Jupiter Structural Layer Cake | Cakecrumbs – This is the coolest cake EVER. How the hell do you layer cake spheres?!

Go Ahead, Try Drawing an Outline of the Midwest on a Map – Jenny Xie – The Atlantic Cities – Fascinating. My map would have looked like the one drawn by those who’ve lived most of their lives in the Midwest. It’s a pretty meaningless designation outside the US though, as nobody over here understands what it means. I always end up specifying “near Chicago.”

MAKE | Giant Macrame Owl – WHOA. I like macramé owls, but this one is giving me the heebie-jeebies.

Parkour goat is tired of your bullsh*t fence – I love goats. They are so smart and fun. I think I’d like to have goats someday. But then, as this video demonstrates, I probably wouldn’t have them for very long.

Gathered Sundress Pattern by PatternRunway on Etsy – Anybody ever used a PatternRunway pattern before? This one is very cute!

Worms 3 coming to iOS as a mobile exclusive – Worms! One of the first video games the Snook and I ever played together, back on Wee Ben’s Dreamcast in London…

My friend Nathaniel sent me an email this morning with a link to a Google Map. Apparently he was looking up a college in Illinois and noticed something funny about the ring road surrounding it. I’m Maps famous!

Australian bushman claims to have footage of legendary night parrot – Brilliant! Dude spent FIFTEEN YEARS trying to find this parrot! Australian ecology is nuts.

Hey Mom! Remember that quilt exhibition I told you about in Brisbane? My friend Lyn recently visited it and she blogged about it here with some nice photographs.

14 Terrifyingly Awesome New State-Fair Foods for 2013 — Grub Street New York – Nome of these seem that OUT THERE to me. Heck, that meatloaf on a stick looks really good! I’d eat that!