Tickets for the second annual Great Lakes Regional Burning Man event, Lakes of Fire, have just been released. You can read about it here on Wildfire Weaver, the website for my fire dancing performance/industry news. If you’ve never heard of fire dancing, take a look around the site. You might be surprised to find that [...]

Tags: Burning Man, camping, festival, fire dancing, fire spinning, great lakes regional, lakes of fire, Leave No Trace, outdoor event
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If you think that’s nerdy, go here and check out the comment thread. It’s worth it for the discussion as to whether Gandalf and Saruman are mages or warlocks alone. (via i Can Has Cheezburger)

Tags: books, fantasy, Gandalf, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, mages, noog, Peter Jackson, RPG, Saruman, video games, warlocks, wizards, World of Warcraft, WoW
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Introducing the Geek Zodiac, a spoof on Chinese zodiac, which is assigns “birth signs” by year. According to the Chinese zodiac, since the Chinese calendar turns over in February and I was born at the end of January, I’m on the cusp between being a Horse and a Snake. Great, so I’m either a flibberty-gibbet, [...]

Tags: aliens, astrology, astrology signs, daikaiju, geek, monsters, personality traits, zodiac
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Chalk this up as another reason why Legos are the coolest toy anyone can ever have: You can build a working replica of an ancient Greek computing device, The Antikythera Mechanism. The Antikythera Mechanism in Lego from Small Mammal on Vimeo. The actual device is a 2000-year-old calculation machine that was recovered in 1901 from [...]

Tags: analog, ancient Greeks, Antikythera Mechanism, computers, gadgets, gizmos, science, technology, tinkering
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It’s stuff like this that makes me think my hipster friends who claim that bacon is “so overdone” might actually be onto something. For that reason alone, this product should be wiped off the face of the earth and never spoken of again.

Tags: bacon, toothpaste, weird, wrong
Filed under: bacon, pop culture, weirdness

Yes, that’s beer. In a deep-fried pretzel dough pocket. Excuse me while I channel Homer Simpson for a minute: “mmmm…. deep fried beer…. agghhhh….” We can thank Texas for this insanity. The Big Tex Choice Awards at the Texas State Fair gives prizes for “Most Creative” and “Best Taste” at the fair and apparently competitors [...]

Tags: beer, deep fried, food porn, snacks
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(via That’s nerdalicious!) And here I was thinking that there couldn’t possibly be a way to combine my love for books and bacon without getting grease stains on the pages. Mollie of Wild Olive has created a printable bacon bookmark. Just download the PDF, print on some cardstock and voila! That little face on the [...]

Tags: bacon, bookmark, books
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Sure, one of the layers would have to have been dairy-free because of the ova-vegetarian husbeast, and maybe some of our guests would have been freaked out, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to think that the nerds who constituted the majority of our wedding guests would have appreciated it.

Tags: aliens, cake, sci-fi
Filed under: food porn, sci-fi, weirdness

Or at least in the Chicago River. That’s right, folks, a 30-in long baby alligator was found in the northern branch of the Chicago river. According to the Chicago River Canoe & Kayak co., this is the second gator in two years that’s been found in the Chicago river. It’s suspected that the gator was [...]

Tags: alligator, animal cruelty, Chicago river, kayak, snapping turtles, wildlife
Filed under: Chicago, outdoors, weirdness

I love that I live in a world where such a thing as a bacon rose bouquet exists.

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