Art glass fans looking for new kitchen cabinet hardware may want to check out SpectraDecor. The Seattle company recycles glass into accents for drawer pulls, cabinet knobs, and tiles too.

Limited edition dark chocolate M&Ms; played a role in a Star Wars Episode III marketing campaign. The company received over 30,000 e-mails requesting the permanent return of dark chocolate so they’ve now added it to the growing M&M; arsenal. The ad campaign ignores pop culture in favor of Expressionism. M&Ms;’ parent company is offering a reward of two million dark chocolate M&M;’s for the return Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” stolen from the Munch Museum two years ago. White chocolate fans can grab a bag of “Pirate Pearls”, M&M;’s movie promotion for Pirates of the Caribbean.

Has this already made the weblog rounds? It’s the original S.S. Minnow from Gilligan’s Island. For Sale. (Not Cheap.)

The last time we watched Mythbusters the narrator made a personal observation which made me wonder for the first time who he was. Of course real Mythbusters fans have already gotten the goods on the voice that always sounds amused by the antics of Adam (Jamie is always serious, no antics. Really.). Robert Lee has an American accent but he was born in England, lived in North American and is now a resident of Australia.

Just a few days after our evening at The Herbfarm’s “European Common Table”, The Seattle Times published a rundown of local restaurants with communal tables. Carrie Van Dyck, co-owner of The Herbfarm, is quoted many times. Some are reluctant to share a table with strangers but most warm up to it and have a fun time and even make new friends.

Freaky Astronomy Picture of the Day. Don’t worry, it’s not natural.

75 years of Mercedes-Benz Popemobile, not much text but lots of photos (via frykitty)

A butter sculpture of a cow may be old news at the Ohio State Fair, but this year there’s also a butter sculpture of team mascots Who Dey of the Cincinnati Bengals and the Dawg of the Cleveland Browns. The Ohio dairy industry has a partnership with the NFL.

On Sunday we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary with a lengthy dinner at The Herbfarm restaurant in Woodinville. My unedited account is up on both a Flickr photoset (unfortunately I neglected to bring my camera so I had to use my cellphone for photos) and a Vox blog that I’ve been testing.

In recent Seattle Times articles about local accused killers and victims, I’ve noticed photos and information obtained from the news subjects’ postings on social networking sites such as myspace and friendster and also information from personal websites. I had two reactions: 1) How can you fact-check information from a personal or social website? 2) Everything you put on the web is public information. Obvious perhaps, but the intended audience of a personal profile on a networking site is not the million readers of a newspaper. The Seattle Times editor-at-large took note of this new avenue of research and wrote about a brownbag discussion held to discuss use of networking site information. He acknowledges that “one can’t assume the accuracy of the information or even that it was posted by the people listed on the site.” Use of these sites is not discouraged but reporters are urged to be “overly cautious.” He closes his commentary with a list of “Ethical considerations for the press” which seems like overkill for the issue at hand, but certainly illustrates his concern.