Even if some of you care to try eating chocolate covered ants, fried grasshoppers, or more exotic insect delicacies in Thailand, be aware it probably won’t be your first time. Crushed female cochineal beetles, yum!

Oxymoron: Escalade Hybrid I used to see how much work went into hybrid power systems every day – the R&D department used to be located right next to my office, until it got too big a couple years ago and moved into its own facility. And American car makers are just starting to see the light? Timbuk 3 this is not. GM – Late to the party and wearing floppy clown shoes.

People are sending me teh nasty links today, so let me share the love: World Record Peristaltic Action You know what? The other links are so bad, I’ll just stop here.

Oh, the horror. This person deserves to be shat upon. Maybe it’s time for the Buddha to get together for a jam session. How about a new song? I propose the title: Somebody’s Going to Tentacle Rape Hell (Ain’t Karma a Bitch?) (Band/domain name vigilance provided by Adam)

This is the funniest shit I’ve seen for a long, long time: “Choose Your Own Adventure” Books That Never Quite Made It I really used to be into those books, and the Zork series as well. The Zork books had moralistic endings (“You chose to cheat by stating you had the Sneakers of Lightness, so the story ends here. Think about what a bad person you are for a while.”) built in for cheaters, like me.

This is perhaps the grossest thing I’ve ever seen before lunch: In-N-Out 100×100 In other news, I have officially decided that Chuck Norris references are already too wack.

Go check out this Google Maps hack that traces Jack Bauer’s movements during this season’s episodes of 24: Jacktracker Who’d have thought we’d have this kind of awesomeness, even just a year or two ago?

Last week I railed against Skype for selling out to the commies, so it’s only fair to spread the love to Google as well. Here’s to hoping you have the good grace to perform a reacharound when you’re getting fucked: SAMPLE GOOGLE.CN SEARCH FOR “CHINESE ATROCITIES”

Last week we picked up some American beef at Jusco, complete with AMERICAN BEEF! FROM USA! stickers on the packs. “Awesome,” I thought. Beef bowl renewal at Yoshinoya must be imminent… Think again. And American companies wonder why they can’t compete in foreign markets… It’s called quality control, guys. This is sad because, unfortunately, Aussie beef just doesn’t cut it for Japanese cooking – it’s too lean. I think Australian cows play hockey all day or something. New Zealand beef is much better from what I’ve seen – on par or better than American beef – but for some reason it’s a lot more expensive. Pretty much the same price…