As they say at the SQL On Rails website, Taking the VC out of MVC – SQL on Rails is an open-source web framework that’s optimized for language consolidation and breakneck collaboration. So SELECT SQL on Rails, and get your applications on the fast track.

Be sure to check out their screencast where they create a Google-smashing search engine in about eight minutes. It really is amazing.

Who can imagine New York City without the Mission burrito? Like the Yankees, the Brooklyn Bridge or the bagel, the oversize burritos have become a New York institution. And yet it wasn’t long ago that it was impossible to find a good burrito of any kind in the city. As the 30th anniversary of the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel approaches, it’s worth taking a look at the remarkable sequence of events that takes place between the time we click “deliver” on the burrito.nyc.us.gov website and the moment that our hot El Farolito burrito arrives in the lunchroom with its satisfying pneumatic hiss.

The story begins in any of the three dozen taquerias supplying the Bay Area Feeder Network, an expansive spiderweb of tubes running through San Francisco’s Mission district as far south as the “Burrito Bordeaux” region of Palo Alto and Mountain View. Electronic displays in each taqueria light up in real time with orders placed on the East Coast, and within minutes a fresh burrito has been assembled, rolled in foil, marked and dropped down one of the small vertical tubes that rise like organ pipes in restaurant kitchens throughout the city. Continue reading at Idle Words.

The landlord is played by Adam McKay’s talented daughter, Pearl. Funny or Die is a new video sharing site from McKay and Ferrell’s production company Sanchez Productions.

Will Ferrell

If you’ve been under a rock for ten years, you might not know that comedian Will Ferrell is a Saturday Night Live alum, has starred in several films, including Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Elf, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Bewitched, and Blades of Glory.

Adam McKay

A Second City member and writer for Saturday Night Live, Adam McKay wrote and directed both Talladega Nights and Anchorman. He also writes for the Huffington Post.