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Time for a mint julep.

via www.seriouseats.com, photo from ReeseCLloyd

Yum. I'll be having one of these this weekend.

The Smallest Horse in the World

This could be the smallest baby horse in history. Only 6 pounds! He's tiny!

And, he's kinda awkward looking, but isn't that always the case with those that are out of the ordinary?

Panic does good email.

This is a great trick:

To work around image blocking, the airmail line at the top of the email is actually just plain old "/" characters in 260px Helvetica. Using CSS (namely a fixed height and negative letter spacing) they've managed to style the text to give the perfect airmail appearance, all without a single image. ... And here's what it looks like in the email, even with images disabled.

In addition to great software (and status boards!), Panic does some impressive email marketing.

Campaign Monitor has a great post up (via Neven Mrgan) about Panic's email campaigns for the recent release of Transmit 4.

A new Sleigh Bells track, "Tell 'em"!

... at Stereogum. It's good.

Plus, the artwork for their upcoming album, Treats.

30% faster responses in the TypePad API

After a few long whiles of upgrading and updating our Motion and client library code, last week we removed the links array from the API. While this may not seem like a big deal, it means our API responses are much smaller and tend to be a bit faster for us to generate.

via devblog.typepad.com

This is fantastic.

Danger!

via Matt Jacobs

Gorgeous photos of "danger" from Pictory.

Afghan Whigs - "Miles iz Ded", live

I listened to this on the way in to work this morning. So good.

Say it ain't so!

Research conducted by Dr. Gwen Robbins, an assistant professor of biological anthropology at Appalachian State University, finds there is no evidence of cannibalism among the 84 members of the Donner Party who were trapped by a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the mid-1840s.

via www.news.appstate.edu

They did, however, eat their dog.

Tacos sound perfect for today.

via www.ohjoyeats.com

A taco truck at a party! I want tacos.

A couple of years ago, there was a San Buena taco truck (maybe this very one!) a block away from the office. We ate there every day, and it was delicious. Then, one day, it moved to the Financial District, and it never came back.

Snowflake, the albino gorilla

Oh, and here's Snowflake, the only known albino gorilla (and this toy project's namesake):