The Bacon-Wrapped Economy , or how the rise of a new elite of wealthy, predominantly twentysomething, software engineers and startup founders is changing the San Francisco Bay Area's economy and culture.
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posted by acb
on Mar 24, 2013 -
134 comments
AV Club Interview with Nick Offerman Articulate and often profound, this excellent AV Club interview with MeFi favorite Nick Offerman (previously
1,
2,
3) discusses his role as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson, the modern concept of masculinity portrayed by Hollywood, the importance of being yourself, and prosthetic penises. Second page of interview NSFW.
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posted by dobie
on Jul 18, 2012 -
13 comments
Recently we learned about
Erdos-Bacon-Sabbath numbers. Continuing in this vein,
forum members at Select Button have been compiling Williams numbers, being characters in video games who can be linked to Nina Williams from the Tekken series of fighting games.
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Mikhail Gorbachev is easy, he has a Williams number of only 2. Adolph Hitler has a Williams number of 3. Also, the guy from Doom, Voltron, Barack Obama and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. God has a Williams number of 4. So does T. E. Lawrence and Tron. The Burger King has a Williams number of 5 as well as Sarah Palin, Sigmund Freud, Avatar Aang and H.P. Lovecraft. Homestar Runner has a Williams number of 7.
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posted by JHarris
on Jul 1, 2012 -
27 comments
This is the perfect recipe for those of you who like to enjoy a big bowl of macaroni and cheese for dinner and absolutely nothing else. It’s beautifully flavored, creamy, cheesy, and with the smokey bite of crisp salty bacon on top?? Oh man, you guys are in for a treat — I’m not even kidding. It’s amazing. (previously)
posted by Trurl
on Feb 3, 2012 -
111 comments
Mike Daisey, monologuist, author and gadfly, will be streaming the live performance of his 24 hour monologue, All Hours of the Day, from 6 PM PST today until 6 PM PST tomorrow. He remains cagey about what precisely the show is about, but early reports indicate that
bacon will be involved.
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posted by Phlogiston
on Sep 17, 2011 -
21 comments
How To Make Anything Signify Anything "By the time he retired from the National Security Agency in 1955, Friedman had served for more than thirty years as his government’s chief cryptographer, and—as leader of the team that broke the Japanese PURPLE code in World War II, co-inventor of the US Army’s best cipher machine, author of the papers that gave the field its mathematical foundations, and coiner of the very term cryptanalysis—he had arguably become the most important code-breaker in modern history."
posted by puny human
on Feb 4, 2011 -
10 comments
What do you get when you combine two pounds of bacon with two pounds of Italian sausage carefully crafted into a woven log of artery clogging doom?
The Bacon Explosion.
posted by quin
on Nov 18, 2010 -
92 comments
Rob Levitt of Mado in Chicago
butchering a pig. 19
more videos submitted by chefs and butchers to
Protein University, a project that aims to "create an online resource populated with a family tree of butchery techniques from whole animal breakdowns to sausage making from across the globe".
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posted by AceRock
on Oct 14, 2010 -
15 comments
Want to have a small bacon pick-me-up in the office or away from home? The food blog, Homesick Texan, presents the traditional recipe for
Bacon Jam.
posted by 1f2frfbf
on Sep 16, 2009 -
43 comments
International Bacon Day!
"Bacon Day is held on the Saturday before Labor Day US ... This year that is the 5th of September.
Last year Bacon Day was celebrated in the US, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Switzerland, and the UK ... Bacon Day is a day of Bacon ... think Iron Chef but all day and the secret ingredient is Bacon."
via Bacon Today [previously], your go-to guide for all things bacon and bacon-related , up to but not including the artery-unclogging services you will need afterward.) [more inside]
posted by not_on_display
on Sep 3, 2009 -
41 comments
The Meat Ship Ingredients:
~20 sausages
~48 rashers of bacon
1.2kg of sausage meat
1kg of pork mince
10 franks
1kg of pastry (not 100% meat this time)
1 onion
1 mushroom
2 packets of chipolata sausages
various food colourings
sage
Sequel to the
Meat House.
Previously.
posted by daHIFI
on May 8, 2009 -
40 comments
"
Cochon 555 is a culinary event featuring 5 chefs, 5 pigs, and 5 winemakers in a friendly competition for a cause. Each chef will prepare a 70 pound heritage pig from head to toe for 200 enthusiasts." (flash site)
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posted by mkb
on Apr 15, 2009 -
18 comments
