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  • Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes
    "I have plenty of great uses for bacon in a barbecue pit, but the longer I thought about it, the more I wanted to step it up a notch and clog a few arteries for those guys. Behold, BACON EXPLOSION!!!" Oh sweet jesus.
    (tags: bacon recipes bbq coronary )
  • ivan krstić · code culture » How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing
    "Porsche’s move took three years of careful maneuvering. It was darkly brilliant, a wealth transfer ingeniously conceived like few we’ve ever seen. Betting the right way, Porsche roiled the financial markets and took the hedge funds for a fortune. Betting the wrong way, Adolf Merckle took his life." A powerful example of how much you can lose when shorting goes wrong.
    (tags: finance trading shares markets shorting volkswagen porsche )
  • Whopper Sacrifice: Ditch 10 Friends, Get a Free Whopper | So Good
    "Instead of encouraging you to join a group, find new friends, or spread the word, Burger King’s new Whopper Sacrifice Application is offering you a free Whopper if you DE-FRIEND 10 people from your friend list." Um.
    (tags: marketing advertising facebook friending burgerking insidious )
  • Losing Is Fun, Learning is Better: DF UltraTutorials | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Two hours of HD Dwarf Fortress tutorials. Will they make it any easier? No idea, but it's got to be a start.
    (tags: games tutorial video guide dwarffortress )
  • One More Go: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat – Offworld
    "We spend a lot of time talking about games and films, but a much more useful corollary is music. The processes are spookily similar. Creators devise an experience, and commit it to code. The code then sits there, lifeless, until a performer picks it up. Then, through a complex tool which requires substantial manual dexterity to master, the performer interprets the experience the creator devised. No two people will play the code the same way. Some players will perform better than others. Some will get stuck and give up before the end."
    (tags: games music play writing performance interpretation )

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