Every once in a while, something comes along that is truly horrifying. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any scarier than sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their heads, someone comes along and comes up with babies with laser eyes.
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Of all the wonders on this Internet of ours, surely a website with pages and pages of babies photoshopped to look like they have laser beams coming out of their eyes is one of the greatest. Where would society be without the Internet?
Okay, right off the bat, this survey is talking my language:
Three out of four survey respondents (73%) said they love bacon. In fact, nearly one in five Canadian men (18%) agreed that some days, they just can’t survive without bacon.
And:
When asked to rank various aromas by preference, 23% of men ranked bacon as number one.
Bacon is a pretty awesome scent, however, this statistic is essentially meaningless without seeing what the other scents are.
Anyway, the survey quickly got down to the important question: bacon or sex?
When asked to choose between bacon and sex, more than four in 10 (43%) chose bacon.
And even higher in some areas of Canada:
Of respondents from British Columbia, 50% said they would give up sex before bacon, versus 37% of respondents from Quebec
But then again, come on, you just knew the Québécois were going to be the oddballs.
As I said in the title, I don’t know if that says more about how awesome bacon is, or how crazy Canadians are for bacon. In fact,
One in four of respondents (23%) from Manitoba and Saskatchewan wondered if ‘my partner loves bacon more than me’.
Bacon: now with more ruined marriages!
Link via Meg
Quite some time ago, there was a music video going around the net. The band was Ok Go, and the song was “A million ways”, A.K.A. “dancing in the back yard”.
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Okay, so 4 guys dancing around in their backyard for a cheep, but pretty awesome, music video. I really don’t think it would have been popular if the song hadn’t been good too.
But no big deal, videos like this go around the web all the time. However, Ok Go was no one hit wonder. Pretty soon another video came out, “Here it goes again”. This one became even more popular than the previous one, and established them as the masters of the “one scene shoot”, where they complete all the choreography without cutting the video, or editing. This video was even more awesome than the last, and you’ve probably seen it, though you might just know it as, “the guys on treadmills”.
[Edit: This one has disabled embedding as well, but if you haven’t seen it, you should definitely click through!]
This led to all kinds of things, and in particular, an appearance on the MTV Music awards, where they performed the dance live, with some awesome treadmills that said, “Ok Go” on them.
Not only is that video pretty awesome, but I really love the song. Again, I think that you can have the coolest video in the world, but if the song sucks, you’re not going anywhere. So the popularity of the video is somewhat of a testament to the quality of the music.
Time passed, and Ok Go disappeared from the radar. I don’t think anybody was really too surprised at that; that kind of Internet fame is like catching lightning in a bottle. They had managed to harness it not once, but twice, and they should be grateful, right? Wrong. Not content to fade quietly into the dark, they went out and made ANOTHER AWESOME VIDEO.
“This too shall pass” features all the usual stuff: a great song and one long take of something overly complicated. In this case, rather than an elaborately choreographed dance, it was an elaborately choreographed Rube Goldberg machine.
World, take note! Ok Go will not be ignored! They will continue to be awesome until you sit up and listen!
Something tells me this door is on the city councilman’s office in Lawndale, California.
Link via Oddly Specific.
The only thing more awesome than the actual Lombardi Trophy (what you get for winning the Super Bowl, for you non-football types), would be if someone figured out a way to have the Lombardi Trophy made completely out of bacon:
This is from BBQ addicts, the same people as the bacon explosion. That’s two ridiculously awesome bacon products, and counting. For serious, some people are destined for greatness. Some people are destined for saint hood.
Shane Halbach 