In an apparent quest to sell T-shirts and DVDs (the product itself is on backorder at the moment), a Dartmouth student has come up with human flavored tofu, branded “Hufu”. The site features a little cannibal history, and some recipes. Yes, one includes fava beans. A gem from the FAQ:

However, our preliminary market research revealed the existence of a larger segment of the public that was interested in the availability of a legal and healthy human flesh substitute, as well as vegetarians and vegans. We also found that Hufu� is a great product for cannibals who want to quit. Hufu� is also a great cannibal convenience food — no more Friday night hunting raids! Stay at home and enjoy the flavorful, convenient human flesh alternative.

Myself, I’m neither humanitarian or vegetarian.

(See also this Dartmouth Review piece: Interview with a Cannibal)

Update: The eathufu.com site formerly pointed to is long gone. The Museum of Hoaxes is blaming itself.

The Chicago Sun-Times commemorates the 25th anniversary of The Blues Brothers with a week of stories on the making of the movie and the fate of its locations.

…The mall is just the way they left it.

Update: Shooting locations in a Google Map.

I am really glad I don’t have to clean this catbox…

More info here.

Voting is in progress for the 5th annual Duck® Tape Stuck at Prom prom-outfit-made-of-duct-tape contest. Some truly, uh, remarkable entries.

Real Simple magazine has a list of products and their expected shelf life.

Beer supposedly lasts four months… though I’ve never been able to verify that one.

Okay, I think this guy is a bit hysterical. I am reasonably sure The Doctor got chummy with his assistant in that movie that was broadcast some time in the early 90’s.

I still want to get hold of an NTSC copy of this though. Why, why do we not support PAL???

Oops, spoke too soon! DVD, anyone?

The “only real person in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code” thinks he’s found one of Leonardo’s also-rans …

It never ceases to amaze me when something so old survives for so long.

(Except, of course, for Steven Marie – he’s under my care*)

*Bad Bob!

The environment has a new enemy: Television. In this Christian Science Monitor article, big-screen and High-Definition TVs are consuming more power than ever, and the percentage of household power devoted to television is on the rise:

Already, televisions account for about 4 percent of annual residential electricity use in the United States – enough to power all of the homes in the state of New York for a year, according to a new NRDC study. [...] Throw in a DVD and VCR player, a pair of high-definition set-top boxes, and other household TVs, and the total TV-related energy use for the home rises to about 10 percent, the NRDC estimates.

As TVs grow, so do electric bills

The shocker for me was the finding that a 32 inch Hi-Def LCD consumed almost twice as much juice as a 34 inch standard tube. Suddenly the 32-inch behemoth in my living room is ‘green’.

Apparently those New Yorkers are even more cutting edge than they admit…

(The New York Times requires registration, but there is no fee)

I don’t know; it just doesn’t sound good to me. But the hairy buggers* are hell on the environment because they eat all the ground cover, so I say, let them as enjoys it, eat them…

*That would be the GOATS, Steve.

Slightly different from the American tradition, a Russian bachelor party apparently involves drinking, eating, and beating each other with sticks in a sauna. And a little bit of fire.

How to Survive a Russian Bachelor’s Party with Your Kitchen Intact

(Rule #1, according to the author: Don’t throw the party in your own apartment. Words to live by.)