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The best friends are the friends that invite you over for smoked bbq ribs.

Sarah’s Smash Shack: rental rooms you can smash crockery in: http://moopz.com/g8qd. Brilliant? Maybe Aaron’s Anger Atrium here in MN?

Beggin’ Strips’ tagline is “dogs don’t know it’s not real bacon.” Well, ok humans would know this isn’t real bacon, but it’s packed with bacon-like goodness. You can get all the products separately, but why? Go all in and get the gift pack!

Mmm… bacony. Click the pic to order.

Product Description:
J & D’s Baconnaise Ultimate Bacon Lover’s Gift Packcomes with
one 14-Ounce jar of Baconnaise
6-Flavers of BaconSalt
- Jalapeno, 2.5-ounce jar
- Original, 2.0-ounce jar
- Cheddar, 2.5-ounce jar
- Maple, 2.5-ounce jar
- Applewood,2.5-ounce jar
- Mesquite, 2.5-ounce jar
1 J&D’s Bacon Lip Balm

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The developers that brought you Google Maps are at it again. Think email + instant messenging + Microsoft SharePoint (but good), and you have the foundation of Google Wave. That foundation is built to support a whole host of things in the future, most of which is yet to even be conceived, much less implemented.

Unfortunately, the video below is an hour and twenty minutes, but it’s filled with wonderful geeky fantasy come true whiz-bang snaziness.

Google Wave Preview.

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Going to City Pages’ Minneapolis Beerfest 2009, who’s with me?! http://moopz.com/g7dl

“The Shangri-La Diet: The No Hunger Eat Anything Weight-Loss Plan” by Seth Roberts sounds crazy, but crazy like a fox, or crazy like a cat-lady? Ok… so supposedly by consuming 100-400 calories daily in either sugar water or no-taste oil (extra-light olive oil, canola oil, or safflower oil) you can adjust your body’s weight “set point.” The more you consume (not to exceed 400 calories) the better it works.

Here are the caveats:

1. The oil or sugar water has to be consumed at least an hour before or after eating anything or consuming beverages with flavor.
2. It’s an appetite suppressant technique so if you’re a recreational eater, it may well not help you. It’s supposed to make you hungry less often and fuller faster so you may wind up eating smaller portions though.
3. Because it works through appetite suppression, you still ultimately have to eat responsibly, the program just makes it easier to eat less and think about food less.

As I said, I’m skeptical, but it’s so crazy, I just have to try it. I’m reasonably easily maintaining my current weight, but i could probably lose another 10lbs to get rid if a little extra doughiness. We’ll see, I’ll let you know if it works.

Reviews:
Absurd, ridiculous, and remarkable. It is quite simply one of the most unusual weight loss books ever written. . . . — Diet-Blog.com

Everything on the cover is literally true. You make one, almost subtle, change, and you lose weight. . . . — CalorieLab.com

Seth Roberts… has now hit upon a weight-loss theory that might just benefit a few million people. — Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

The Shangri-La Diet is unlike any diet you ever have come across; it is, in the truest sense, a hack. — Health-Hack.com

The diet to end all diets….You actively feel like not eating. . . . — Joyce Cohen, HuntGrunt blogger and New York Times columnist ["The Hunt"]

The great thing about Roberts’s methods is that you will know whether they work within a day or two. — MarginalRevolution.com –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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First 3rd party Palm Pre Review : Boy Genius Report http://moopz.com/g5es

This is me, reluctantly entering the twittering age… *sigh*

Grooveshark now has a WordPress plugin that lets you, er, me add songs and/or playlists to posts. So, I’m going to start to add theme songs to posts for you to listen to while reading. Hokey? Oh yeah. But, I’m easily amused so be prepared.

Ah, one point of clarification… the plugin has been installed for all of two minutes so there’s bound to be some tweaking required. Please bear with me while i fiddle with the knobs, dials, and switches. Also, I suspect it may not work well or at all in the RSS feeds. I guess we’ll find out…

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So, I’m checking out coverage on T-Mobile‘s web site and I’m allegedly in a “fair” region. Hmm… that’s odd, because my service sucks… let’s see what “fair” means: “You should be able to place calls usually outdoors, occasionally inside a car, but not indoors.” Wow… lame.

That doesn’t sound like “fair” to me, in fact, it sounds like “poor” or “barely” or “technically.” To quote Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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