Boing Boing » frivolity http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 05:39:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 New York Times: It's okay to like that taco made out of a giant Doritos chip http://boingboing.net/2012/06/19/new-york-times-its-okay-to.html http://boingboing.net/2012/06/19/new-york-times-its-okay-to.html#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:10:05 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=166897 Good news for those of you who require some kind of public justification for your love of junk food. The Paper of Record has published a positive review of Taco Bell's Doritos Loco taco. Fair warning, though, food critic William Grimes advises against springing for the Supreme version, as the tomatoes are flavorless and the "sour cream is just wrong."

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I'm amused and charmed by this theoretical public art project proposed by Minneapolis' Carmichael Lynch Creative. Urban Plant Tags explain the care, placement, and proper feeding of inanimate objects like benches, streetlights, and fire hydrants.

You can go to the website to read those plant tags more clearly. But I love the care instructions for this bench: "Apply Real Estate Ads Annually — Occasionally Wipe Clean — Keep Warm With Butt."

Side note: Perhaps you are confused by the fact that this fire hydrant appears to be on a stilt. That's because it snows so much up here in Minnesota that they have to build the fire hydrants tall enough to clear the winter snow cover. An amusing regionalism.

See the whole set of urban plant tags

Via Andrew Balfour

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