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Multi-link Monday: Spin the Wheel of Lunch

Posted: Monday, February 26, 2007 6:00 AM by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
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In last week's Multi-link Monday, the definite hit of the five links was the pie-eating game, in which you have 15 chomps to make an entire online pie disappear. As readers pointed out in the comments, one way to do it is to bite out a four-leaf clover in the center first, and then move to the edges, rather than starting with the edges.

Not sure if we'll have such an addictive link this week, but here we go.

• Just can't decide where to go for lunch today? Spin the Wheel of Lunch! Once you enter in your ZIP code and either "lunch" or a cuisine (try "pizza"), the Wheel of Fortune-like wheel will take the decision-making out of your hand. (Via the always-fun Tech_Space.)

• Terrorism is an awfully grim subject, but someone has managed to make it side-splittingly funny. Well, it's not the terrorism that's funny, it's the way this Web site humorously captions government cartoons meant to show you how to protect yourself. My favorites are "If you hear the Backstreet Boys, Michael Bolton or Yanni on the radio, cower in the corner or run like hell," and "After exposure to radiation it is important to consider that you may have mutated to gigantic dimensions: watch your head."

• I'm inspired by this site. Someone scanned in their mom's recipes, on the wonderfully vintage, decorated, food-stained recipe cards. There's something so homey and family about this site. I love flipping through my mom's recipe box, and because I keep most of my recipes online, I'm not keeping the same kind of neat paper memories for my family. (Click on the individual recipe cards to enlarge them.)

• "P.S.: This letter was sloppy cause I was crying." You can just feel the agony when you read these real letters from kids at summer camp. Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah indeed. (Via my pal, Amy.)

• I think I tried for all of the 1980s to work a Rubik's Cube, and I maybe completed it once. Maybe. I can't imagine how long it took to build these beautiful Rubik's Cubism portraits with dozens of Cubes. So cool. (Via Metafilter.)

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I must be so white and nerdy to immediately think of the Wheel of Fish from UHF when I read "Wheel of Lunch".

Terry, Jackson, Mich. (Sent Monday, February 26, 2007 12:41 PM)

I am trying to remember if I was as pathetic at camp as the kids who wrote those letters...I imagine I was...

Emily, Toledo, OH (Sent Monday, February 26, 2007 4:25 PM)

Those letters from the campers are priceless!

LT, Cary, NC (Sent Monday, February 26, 2007 4:42 PM)

Sadly, my solution to the Rubik's Cube was to dismantle the whole thing and then reassemble it as solved. My brother peeled off the stickers and rearranged those.

Claude, Baltimore, MD (Sent Monday, February 26, 2007 5:12 PM)

I don't know whether those camp notes speak to the bad state of camps or the "unhardiness" of today's kids. I have my fingers crossed that the parents who received those notes do!

LV (Sent Monday, February 26, 2007 5:32 PM)

I laughed so hard at the government cartoons and the summer camp letters. I needed that today!!!! Thanks.

Diane, Renton, WA (Sent Tuesday, February 27, 2007 7:43 AM)

I couldn't get the Wheel of Lunch to open. We need this at work as we go out to lunch on Fridays and have the hardest time making decisions!

Dawn, Baltimore, Maryland (Sent Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:39 AM)

What is UHF i consider myself nerdy but have never heard of this.

Stephon Hollywood fl (Sent Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:34 AM)

The summer camp letters had me in tears. Half because I was laughing so hard, and half because I've been there.

KendallJaye (Sent Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:43 PM)

The Wheel of Lunch is only helpful if they have a lot of restaurants entered in for your area. In my current city, Nashville, TN, there are hardly any choices and those are much further away (there are way more restaurants than listed), but in Evanston, IL, it lists tons of great lunch spots.

Julie, Nashville, TN (Sent Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:50 PM)

UHF is the most wonderfully stupid Weird Al movie ever. I also appreciate the wheel of lunch, it works for dinner too!

Sheena, Corvallis, OR (Sent Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:20 PM)

I tried to play the cookie eating game on the same site as the pie eating game... I can't figure it out, if anyone has, please let me know!

Kari, Orlando, FL (Sent Friday, March 02, 2007 2:25 PM)



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