Month: July 2010

Bacon. It has a wonderful place in human history. Humans have eaten it for thousands of years, traded it as a staple of economies, and most recently, turned it into an internet meme. It’s no mystery why we have a love affair with Bacon. It’s the Christina Hendricks of meat products. The smell of bacon soothes a crying infant. Vegetarians make exceptions for bacon. Bacon is the closest we can get to empirically proving the existence of God.

All the aforementioned could be said about store-bought bacon. The thing is, I had heard whispers that bacon from scratch—cured, smoked, and cut at home—puts store-bought bacon to profound shame. I didn’t think it was possible to improve on perfection, but I had to find out. And so I bravely set out to into the unknown to discover the lost art of homemade bacon, by which I mean I turned off Extreme Home Makeover, got off my butt and looked it up online.

With more and more businesses offering free Wi-Fi, staying safe on public Wi-Fi networks is a major concern. This is a good article to send to your less-than-tech-savvy coffee drinking friends and family members.

Just because most wireless routers have a firewall to protect you from the internet doesn’t mean you’re protected from others connected to the same network. Lots of wireless hotspots these days are completely unencrypted, usually so they’re easier to connect to (baristas don’t need to be giving out the internet password to everyone that walks in).

A 26 year old grad student is building a DeLorean hovercraft by hand. Yes, I said by hand. Check it out:

Buying a replacement remote? Shop Best Buy, they offer an abundance of free jumbo boxes with the purchase of every 6″ remote.

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