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This is a group of Cheesy Bacon Turtles after sunning themselves in the oven. They look pretty disgusting but I'm sure like they taste like a little salmonella-y slice of heaven. Just don't tell the Ninja Turtles I said that (I still owe Michelangelo for the last bag we split).

Drunken pub fights in Britain are set to get safer with the invention of a strengthened beer glass that health authorities hope will cut the huge bill for treating inebriated brawlers. The traditional pint glass -- which holds just over half a litre of beer and is favoured by drinkers across Britain -- has been redesigned so it is harder to smash, said Design Bridge, the company behind two prototypes. And even if the new models are smashed, the dangerous shards of glass are held together by a layer of resin, said the company when at a launch event Thursday.

Expand Drinking the odd pint may help prevent bone fractures, according to a US study. Shrink Drinking the odd pint may help prevent bone fractures, according to a US study. var bigImgSrc = 'http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/pint-460.jpg'; $(".enlargeOverlay").css({opacity: 0.9}); function ExpandArticleImage() { // if the big image hasn't been loaded yet load it and give this function as the callback if ( !$("img.articleImageBig").attr('src')) { $("img.articleImageBig").load(function(){ExpandArticleImage();}); $("img.articleImageBig").attr('src',bigImgSrc); } else { $("#articleImageSmall").hide(); $("#articleImageBig .eventBind").attr("href", "javascript: return false;"); $("#articleImageBig").animate( { width:"460px" }, { queue:false, duration:500 } ); $("#articleImageBig .articleImageBig").animate( { width:"460px", height:"230px" }, 500, null, function() { $("#articleImageBig .enlargeOverlayBig").show(); $("#articleImageBig .eventBind").attr("href", "javascript: ContractArticleImage();"); }); } } function ContractArticleImage() { $("#articleImageBig .eventBind").attr("href", "javascript: return false;"); $("#articleImageBig .enlargeOverlayBig").hide(); $("#articleImageBig .articleImageBig").animate( { width:"220px", height:"147px" }, { queue:false, duration:500 } ); $("#articleImageBig").animate( { width:"220px" }, 500, null, function(){ $("#articleImageBig .eventBind").attr("href", "javascript: ContractArticleImage();"); $("#articleImageSmall").show(); $("#articleImageBig").hide(); }); } It may not be uppermost in the minds of pub goers eager to slake their thirst, but could aid negotiations on the domestic front. A regular pint, it turns out, helps strengthen the bones and prevent fractures in old age (so long as you don't drink too much of it and fall over). Beer is a significant source of silicon, which is a key ingredient of the diet that helps to improve bone mineral density.

Lego’s programmable robotics set Mindstorms is a fun toy for computing enthusiasts but if you really want to take it to the next level, check out Mark Weller’s project. Weller, a machinist and technician at the McCoy School of Engineering at Midwestern State University, combined milled plastic pieces with the basic Lego Mindstorms set to create a robotic spider that can crawl and turn. “I wanted to open students’ minds to go beyond ‘let’s put the parts together and program the robot,’” he says. “This project is more than sticking the wheels on a Lego set.” The school uses Lego Mindstorms to introduce freshman students to robotics.

As soon as the iPad was announced, Lego fans wondered what it would look like in brick form. Check out the homage by Joe Meno, editor of AFOL bible BrickJournal.

It matters where we are, for it helps determine who we are. Or, as the quote often attributed to Napoleon states: Geography is destiny. That destiny extends to drink, as demonstrated by this map. Where we are determines to a statistically significant degree what kind of alcohol we prefer. Or is it the other way around: the kind of alcohol preferred is determined by the place where it is produced?

This map shows Europe dominated by three so-called ‘alcohol belts’, the northernmost one for distilled spirits, a middle one for beer and the southernmost one for wine. Each one’s existence and extension are a mix of culture and agriculture.

3. People will do anything for Beer Seriously, they will. During Prohibition in America people took to drinking hair tonic and posing as members of the clergy to get alcohol. Sometimes people come together on a large scale in the never ending quest for free beer. In Australia on Easter weekend in 2001, a beer truck blew a tire and overturned into a river. The driver was able to escape but his cargo sank to the bottom of the river. Hearing about the accident, people gathered at the scene, some in full scuba gear, and spent the entire weekend recovering the beer. One man managed to get 400 bottles. Did they return it to the company? Of course not. Despite a warning from police that what they were doing was theft, the divers took off with the whole lot.

7. The World’s Oldest Brewery It’s a terrible stereotype that Germans are all huge beer drinkers. However, their country of 80 million did until just a few years ago have more breweries than the 300 million strong USA. They also lay claim to the oldest brewery. Located in Bavaria, Weihenstephan Abbey has been making beer since 1040. That’s almost 1000 years of continuous beer production. While it hasn’t been a religious house in 200 years the brewery is still in operation.

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The No. 2 burger chain in the world might be hoping to become No. 1 with the help of a little booze. Burger King will soon begin offering moderately-priced beer at select locations in the U.S., according to a story in The New York Daily News. Earlier this year, the chain already opened its first so-called Whopper Bar in Orlando, Fla.: a restaurant with a smaller footprint than a regular Burger King joint and limited menu options. That location does not yet serve beer. But a Whopper Bar that is about to launch in Miami Beach, Fla. will. Additional Whopper Bars, all featuring beer on the menu, might be in the works for New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

If your child comes back from the shops with a lamb chop instead of the the breakfast rashers you requested, don’t be too surprised. More than a quarter of teenagers believe bacon comes from sheep, not pigs.

On Lego Pandora, Everyone Gets Along Just Fine I'd like to give a tiny Golden Globe to all the fine people who put together these incredibly detailed Avatar Lego dioramas. That's my kind of 3D.