DIY Polka Dot Fruit Roll Ups · Edible Crafts @ CraftGossip.

Orange, Bitter, & Refreshing: 5 Classic Campari Cocktails | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn.

Tasty Planner - Article - The Problem with Ice-Planets. We were recently rewatching Firefly so I was happy to find that somebody created this dessert from the show.

Bubble gin and tonic, at Kottke. Want this.

Baked Alaska on a Stick · Edible Crafts.

Pancakes with Blueberry Butter | Not Without Salt. Blueberry butter, brilliant!

The Food Lab: Do 'Better' Eggs Really Taste Better? | Serious Eats. Comparing egg color (he takes them to the green place) and perception of flavor, bringing it around to New Coke.

I Baked a Mini Cherry Pie Into a Dark Chocolate Cupcake | Slog. Awesome.

3-D Waffles · Edible Crafts. An iron that makes waffle cups!

The Videos: Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Mrs. Agnes Marshall, Culinary Time Traveler - Voracious. Distinguished Lecturers series from the University of Washington with the guys who wrote Modernist Cuisine.

Twitter / Tweet Button. They have their own button!

YouTube - Digital Makeup - PSMama's Lip Gloss Optimizer - Part 1, from this mostly unrelated post over at Wired.

Where can I find out about browser-related issues when writing CSS/HTML/JavaScript? | Ask MetaFilter.

Cool Tools: Google Drawing. Sold: "The best simple drawing program there is is hidden away inside of Google Docs. It's free, and completely intuitive to use. Google Drawing is the opposite of Adobe's Illustrator..."

How do I update my iPhone to iOS 3.1.3--not iOS 4.0? | Ask MetaFilter. Very good question for those of us with 3G phones.

Craftzine.com blog : How-To: Great Small Object Photography.

I'm so happy to be part of the Creative, Inc. blog book tour today. Creative, Inc. is written by Meg Mateo Ilasco who wrote Craft, Inc. and does a lot of things, and Joy Deangdeelert Cho who is a prolific designer and whom you might know best as the person behind the blog Oh Joy!.

The description on the back of the book reads: "Packed with real-life advice from freelance superstars who have excelled in their industries (and made mistakes you can now avoid!), this book is an essential resource for all creatives -- from illustrators and photographers to graphic designers, animators, stylists, and more -- who want to succeed and doing what they love." The book covers topic on how to promote your work, set fees, license your artwork, deal with taxes and hire and manage. Each chapter goes into depth on what you need to know, offers examples of working out fees or invoicing, and includes an interview or two with a creative professional that gives up a huge amount of great information. They are realistic about when you should charge more or less depending on the advantage, how to look at a licensing deal, whether you should expand a business or close it, whether you should hire (or fire) an agent. Most all of this information is mostly new to me and presented in a way that makes me feel like somebody has my back.

Sound like information you need? Lucky you I have a book to give away! If you'd like to get it please leave a comment with this post. The Fine Print applies. I'm going to do a shorter than normal deadline for this one, you'll have two days to enter and The Random Number generator will be picking a winner on Wed. Sept. 1st at 4 p.m. PST. Good Luck! Winner randomly chosen and is being contacted, thanks for entering!

Next month we're headed out for a coastal road trip, we're taking Highway 1 and Highway 101 along the coast from San Francisco to Seattle. It's going to be epic. I would love to know if anybody has suggestions on places not to miss. I've scoured Ask Metafilter for suggestions on this very route and found a bunch of information - one, two, three, four and five. But have you been? Did you find something really great? Oldey timey diner? Ice cream stand? Underrated beach? Tide pools? Regional brewery? Bit of strange American history? Treasure maps?

Any suggestions are very much appreciated!

The episode of the Craftsanity podcast recorded at the Conference for Creative Entrepreneurs with Jennifer interviewing me is now available to listen to. I should warn you my brain stopped working half way through. (I wasn't expecting to record it in front of an audience! I became a bit overwhelmed, I admit.) Many thanks to Jennifer Ackermann-Haywood for the interview, I had fun! (Flickr photo by Maryjanesattic, thanks!)