleasures_of_the_flesh.html\">Pleasures of the Flesh<\/a> is an offbeat photo illustration project from David Field.  See his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephotofield.com\/portfolio.html\">portfolio<\/a> for more creepiness.&#160; [Via Kevin Connor]<\/li>\n<li>Setting a new standard for truth in advertising, <a href=\"http:\/\/yournameontoast.com\/\">Your Name On Toast<\/a> offers&#8211;wait for it&#8211;&quot;your name, except on toast.&quot;&#160; The idea is that by selling photos of bespoke bread, they can <a href=\"http:\/\/yournameontoast.com\/howitworks.php\">raise money for a good cause<\/a>.&#160; Tasty!<\/li>\n<li>While Americans are busy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turducken\">hacking their birds<\/a>, Japan is the Land of the Rising Pimp-Ride: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dekotora\">Dekotora<\/a> are insanely modified  trucks, as you can see in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinktentacle.com\/2006\/11\/dekotora-photo-galleries\/\">gallery of wild creations.<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/dekotora_japanese_decoration_trucks_5035.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>If watching football today on a glossy screen is just too poncey, maybe you&#8217;ll soon be able to select a grittier experience, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/009103.php\">rear-projection concrete.<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And with that, I wish you good eating, good health, &amp; a day free from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aqemKVTf_38&amp;mode=related&amp;search=%20bad%20turkey%20fry\">turkey frying disasters.<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/carehart.org\/blog\/client\/index.cfm\/2006\/11\/23\/deepfried_turkey\">Via<\/a>] Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;El Tryptophan <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly the smell of slow-cooking turkey meat wafting down the hall is getting to me, and soon enough I&#8217;ll give this laptop a much-deserved break.&#160; But before that, here&#8217;s a wee cornucopia of hopefully interesting bits: Sure, it&#8217;s not &quot;Kentucky Fried Turkey,&quot; but this insanely huge logo project seemed topical.&#160; A video depitcs the assembly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}