Someone made an AK-47 out of bacon.

We had our first annual Bacon Day this past Saturday. As a huge fan of bacon, and all the great bacon blogs out there, I decided it was time for me to make my own bacon creation. I came up with the BA-K-47, a 1:1 scale AK-47 made out of bacon. It took a total of eight hours to create, a lot of bacon, and a blowtorch... oh yeah, and our good friend beer helped too.

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User generated content run amok: House Republican 'suggestions voting site' is overrun by crazies

So the House Republicans are turning to the web for ideas, recently launching http://www.americaspeakingout.com/ -- asking Republicans on the web to submit and vote. The result is not what they probably wanted.

"End Child Labor Laws," suggests one helpful participant. "We coddle children too much. They need to spend their youth in the factories."

"How about if Congress actually do thier job and VET or Usurper in Chief, Obama is NOT a Natural Born Citizen in any way," recommends another. "That fake so called birth certificate is useless."

"A 'teacher' told my child in class that dolphins were mammals and not fish!" a third complains. "And the same thing about whales! We need TRADITIONAL VALUES in all areas of education. If it swims in the water, it is a FISH. Period! End of Story."

House Republicans, meet the World Wide Web.

via washingtonpost.com

Wow guys, who OK'ed this website? Because seriously you can't get away with running a site like this without some serious moderation capabilities in place.

Check out this hilarious page on job creation -- some include:

  • Deport my dog. His English is terrible.
  • Americans need equal access to unicorns and rainbows to overcome barriers in the pursuit of sparkly happiness. Traditionally, unicorns have been too rare to truly impact the world and rainbows are too tied to occurrences in nature.

I agree. Unicorns FTW!

Afrikaans rap-rave by Die Antwoord: Gut-punch amazing (in an ironic way)

Fronted by a skinny dude who calls himself Ninja, and a firecracker of a rapper/singer in the vein of M.I.A. named Yo-landi Vi$$er, Die Antwoord blew up via boing boing in February this year. Ninja explains in a Vice Magazine interview:

Die Antwoord started with my one homeboy, DJ Hi-Tek (shows tattoo on hand)—He’s got his own PC computer and he makes basically like phat rap-rave beats. I was checking out his shit, and we started making some beats, you know, next level shit. So then I was speaking to my homegirl Yo-Landi, you know she’s got some funk and super flavour, so we started with a kind of, like, 2Unlimited, C+C Music Factory kind of thing… but a bit more gangster, with a street edge. Then we found out you can put the songs for free on the interweb, no problem. Now the album’s pumping worldwide, like some next-level futuristic shit. Scotland, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Japan… In like, one second we’re in the overseas, it’s instant—like the matrix.

They're actually two middle class South African artists who have adopted the stage personas of poor working class South African white trash.

It's like Ali G satire plus 90's electronic music. It sounds like it would be terrible, but its actually awesome. Oh right, that's why I like it now.

Favorite line from this song... I'm a Ninja.

They're playing LA in July. I kind of... want to go see it. Who's with me?