-o- Happy day after April Fool’s Day! -o-
– History of April Fool’s Day from The Washington Post.
– NPR‘s list of headlines, products of several members of the staff, that could have made it as the April Fool’s Day headline. The winner? “NPR Source: Tweets Will Shrink to 133 Characters.”
– Google News picked up a prank news item and ran it as a legitimate piece, according to Mashable. Here’s the article and the screenshot from Gawker.
– The most serious literary figures, such as Virginia Woolf and Edgar Allen Poe, came up with some pretty playful pranks. Check out “April foolery of the literary heavyweights” by John Dugdale of The Guardian.
– Also: Classic April Fool’s Day pranks on YouTube, from Mashable.
-o- Longest kickball game EVER -o-
Seriously. A game of football in Connecticut with players from several parts of the United States set the Guinness World Record for the longest kickball marathon. Why the epic game? To support cancer research. Here’s the article from the AP. Pretty cool, huh?
-o- Hiring slump at an end? -o-
According to this Reuters article, the time of long, tough job searches riddled with rejection and disinterest is coming to an end… at least for recent college graduates.
Here’s an excerpt from the leading paragraph of the piece:
“Sean Chua expected the hunt for his first job after college to be tough. After all, he watched his brother struggle to find a position when he graduated back in 2008. But his fears were unwarranted. The 21-year-old justice major at American University sent out only seven resumes before getting an offer earlier this month from IBM for an IT consulting job, making him a beneficiary of a turnaround in the labor market for U.S. graduates.” – Jilian Mincer and Jennifer Merritt, Reuters
-o- What came first, the dyed chick or the dyed egg? -o-
Anyone have a problem with coloring chicks for Easter? Here’s a New York Times article discussing the controversy over these dyed baby birds.
(Image Source: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg News)
-o- What to do with all those leftover Easter eggs? -o-
– Here are some cooking ideas for leftover eggs from Epicurious. Among them? Scotch eggs.
(Image source: Zach DeSart, Epicurious.com)
-o- Recipes of the Week -o-
My friend Lindsey is coming over tonight and we are making Parmesan Chicken with Caesar Roasted Romaine and a side with goat cheese, red peppers and maybe baby spinach. Currently I’m ogling these Goat Cheese Stuffed Peppers from FoodieMob and these Mini Cheese Stuffed Peppers from The Simple Skillet. How does one decide between goat cheese and the winning mozzarella-ricotta combination? I also love the look of this simple spinach sauté from Beantown Baker.
(Photo credit: Romulo Yanes, Epicurious.com)
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