With Chinese buffets – an all-you-can-eat fixed price restaurant – making a killing in Manchester, a new chain of traditional English buffet-style restaurants are seeing a sharp rise in trade during a recession that is seeing 100 restaurants per month go to the wall. [more inside]
posted by mippy

Ashoka Tech Blog A blog about women, social entreprenourship and technology (especially in the developing world). Includes such gems as the Peepoo bag.
posted by sandking

There are many galaxies. The Sombrero Galaxy. The Whirlpool Galaxy. Lenticular galaxies. The occasional irregular galaxy. What types of galaxies do we find in the universe?
posted by twoleftfeet

Urban exploration has been featured here once or twice before, but Jim Griffioen’s site photo-documenting his discoveries in and around Detroit deserves a look. Griffioen was recently interviewed [direct mp3 link] on the American Public Media radio program The Story. [more inside]
posted by Item

Canadian actor Les Lye, who played many characters on the TV show You Can’t Do That on Television, among other roles, has passed away. Perhaps Mr. Lye’s most famous character was Barth, the cafeteria chef on the show. Someone pour out a bottle of green slime for the man.
posted by elder18 a

High Dynamic Range ‘photosketches’ of Tokyo from Toshiro, and a site in Japanese containing hundreds more photographs that seem more real than real. [more inside]
posted by kanewai