Even the most carnivorous guy will eat a salad if it’s served in a cup made out of bacon! The method for making them is pretty cool, too.

This chart has given me the giggles all afternoon. There's a whole bunch more of them over at the Song Chart Flickr Pool.

Nicely done.

"Semi-Pro" **1/2 (out of four): There's an honest-to-goodness sports movie trying to emerge in this typically goofy Will Ferrell comedy. Too bad it didn't try a little harder.

In the early 70s, the NBA existed in tandem with its more flamboyant cousin, the American Basketball Association (ABA). The ABA, with teams both familiar (the New York Nets, the San Antonio Spurs) and not so much (the Virginia Squires, anyone?), was characterized by a flashier style of play and slightly different rules (including the three-point shot). In 1976, four ABA teams, including the Nets and the Spurs, merged into the NBA while the remainder of the ABA teams were dissolved. "Semi-Pro", a typically goofy Will Ferrell comedy, isn't the story of one of those teams. But it's close. In fact, somewhere beneath the pratfalls, the puke jokes and the bear wrestling, there's an honest-to-goodness sports movie trying to emerge. It's a shame it didn't try a little harder. As it is right now, "Semi-Pro" exists uneasily between screwball comedy and polite tribute.

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Girl meets boy. There's an instant attraction. But then...

"Penelope" ** (out of four): Less-than-magical fairytale about girl who must find true love in order to break the family curse that left her with the nose of a pig.

Director Mark Palansky's "Penelope" is set up as a modern day fairytale. Set in an unnamed city (very clearly London with an amalgam of British and American accents), Penelope Wilhern is born to a family of blueblood socialites with a centuries-old curse which places the nose of a pig upon the first-born Wilhern daughter. Through some expository rigmarole, we're told that Penelope is the first daughter born in several generations, leaving her stuck with the snout until she finds true love "among one of her own". Rather than face a gawking public, mom and dad Wilhern (Catherine O'Hara and Richard E. Grant) fake Penelope's death and keep her locked in the attic. Pretty dark stuff, but it's all told in a whimsical voice-over (the type featured weekly on TV's "Pushing Daisies") and the moralizing is happily kept to a minimum.

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If you can do this, what else can you rig up a Wiimote to do?

(I almost typed "wig up a Wiimote." Channeling my inner Baba Wawa)

(via Cynical-C)

Police officers charged with directing traffic in Romania have been sent to school to get their moves down. The twice-a-week classes are taught by two former members of the Timisoara Opera Ballet.

"The aim is to develop an ability to regulate traffic and achieve elegance in their movements, which will not only be agreeable to the eyes but could also help drivers waiting at a red light get rid of their stress or sadness," the head of the community police in the town of Timisoara, Dorel Cojan, told AFP.

They’ll have a lot to learn to catch up with dancing traffic cops from other countries.

(via Arbroath)

A speculative story about Mike Bloomberg joining Obama as VP stole the front page of my newspaper this morning. A huge photo of pop-tart Nicole Richie was featured on page 3. Yet tucked in a sidebar story, way in the back pages, was this shocker.

Despite tough post-9/11 laws, thousands of foreign students are training at U.S. flight schools without proper visas or security background checks, government documents show.

Ah crap.

(via NY Daily News)

Anyone that's ever spent more than five seconds at YesBut knows we love a good Caption Competition just as much as the next guy, But we always thought the pride and satisfaction that comes with penning that perfect line is reward enough for the effort. Also, we're cheap.

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