Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, 10/9

By OWEN MORRIS

A KU college student with no money to go anywhere during break decides to go to Kansas City. There’s good stuff I didn’t know about and some stuff I’ve covered to death, but it’s still interesting to read about someone looking at the city for the first time. (UDK)

The name of this one says it all: “Fifteen Monstrous Harvesters” including the number-one machine of destruction, a walking tree harvester that looks like something out of nightmares I used to have when I’d watch the Brave Little Toaster before bed. (OObject)

In honor of everyone’s favorite Mr. Magoo explorer, here’s a list of wines Columbus would drink. Any wine strong enough to make you think it’s a good idea to sail to an unknown land is a wine for me! (Forbes)

Whoever hasn’t sent an alcohol-fueled embarrassing/incriminating/dumb e-mail to an ex late one night, let thee cast the first stone. Really? That many of you haven’t done it? Well for those of you like me, there’s a new lab application in Gmail called Mail Goggles that makes you solve some math problems before letting you send out that drunken rant let’s-still-be-friends note. Yes, this application is for real. (Gmail Blog via Copyranter)

Here’s a video of the scary walking tree harvester: