Not-politics – Page 1212

Bacon from a squeeze bottle!

It’s real. It’s bacon that you can squeeze out whenever you want squeezable bacon. It is not an April Fool’s joke. It is one of the greatest ideas ever. You want some of this. You want a case of this*.

Via Caleb Howe, whose Twitter you want to follow. If you do the Twitter thing, that is.

Moe Lane

You also want Bacon Flavored Mints. Don’t try to lie about it, either. Continue reading Bacon from a *squeeze bottle*!

I am joining the People’s Glorious Revolutionary Twitter Movement!

Please be engaging in your mandatory voluntary following of my heroic worker’s Tweets.

The Buggles, or A Really Depressing Thought.

The kid in the video?

Video Killed The Radio Star, by The Buggles.

Probably has a kid of her own by now. One that might even be old enough to vote.

Working their way up to killing swine: PETA in VA.

Yup. PETA’s killing pets again.

PETA’s Dirty Secret

From July 1998 through December 2008, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed over 25,112 dogs, cats, and other “companion animals.” That’s more than five defenseless creatures every day. PETA has a walk-in freezer to store the dead bodies, and contracts with a Virginia Beach company to cremate them.

You can see more at the site PETA Kills Animals, which is one of those sites that really, really bothers a certain sort of person. Like, say, the sort of person who doesn’t want to hear just how tasty my BACON and pineapple pizza was at lunch, or how I’m looking forward to taking some CHICKEN tomorrow and cooking it up for dinner. Of course, that sort of person will almost certainly assume that I’m just saying all of that because I’m a shill for animal exploiters, or something.

Actually, no: to exceptionally misquote Scarface I’ll boot to the head PETA for free. Although if Omaha Steaks wants to send over these babies in consideration for my trouble I’m not going to get bent out of shape about it.

I want one.

See, this is why we invented engineering. To have stuff like this:

MARCH 31–In a law enforcement first, Ohio cops this month arrested a man for drunk driving on a motorized bar stool. That’s right, a motorized bar stool, which can be seen below in a police evidence photo.

In fact, this is not just why we have engineering: this is why we have America. Seriously.

(Thanks to Dan Riehl, who has unaccountably not put anything up about this yet.)

I find this simultaneously clever and frightening.

Can’t quite decide which is the stronger reaction.

You really have to go and not see this:

It’s quite engrossing, really.

Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again

Then there’s this: Ninja AD 1460-1650 (Warrior). I hadn’t realized that Osprey Publishing had a sense of humor.

Looking for someone to read (Peter Hamilton)

(Today’s author: Peter Hamilton)

I’m currently going through The Temporal Void (second book in his Void Trilogy), so I thought that I should mention his works generally. Peter Hamilton’s one of the more interesting science fiction authors out there: while his work is definitely part of the ‘hard space opera’ tradition, he’s also ready to play with some quite heretical tropes – at least, heretical for hard SF.

Case in point: his Night’s Dawn Trilogy explores the reaction of an interstellar civilization to empirical proof of the existence of an afterlife, particularly when its inhabitants start escaping from it en masse. His Mindstar trilogy (based in a globally-warmed, post-Communist, future Great Britain) is likewise ostensibly one genre (cyberpunk), but one that has been modified heavily in order to make it plausible that anybody would actually live in it voluntarily. And the trilogy that I’m reading now is a sequel to the two-book series Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained, which rather sneakily inserts elves into a classic alien war scenario without anyone quite noticing until it was over and done with.

They’re big, fat books, and quite fun. Check them all out.

Alive, merely running around.

Here, have a video until I can get around to the free ice cream.

Book of the Week: Bigfoot Observer’s Field Manual

And so we say goodbye to It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News for Book of the Week… and replace it with Bigfoot Observer’s Field Manual: A practical and easy-to-follow step-by-step guide to your very own face-to-face encounter with a legend. Solely because of the book cover:

I couldn’t resist. I didn’t even try.

Moe Lane

PS: Please not that while I do not believe in the existence of Bigfoot, I am not actually mocking the author for doing so. You’ll notice that I don’t have a book for sale on Amazon.com.