Fun Stuff

Bacon Roses

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Forget flowers for mother’s day. If you want to really impress someone, how about some bacon roses?

This seems way more practical (and way more delicious!) than actual flowers.

There is an entire tutorial at that link, with pictures of each step, so you can make your own. Basically, they poke holes in a mini-muffin tin so the grease can run out, then roll the bacon and put one in each tin. Broil the bacon to cook it, and then put it on some cheap fake rose stems.

The best part? After you eat the bacon, you can re-use the stems!

Link via Heather

Carp Hunters

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I can’t stop hearing about the Asian carp and what a menace it is. How it will get into the Great Lakes and cause the end of life as we know it. I have no reason to doubt this, and I’m kind of an expert on the subject since I’ve actually seen the movie Snakehead Terror not once, but twice.

Nobody has a good method of stopping this fishy invasion…nobody, that is, until now. I give you the Carp Hunters. These guys have found their own way to combat the carp, and it involves swords and water skis.

Perhaps not the most efficient (or scalable) way to tackle a fish invasion, but at least they’re doing something. I mean, the guy skewers a flying fish with wolverine claws while water skiing. That’s not something you see every day.

Do the fish really jump out of the water like that when you’re water skiing?? Why? I guess they really ARE a menace!

Link via Sara.

Zombie Proof House

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Just to prove that you *can* have your cake and eat it too, someone made a really awesome looking house that can go into total, zombie-proof lock down mode. The first ever zombie-proof house!

This house can go from open-and-airy, like this:

To total concrete bunker, like this:


This place even has a drawbridge to the only entrance (which happens to be on the second story):

I think it’s awesome. If you told me you were building a zombie-proof, concrete bunker, I would tell you it was a great idea, but I never would have imagined something that actually seemed as nice and livable on the inside as this. And notice some of the nice features, like the concrete wall running around the property. They don’t give many details about the other required features of a zombie-proof house, such as generators, food storage, access to clean water, etc., but it seems like the kinds of things you would have included if you went to the trouble of making foot thick, concrete blast doors.

I’m not really sure if this is zombie-proof, but I think it’s got about the best chance of any real place I’ve ever seen.

Link via Ben.

Flynano

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Hold on to your socks kids! It’s time for personal flight.

There’s a company I would like to bring to your attention by the name of Flynano. What do they make, you ask? Flying jet skis:

Basically, it’s a one seater plane that is just light enough that it doesn’t legally qualify as an aircraft, which means you don’t need a pilot’s license. So anybody could climb into one of these and reach heights around 2 miles and topping out at around 93 mph.

Prices start around $36k, which some people might say is a lot of cash, but I have to disagree. Personal flight for slightly more than a car? This is basically the flying car we’ve been waiting for! Seriously, is this so much different than a jet-pack? A little bulkier, I’ll grant you, but not so different. And even though I couldn’t pay $36k for one, I could probably pay to rent one for an hour at a resort or something.

Flying jet skis my friend, the future is now!

It’s all about the Journey

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Mine would totally be Don’t Stop Believin’.

Link via A Softer World.