The World’s Most Perfect Bacon
I have to assume the only reason you’re reading this right now and not busy home curing & eating bacon is because nobody has shown you how. Let’s fix that.
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Send Me In Coach!
High School Coaches outearning High School Teachers Texas high school football coaches in Class 5A and 4A schools (that’s 950 students or more) earn an average salary of $73,804, while the average salary for teachers in those same schools is about $42,400. But hey, those Texas football teams are pretty darn good!
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Top 10 WORST Sci-Fi Shows EVER! w/Videos
I’ll let this site do its own intro.
…these days with shows like Lost, Heroes, and Battlestar
Galactica, it’s easy to forget how bad we used to have it on television
when it came to sci-fi shows. Sure, we remember the Star Treks, the
Fireflys, the Babylon 5s, and so on, that managed to crawl their way
into our hearts…but lest we forget – Forever Geek is here to remind you
just how lucky we are these days. Sci-Fi on TV used to be BAD…real
bad.With that said, we present to you the 10 WORST Sci-Fi Shows of all
time. Complete with video of each horrible, horrible, television
mistake.
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Every Siskel & Ebert Review Ever – Online Now
Over 20 years of movie review clips with thumbs up and down from Roger Ebert, the late Gene Siskel and replacement Richard Roeper will be available online — for free — at the Ebert & Roeper website, www.atthemoviestv.com. Just how many movies could there be? Two decades is a looong time, and has resulted in approximately 5,000 reviews, which will even include recent shows with Roeper and guest reviewers such as Jay Leno. Even better — there is a big search engine coming along with the horde, so viewers can search by movie title, director or actor.
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Return of the radioactive boy scout
The man that was the subject of a book called The Radioactive Boy Scout is at it again. David Hahn was once an eagle scout, a smart and inquistive young man whose interest in building a nuclear reactor in his basement got him busted by police , and gave him a dose of radiation about one-thousand times the normal level in a human being. An investigation by the Feds uncovered some pretty powerful materials and minerals, such as thalium, and they quickly disposed of the glowing stuff beneath a site in Utah. Now, it seems as if he has yet to learn his lesson, as he has been busted once again, this time for stealing smoke detectors in an effort to experiment with radioactive materials. His face tells the tale.
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Video game you control with piss
Piss-Screen is a urine-stream-controlled video game. Bad news for the swollen-prostate crowd.
The Piss-Screen is a pressure-sensitive inlay for urinals, to play a game with your pee. The game is displayed on a screen above the urinal. We teamed up with bars across Frankfurt, and installed the Piss-Screen in the men’s restrooms. We designed a driving game in the style of Need for Speed with the clue that people would have a terrible crash into the oncoming-traffic if their reaction was too slow. After the crash we placed the message: “Too pissed to drive? Take a Taxi instead! Call: 069-733030”
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Speak softly and carry hotdish on a stick`
On September 2, 1901, then vice-president Theodore
Roosevelt first articulated his theory of diplomacy: “Speak
softly and carry a big stick” at the Minnesota State Fair. In some sort of
hideous misinterpretation of Roosevelt’s quote, Minnesotans have ever since provided a dizzying array (YouTube
link) of foods on the ends of
sticks to
be eaten as one strolls the state fair. Hotdish. Teriyaki ostrich. Pork chop. Scotch eggs. Alligator. Drugs. This year’s complete and rather
breathtaking list.
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Creepy Deepies
27 deep sea fish you’ve (probably) never seen. Creatures you haven’t likely netted lately, as listed by the Bounty Fishing blog.
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Louisiana man shot while having sex involving a firearm
Shortly after midnight Thursday, one Lake Charles man died while engaged in sexual behavior involving a firearm.
Not safe for work. Be sure to check out the video.
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Digitized Book of the Week
Digitized Book of the Week. An eclectic collection of works digitized from the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They include books and serials from its collections that focus on Illinois history, literature, and natural resources; rural life and agriculture; railroad history and engineering; and works in translation.
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Bad ass Biker Jacket.. made with Crochet
Red Pen, a crocheter on Crafster, posts the results of his project to crochet a handsome biker jacket out of black wool. The result is “bulky” and needs snaps and a belt (and epaulets!) to finish it, but this is a pretty rad extreme crochet project.
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James Leong wins 2007 Scrabble Player’s Championship
Wunderkind James Leong of Vancouver, BC defeated veteran Jerry Lerman of Foster City, California, with a score of 423-377 to win the 2007 Scrabble Player’s Championship in Dayton, OH. He takes the top prize of $12,500. Held during years when the bi-annual Nationals don’t occur, this is the biggest tournament of the year. The tournament attracted about 450 players from around the world. Think you’ve got what it takes? You’ll probably want to study up.
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Blue Skies Smilin’ At Me
Type The Sky: font project by a student at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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“I had a Raquel Welch in the pocket and decided to play it.”
She’s a mighty pretty woman. She’s a funky dancer. She has hijinks
with famous people and Orkans. She sings. She uses soap. She can bond with Janis Joplin and
outswim a speargun (but
not a boat). She fights. She has problems with buttons (and
accents). She likes wigs. She’s even a poker hand. And she
looks dang good for 66.
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Art to Go
The Grand Tour. Until August 31st, the National Gallery in England is putting reproductions of famous paintings on the streets of London, with MP3 audio guides and maps available for download. The reaction has been good.
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Souvenir Glass Collection
Thomas Graz has a collection of glasses with pictures on them. Mainly from the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the German Empire, but including some other countries too. A novel way to navigate history, architecture, people and landscape. Oh! and he needs help with some of them too.
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The Phoenix rises.
NASA’s Phoenix probe launched Saturday from Cape Canaveral, destination Mars. Its mission is to investigate polar ice. This probe is unique for a couple of reasons: first, it will face a traditional parachute-and-retro-rockets landing, unlike previous endeavors. Second, it will be landing far north of any previous mission. Previous Mars missions have had mixed success, with only about half successfully making it to their destination. It is scheduled to land in May, 2008.
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The blues had a baby and they called it rock & roll
John Lee Hooker performs Gloria and It Serves Me Right to Suffer with Van Morrison; I’m in the Mood with Bonnie Raitt; The Healer with Santana; Boogie Chilluns with the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton; and Roadhouse Blues with Jim Morrison & the Doors (audio only). [Also, Muddy Waters, Etta James and more blues legends & rock combos inside]
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More Alike Than We Thought?
Similar Diversity is a data visualization of a textual analysis of various religious books spanning several religions, showing the overlap in words, ideas, and meaning. Other infovis religion goodness includes a 90 second geographic history of the world’s major religions, a a map gallery of USAian religious adherance, and a timeline mashup of Jewish and Christian histories.
RobDurdle.com 
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