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In a post last year, I com­plained about poorly designed but­ter labels that made cook­ing need­lessly dif­fi­cult. The stan­dard but­ter wrap­per gives us only table­spoons, which isn’t use­ful when fol­low­ing a recipe that calls for, say 1/4 cup.

I’m pleased to announce that at least one com­pany has finally designed a bet­ter but­ter label. Clover, the peo­ple with the silly car­toon cows, has started mark­ing 1/4, 1/3, and 1/2-cup mea­sure­ments on their wrap­pers, in addi­tion to the table­spoon measurements.

As you can see, their organic but­ter (top image) doesn’t use the help­ful new label — only the non-organic kind. Well, it’s a start!

The after­math of last Thursday’s pie fight at Powell and Market. Photo by Steve Rhodes.

This year’s annual Valentine’s Day pil­low fight at Justin Herman Plaza. Photo by mary­mad­dux.

The SF Chronicle reports that the city is absorb­ing huge cleanup costs thanks to messes left behind by recent flash mobs. Maybe mob­bers should adopt a “leave no trace” phi­los­o­phy, like that infor­mally fol­lowed by the early mobs, when peo­ple would con­verge, act, and dis­ap­pear, leav­ing only con­fu­sion in their wake. Leaving behind garbage, shav­ing cream, and feath­ers that clog the foun­tains and halt the cable cars is no fun for anyone.

Sometimes I would get dis­tracted while doing the dishes and play these appli­ances as though they were instru­ments. Be hon­est: Have you ever heard a dish­washer duet that sounded so good?

Finally! Someone makes fun of CNN’s gra­tu­itous and dis­tract­ing use of mul­ti­touch tech­nol­ogy to dis­play data that would be much more clearly com­mu­ni­cated through sim­ple sta­tic dis­plays. Thanks, SNL! (Hint: Jump to 1:30 into the video.)