Thursday 29 January 2009

I can feel my arteries clogging just reading the recipe

"massive torpedo-shaped amalgamation of two pounds of bacon woven
through and around two pounds of sausage and slathered in barbecue sauce"

The Bacon Explosion - Take Bacon. Add Sausage. Blog. - NYTimes.com

Thursday 22 January 2009

The Cleveland Show sneak peak

Introduces some of the new characters on The Cleveland Show, the Family Guy spinoff.

The Cleveland Show video: The Cleveland Show on TV.com

DIY bulletproof backpack

Is this good? Bad? Certainly it's sad that there's been enough shootings in schools to make this product even viable, but I wonder how you'd make your kid feel if you bought one of these for them.

Ballistic Panel for bullet proof safety

Monday 19 January 2009

8 Best Non-Human Tool Users

Some of these are well known to most, but they're still pretty freaky!

Clever Critters: 8 Best Non-Human Tool Users | Wired Science from Wired.com

How to tie the world's fastest shoelace knot

It's hard not to admire the sheer dedication of Ian Fieegen, who had a dream in 1982 of creating the world's fastest tying symmetrical shoelace knot, and achieved it. From such an ignominious start has erupted the world's best shoelace site.

Ian's Shoelace Site

My favourite page is his history of the "Ian Knot" (which anyone who had a knot book as a kid, like me, knows is really a reef knot even though he never admits it):
Ian's Shoelace Site - History of the Ian Knot

A very useful page is the Secure Knot.

Not quite as cool as the dude who collects mechanical pencils, or the dude that reviews little notebooks, but still pretty cool....