Hasta La Gadget!

Everybody loves bacon. This love has spawned the creation of dozens of bacon-themed foods and condiments, as well as bacon-themed art like the Baconsaurus and Kevin Bacon the Bacon. The latest addition to the Bacon Hall of fame is the Puff the Bacon Dragon.

This dragon-shaped piece of bacon is currently up for sale on eBay, where seller aboadon calls it a ‘highly collectible’ piece of pork. He’s also asking for a pretty hefty amount for the ‘naturally shaped’ bacon dragon: $1,000.

From his listing:

Attention Collectors, Bacon and/or Dragon Lovers! I Present you The legendary “Bacon Dragon” – born November 9, 2012 in Phoenix, AZ. One of a kind formation, The bacon has spoken! This bacon art has not been treated with anything nor manipulated to its form. This is perfect for your dragon or bacon collection!

While we have no doubt about the awesomeness of the dragon, we’re not fans of the crazy price tag. You’ll probably have more luck spending that amount buying 200 packs of bacon at the grocery store and cooking each piece until you find a cool shape. At least you’ll get to eat the bacon and maybe find a dragon or dinosaur-shaped one in the process.

[via Obvious Winner]

The sky’s the limit when it comes to food lately. People are coming up with all sorts of weird concoctions and food creations all the time, but none as decidedly strange as the Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, which is actually stout that’s made with bull testicles.

Unsurprisingly, this unusual brew got its start as an April Fools prank. This brew is apparently made with “Colorado-grown base malts, roasted barley, seven specialty malts, sea salt, Styrian Goldings Hops and three BPBs.” And by BPBs, they mean ‘Balls-Per-Barrel.’ As for the taste, it’s got hints of “chocolate syrup, Kahlua and espresso, along with a palpable level of alcohol and a savory umami-like note.” 

Doesn’t sound very appealing to me, especially the part about what goes into each barrel. However, if you’re up for drinking some bull balls, then you’ll be pleased to know that you can pick up a pack for about $7 a pack on Beerjobber.com.

[via Geekologie via FoodBeast]

MMORPGs and other kinds of online games can take over your life, if you’re not careful. Just like most things, there’s something to be said about moderation. In order to save his son from his growing gaming addiction, a father in China decided to take matters into his virtual hands – hiring some online hitmen to go after his son’s character.

Mr. Feng wanted his grown son to spend less time on video games and get a job. The 23-year old is addicted to MMORPGs and RPGs. Mr. Feng decided to hire some online help to frag his son’s player character. The assassins were of higher level than his son, and they would kill his son’s character each time he joined the game. The father is hopeful that his son will eventually be discouraged from playing games as a result of the regular beat-down.

Apparently, it has started to work. The son has stated that he wants take time to find a job that suited him. The game that he’s been playing wasn’t disclosed.

[Sanqing Daily via Kotaku]

As we already know, prisoners can be very inventive with all of that time they have on their hands. Now, it turns out that inmates at one prison have been using a very sly and clever way to sneak contraband tools and gadgets in – using a cat.

According to the Associated Press, guards at a medium-security prison in Brazil grew suspicious when they saw a cat sauntering around the prison grounds on New Years Eve. When the cat was captured, they found a cellphone, drills, small saws and other contraband taped to its body.

They don’t know which inmate(s) are responsible for the tom-cat-foolery, and they’ll probably never know for sure, since their cat conspirator isn’t saying a word. There’s no word on the status of the mischievous feline, who remains in the custody of animal control, but hopefully it will be put up for adoption.

[via Digg on Twitter and G1]

Earlier this year, Canonical threw its hat into the mobile arena when it announced Ubuntu for Android, a variant of the open source operating system that can be installed on phones already running Android. But today the company unveiled Ubuntu for Phones. What’s up with that? Is that one hat too many, or is this an idiom too stretched out?

I think the thing that needs to be made clear first and foremost is that Ubuntu for Phones is exactly the same as the desktop version of Ubuntu, only with a different, phone-friendly interface.  Compare that to Apple’s OS X and iOS, which are still two very different operating systems. Windows 8 could be a more apt comparison, except Ubuntu avoids Windows 8′s problem. Microsoft’s new OS also crams the mobile interface into the desktop version, but Ubuntu will only have a phone interface on phones. Revolutionary, I know.

With Ubuntu for Phones, Canonical hopes to enter the budget phone market and also create the legit “phone that doubles as a PC” market. Cheap phones with low hardware will only use the Ubuntu phone interface, but high end phones with beefy specs can be connected to a typical desktop setup – monitor, keyboard, mouse – and let users access the full Ubuntu desktop interface. That, by the way, is the exact same thing that Ubuntu for Android does. I guess Canonical will eventually ditch that if Ubuntu for Phones takes off. Skip to around 5:20 in the video below for more details on Ubuntu for phones.

On one hand we have Android-on-a-stick computers. On the other hand we have Ubuntu for Phones – and you can bet your RIM stock that Apple is planning something very similar to this. Which portable desktop do you prefer? There’s a lot I didn’t cover here so if you want to know more I suggest you head to the Ubuntu website for more information on Ubuntu for Phones.

[via Ars Technica]