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Click the photo to see a higher-quality version at full size. It would make a decent desktop background image. Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Chicken fried steak is an occasional guilty pleasure of mine, and I’m pleased to share Chris Street’s recipe with you. The image below is a preview — click it to see the full recipe, complete with written instructions.

Be aware that there is a debate over which gravy truly belongs on chicken fried steak: brown gravy or white gravy. I myself prefer the brown, but be prepared to fight over this issue with chicken fried steak purists out there.

Thanks to Chris Street and Miss Fipi Lele for the image!

Here’s a link to another chicken fried steak recipe from the blog of the Homesick Texan, who got the recipe from her dad.

One blog you should check out is Indexed, Jessica Hagy’s blog that’s completely based on charts, graphs, Venn diagrams and other visualizations. I posted a chart from Indexed titled The Seven Deadly Sins earlier this year. Here are some more…

Here’s one on dating and age…

Click the chart to see it on its original page.

Here’s one that answers the question “What did you do last weekend?”, based on your particular subculture…

Click the chart to see it on its original page.

And here’s one from that explains one of the little-publicized advantages of being average (although you can have “average” — I’m aiming for the right end of the curve, myself…)

Click the chart to see it on its original page.

According to this graph from Very Small Array, “Xander” is the hot name for babies right now, with “Willow” a close second. “Buffy” peaked in the early 1970s, and with perhaps “Rupert” and “Giles” are due for a comeback:

Click the chart to see it at full size on its original page.

If you’ve ever wondered which states have the best access to the International House of Pancakes (and they truly are international — they’ve got ’em in Japan, too!), wonder no more. The blog Very Small Array has the answer, and in a lovely visual form to boot:

Click the map to see it at full size on its original page.

For those of you who live in the South (dudes at the Starkville Tucows office, I’m lookin’ at you!), there’s another chart showing which states have the best access to Waffle House.

Over at the technology blog Global Nerdy, I’ve got a video that presents the facts shown above — Thirty-Six Youth Facts in One Hundred and Fifty-Nine Seconds.

As you’ve probably noticed, things are a bit of a mess right now here at The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century. I’ll be re-jigging the blog over the next couple of days, and I’ll do what I can to keep things readable.