Curiosities – Page 43

What’s right with this camp? Bacon. Lots of bacon.

I’ve been on some pretty awesome camps in my life. Mid Year Camps and National Training Events were the highlights of my time at university. They were life changing events. But I’d probably swap half of one of those experiences for a trip to Camp Bacon. Activities include bacon bingo, bacon trivia, sharing bacon recipes, and all you can eat bacon.

The camp is run by a guy with serious bacon credentials – the author of the Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon.

The Washington Post covered the first event…

One family travelled 21 hours to be there. That’s dedication. The group shared bacon recipes, bacon making tips, and bacon poetry:

The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.

July 8, 2010

Bacon Odyssey seeks the best of the pig

GeekDad has launched a great bacon odyssey aiming to try as many bacon flavoured products and bacon recipes as they can lay their hands on. It’s been a heady ride filled with porky goodness. This burger looks sensational.

The series is worth watching.

July 7, 2010

Cool Ad: for a freezer

This Freezer is so cold for so long it keeps dinosaurs frozen.

July 6, 2010

Plan your meals with a pie graph plate

If you’re struggling to balance your diet why not do it the way accountants do. With a pie graph. Printed, for your convenience, on your plate. To scale. Just stack it on and watch the kilos drop off.

It becomes even more manageable if you turn every element of your dish into pie.

From HAF

July 4, 2010

Would you hire this painter?

We’ve been driving past this house for months. This sign is priceless. The paint job, despite the sign, seems professional enough…

July 3, 2010

What sort of Ikea furniture are you?

Anna, of Goannatree, sent me this link (via an interesting looking blog called Young House Love), it’s one of those “what sort of x are you” things that searches through the database of Ikea products to find the closest, most Swedish, version of you…

I’ve been to Ikea twice since making the move to Brisbane – once with a bona fide Swede. I’m proud to announce that I am a small table.

July 2, 2010

Shirt of the Day: Avasmurf

I’d never really thought about the parallels between Smurfs and Avatar before – a bunch of blue creatures fighting off an oppressor in their homeland.

You can help others make the connection with this shirt.

June 30, 2010

Sketchman

There was a time, long ago, when computer games could be sketched on single pages. In pencil. Those were noble times. Simpler.
Here are some of Toru Iwatani’s (the game’s designer) planning drawings for Pacman. In 8-bit glory.

June 30, 2010

Real Life Ninja Turtle

When I get home today I might turn our two turtles into Leonardo and Donatello.

Via Geekology

June 30, 2010

Back to the Future got it wrong

There are many things I am disappointed about with regards to the vision of the future presented by Back to the Future 2. I don’t have a hoverboard for one… but Michael J Fox has better cause to feel hard done by.

Via here.

I am glad the two tie look didn’t take off. What were you disappointed by?

June 30, 2010

Pixar Wars

A long time ago in a gallery far, far away, some guy produced these mashups of Pixar and Star Wars characters.

June 30, 2010

Bare boned cartoons

These cartoon skeletons follow a similar vein (or lack of veins) to the Pacman one from last week. They’re from designer Hyung Koo Lee.

Here’s Bugs Bunny.

And an anatomic drawing of his head.

Roadrunner:

Huey, Duey and Louie.

More here.

June 30, 2010

God and his AK-47

The manufacturer of this toy must have listened to Benny Hinn’s “Holy Ghost Machine Gun” sermon – here’s God, the action figure, replete with AK-47… umm. Fail. Still, he’s clearly a male, so the maker’s theology is better than K-Rudd’s… and Bonhoeffer probably would have used an AK on Hitler given the chance…

June 26, 2010

Cook like a mafioso

At some point in my past, at a time when I was considering writing a mafia novel, I purchased a copy of “the Mafia Cookbook.” It was a series of recipes for traditional Italian meals (not anything more sinister than that). I read it, and a bunch of “true crime” testimonies of Mafioso turned state’s informer. I still might write it one day – though I see that the plotline I had mapped out in my head of two brothers taking very divergent career paths is now the basis of a Showtime Television series. One of the brothers in my story was going to be a man of the cloth… but I digress.

Had I the intention of cooking like a mafioso I would totally use one of these…

June 26, 2010

Pacman skeleton found in desert

He’s REAL!

Well, not really. But this is cool.

June 20, 2010